The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-04-25

fa last week.
The Lane leather house, of Boston, has assigned;
liabilities $4,000.
Mrs. Elizabeth Fink died in Adams county, Pa
ON March q. in her s6th year.
Hannah Chard, of Terrell, New Jersey, celebrated
her l07th birthday on Monday.
Measels have appeared in the Kentucky peni-
Tertiary and 81 convicts are in the hospital
Mrs. Elizabeth Leonard died at Moundsville.
West Virginia. recently at the age of log years
Fred. Bemer living near McLeansboro Illinois,
killed his wife and 2-year-old child on Sunday af
noon.
Gen. Levi Clark Bootes, United states Army, re-
tired, died Saturday in Wilmington. Del, aged 81
years.
A shortage of slI.5OO has been found in the ac-
counts of J. C. stoddard, City Treasurer of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa.
Forest fires did great deal of damage in
the vicinity of Chillicothe Ohio during saturday
and Sunday
| Mrs. Mary shafer. aged IS. years, was fatally
| burned in tenement house fire in Cincinnati
Saturday morning.
trust has been formed by all the shovel manu-
factors the United States and prices have been
advanced 20 per cent
bicycle trust with capital of s1o,OOO,oOo has
been formed by eastern and western factories with
headquarters at Toledo, Ohio.
Lizzie Armstrong, Assistant Postmistress at larry
| town, New York, was arrested on Saturday charged
with stealing money from the mails.
Judge Arthur Borman. who was first Governor
of West Virginia, and United States Senator from
1869 to 1875 died in Parkersburg on Sunday.
The new steel bridge over the Missouri river at
Jefferson City was opened for travel recently.
1t cost S25OOOO and was built by local company.
The President has sent to the Senate the nomina-
ton of Ftzhugh Lee, of Virginia. to be Consul Cen
eral at Havana Cuba vice Ramon o. Williams re-
signed.
The factory of the Dauntless Bicycle Company, in
Toledo, Ohio, was burned Sunday. The losses are
estimated at sls 900 and 500 hands are thrown out
of work
Seven men were killed and six injured, four prob
ably fatally, by explosion of dynamite in the
Broadwater Mine at NeIhart Montana on Saturday
morning.
James E Alsop, who was charged with the muir
der of Miss Lena Olsen, hanged himself in his cell
in the Jail at Seattle Washington, on Friday night
of last week.
The town of Santa Cruz, on the west coast of the
island of Luzon has been almost destroyed by fire.
Four thousand houses were burned and so 900 per-
sons are homeless
Topeka despatch says that prominent colored
men have bought tract of 1000 acres of land 10
! miles east of Topeka, and Will establish town
there exclusively for colored people.
The unused Winter Garden of the Lehigh Valley
Traction Company at Rittersvine, Pa, valued at
$4,000, struck by lightning Friday night of last
week and totally destroyed.
During heavy storm Friday night of last week
| lightning struck Christ Union Church at Heller
town. Pa, and the building was destroyed by fire
Loss, $4,000; Insurance. 5000.
| At Trub Switzerland, on Thursday of last week
an immense landsid occurred by which many
farms were devastated and forests destroyed. The
loss of life, it is feared is very heavy.
f. X Smith, the ex-banker, of Columbia, Pa,
was sentenced Saturday at Lancaster to impris-
onment of years and months for accepting de-
posits when he knew his bank to be insolvent
Two firemen were crushed to death and several
others seriously injured in fire that destroyed the
Pennsylvania Railroads old depotin Philadelphia,
Pa, Saturday night and caused loss of $4,000.
Middlebury (vt) man will sail from Boston
for South Africa this week, taking with him two
carloads of first grade sheep selected from the best
hocks in Vermont, to he used for breeding pur-
poses.
A female "Fagin' has been arrested in New
| York city. In secret apartment 10 large baskets
of silks, dress goods, notions, etc, were found.
Several young girls and boys found in her
rooms.
At Princeton, Kentucky, on Sunday, Rowen &
Hollingsworths tobacco factory with 900 600
pounds of tobacco was burned; also II small resi-
dences adjoining. Loss about So, 000 insurance
s27sOO.
Two children were killed. two other persons ia
tally injured, and two others still seriously injured
by two bolts oflghtning which struck the dwelling
of Andrew Olsen. in Wallace, Michigan, on Friday
of last week.
On Sunday and Monday nights the coolest weather
of the season ever experienced in Southern Cali
fornia reported by the Weather Bureau Frost
reported in several places also in the State
Washington.
Patrick Breitigan, n brakeman on the Reading
and Columbia Railroad, was instantly killed in a
wreck at Mannheim, Pa, on Tuesday, and freight
conductor Johnson reeeiyeda broken arm and other
severe injuries.
-Four men engaged in driving a heading from the
shaft to the slope of the Eddy Creek coliery near
ELEPHANT Pa. were instantly killed Saturday.
The dead men are James McIIale, VIM Harvey and
Ralph Abbott, brothers.
general railroad, electric railway and city pas
senger railway strike is threatened throughout the
country. Secret meetings are being held by the
men. 1t will be disastrous to traffic than the
one several years ago.
Only one railway passenger among 2sOOO.OOO is
annually killed in England; in France it is one in
100000; in Germany in 100000; Italy, one
in 100000; America, one in 100000 to 100000
and Russia, one in 100000.
Hon Willard Ives, II member of Congress in 1852.
the founder of Ives Seminary, a Methodist insti-
tuition at Antwerp and well known as banker
and philanthropist died at his home in WATERFOWL,
New York. Sunday aged 90 years.
Albert somerville in fit of jealousy, shot and
almost instantly killed his cousin Ella Somervie,
a daughter OF Judge II. L. somerville, postmaster
at Richmond Texas, on Saturday. He then at
tempted suicide, but made only a slight wound
Early on Saturday morning Startling Savage was
taken from his bed at Irving College Tennessee by
a mob of masked ''moonshine" whisky men and
hanged to tree. The man was suspected of being
"spotter" for the United STATES Internal Revenue.
Leo Hirth. n welI-known and wealthy German
resident, of indianapolis, Indiana, was instantly
| killed at O'Clock Sunday morning by two masked
men who were discovered in his bed room, and
whom he pursued into the rear part of the house.
Mary Crabtree, of Troublesome Greek, KY, might
properly be called either new-od woman an
old-new woman. She is nearly 81 years old, has
recently cut set of teeth and her hair, which
used to be snow-whitc, has become dark, glossy
brown.
Secretary olney has received cablegram from
Ambassador Bayard reporting the arrest of Matt
Adams, of Colorado, at Southampton. Adams was
j county clerk of Anpshoe county, Of which Denver
is the county seat and is charged with the defaea-
ton OF a large amount of money
A forest fire in Cumberland county, n. c., de.
sroyed 10000 acres of the finest long leaf pine tim
| Der last week The loss is over $4,000. One
house. many barns, miles Of fencing and many cat
| tie were burned. Rain checked the fire, which
threatened to reach the town of Fayetteville.
Parts of Berks county. Pa. were devastated by an
electrical storm, on Friday NIGHT of last week Har