The Democratic advocate., 1895-10-12

The city of La Paz, Lower California. was
DESTROYED by hurricane and tidal wave on
Tuesday.
Mrs. Amehe Rives Chandler. the well
known author and artist, has been divorced
from her husband.
By the upsetting of lamp a fire was started
that DESTROYED property valued at Sl,250,OOO
in Coogardie. South Australia. on Wednes-
day.
Thirty houses in the town of Bayard. West
Virginia. were destroyed by fire early We'd
nesdav morning. The loss is placed AT 500
600.
There was Il collision between passenger
and freight train near Brussels. Belgium.
Sunday night. Eighteen persons were killed
and a hundred injured, many. ii is feared, ia
tally.
H. c. I.itchfeld. Manager of the Railroad
Transfer Company in Kansas City. Missouri.
committed suicide Wednesday 10 avoid arrest
as the head of the Transfer Gang ofthieveS.
Thousands of lottery tickets have been
seized by United States officials in Detroit,
Michigan. The tickets were in the possession
of the American Express Company. which
informed the officials.
Engineers c. w. G. Ferris and Andrew
Onderdonk, and Architect Charles Schnei-
der have Just completed S6O,O@O model of
the Worlds Fair white City. which was
begun two wears ago. The model VIII be sem
to Atlanta. Georgia.
A fire in Portsmouth. Virginia. Wednesday
night. did damage exceeding $50. 900. de
stroying over 1000. 900 feet of lumber, 1000
bales Of cotton and 100000 StaveS. besides
warehouses of the Seahoard Air Line and Old
Dominion Line of steamers.
II p,Jnatt Sa.ratory nt ('nlunbi u
Typographical Onion. No. l0l. of Washing
ton, D. c., is missing. 1t is said there is a
shortage of $4,000 in his accounts. He was
found in Baltimore. Md. on Wednesday. al
most insane, without money nr clothing. and
was sent to an asylum,
The Central Railroad of Georgia has been
| sold TO Samuel Thomas and Thomas II. Ryan
| for 81. 000, 900. The sale took place in pur-
suance of decree Of the United States Cir.
cult Court for the Southern District of Georgia
in the suits of the Farmers Loan and Trust
| Company of New York and Alexander Brown
/ a. Sons.
| On Monday evening five men. armed and
| masked. held up an electric car ON the Evan
ston line. between Edgewater and Argyle
| near Chicago. and robbed all the passengers
! One of the passengers was shot and danger
ously wounded. The highwaymen cut the
/ trolley to keep other cars from coming upon
/ them while they were AT work.
/ John OFT, one Of the most prominent anC
respected citizens of Roanoke. Virginia. ant
for many years resident of Richmond. dice
I Tuesday morning, after an illness OF twelve
DAYS. from paralysis. in the 62d year OF hi
age. He was born in HagerstOwn, Nd, ant
was for a short time acting comptroller of til,
currency under President Buchanan. Whel
the war came he accepted Il position as chic
clerk of the Confederate State Treasury De
partment at Richmond, and after the war wa
cashier Of the City Bank of Richmond ant
for number of years secretary of the South
ern Fertilizer Company. He went to Roam
AXE in 1888 as cashier of the Citizens Bank
and in 1891 accepted the position Of secretar
of the Iron Belt Building and Loan Assoca
ton. which he held at the time of his death
He leaves wife and six children He wa
a member ofthe Second Presbyterian Church