The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-08-22
News of the Week.

Rockford, Illinois, had 500, 900 fire
on Sunday.
Five heavy failures were announced in
Chicago on Saturday.
In Philadelphia, Pa, last week there
were l73 deaths from the heat.
In Berk' county, Pa, potatoes are
selling at from 10 to II cents per bnshel.
The drought is haviag terrible effect
in Mexico. The food famine among the
poor is causing number of deaths
At Guthrie, Oklahoma, on the l4th
instant. the mercury was 100 in the shade.
For three days previous the temperature
was from 80 to 40.
More barns and other buildings were
destroyed by the storm on Thursday night
of last week, in Pennsylvania, than by any
other storm this season.
w. +. Eyster, wealthy well-known
citizen of Chambersburg, Pa, was muir
dered and robbed in Lincoln, Nebraska, on
Friday night Of last week.
BY the Overlooking of the river Kistna,
in India. 200 persons were drowned and
thousands rendered homeless. The dam
age to property is immense,
The Methodist Church at Berea, Ar
kansas, was wrecked by high wind on
Friday night of last week. One person
was killed and several injured.
In dismissing two cadets from the West
Point Military Academy President Cleve-
land expressed his contempt of the mean
and cowardly' practice of hazing.
Lightning struck a 36, OOO-barrel tank
of the Standard Oil Company near Lima,
Ohio, on Saturday morning, and the fire
communicated with three other tanks
Loss, s15, 900
The American Line steamer St. Paul
has broken the westward record from
Southampton Her time was six days and
thirty-one minutes Her average speed
was 81 0S knots per hour
Henry Barfeld, formerly postoffice
employe at Liverpool, England, was ar
rested on the arrival of the steamship Pa
vonia at Boston on Sunday of embezzling
f400 from the Liverpool postofice.
A Florida boy has shed his skin. 1t
came off in single piece from his neck
down, and is perfect cast of the human
form. and is a about the consistency of
hard glue, which it much resembles.
A. Peate and Miss Darch, i'll a small
skiff. were blown out into the lake at Bow
manville, Ontario, during heavy storm
Sunday afternoon. A rescuing party
could find no trace of them, and it is he
lieved they were drowned.
AT Napanee, Ontario, Canada, during
heavy thunder storm Sunday three little
girls were crossing the river in rowboat,
on their way to Sunday school, when
lightning struck and killed two of them
and rendered the other unconscious.
Floods are doing terrible damage in
China. In many places entire towns and
villages are submerged All railroads have
stopped running. Many deaths have taken
place and hundreds of homeless men, wo-
men and children are starving to death
Sister Irene, Mother Superior of the
New York Founding Asylum, died on the
18th, from complication of diseases
She was probably the most prominent Sis
ter of Charity in America, and was born
on May II, 1923, in Kensington, London
A severe storm swept over Central Iowa
on Saturday evening and great damage
was DONE In Des Moines one and half
inches of rain fell in ten minutes. Rivers
overfowed their banks, bridges were car
ried away and railroads were blocked by
washOuts.
The Beach Side Inn, at Green Farms,
Conn, was robbed by FIVE masked burg
lars Monday morning. The Waterman
was bound and gagged, the safe blown
open with dynamite and robbed of $500
in cash and $1,000 in checks, and the
guests were kept at bay by revolvers of
the burglars
Saturday night Harry McCleary, the
manager of Hotel Washington, at Way
nesboro, Pa, died after one days illness,
from acute Inflammation of the stomach,
aged 80. He was also the owner of the
Pen Mar Clubhouse, a resort near Pen
Mar Park and poolroom, in Waynesboro,
He was member of Mechanics fire COM
pany.
The second section of West-bound
tram on the Denver and Rio Grande Rail
road was wrecked, on Saturday afternoon,
about eight miles west of Pueblo, Colo
RADIO. Engineer Charles Davenport and
Fireman w. F. Reppert were instantly
killed. About twenty passengers were
injured, but none seriously 1t is thought
the accident was caused by the spreading
of the rails, due to the intense heat
News was received at Mobile Alabama,
on Sunday, of death dealing cyclone that
passed through Perry county, on the Thurs
day previous Two whites and 5 negroes
were instantly killed, and others were Sc
riously wounded. Houses were tossed
about like footballs, cattle were driven
against trees and killed, and crops de-
stroyed. Later reports say that the storm
was as bad in some of the adjoining coun-
ties
Pine Greek Valley, Pa. near Pitts
burg, was swept by cloudburst on Thurs
day morning of last week Forty persons
are reported as being drowned, and nu-
merous others are severely injured. De-
Haven, village of several hundred in
habitants is completely wiped out. Mill
dams were torn out, which added to the
great volume of water and carried destruc-
ton with it. Several other towns were