The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-05-09

at his home at Englewood Cliffs New Jersey Sunday
morning. He was 20 years old.
ON Saturday last the residence Of Senator Hale at
Ellsworth, Maine, was burned. Loss $1,000; insur-
ance $4,000. The library and furnishings were
saved. The house was unoccupied
Ranslowe A. Boone, prominent merchant of St.
Clair, Penna.. was instantly killed by being thrown
from his carriage Monday evening. His wife, who
was with him, seriously injured.
1t is reported in Butte Montana, that the Rotts-
childs who recently bought for s7,5OOOOO quarter
interest in the Anaconda Copper Company, have
now taken another quarter for slO,OOO.OOO.
E & G. Friend & Co., wholesale dealers in leaf
tobacco in New York city, have failed They had |
been in business for thirty years and this is
their second failure. The liabilities about $500,
900.
Father Koaszwesk and his Polish parishioners
of the Independent Catholic Church of the Immacu-
late Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Cleveland
Ohio, proposes TO join the Methsdist Episcopal |
Church.
Prof J. W. Thoman was elected superintendent
of public schools in Adams county, Pa. for the third
time Tuesday. The salary is sl20) Prof Z E |
Taylor, of Lituestown an applicant for the
position.
Hiam Lester who died recently at the poor farm
in Henry county, Georgia, said that he 10 years
old. of his in the institution is years
old, and daughter living i'm HeaId county is %
| years old.
At Chattanooga, Tennessee, on Saturday last the
heaviest rainfall during the space of time fell in %
minutes Water was axle deep in all the streets;
stores dwellings and other places were inundated
Great damage resulted.
Right Rev. Thomas o'Gorman, formerly of the
Roman Catholic University at Washington, was
installed on Sunday Bishop of Sioux Falls South
Dakota, to succeed Bishop Martin Marty, trlnsferr-
| ed to St. Cloud, Minnesota.
on Saturday, James waldon of Nashville, ILL
nois, being about to die confessed that he killed
Paul spague Is years ago, because he was Jealous
of his attentions to Miss Collins. Shortly after
spngue's death Miss spngue died from grief
Elsie Kreglo, aged l6, daughter of farmer living
in the northwestern suburbs of Washington, d. c.,
was killed near her home on Monday afternoon by
an unknown negro, who escaped. The girls throat
was cut and her clothing torn from her body.
At Clayton Massachusetts,, Monday, Edgar Cecil
Plant about y years DID, shot and killed his young
wife, whom he was forced TO marry less than three
weeks ago, stabbed his infant child and then three
hours later put bullet through his own heart
Representative Bankhead of Alabama, has intro
War to proceed without delay to procure lands TO
complete Gettysburg National Park. Six hundred
thousand dollars is appropriated for this purpose.
John I. Jones' who, after two trials YVES convict
ed of stealing gold bullion from the Carson Nevada
Mint has been sentenced to eight years in the peni
Tertiary at hard labor and to pay fine of 5000 A
similar sentence had been passed on Heney, the
other suspect.
c. S. Hutter. of Lynehburg, and A. N. Stack, of
Danville, Virginia, purchased the wheeler lands"
in Stokes county n. C. This body of land embraces
ten thousand acres in one tract and extends for
distance twelve miles in length and is nearly all
in original forest.
Colonel North, the nitrate of soda king and mil
lonaire sportsman died suddenly in London Eng
land, on Tuesday. He started life as a poor boy
but by unlagging industry he left an estate worth
from S5,OOO.OOO to 500 900 mostly made in the
nitrate fields of Peru.
Robert Lee Hildebrant, assistant cashier of the |
National Bank of Harper's Ferry, VISA arrested at
Cumberland, Md, on Monday on the warrant of VIM.
o. Bau, charging him with embezzling $3.50 of the
banks funds, and turned to the sheriff of JEFF
ferson county, West Virginia.
Aecomae, Northampton county, Virginia, had a |
narrow escape from destruction by fire on Monday |
night. Several large stores and dwellings were !
Inc loss Is the stores were nlleu
with new stocks of spring and summer goods. The |
The fire was started by incendiary
William H. Doble, who in his time was one of the |
greatest reinsmen in the world died Saturday in I
Philadelphia, Pa, in his sOth year Mr. Doble was
probably the Oldest living driver of trottng horses
and he was the first man to drive a trotter faster |
than AZ He began driving in 1890.
The Shah of Persia was shot on the LIST instant by
revolutionary fanatic, while visiting shrine |
near the city of Tehenn for devotion The muir
derer was arrested. The Shah was beloved by his |
subjects and was one of the best that ever ruled |
that country. He was born in 1880 and was crown
ed at the age offs
on Tuesday afternoon lightning struck the house |
of Prof James A. sattered at Barraeksviile Marion
county, W. Va, and yonng woman was killed and |
several other students of the Normal School severe
ly shocked, At Martinsburg struck the steeple of l
the Northern NJ E Church, tearing the slate off on
one side and splintering the woodwork
A telegram on Monday from our Minister to Next |
co announced that Chester W. Roe, the embezzling |
county treasurer of Poweshick county, Iowa. had
been convicted of bringing stolen property into the
Republic and sentenced to IL years Imprisonment
to pay fine of 5000 (all he had left of the en-
bezzled money, and to forfeit HIS recently acquired
Mexican citizenship.
Judge Horton, in Chicago on Saturday decided |
that bucket shops legitimate as the Board OF
Trade, and quashed the IL indictments against Will
liam Skakel and 10 others charged with being pro-
prietors of, or employed in, bucket shops. The |
Grand Jury however, wholly ignored Judge Hor-
toms decision, and issued l49 more indictments
against proprietors of bucket shops.
A ive-story brick structure, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
occupied as lodging house, collapsed Monday
evening in consequence OF the explosion of a gaso-
line tank. II is not known how many persons were
killed, some estimates being high as 40 and
others as low Is. Fully 100 persons were more or
less injured by the concuson falling electric wires
and flying debris Men at work among the
ruins searching for bodies
The village of Naylor Ripley county, Missouri,
was sold at public auction the 10th ultimo by
United States Marshal Lynch, to satisfy Eastern
creditors whose claims aggregate $4,000 The
property sold included 1000 acres of land, $1,000
worth of merchandise. 5000 worth of cattle $1,000
worth of lumber and several store buildings and Is
dwelling houses The successful bidder was an
agent for the Horton Land Company, owners Of the
property.
Mount Mauna Loa, at Honolulu was in violent
eruption at 7 o'clock on the morning of April 90
The fountain of lava the summit of the mountain
was estimated by observers at Hilo 1000 feet high
Inc nght was so Dr1lliant that 1t was seen from
Lahama, no miles away, the next night and the
glow seen the same night at Diamond Head, $50
miles distant This indicates eruption of the
greatest magnitude. The direction of the great
lava flow win be learned within a few days
On Thursday night OF last week, an unusually
heavy ninflll did great damage in Mecklenburg
county Virginia. Small streams were almost in
SANITY turned into torrents, and serious damage
was done to farming property The fall was heav-
lest in area between GAINESVILLE and Jeffress
which the KeysviIle and Durham division OF the
Southern Railway and the Atlantic and Danyille
Railroad Universe culverts and fills were washed
out on both lines TO such extent that all traffic
was suspended. The storm extended over an
area Of only about ten miles square large treste
over Butchers creek on the Atlantic and Danville
was carried away, and the replacing of this bridge
is the most serious ofall the work. is dicult
procure anydctais Of the damage here but the loss
TO the railroads is quite heavy.
Five hundred bushels IF nofafoes were sold