The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-02-29
News of the Week.

Gold quartz, yielding $500 per ton, has
been found at Perry, Oklahoma.
Pennsylvania Knights of Pythias are
going to build $3.50, 900 temple
Omaha ranks as the third stockyard in
the country. Itreceives about :, 900, 900
swine annually.
The city property of Richmond, Va, is
valued at s62, $40, BOG, and its bonded
Indebtedness is 81, 062, Gal.
About 60, 900, 900 feet of logs were
RATED in Bangor, Me-, during S95, which
breaks all previous records.
Edgar W. (Bll) Nye, the humorist,
died at his home in Asheville, North Gallo
lima, on Saturday last, aged 46 years.
Peter Angle and wife, an aged couple
near Beverly, Ohio, were burned to death
and their house consumed at an early hour
Saturday morning.
There was fall of two inches of black
snow in Chicago ON February II. The
same kind of snow fell in the adjacent
country for distance of 35 miles.
A fight between two negro prisoners
took place in Lancaster, Pa, jail last
week. One chicken the other until his
tongue protruded and then bit piece of
it off.
Joel Human, of Burtonville, KY, is six
feet four inches tall and weighs 354
pounds, and he has a son and daughter
each exactly as tall as himself, though by
no means so heavy.
Count Magre, the dwarf husband of
Mrs. Tom Thumb, has ordered bicycle.
His height is 80 inches, and the bicycle,
which is to be made to order, will weigh
less than 10 pounds.
John and Richard Steele, said to have
been the largest hemp growers in America,
were struck by train and killed at Tebb's
Station, 16 miles cast of Lexington, Ken
lucky, last week
Three women, next-door neighbors, in
Orneville. Me-, are the mothers of an ag-
gregatiOn of thirty-six children, all living
at home. There are lively times for the
other neighbors when school is out.
Mrs. Hiram Kelly and S. B. Cobb.
Thomas Murdoch and A. c. Bartlett, of
Chicago, have together contributed the
sum of $3.50, 900 for the erection of
Home for the Friendless in that city.
Georgia farmers are fearful for the peach
crop. The recent warm weather swelled
the buds on the trees, and some are almost
about to bloom. A frost would destroy
the buds and ruin the prospects of a good
crop.
Twenty hundred ounces of strych-
nine were distributed by the Commissioners
Of Walla Walla county, Washington. to
the farmers of that county last week for
use in trying to abate the plague of SPUR
rels
Netty Cole, the Kentucky fat girl, died
in New York city last week. Her casket
was 80 inches wide, % inches high, and
5 feet inches long, and as no hearse
large enough for the casket could be found,
a covered undertakes wagon was used to
take it to the cemetery.
The Missouri river has not been closed
this year, and it is not likely to be. Forty
years ago such a thing as the river remain
ing open all winter was unknown, and even
Is or 20 years ago it invariably closed in
December. During the last four years the
river has been closed but once.
Maud Darrell, 17-year-old Chicago
girl who is spending the winter with
friends near Leesburg, Florida, was alb
Quoted on Thursday night of last week and
taken to the woods, where she was stripped
and tied to tree. When she was found
the next day she was nearly dead from ex-
posure.