The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1895-03-09
News of the Week.


lar women physicians in the United States
During 1894 the banks of this country lost
over 49,, ZOO, 900 by theft and embezzlement.
A large dam across the Mahoning river al
Warren, Ohio, was swept away by the ice on
the 1st instant.
London is u miles broad and Il miles
long Every year sees about 20 miles of new
streets added to it.
The smallest church edifce in the world is
at the mouth of the Saginaw River. Its ca
pacity is 18 persons.
The Reno Hotel and adjoining property, at
Norfolk, Nebraska, were burned on the LIST
instant; loss, $4,000.
fire at Hot Springs, Arkansas, on Febru-
airy %, destroyed % buildings. Three women
were burned to death.
Frederick Douglass, the wel-known colored
orator, &C., died in Washington, d. c., on
February 20, in his 18th year.
Toronto, Canada, had a 100000 fire on
Sunday. 1t was of incendary origin and was
in the business centre of the city.
Over $50 members of the German Reichstag
are i'll with influenza. Emperor William and
Ambassador Runyon were slightly affected.
Postmaster General Bissell has resigned and
President Cleveland has appointed Hon. VIM
l.. Wilson his successor who had been CON
irmed.
Professor John Stuart Blackie, the we'll
known author and Greek and Latin Scholar
died in London, England, on the I'd instant
at the age of Sc years.
The influenza or grippe is spreading through
out Europe. In some cities and towns bust
ness is almost suspended owing to the great
number suffering from it.
Walker g. Hammer, for 20 years teller in
the First National Bank of Lynchburg, Nir-
ginia is a defaulter to the amount of S23. 900.
He was arrested and placed in Jail.
A fire in Gilmour 4 Hughsons lumber
yards at Ironsides, Ontario, on the night of
February % destroyed between 100000 and
| 6.000,000 feet of lumber, valued at 100000.
-Four children of Tom and Dora Williams,
colored, were burned to death in their home,
at Chenille. Alabama, on February %. They
were left alone while their parents went to a
dance.
James Fitzpatrick, hermit, was found
dead in his hut, near Derby, Connecticut, on
Sunday. He had been disappointed in love.
and for 40 years he had not spoken to a
woman.
The New Mexico Legislature has appro
priated $500 for the relief of the families left
by the miners killed in the explosion at
CerrillOS
There are AZ cases of smallpox at Hot
Springs and six at Malvern, Arkansas. A
house, o-hOuse vaccination is being made in
both towns, and everything is undergoing
rigid disinfection and fumigation.
Dispatches from Southwestern Nebraska
give news of great rain there. Trenton,
Hitchcock county, reported the heaviest rain
fall in 18 months. This is in the heart of the
drought district. and the rain has encouraged
the settlers.
A squad of police from Railway, New
] jersey, raided gang of tramps on the Penn
svlvana Railroad, near that place, on Satur
day, and policeman Jewell was shot and
killed by one of the Migrants. The murderer
was subsequently arrested and kit of burglars
tools was found in his possession.
Four tenement houses III course of construc-
ton in New York collapsed on Friday of last
| week. A number of workmen were carried
down from the falling walls. Nine were in
iured. four were killed, and one man is miss
. ing. The owner and two contractors were
placed under arrest on charge of criminal
negligence.
The ST. Louis police have arrested Fran
| cisco Romero, Frank Nicolas and Joseph
! Stambola three Italians, who, they believe,
are western distributors of a counterteiting
| gang in New York, known as the Adams
!
of spurious money and circulated it in all parts
of the world.
! Losses by fire on Saturday were An ele-
vator and two -four mills at Bethalto, Illinois,
| loss. S2OO.0OO The Globe Moldmg Works
/ in Chicago; loss, $4,000. The works of the
| Akron. Ohio. China Company throwing $40
men out of employment; loss $50, 900. The
business portion of the town of Neche, North
Dakota: loss, S54. 600
The four-masted Furness Line steamer
| Venetian, which sailed from Boston for Lon
| don on Saturday. ran on ledge in thick
| fog and snow storm and was completely wreck
ed, her back breaking. The cargo consisted
of GAS head Of cattle, SS3 sheep and 10000
bushels of grain, besides large quantity OF
hay. beef, bacon and lard
A general fight took place at Kimball, W.
| Va, on Thursday night of last week, among
% colored people Of both sexes and about
100 shots were fired. Henry Mutt, Margaret
Miles and another person were fatally wound
ed. four are in serious condition from bullet
wounds and number were fatally injured by
being SlaShed with razors.
Max H. Grauer. an insurance adiuster, who
was convicted of arson in the first degree in
setting fire to a house on Canal street. in New
York city, has been sentenced to 30 years in
the State prison. Mrs Ida Lieberman, an
accomplice, who was convicted of arson in the
first degree, was sentenced to six years and
eight months, imprisonment
The southbound "Royal Blue express of
the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad ran
into the wreck of coal train at BayOnne,
New Jersey, Friday night of last week, and
was badly wrecked. The engineer, William
Thomas. and Winfield Holland, assistant fire
man, were killed and two of the trainmen
and one passenger were injured.
Edmund Jordan, the murderer of Alfred
Barnes, ianitor of the Hiawatha Flats, in
Chicago. was adjudged guilty last Friday
night. and the punishment fixed at imprison-
ment for life. The jury acquitted John b.
Jersey and found Anna Mahoney guilty of
being an accessory after the fact leaving her
punishment to be determined by the court.
George +. Danville, farmer near Yongton,
Kansas, reports the birth of tripets. Mr.. and
Mrs. Geo Danville have now y children
although Mrs. Danvile is not 80 years old.
She is a Norwegian and her husband Is a
Hoosier. All the children were born in trip
lets. the oldest being under Is years old. All
are BOYS but three, one set of triplets beng
girls and they are all sturdy and healthy.
At Valleyfeld, Quebec on Friday night OF
last week, a man named Shorts entered the
office of the Montreal Cotton Company and at
tempted to rob the paymaster and his clerks,
who were making up the pay rolls. He shot
and seriously wounded Hugh Wilson and killed
John 10y. John Lowe, the paymaster, took
refuge with the money in the vault Shorts
then shot and killed the night Waterman,
Maxine Lebcouf, after which he was over.
powered Paymaster Lowe was imprisoned
in the vault for three hours before the doors
could be opened.
Joe Dean, negro, was hanged at Fairburn,
Georgia, on the 1st instant. for the murder of
A. B. Leigh, a white farmer. The hanging
was to have been in private, but ust after
Dean had been led to the scaffold the crowd
broke down the Enclosure. The first effort to
hang the man was failure, as the rope broke.
George Magee, colored, was hanged in the
jail at Frankfort, Kentucky, on the same day,
for the murder of Charles Thomas, a fellow
convict. Harry Hill was hanged at Platts-
mouth, Nebraska. on the same day, for the
murder of Matthew Akerson, farmer, by
whom he had been employed.
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