The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1895-10-19
News Of the Week.

Cholera is raging in Russia. over 100
deaths occurred last week.
lackawana county. Pa, is only 20 years
old. vet it is having its Add murder trial.
By an explosion on steamship at kung
Pal, China. on Wednesday. 600 soldiers were
killed
In the State of Sinaloa, Mexico, treshets
have caused 100000 loss on buildings and
live stock.
Typhoid fever is epidemic in Michigan, and
the prevalence of the disease is attributed 10
the long drought.
Millions of bushels of fruit are going to
waste along the Ohio river. The low water
makes shipments impossible.
Brewster & Co.. the we'll Unknown carriage
builders Of New York city. have failed after
being in business nearly 100 years
Frank Wegley's livery stables, in Waynes
bOro. Pa. were burned by an incendiary ON
Sunday. Loss $500; no insurance.
4 despatch from Helena, Montana, says the
fire which started in the Muir tunnel, on the
Northern Pacific. month ago Is burning
almost as tiIrionsly as ever.
One of the Rothschilds is quoted as saving
that there will be more chances to make
money in America during the next five years
than in any other section OF the globe.
Two cases ofleprosy have been reported To
the Governor of Iowa. The location Of the
cases is not given. 1t is known that the per
sons afflicted are children in one family.
Water is being hauled to Altoona and other
towns in Pennsylvania, by the railroads. At
Wheeling West Virginia, the Ohio river is
lower than ever known. and navigation has
ceased.
William Mack and Henry Convery, attend
ants at the state hospital at Morris Plains,
New Jersey, were arrested on Saturday for
beating to death Nicholas DolfnS, an insane
patient at the hospital.
The 2-year- daughter Of Rev. j. B. Sites.
of Lowell, Indiana, was burned to death on
Monday during her mother absence from the
house. and the mother has been Il raving
maniac since the accident.
A woman has been arrested at Aderno,
Sicily, who has confessed that she has poisoned
% children. She wanted to avenge the death
of her two sons, whose taking off. she de-
clared. was due to wItchcratt.
Mrs. Joseph Langdon, wife of farmer,
living near Delta, Ohio, on Monday gave birth
to five children, all of them males. Mother
and children doing we'll at last accounts. The
jefferson Ellis. a negro, was lynched near
Memphis. Tenn, on Wednesday, for assault
ING Miss Prater She identified the man, he
confessed to it and three other cases also.
The crowd mutilated him an then hung him.
Boston. Mass, was visited bv Il terrific wind
and rain storm on Saturday afternoon and
Sunday. Much damage was done to shipping,
wharves and warehouses. During the storm
}. ia inches Of rain fell. The storm extended
up the coast to New Foundland.
An epidemic Of typhoid fever exists in
Washington, d. c. The health officer says
that unless sanitary precautions are observed
by the inhabitants generally serious condi-
ton of affairs may shortly be expected. It's
estimated that 600 cases are under treatment.
The city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. cele-
brated its semi centennial Wednesday and
Thursday. Receptions in honor of 300 pion-
GERS and the dedication of new 81 10000
City Hall made up part of the Jubilee. Fort
Wayne, Indiana. celebrated its centennial
Tuesday.
Franklin l.. Pope, aged G5, of Great Bar
! ringtOn, Massachusetts, was instantly killed in
the cellar of his home at that place Sunday
night by receiving an electrical shock of 5000
volts He was president of the local electric
company, and a powerful converter had been
| placed in his cellar.
| At meeting Of the executive committee
of the Milers' National Association, held in
| Chicago on Wednesday, a subcommittee was
appointed to formulate a plan to secure the
recognition of flour in all treaties and trade
agreements made between the United States
and other nations.
Correspondence confscated in DR.. Henry
! F. Meyers cell in Sing Sing prison, New
| York, discloses plot planned by the prisoner
to carry out another murder similar to the
! one for which he was convicted and sentenced
! to imprisonment for life. DR.. Meyer was tried
! for poisoning Carl Brandt IN order to get the
insurance on Brandt's life.
Near Chambersburg, Pa, on Sunday last.
! there was hurricane, which devastated nearly
| everything within a scope OF three miles
| square in around st. Thomas and Edenville.
| Stones were blown with the storm. and resi-
| dents of the locality did not dare venture out
doors from a. m. to 4 p. m, when the
tornado subsidized. The loss is very heavy.
| The Northern Pacific Railroad is preparing
to begin laying the 400 miles of new steel
| track which the report of eX-Receivers Cakes,
Rouse and Payne stated would be necessary
during the next FIVE years. The cost accord
ing to their report, after deducting the value
| of the rails taken up, will be 81. 500, 600. The
purchasing department has Just awarded con-
tracts for supplying 100000 ties during the
year.
At Waterbury, Conn, on Sunday night, a
serious freight wreck occurred when two parts
of broken train came together. Ten cars,
loaded with trottng horses, live stock and
other exhibits from the Danbury fair, which
closed last week, were crushed and thrown
down a forty-foot embankment. Mazeppa,
the famous champion trick horse of the world,
valued at $40, 000 was instantly killed. One
man was fatally injured and two others seri-
ously hurt.
Few persons who are unacquainted with the
capacity of the modern steamship have any
idea of how much cargo can be slowed under
the matches of even medium sized vessel.
The Donaldson Line steamship lndrani, which
sailed today, says the Baltimore NSrs of
Monday, for Glasgow, Scotland, is of the
medium size class of North Atlantic liners,
and the cargo she took out weighed over 5000
tons, or the contents Of about 800 ordinary
freight cars. 1t consisted of 6 cars of tobac-
co, cars of canned meat, 40 cars OF grain,
IS cars of lumber, 2 cars of wax, cars OF
hair, cars of oil 3 cars of bark extract Ia
cars of cattle, 1876 cars of -four, cars Of ship
stores and cattle feed. The average freight
car is "a feet long. Allowing for the play
| of the couDlinos and length of the locomotive