The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1895-01-19
News of the Week.

There were twenty deaths in New York OF
I Tuesday from the grip.
Twelve deaths from grippe were reported a
the Bureau of Vital Statistics, in New Yorl
city, last Sunday.
Eleven new eases of small pox were reported
in Philadelphia on Tuesday There are 4,
cases in hospitals and 10 in private houses.
Charles MorganGeld. the supposed Virgins
train robber at Aqua Creek, has been turned
over To the Virginia authorities by Judge
Wilson. of Cincinnati.
Twenty-one cars loaded with coal and pro,
visions left Atlanta. Ga, Tuesday night. foI
the Nebraska sufferers. The total value OF
the shipment is $4,000.
Nine business places at Barnesville Ohio.
were burned last Saturday night. Loss.
100000. The fremen were hampered by
the freezing of water in the hose.
Argument on the eonstitutionality of the
Income Tax law was concluded on WedneS-
day before Judge Hagner, in Washington. D.
{. A decision Is expected on Wednesday
next.
Ex-Gov. Stephen F. Chadwick of Oregon.
died in Salem Ore, Tuesday night. aged 81
wears. He was a native of Connecticut and
Went to Oregon in 1851. He was Governor
in lS77-7s.
Alexander Phillips shot and fatally wounded
his brother, John, and then committed suicide.
near Avondale, New Jersey. on Sunday after
noon. There had been had blood between
the men for some time.
Reuben Garner. of Cell Postofice. Dallas
county. Missouri. was hanged by a mob on
Thursday of last week. hnt was cut down and
resuScitated by friends. Garner was suspected
Of having robbed a store.
Committees from four A. p. A. lodges. in
Butte. have made protest to the Montana
Legislature againtS the election Of Thomas
Carter rs United States Senator. because
Carter is Roman Catholic
A telegram from Seattle. Washington. saws
that the schooner Justine foundered in Decep-
ton hay. an Sunday afternoon. ia a fierce
gale. She aud the entire crew. which Is said
to number fifteen men, went down.
Jacob Miller in Chicago. last Saturday.
while crazed with jealousy. killed his wife hy
cutting her throat, and then made an msue-
ceSSiul attempt To Hill James Olander. fore
man of the shop in which he was employed
Two masked men gained an entrance to
the express car of Burlington train near OF
tumwa, Iowa, last SATURDAY night bound and
gagged the messenger and baggageman,
empiicd the contents Of the safe into q bag.
and escaped.
The home Of John II. Baldridge. near JET.
ter>"n. Iowa. was DESTROYED bv fire on Sunday
night The weather was intensely cold. and
nine children. from , To IL wears Of age. had
their feet and hands frnzen. They are in
critical condition.
Joseph Banigan. we'll known rubber
Of Providence. Rhode Island.
has given $4,000 To found a chair &C political
economy ia the new School of the Social
Sciences of the Roman Catholic University.
IN Washington. d. c.
Hugo Schmid was burned 10 death at Port
Richmond. Staten Island, last SATURDAY. in the
presence Of crowd Of people Schmid'
house was wrecked and set on hre hy an eN-
plosion. aud be- was canghi in the debris in
such a va, that be could not be eNtrieated.
The Dover National Bank. of Dover. New
Hampshire. suspended on Monday upon the
discovery that it, Cashier. Isaac r. Abbott.
Vas detauiter to the amount of about $50. COO
jus, before the officers reached his house ~
make the arrest Aht.ott shot aud killed him
self
4 despatch from the CITY Of Mexico saws
that the dredge hOat Mount Waldo. belonging
,o the Central Railway. bound from Tampico
To- Nclasco. has been wrecked near Point
l.oi,as Island. Captain Brock. his wife and
two childrn. and Eve other persons were
drowned
The -, O10 which was offered by the National
Shoe and Leather Rank of New York for the
arrest and conviction 0f Samuel Seelev. has
heen reviewed at Chicago and devided equally
among Mcfarland the intouner, aud Cts
Detectives O'nonnell and Almendinser. who
made the arrest.
The Illinois supreme Court on Tuesday
practically killed the Chicago MIR Shippers
Association or Trust in a decision declaring
haFles Ford, against whom the Trust had an
account uf Si@s for milk. exempt from pay
mept, on the ground that the association Is au
Illegal organization.
The jackson and Nashua Manufacturing
Companies. II Nashua, New Hampshire, have
decided to apply 10 the State Legislature for
To build mills ia other states. and tn
increase their capital The Jackson Com
lanv has suspended the manufacture. of shirt
ngs. aud will transfer that branch If their
business 70 some point in the South.
The nitro glyceriHe magazine of the Ohio
lnd Indiana Torpedo Company. half 3 mile
from GihseRhurg. Ohio, hleW up last SUNDAY.
Fremont. y miles distant was ladly shaken,
,Hd n GihsOnburg doots mere blown from
heir iasienings, windows were dashed oni,
plate glass fronts shattered and ehimneys
umbled down, leaving the place hooking like
Srrcs.