The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1895-12-14
News of the Week.

Bridgeport, Martins Ferry, land other points
on the Ohio river are suffering from small
poX.
The Moss Engraving Co., of New York,
made an assignment: liabilities 500, 900, and
nominal assets the same.
Gilbert & Cos. planning mill and sash fac
tory at York, Pa, was burned Monday; loss
$780, 900, insurance $4,000.
The Cincinnati fur house Of A. L. Burk-
hardt 4 Co., has failed, owing S25O,OOo. The
assets are said to be $780, 900.
Seven business houses and two dwellings at
Ridgefeld, Connecticut, were burned Sunday
morning. The loss is estimated al 100000.
George Kraft, a negro, aged 35, was az,
rested in Columbus, Ohio, Tuesday, charged
with criminal assault upon 7-year-old girl.
Professor William NJ. Willett, of the IVES;
leyan University, at Middletown, Conn, died
Sunday in Jersey City, New Jersey. aged "
years.
-Four masked and armed men robbed the
store of l. j. Bachar, in Carey, Ohio, on Mon
day afternoon, securing $1,000 in money ana
$500 worth of jewelry.
The Cleveland (Ohio) Chamber of Com.
mcrce has decided upon the erection OF u new
building in the heart of the business section
at a cost of S500,o00.
Written. Burdett & Co., a large wholesale
clothing house Of Boston, have asked an eX-
tension from their creditors. lhey inied SIX
! years ago for Sl,200,00O.
| Grant Hibbs. who was released from an
! insane asylum, near Dexter, Iowa. as cured,
| on Sunday shot and probably fatally wounded
| his wife and killed himself.
A fire in the notion house of H. Wolf y
| Co., in Chicago, Sunday, caused loss OF
| between $500, 900 and 100000 on the stock
and about $50, 900 on the building.
Three men who have been for two months
Systematically robbing freight cars in the Erie
| Railroad Yards at Cleveland, Ohio, were
caught on Friday night of last week.
At Luraville, Florida, on Saturday, Joseph
! Fields murdered his wife because he found a
man with her, and stabbed his little daughter.
| The latter was not seriously injured. Fields
| escaped.
| The oil storage plant of the Crew-Levic
| Company, Philadelphia, Pa, was burned
| Tuesday night, and thousands of gallons OF
oil were destroyed. The loss is estimated at
from $50, 600 to $4,000.
Three men robbed the general store of
Joseph Hood, Is miles from Paramount, West
| Virginia, on Saturday night. Sunday two
| dead bodies, some of the stolen goods aud an
upturned skiff were found in the river.
The residence of Isaac Trattner, in York,
Pa, was burned Monday night together with
was also burned. The families were absent
at the time. The loss is several thousand
| dollars.
Escaping gas and lighted lamp in the
meter room of the Citizens Gas Company, in
Buffalo, N. Y, on Sunday, caused an eXplo-
sion. Dennis Hutch, a foreman in the works,
and William Manning, laborer, were fatally
burned.
Matte Gowaltley, a 12-year- old colored
girl, in indianapolis, on Tuesday attempted
to poison the members of the family with
whom she lived, by putting rat poison in the
coffee Three members Of the family are in
a critical condition.
The store, warehouse and ticket office of
Peter Kready, at Orrtanna, on the Baltimore
and Harrisburg Division of the Western Nd.
Railroad, near Highfeld, Pa, was burned to
the ground on Saturday night. 1t is thought
the store was first robbed and set on fire.
Judge Metcalf, at Lockpert, New York,
on Saturday, sentenced ex-bank President
Joshua S. Helmer to three years imprisen-
ment at hard labor, for deceiving the State
Bank Examiner. An appeal was taken,
pending which Helmer was admitted to bail.
A new counterfeit 81 silver certificate has
check letter G, plate No. Al, j. Fount Till
man. register; D. N. Morgan, treasurer; por-
trait of Window, small scalloped seal. The
note is much smaller in every way than the
genuine.
B. F. Boomer, on trial in Waukon, Iowa,
for fraudulent banking, receiving money on
deposit after his bank was known to be insol-
vent, was found guilty on Saturday and SEN
fenced to FIVE years in Anamosa Penitentiary
and to pay a fine of $4,000. 1t was charged
that he had defrauded depositors out of nearly
S70,0 900.
The upper lands of the canton of Berne,
Switzerland, have been ravaged by the hurri-
canes which prevailed Sunday and Monday.
The forests have been almost destroyed and
hundreds of houses RACED to the ground. In
the midst of the storm shock of earthquake
was felt at Ober-Hasi.
Five companies of Italian soldiers. under
command of Major Tosselli, operating in
Abyssinia, were surprised and surrounded by
a force Of $4,000 natives last week. After
the soldiers had exhausted their ammunition
they were massacred. 1t is known that IA
officers and 700 men were killed, and 300 are
missing.
Samuel Wingerts wheat elevator, at Five
Forks, Pa. was burned Tuesday morning, along
with large quantity OF wheat. Inc sa1e IN
the Office was first blown open and robbed.
1t is supposed the building was then fired by
the burglars, who are thought to be the same
who burned a few nights ago the station al
Orrtanna after robbing it.
A fire at Rutherford, New Jersey, on Sun
day night, destroyed tho postoffice, nationa
bank building, Ave or six stores and othel
property. Monday morning the body Of
Charles Vorwold a shoe dealer, was found il
the ruins. Valentine George, shoemaker
in the employ of Vorwold & Prince, cut hi
throat as soon as he heard of Mr.. VarwOld'E
death. Three members of a German family
who lived over one of the stores, are missing