The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-03-14
News of the Week.

The Atkins Saw Works in indianapolis
were damaged TO the extent of 100000 by
an incendiary fire early Tuesday morning.
Chief Justice Doe, of the Supreme Court
of New Hampshire, died of apoplexy in the
railway station at Rollins Ford Monday morn.
ing. He was 66 years old.
Ex-State Senator Abbott, of Morgan coun-
ty, Ohio, was convicted in Columbus on Tues
dUy of bribery in connection with the Phar-
macy bill in the last Legislature.
Graham McAdam was arrested in New
York on Tuesday, charged with issuing bogus
charters for Lloyds' fire insurance companies.
Other arrests are to be made.
Fidel Tritscher, Il Select Councilman of
Allentown, Pa, shot and killed his WIFE early
Tuesday morning, and then killed himself.
There was no apparent reason for the trag-
edy.
George Evans, the negro who killed Tailor
VIM. A. Cook, in Danville, Virginia, on Sat
urday night, was found in house in that city
on Tuesday. He shot and killed himself in
preference to being captured.
The police of Joliet, Illinois, have arrested
Robert Bowen and Joseph Pelkey, two of the
alleged robbers who attempted TO hold up the
Rock Island passenger train at Rockdale, near
that city, early ON Sunday morning.
By the explosion of giant mining powder
at the Durham, Georgia. coal mine, on the
side of Lookout Mountain, on Saturday after
noon, two negro convicts were killed and a
third was fatally injured.
NJ C. Mclean, of Bellevue, an engineer
on the Nickel Plate read, was beheaded by
his train in the depot at Fostoria, Ohio, on
Tuesday. He missed his footing while at
tempting to alight from the cab
Bertha Paradise was found strangled in her
bed in San Francisco on Tuesday morning.
Nothing in the room had been disturbed, and
the womans purse was not molested. There
were no marks of violence on her neck, but n
handkerchief had been thrust down her throat.
The quarterly statement OF the Fall River
Mills dividends, Just issued, shows that the
quarter just passed has been prosperous enc,
and all but four of the larger concerns have
declared dividends. The average rate on the
total capital is 1893 per cent.
General strike of boatmen and laborers in
the British Island of St. Kits, in the West
Indies, eliminated on Sunday in rioting and
bloodsded. Property is reported to have been
destroyed and plantation managers and over
seers killed. Marines and sailors were landed
from British warship, but they were INSULT
cient to restore order.
The Ohio Legislature has appointed a COM
mittee to investigate charges of corruption in
the Office of the State Dairy and Food Com
missioners. A. j. White, President of pre-
pared food company of New York, says that
in May, 1895, he paid $4,000 to Amos DYE. an
attorney of the pure food department, to stop
prosecutions against the sale of food prepa-
ration Dye denies the charge.
An attempt was made Wednesday morning
to rob the First National Bank at German.
town, Ohio, by the liberal use of giant pow
der. The robbers used so much powder that
the bank room was wrecked, the people of
the town were aroused and the criminals fed
The door of the vault, which weighed 800
pounds, was blown 80 feet. In the vault were
$4,000 in cash, besides many securities.
A telegram from Seattle, Washington, Sun
day night. says that the land and snow slide
on the Great Northern in the Cascade Noun
tains has developed into the most disastrous
one in the history of the road. Rocks, trees.
and earth were swept down the mountain
side, carrying away snowsheds, bridging and
tracks. There has been, in consequence, a
complete blockade since the Monday night
week previous.
n. G. Davis & Bro have sold to the ]. L.
Rumbarger Lumber Company, Of Dobbin, W.
Vs., 1900 acres of timber land lying on the
headwaters of Stoney River. The tract is in
Tucker and Grant counties. The price was
100000. The Rumbarger Company has a
logging railroad built to this tract. The dis
lance is about 10 miles from Dobbin. 1t is
understood the Rumbarger Company will en-
large the capacity of its already large saw
mill