The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-11-21
News of the Week.

Tramps are terrorizing the farmers o
northern Berks county, Pa.
The Missouri river at Sioux City, Iowa
froze on Saturday from bank to bank.
Katie Morrow, who was to have beer
married this week, was burned to death OF
Saturday at Reading, Pa.
The North Carolina Baptist Association
has adopted resolution opposing State alc
by taxation to higher education.
1t is thought that it will be necessary tt
flood the Nelson shaft at Shamokin, Pa.
in order to extinguish the fire in the mine.
John Quick, of Philadelphia, Pa, aged
80 wears died on Sunday. He had national
reputation for building Catholic Church
affairs.
Reports from Northern Indiana, say
that diphtheria is very fatal in many places.
Several families have died from it, and the
disease is spreading.
Heirs of Burkhart Moser are endeavor-
ing to gain possession of 900 acres of land
in Schuylkill county, Pa, on part OF
which Tamaqua is located
By an explosion of dynamite at Niagara
Falls, on Saturday, two men were killed,
including Hokken Hammer, civil engineer,
formerly of Pottstown, Penna.
Brother Francis, who, with five other
French Roman Catholics, founded NOtre
Dame University at South Bend, Indiana,
in 1912, died on the 18th, aged a years.
A Knoxville Tennessee, despatch on
Sunday night, says that heavy blizzard
has been raging in upper East Tennessee.
There are IA inches of snow on Roane
mountain.
A despatch from Nassau, n. p, says
that W. r. Pyfrom, the oldest and largest
sponge merchant in the colony, died on
Saturday. He was a native of the Bahia
mas and owned feet of vessels number
ing about go.
Representatives of Barney Barnato, the
Kaffir mine king of Johannesburg fame,
have secured control of practically all the
mining properties in Lake of the Woods
and Rainy River districts in northwestern
Ontario, Canada.
The people of Holland, Mich, have
raised Sc, 600 to aid in rebuilding the fac
tory of George P. Hummer, the silver
candidate for Congress, which was burned
Il few weeks ago, entailing loss Of $780,,
900. He will employ 500 men.
\ fire in Syracuse, New York, Sunday,
DESTROYED the Eureka Plaster Company
Works and Michael r. Hayes salt watts.
Patrick Donuelly, who was asleep in one
of the buildings, was burned to death.
The loss is estimated at S25, 900.
The general missionary committee of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, in session at
Detroit, has made an appropriation to effect
the amalgamation of the Wesleyan and
Methodist Missions in South Germany.
For white work in the South SAG, 573 was
appropriated, and for colored work S43,
$40.
The house of Frank Konjo, on the out
skirts of Detroit, Michigan, was wrecked
by an explosion of dynamite on Saturday
night, and Konjo. Bob Ewers and
Konjo's daughter were injured, the
first two probably fatally. The Kon-
Jos charge man named Rozolski with hav-
ing committed the outrage
\ dispatch from Carlisle, Pa, on Sun
day last says:-For some time past horse
thieves have been operating in this and
adjoining counties, and many valuable
animals have been stolen. In Hampden
township fine horse was taken from the
farm of David Mumma Nothing was
heard of him until few days ago, when
a telegram came from the authorities at
Taneytown, Md, to Mr.. Mumma to the
effect that his horse had been recovered
from two unknown men, who were at once
arrested, charged with the crime They
are also accused of holding up farmer at
the point of a revolver, between Gettys-
burg and Taneytown. The reward for the
recovery of the horse will be paid, and a
requisitiOn made for the trial in the Cum
berland county court, Another horse was
recovered running at large near Dillisburg,
York county.