The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-11-14
News of the Week.

Three million dollars worth of machinery
has been shipped from Delaware river ports
for Russia during the past year.
A terrific storm swept the east and south
coasts of England on Sunday and Monday,
causing much damage to shipping.
Lowrie & Robson's dry goods store in
Indianapolis, Indiana, was destroyed by fire
on Saturday morning; loss 100000.
The Iowa Savings Bank, at Sioux City,
closed its doors Tuesday. The assets are
$445, 900 and liabilities about the same.
Owing to the famine in India, over !, $780,
600 people are on the verge of starvation.
Appeals for food and clothing have been made.
Eight or ten inches of snow fell in the
northern part of Chautauqua county, New
York, Monday, and the storm was still raging
at night.
Albert Collins, of Mendon, Michigan, was
so disappointed over the result of the Presi-
dental election that he committed suicide by
hanging
A colored burglar, who was shot dead by n
Chester county farmer Sunday morning, was
identified as farm hand who had been dis
charged.
Miller & Vaughan, bankers and brokers of
Providence, Rhode Island, have made an as
signment. The liabilities are estimated at
$3.50. coo.
The large four-story works of the Boston
Bridge Co., Cambridgeport, Massachusetts,
were totally burned on Saturday, causing u
loss of 100000.
Napoleon Sarony, the well-known New
York photographer, was found dead in bed
at his home, in that city, ON Monday morn
ing. He was rs years old.
Edwin T. Bennett, for many years connected
with the Bay City Michigan) Tribune, has
been arrested in Chicago, charged with en-
bezzling SIS, 900 from that concern.
Michael Shields and Bernard Doyle have
been held in $1,000 bail by United States Com
missioner Craig 10 answer the charge of ille-
gally distiling liquors in Philadelphia, Pa.
On Sunday and Monday there was an un-
usually heavy fall of snow for the season in
parts of Minnesota, Iowa, Colorado and North
Dakota, and the mercury went down to 100
below Zero.
Michael Winter, Il blacksmith, So years
old, committed suicide in Buffalo. N. Y, on
Saturday, by throwing himself from the sixth
tier of cells in the penitentary TO the stone
tagging below.
Mrs. Mary Louise Vanderbilt, widow of
VIM. H. Vanderbilt died suddenly at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Elliott F. Shep-
ard, Scarboro', Westchester county, n. Y,
on the 9th instant.
Thirtyive hundred miners struck on Sat-
urday in Jackson county, Ohio, against re-
duction in the price of mining from 81 to As
cents. The prospects are that an early COM
promise will be effected.
Hugo NJ. Fielder, an assistant bookkeeper
of the City Controllers Office, in Chicago,
blew out his brains on Monday morning, in
the City Hall building. Financial troubles
are said to have been the cause.
j. Hermann & Co.'s jewelry store, on the
tenth floor of the Masonic Temple. in Chicago,
was entered by two armed robbers Monday
afternoon and robbed of $4,000 worth of dia-
monds, gold watch and 500 in money.
Edward Records, stock broker of Boston
and treasurer of the Massachusetts Car Com
pany, is under arrest in New York city,
charged with obtaining under false pretences
property amounting to $50, 1885, 3. He is
wanted in Boston.
c. C. Bynum, tramp, tagged passenger
train on the Baltimore l. Ohio Railroad, near
Washington, d. c., on Tuesday, the switch
having been opened by one of his compan-
ions. The tramp was shot by another tramp
for notifying the train.
Jacob B, Mpsselman, of Adams county,
Pa, had 81 acres of corn which averaged 191
bushels to the acre and acres that averaged
200 bushels. This corn is of silver color.
c. P. Bream also reports 1856 bushels to the
acre and crop of nearly 5000 bushels.
mob at Richmond, Missouri, on Monday
surrounded the Jail with the intention of lynch
ing Lon Lackey and Jesse Winner, charged
with the murder of Mrs. Winner and two chill
den on October &c. The Jail was guarded,
however, and the crowd finally dispersed,
Allison O. Mason, former President of the
embarrassed Globe Investment Company, the
principal business of which was in West
ern mortgages, has been arrested in Boston,
charged with embezzlement, The charge is
similar to that upon which treasurer Moore,
of the company, was recently convicted and
sentenced to term of imprisonment.
Judge Baker, Of the United States Court,
Indianapolis, has granted restraining order
in the case of s. C. Bramkamp, of Cincinnati,
against the American Wire Nail Trust. Judge
Baker said that the trust was monster that
seeks to prey upon the whole American peo-
pie, ard which it is the duty of the courts and
the lawmakers to come down upon with an
unsparing hand.