The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1895-06-22
News. of the Week.

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Russia.
Spain has decided to send so, 900 sol
diers to Cuba and at once crush the insur-
gents.
Mr.. Effig, treasurer of Montgomery
county, Pa, is a defaulter to the amount
Of s97, 600
Several murders are reported in Penn
sylvsania between noon on Saturday and
Sunday night last.
L. w. Agnew, President Of the defunct
First National Bank, of 0cala, Fla, has
been arrested in that city upon charge of
converting funds of depositors to his own
private use.
DIR. Burggraeve, Professor of Medicine
in the University of Client, is SO years
old. and actively practices his profession.
He smokes and drinks liquors. but uses
medicine sparingly.
John Harnett was drowned in the Usage
river, Missouri, last week, while trying to
land a catfish that weighed los pounds.
He had the line wrapped around his wrist
and the fish pulled him into the water.
Forest fires are raging with great vio-
lence in the interior Of West Virginia
Nearly all the timber on the Crawford,
Hart and Harrison tracts and 800 acres of
the Golf tract has been wholly destroyed
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, of Philadel-
phia, Pa, carries $500, 900 life insurance
The policies are all on the 20-year plan.
and we're his wedding gift to his wife, he
being married on Wednesday Of last week.
Charges of malfeasance in Office have
been brought against Mayor Starkweather,
of West Superior, Wisconsin. He was
elected two months ago ON reform ticket
and it is alleged he exacted blackmail from
gamblers and saloon keepers.
Ed. Fries. of Pittman Grove, New ,Ier-
sey, was playing with a Maltese cat last
week by trailing piece of string. The
eat suddenly few at him and sunk her
teeth in his right hand, blood poisoning
ensued and serious results may follow.
Francis p. Green. claim adjuster for the
Metropolitan Insurance Company, who was
arrested in Lynn, Massachusetts, on the
charge Of embezzling sum Of money from
the Prudential Insurance Company, Of
Philadelphia, failed to appear in Court
when his case was called.
Meagre details have been received At
Perry. Oklahoma, of a hurricane which
swept the country 20 miles west Of there
one night last week Twenty or more
houses are said to have been blown down
and several people injured. a Mrs. Ham
mer, widow fatally.
Twenty-four men. heads Of families at
Hubbard. marched into Midland, Michi
gan, and besieged the court house, de
mauding something to eat from the coanty
officials. They claim that 30 families are
destitute. and that the women and children
are crying for bread Relief measures
were at once undertaken.
". L. Saehtleben, the cyclis,. who Is
searching for Frank g. LEM writes to his
parents in Alton, Illinois, that he has pen
etrated to the heart of Armenia, and has
established the fact that LEM was muir
dered by outlaw Kuris. He will under
take to procure the body and bring ii to
America
An organized gang Of girl thieves Is said
to have been discovered in Vassar, Mich,
and they are represented to be the daugh
seYS of respectable parents. Their parents
must have been easy going people if they
were not aware thar their children had
embarked in such nefarielis business as
thieying.
After 40 years silence, Mrs. Good. Of
Bowmansville, Lancaster county. Pa be
ing On her death bed. recently confessed
to Mennonite clergyman that she had
murdered her illegitimate child and had
poisoned her grandmother. Mn. Good
was 60 years old aud died from self-in-
iiieted wounds and consumption.
Peanuts have been grown 80 successfully
in Southern New Jersey and Eastern Penn
sylvania that considerable land has been
given to their culture this year in both 10
calities. and. II is believed, with a better
assurance Of profit from the venture than
Is to be had from the staples that have
hitherto covered the ground.
Twins are usually thought To bear a
strong resemblance 10 each other. but the
two IA -year-old sous Of Andrew Butler, Of
Warren. Maine. are an exception One
weighs 1870 pounds and the other So; one
is foas taller than his twin, and one i
light eonlplexioned. while the other Is
dark.
A fifty-horse power boiler exploded in
the basement of a three story harness shop
at Fan River. Mass. on the l4th instant,
and the building settled in mass Of ruins,
which caught fire. Seventeen people were
in the wreekage, and when the lire was
under control four were taken out dead and
seven seriously injured.
4 suit has been begun In the United
States Court. at Bay City, Michigan, BY
the United States against the Flint and
Pere Marquette Railroad Company, VIM.
w. Grape and Oliver Prescott. Of Massa-
ehusetts. and $50 other persons living in
Michigan. to recover thousands Of acres Of
land which the Government claims was
illegally sold BY the railroad company
Col. Van Henpenser, Of Dixbury, \.
Y. drives an eighth hand which, some
how or other, has given him the name Of
being eccentric. It is made up Of a splen-
did Spanish mule, two Attorney bulls, a
Hambletonian mare, young camel, two
piebald Indian ponies and tame moose.
These he drives to a suiky, 10 the edifica-
ton Of the small boy.
a terrible catastrophe occurred at a tue
neral Royigo, Italy, on the 18th. Will
about hundred persons were standing upon
platform upon which the body had beer
placed pending the religious services the
structure gave way, throwing everybody
10 the ground, together with tine coffin.
Eleven men and women were killed BY the
fall or the subsequent struggling Of the
human mass, aud twenty Others were in
jured, several Of them fatally
Dairymen and farmers in the south town:
of Steubin and the greater portion Of ALE.
gheny county, New York. are suffering
from scarcity of hay, and in many eases
farmers having from twenty to forty COW.
have fed out their entire last year crop.
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