The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1895-06-15
News of the Week.

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/ Cloquet, Minnesota, was destroyed by an
incendiary fire ON Saturday; loss, sl50,O00.
Torrents of rain fell on Sunday throughout
! Iowa, two inches being the average depth.
/ Considerable damage to crops is reported.
/ Morris Schoenhoz and Abraham Krone
have been arrested in New York charged with
being implicated in the ''hre-bug conspiracy.
Wheat harvest began on Saturday in West
ern Kentucky and Southeast Missouri. II is
! thought that more than an average yield will
| be threshed.
| Colonel Eli Lilly has presented to the In
| dianapolis Flower Mission the Walter Q.
| Gresham homestead. to be used as home
| for sick children.
The lumber yard and factory of Dewing 4
| Sons and seven or eight adjoining buildings
1 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. were burned sun
/ day; loss $500, 600.
Dispatches from Shanghai China. state
| that all persons connected with the English,
/ French and American missions at Cheng-Tu
/ have been massaered.
| Fletcher Sells was instantly killed and Oliver
Reems terribly scalded Monday by an explo-
/ sion al the Crystal Ice Manufacturing Com
! pany's works in Columbus Ohio.
/ Josephine Williams and her 7-year-old
/ niece, Sarah Jones, colored, were burned To
/ death in fire which destroyed a stable, in
| jacksonville. Florida, on Saturday.
| j. ]. Hill, of the Great Northern Railroad,
1 threatens to embark in the milling business
at Duluth unless the Minneapolis millers give
/ the road larger proportion Of the flour trade.
/ A FIRE at Milwaukee Monday destroyed the
property Of the Forster Lumber CO., Il.
| Chng 4 Sons coal yard and damaged shipp-
| ing and other property in the vicinity. Loss
/ 100000.
/ Ralph Swinburne, said TO be the oldest
| engineer in the country. and associated With
! George Stephenson. father Of the locomotive
| died near Charleston. W. Va. on the It'll in
slant aged 90 years.
An explosion Of fredamp occurred in 8
| mining pit near Amfonienhutte. Prussian
Silesia, Monday. while 500 men we're at work
in the mine. Only 80 have been rescued.
| leaving 400 entombed.
Appeals have reached Kansas City from
Grant county. Oklahoma. for aid for the set
tiers, who are said 20 be on the verge of star
Walton. A similar appeal has reached Wjchiia
| from Medford. Oklahoma.
Since the death Of o. H. X. Risley of Will
| mantle. Massachusetts,, cashier Of the First
| National Bank. it has been discovered that
/ be was defaulter 10 the amount Of 500. O..
and TO the six Company S266, 1881.
A cloadbnrst is reported from Bartoniale,
I IN BARTON county, Kansas, on Sunday night
1 The water was about four feet deep and did
/ much damage. herd uf about dsty head q
cattle was drowned aud several buildings
/ wrecked.
I Burglars robbed the store Of James +.
Hutchins Of Lowell. Maine, between SATURDAY
night and Monday IL cash and securities
amounting 10 81. oo0. The valaalles had
/ been placed in his safe until they could Ne
/ taken to bank.
| Dispatches from Bradford, Pa. Moeday
/ night. state that forest fires are spreading.
and in Eth county 800. 600 fees 81 choice
1 logs and coo cords 81 bark belonging Ia one
/ firm we're burned. Unless rain falls the loss
/ will be immense.
| A heavy rain storm Is reported through
/ South and Central Mianesota on Sunday.
| The downpour was 80 great IN some places
/ that Il washed cut the crops badly. In -.
/ Paul the fali vas the heaviest 81 the year
lasting from noon until nearly 0 clock
Cameron. West Virginia. was burned ou
/ Sunday night The Gre started IL = livery
4 stable aud So houses were burned. eaiailiug 8
/ los uf over $4,000 With only SO GO "a
/ saranee. The only buildings saved wers tloz.
belonging 10 the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
A Big -Four train broke in tao near East
i Sydney, Ohio. on heavy grade, early Mouday
/ morning. aud came together With a crash.
/ telescoping eight cars. Eight sraHgss were
| riding IA one Of the ears. aud fhrse - ihsm
| we're crushed q death and . fourth fatally
| injured.
/ Miss Cora Weeds. assistant postmaster a.
/ Conaesm Lake, Pa. was arrested on Monday
/ hy the United States marshal ou . charge II
| embezzlemens Miss Woods Is q proposes,
| ing voung woman Of -. and was a leader u
/ society n her town. She =as quite active IN
church circles.
/ Henry Ii,key. aged 50 years, shot and 10.
siantly killed l.ixzie Coleman. sged i8, At
/ 0sfervile. Massachusetts,. while shr gas "a
( her vay 10 school Monday. and fred tso shots
81 her brother. He then shot and killed him.
| self instantly, Jealousy : supposed n haye
I been the cause.
William D. Isaacs. Grand Secretary q the
/ Grand Lodge and Grand Chapter ~ Virginia.
/ Grand Secretary Of the Virginia Grand Com
mandery. and Grand Recorder of she Grand
Encampment, knights Templars If The nj.
I ted States. died AZ his residence IN Rich.
lnond on Sunday.
Mrs. Marian Reid. mother al Whitelas
/ Reid. died al her home. near CedaryilIe.
& ARNAN+ NA 1Nl&s4h, N&NA 81 kk1&EEs one NAL
/ lived on the same farm and was FOR 30 years s
widow. Mr.. Reid Is her only child, and the
1 aged mother will be buried beside her hus-
band in a country cemetery near the farm.
Michael Sheridan, Patrick Morris and
/ Emmett Sweeny. boys, were drowned in Lake
| Erie. AT Cleveland Ohio, Sunday. while hath
ing Morris was taken with cramps. and
/ Sheridan went 20 his assistance, but hi
/ strength gave ouf. Sweeny then affemgied
10 rescue them. hut all three became locked
in helpless and freuzied grip and we're
drowned.
A Memphis, Tennessee, despatch says that
unless the State authorities within the mex
few days take some steps to relieve Brigadiel
General $. II. Carnes of a Judgment that Ma,
given against him at Knoxville last week
for $780, the entire State militia viii disband
This Judgment grows out of the campaign mad,
BIZ the militia against riotoas miners .; Cos
Greek two years ago
Garrett Cochran aud f. p. Oil, students O
Princeton College, we're shot aud seriousl,
wounded on the college campus on Saturda
NIGHT during a disturbance ia which tw,
negroes, Collins and Scudder, were concerned
The latter were arrested. Oil died on Wed
nesdav, and Downes. another negro, testihe,
before the coroner that Collins did the shooting
maliciousiy stating that he said he would XII
some one before he went to bed; that he
Downes, had advised him to go home or b
would get into trouble.
Robert Gibson, farmer living near Re
Lion. in Windsor township, York county, Pa
has departed. leaving debts amounting to 81
900 unpaid. Gibson left home on Tuesda
night Of last week, and his whereabouts ar
unknown. He sold some Of his horses an
mules in order to get money TO leave. Sine
. then several levies have been made. On
being for $25 on an execution issued BY Reu
ben Sprenkle, Red Lion; another issued b
Perry ]. NJ. Heindel, for $500, in favor O
Martin Slenker. Two executions were issue,
BIZ Horace Keesy, one in the amount Of S40(
for Edward Moul, and the other in III
amount Of $780, for himself.
For Calamity Howlers.