The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-12-05
News of tie Week.

Cairo, Illinois, had an earthquake shock on
Tuesday.
Connecticut oyster beds are being destroyed
by the starfish.
Hold ups are becoming very frequent in
Chicago, Illinois.
The great strike at Hamburg, Germany,
closed on Thursday.
Georgia will not allow foot ball nor the
selling of cigarettes.
Ira Shafer, well-known lawyer, died at
his home near Highland, N. Y, Monday
night.
The jacques Auditorium, in Waterbury.
Connecticut, was burned on Saturday. Loss,
$3.50
Pierre Lorillard's training stables at Jobs
town, New Jersey, were burned on Sunday;
loss $4,000.
In parts of Louisiana great destitution pre-
walls. Food is being purchased and given to
many of the sufferers.
Crime of almost every character is rampant
in Pennsylvania. 1t almost equals border
State of 80 years ago.
William Steinway, the well-known piano
manufacturer, died in New York City on
Monday, aged GO years.
Postmaster Armour, of Memphis, Tenn,
has been indicted for being short in his ac-
counts to the extent of $4,000.
The Reading, Pa, Adler, celebrated its
1GOh anniversary on Saturday. 1t is the
oldest German paper in this country.
Friday of last week, November u, was the
hottest day of that month ever known in New
York City, the mercury indicating 1s'.
heavy gale prevailed Saturday over the
British coasts, doing much damage to ship
ping, and there was heavy snowfall over the
Island of Jersey.
A blizzard prevailed on Wednesday in parts
of Virginia, Moth Carolina and Georgia. The
snow was from to II inches deep, and the
cold was intense.
Luther Greenman, his wife and three chill
dren were burned to death Sunday in Perry,
New York. The house was set on fire by
defective stove pipe.
DR.. Benjamin F. Tappan, for many years
President of the Bangor Theological Semi
nary, died Thursday, at South Norridgewock,
Maine, aged 81 years.
1t is said that, owing to the deficiency of
her crops, Australia will require 100, 900 tons
of -four from America, half of which quantity
has already been ordered.
The East Clayton Brickmaking Company's
plant, at Jacksonville, Ohio, was burned on
Saturday. Loss, 100000. One hundred
men were thrown out of work.
The elevator of the St. Paul Elevator and
Warehouse Company, in St. Paul, Minnesota,
was totally destroyed by fire Friday night of
last week. Loss, 100000.
More than half the business portion of the
town of Leavenworth, Okanogan county,
Washington, was destroyed by FIRE on Thurs
day of last week. Loss, $4,000.
Edward Tinsley, guard in the Richmond
(Virginia) Reformatory, was struck with an
axe and fatally injured on Friday night of last
week by Charles Fourshee, an inmate.
A powder explosion took place on Satur-
day in the mines of the Hooking Valley Coal
Company, in Jacksonville, Ohio. Two men,
named Malone and Sheldon, were fatally in
jured.
New York steamship agents think it not
impossible that the big strike of dock labor
ers. now in progress in Hamburg, may ex-
tend to the larger seaport cities of the United
States.
Harry NJ Kline, formerly teller of the
Farmers National Bank of Lebanon, Pa,
who confessed to embezzling $4,000 of the
banks funds, has been committed to Jail, in
default of bail, to await trial.
Ex- Banker Anthony Kozel, who failed in
Chicago last May for $l14,000, will go to
Joliet prison on an indeterminate sentence,
having confessed to fraudulent practices in
handling funds entrusted to him.
J. W. Burney, of Stratton, Nebraska, was
on Friday night shot and killed by his son,
young man q years of age. The deed was
provoked by the elder BurneY, who threatened
the life of the youth and his mother.
The Indiana Republican Congressmen-elect
have decided to refer all applications for
postoffice appointments to the patrons of the
postoffices, and elections will be held in every
city and town of the State after March 4.
Price despatch says that the ellison as
phaltum mine at Fort Duchesne, Utah, is still
burning fercely. All attempts so far to ex-
tinguish the flames have been unavaiiing. The
fire was extinguished on Wednesday night.
The New York and New Jersey Bridge
Construction Companies have made contract
with the Union Bridge Company of New York
city for the building of a bridge over the Hud-
son river at a cost not to exceed S25, 10000
The body of Moses Yowell, postmaster of
Sidney, Iowa, who disappeared two months
ago on the discovery of shortage of $500 in
his accounts, was found in the woods on Sat-
urday by a hunting party. 1t is supposed he
poisoned himself.
st. Monica's Roman Catholic Church, at
Atlantic City, N. j., was destroyed by fire
Wednesday morning, entaiing loss of prob
ably $4,000. William Doherty and Thomas
Lenney, 6remen, were caught in the burning
building and killed,
Advices from Martinique state that very
heavy rains have fallen throughout the island
and have caused all the streams to overflow
their banks, and that immense damage has
been done to property. A number of per-
sons in the interior have been drowned.
John Steiger's barn in Mercersburg, Pa,
was burned Friday afternoon of last week
Two little sons of Mr.. Martin, a neighbor, had
been playing horse in the barn. One fthem
had tied the other, who represented the
horse, to ring in the barn, and he was burned
TO death before help arrived.
The Governor of Kentucky has declined to
offer a reward for the arrest and conviction of
turnpike raiders, who have wrought such
havoc in half dozen counties, on the ground
that he has no authority under the law. 1t is
feared this action of the Governor will excite
the mobs to more deeds of violence.
After display of fireworks at Baroda, H.
dia, Sunday night, the crowd made a rush for
the Park gates which were so narrow that
they soon became jammed with people.
When the crowd was finally cleared away it
was found that 20 persons had been killed,
and S5 more or less seriously injured.
Despondent because of continued i'll health
and while suffering from temporary mental
alteration, Robert E. Marshall, Superinten.
dent of the Altoona Division of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, ended his life Monday morn
ing with o bullet through his heart, at the res
idence Of his brother in Washington, D. c.
On Friday of last week FIRE broke out in the
jackson county Jail, Kansas City, Missouri,
and for awhile it appeared as if the structure
would be destroyed and many ofthe prisoners,
1853 in number, cremated. Prompt work by
the fire department checked the blaze. how
ever, and the damage to the prison will only
be about $4,000.
A conference of commercial bodies of vari-
Gus cities, held in Indianapolis on Tuesday,
on the invitation of the Board of Trade of that
city, decided to issue call for a national con-
ference of commercial bodies in January for
the purpose of suggesting such legislation to