The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1895-01-05

Jay Dimick. a farmer, of Hounsfeld. New
York. was burned To death on Sunday night
while trying to save some cattle from burn
ing barn.
The people of Brighton, Ohio, are greatly
excited over a series of attempts to burn the
town. Each time coal oil has been used freely
bv the iucendiaries.
Two young children of John and Sarah
Timmins were left alone in the house at
Middleshoro, Kentucky. last SATURDAY. and
were burned to death.
4 rendezvous of the Naval Reserves Of
Connecticut Pennsylvania, New York, Rhode
Island and Massachusetts is proposed, 10 be
held at New Haven next summer
William F. RoSSman. IT., bookkeeper in
the Hudson River National Band. Of Hudson,
New Jersey. WAS arrested on Saturday night.
charged with the theft Of about $4,000 from
the bank
The CITY Attorney of ST. Joseph, Missouri
has made formal charges Of malteasauce and
bribery against the police force and police
nudge of that city. IN connection with IN"
gambling houses.
Charles White. farmer. of Newago. Mich
igan. and his Young son were burned to death
on Sunday The house was burned. and
White was overcome hy smoke white trying
To rescue the child
Mrs. Belle Armstrong, a wealthy Young
lady, Jumped from moving train ~ Almonie.
Ontario. on Monday. and broke her neck.
Her father witnessed the accident and the
shock drove him insane.
The Delavan House. Albany. New York.
was DESTROYED hy fre last SUNDAY night Sew
eraI persons were injured hv jumping from
the windows, two. 1t !, thought fatally. The
guests lost all their effects.
Dos, Nets killed his sweetheart. Lizzie
Smith. at Monroevills. Ala. hv ,iahhing her.
then cut his own thruat and died. The couple
verc "a be married New Year Day. Metz, 5
iealousy casuej the deed.
The Ohio Apartment Buildiag, in Chicago.
was DESTROYED by fir on Monday. Loss, $50.
coo. Twelve persons VEN overcome hy
smoke and we're earned unconscious from
their beds by the Gremer-
James GRAY. James Alexander snd james
Fletcher. eoloryd latarsrs. ucre instantly
killed near Nashville, Tennessee, on Tue,tay.
by the explosion # box of dynamite which
thew we're tha%ing out
Mr. Amelia T. Bloomor, whose eariv
advocacy of dress reform fnr women gave the
name tu q costume once adopted 10y woman
suffgsrists died last Sunday n Council Rl9il..
Iowa. She was - 7rars old,
Tho Norfolk and Western Railroad Com
passy hs, contracted with the Ccairal Car
Tru,, Company of New Jersey for hgiliiug
inn box car for Sso.Oc0. 60 D. is,e3 90 the
Norfolk and Western Railroad.
The Chicago Grand jury. ou saturday.
voted mo bill against Alderman John Pos
cr,. who uas charged with having attempted
&C. secure hrilse re prevent the passage of an
orsiinagcp fnrhiding ih~ sale ~ cigarette o.
minors
The striking eSorkerS a. Havrshill Mas
sRfhusriis. made q demonstration GA MONDAY
and induced 259 more rmpluyrs 81 iuca3
shops 90 come OCT. The strikers dcmaud the
abolition 4 the contract svssem and n~s
pFice lisi.
The Cincinnati police believe ihst Chariss
M5rran6rld. sbo Is IN rllsio-ty ,hrfp for The
Virginia train robbery. as implicated in 'hs
Z hald-np 81 q train near Cairo ilhnass, in Nov
eInt-r. tSs2. in thr course If which she ror
ducior was killed
Tbrae childfra Il Mr. Viola Kemp ~rry
burned o. death ncar Rome TIA. MONDAY
n;shi Their mother iefi them ia charge II
[ o eoirsin vho buijJ a h3z 6rv. locked the
children ia aud Neht io tesr- The kosse
sa> DESTROYED
Z The residence 81 Michael u'Couusll. of r.
