The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1895-11-16
News of the Week.

Firebugs are busy in West Virginia Dwell
ings. barns. and schoOlhOuSes are being
burned
FIX. Congressman Albert G. Watkins died at
M0oresburg, Tennessee. on Saturday, aged
about 80 years.
A Lehigh and Hudson engine blew up at
Warwick, n. Y, Sunday, and caused the
death of four men.
Charles Broadway Rouss gave S25,000 to
the University of Virginia and others in New
York gave 81, 500 more.
Mrs. Emma Hobbold was sand -bagged and
robbed by three men in her home in Chicago
on Friday evening of last week. Her injuries
proved fatal.
Lewis jefferson, negro, was lynched at
bonneville. Georgia, Saturday. He was
in custody, charged with asSanltimg Il little
white girl
Mrs. Martha Kennedy. aged 20 wears of
New York, fell down stairs and was killed, on
Saturday, while attending the funeral OF her
brother, in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Col. Lewis W. Ross. aged O.: years. died III
Lewistowm. Illinois, last week. He WAS Il
native of New York, bun had lived III the
West since 1872. He was prominent in bust
ness circles and in politics was "A Democrat.
The Carnegie Free Library was dedicated
al Pittsburg November and formally given
To the city BY the donor. Andrew Carnegie.
1t was announced that Mr.. Carnegie intends
to give free libraries to Homestead and l'u-
quesne also.
Professor Willis j. Moore. head Of the
Weather Bureau in Chicago. says that by the
Use of kites observers will be enabled Ia elm
mate much of the percentage of error III tor
oaStS and effect a SAVING of SlUb, (hN, tHHD an
nually TO the country.
Destructive prairie fires have ravaged East
cru Colorado and Western Kansas last and
This week In Finncy county. Kansas. four
miles of territory have been devastated. and
IN Greeley county more than 2G0.0~ acres
have been burned over.
At Bellows Falls, Vermont. road master
Adam G. Conner. of the Bennington and
Rutland Railroad. has confessed 20 miSapprn-
printing the funds of !hG company to an
amount exceeding 100000. Conner haS been
in the employ of the company over - wears
and is 6J years old
The search of the ruins Of the buildings
wrecked by the recent boiler explosion IN
Detroit was completed on Saturday. lh"
total number killed WAS 81. A fund was
started in Detroit on Sunday tur the relief ut
the destitute families of the victims.
While John Guern and F. :. Collect were
wrestling in friendly way in saloon, in
Columbus. Ohio, Sunday, Guerin was thrown
heavily to the floor. He did not rise, and an
examination revealed the fact that he was
dead Collect were placed under arrest:
Brother Ambrosia. aged thirty years. was
killed at St. AloysiuS College, New Orleans.
Saturday He climbed into third story
window to adjust curtain. when he suddenly
fell backwards ont of the window to the stone
curbing below. His neck was broken.
A curly walnut is beng taken from Boone
county. Virginia. across three mountains and
a distance Of about 80 miles to Davy Station.
on the Northern and Western Railroad. The
price paid for the tree standing was 81, 300
and it will take large sum of money I" get
il TO the railroad.
This years commercial crop of apples in
the United States is estimated at 66,000.00 |
barrels. an increase of l6 per cent. over last !
years crop. The yield in New England. !
Michigan and Canada is below that of 1894, .
but in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri ii !
is nearly three times rs large as last wear : |
crop.
A careful estimate of the Florida orange /
crop is 900 boxes, which Is quite Il drop
from the 10000 boxes of the season of
1894. But the new growth of trees is do /
ing exceedingly WELL and ought to be pro /
ducing again within three years. 1t is pre-
dicted that five wears hence the crop will be
as large us ever.
The marsh fires, which were thought to be .
under control. are again raging in Pulaski.
Lake. Porter and I4aporte counties. Indiana.
1t is estimated tibet the loss will aggregate
500, 900. Henry Jonas and David Staden. F..
living near Davis were fatally burned i'll fight
inc the flames, which threatened the deStruc
ton of their homes
San Jose, one of the principal California
fruit shipping points, sent East last week. l.
lag, $50 pounds Of green fruit, 2,3f3, $50
pounds of Sun-cured fruit: S1n.95O pounds of
canned fruit and 447, 900 gallons of wine and
brandy, During the same time Fresno
shipped East forty carloads of raisinS making
about $50 car loads of this fruit sent eastward
this season. San Jose also sent East 53, 80
pounds of garden seeds during last week.
The Canadian Government steamer Aber-
deem arrived at Gaspe. Quebec, on Saturday,
having in tow the wrecked British schooner
Riverdale The vessel was struck near Anti
costa Island by squall which dismasted and
filled her with water. The body of Captain
Adams was found in the forecastle. There
is no trace Of the rest of the crew or of the
captains son and daughter.
l he ran IlNef lime StctllllcI 1 uItdh IAN
ashore in a fog on Big Gull Rock, ten miles
from New London, Connecticut, early on
Saturday morning. The $50 passengers were
taken off by a tug later in the day. but the
hig steamer is still high on the rocks, and her
outer she'll is pierced. The freight was trans
terred Sunday, and efforts will he made To
float the steamer.
Charles S. Hackley, President of the Board
of Education of Muskegon. Michigan. and
Regent of the University of Michigan, has
presented TO the Board of Education the sum
of $ia5. ZOO and $1,000 yearly, while he lives.
for the construction and maintenance OF n
manual training school. In recent years Mr..
Hackley has given upwards of S300,OO0 for
schools, libraries and other public benefac
tons in the city.
The new Colonial Hotel, Gettysburg Pa,
completed last year by Adam Braunreuter,
deceased, was burned on Sunday last The
fire was discovered in the basement floor at
2.35 a. m. The flames spread so rapidly that
the proprietor, Charles B. Tate. had barely
time to get his family and guests out before
the handsome structure was all ablaze. Moth
ing was saved except few articles of cloth
ing. The origin of the fire is unknown, but is
supposed to be accidental. The loss will eX-
coed $l5, 900. There Isl an insurance of So, DOC
on the building, which was owned by Mrs. +.
Braunreuter. The furniture, owned by Mr..
Tate. was insured for $1,000.