I Pasn WISCONSIN. aas consumed hy ERE aa
I Sarday. and Mrs % Couuell sod eve rhiidreH
I persisted in she flames. Two childrea escaped.
Mr. OCunnsH was fatally burned iu his
sjtesnpi Ia save the family
Al East Lake. Alabama. nn Saiar,iAy. q
I Negro shot and fatally wounded ri. T. Dsu-
Z iels. a well-kuouu citiseu aad attempted Ia
{ break info Daniels house ia order o. assault
/ his daughter. Her screams brought asset
{ auce, and the Negro escaped
{ 4 de,paseh from s. PAIL saws that Charlie
( Hochstaedter. manager OF the United States
I Clothing House, II s. Paul and pari owner
I pf the Hub Clothing House, Of Milwaukee
both al Nhich failed December -. has dIss
/ appeared wiih from $4,000 Ia 5000,
( Twenty or more bodies, including that of
exSherif Curry, we're found on SATURDAY 10
/ the cellar Of a house ia indianapolis, which
vas being fitted Bp for the Indiana Medical
I College They had been stolen from various
country cemeteries in the neighborhood.
A despatch from Reading. Pa. on Monday
Within the past eighteen hours four
member. 81 the family 81 Jacob X. ieyeu, uf
{ Oiey this county. two Of Whom arr adults.
died Of diphtheria. last Saturday smother
child WIS burned, and two are now n death s
door.
4 diphtheria epidemic has assumed alarming
proportions among farm horses near CARLYLE.
I Illinois, The animals arr first afflicted with
distemper aud afterWard the glands Of the
neck and Jaw become very much distorted
I There have been many deaths. The disease
is spreading rapidly,
4 despatch from Atlanta, Georgia, SAYS
/ thar ..the Dixie Hummer, which left Chicago
al > a. IA. Saturday made the fastest long
distance run iu Southern railway history,
covering the 1913 miles in IL hours - minutes
actual running time. The average running
time was 81 miles an hour.
BENJAMIN Van Tyle. Of Hoosiek Falls. NY.
a colored man. celebrated the ll4th anniyer.
sary of his birth on Tuesday. He was born "a
slave in New York State and was sold three
times. Al the age of IL he shook George
Washington hand ~ Albany He retains
all his senses aud walks without the aid of
cane,
-Four armed roblnrs entered y. j. Mcllin :
I saloon, in Chicago, late ON Saturday night,
and in an attempt 10 hold-up the bartender.
1 Nils Beck, shot and fatally injured him.
| They then went 10 Austin McGrail's saloon,
and. in a struggle which followed, McGril
I shot aud killed one Of the robbers. The
! others escaped.
The cold of last week was of wide extent
| Il was intense north of the Ohio and Potomac
I rivers, and quite severe as TAR south rs the
| Cult states Ia Florida it Is said the oranges
are injured. In various parts of the country
! people we're frozen to death. one of the vic
inns being James H. Robertson, an X-Mayor
1 Of Peekskill, New York.
I United States Treasurer Morgan on Monday
mailed %, 055 checks, aggregating So, $50, 404
/ in payment of interest due january LIST, 1895.
\ on United States registered 4 per cent. consols
! of 1907. and bonds issued 10 Pacific railroad
! companies On January 10th, 81, 362. 600 of
/ principal and SjS24. % Of interest will have
/ to be paid in redeeming Central Pacific Rail
/ road bonds, issued under the acts of July LIST.
! 1862 and July I'd, 1864, which mature on
| that date. These two items, with the usual
heavy expenditures of January, will probably
swell the excess of Government expenditures
/ over receipts for the month of January. 1895.
| to SD, OO0. 600 or 1900, GOO
Daniel Finley, the oldest convict in Clinton
prison, in Plattsburg n. Y, if not in the state
as well in point of years as in service, was
pardoned BY Governor Flower on New Years
1 day, his life sentence having been commuted
after he had served thirty four years. Finley
IS a., tho -aoond Jaoraa