The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-01-11
News of the Week.

Loss sos. 900.
Ten thousand people attended the formal
opening Of the ''ice palace" at Leadville,
Colorado, on Saturday.
FIRE as Creston, Iowa, on the I'd instant,
destroyed Is buildings in the business section
of the town. Loss $3.50, 600.
Joseph Pyle, aged 20 years, died from
paralysis while attending church in Whining
ton, Delaware, on Sunday night.
John NJ. Collins and Bernard Sharkey,
members of the Philadelphia Pa. Bar, died
on Saturday night, aged II and "a years.
Amos Robertson, prisoner, was shot and
killed while attempting to escape from the
Jail at Columbiana, Alabama, on Saturday.
Hollis Hitchcock, one of the best known
and wealthiest of the California pioneers,
died in San Francisco ON Saturday, aged 20
years.
An earthquake of sufficient force to awaken
people from sound sleep and shake buildings
was felt in Hanover, New Hampshire, Monday
morning.
A Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
locomotive in the yards at Hoboken, New
Jersey, exploded on Saturday. Two fremen
were injured.
Mrs. N. Numberg, a widow, in Brooklyn,
N. Y, killed herself and her only child on
Friday night Of last week. She was very
poor and in i'll health.
A Lake Erie and Western train ran into on
electric car at Elwood, Indiana, Sunday
evening. Chris Hines was killed and four
others were seriously injured.
Two dwellings in Wheaton, Illinois, were
burned on Sunday night. Albert Grant and
Arthur Venom, who were fighting the fire,
were killed by falling chimney.
In a battle between a posse of officers and
moonshiners in North Carolina, near the
Tennessee line on Saturday, seven men were
killed and several others injured.
During fire in a tenement house in Phil
adelphia, Pa, on Saturday, Harris Levi was
suffocated and Mark Feinberg had his neck
broken by falling from window.
The general offices of the Norfolk and
Western Railroad in Roanoke, Va, were
burned on Saturday Most of the records
were saved The loss is about $4,000.
Last Tuesday was the coolest January 9th
on record in New Jersey. New York, the New
England States, and Canada East, the mer-
curry ranged from 80 above to 41o below zero.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt have
given to St. Bartholomew Episcopal Church,
New York city, lot to be used to erect q
mission house on. They paid $50, 900 for the
lot.
A FIRE in the hammer shop of the American
Bridge Company's plant in Chicago on Sat
urday caused loss of about $4,000. John
Birgstrom, Waterman, was probably fatally
burned.
The northeast winds last week threw upon
Delaware river beach, between Mispillion and
Slaughter Creek, millions of crabs. Boys
gathered the best and sold them at five cents
dozen.
At Lincoln, Nebraska, on Friday of last
week, Judge Holmes sentenced George W..
Davis to the penitentiary for life for wrecking
Rock Island passenger train car in Lincoln.
whereby IL lives were lost.
F. d. Hathern, white, and Thompson
Wade, a negro, were hanged at Augusta,
Mississippi, Wednesday, for the murder of
Mrs Hathern. The negro shot the woman at
the instigation of the husband.
C. +. Van Wrinkle. a Chicago grain broker,
who was recently indicted for keeping a
bucket shop, charged ON Saturday that he had
been approached by members of the grand
jury, who demanded $3.50 'hush money"
Eight men were caught in a cave-in in the
Anna Lee mine of the Portland Gold Mining
Co., at Victor, Colorado, on Saturday, and it
is believed all persisted. The victims included
Assistant General Superintendent Sheldon.
A fire IN the Royal Hotel, cheap lodg-
ing house in Chicago, early Monday morning,
caused a panic among the $50 guests,
many of whom jumped from the second
story windows. 1t is believed that all escaped.
Two counties in Western Kansas were
covered by fire last Monday night. The lar
gest fire was in Kiowa county. In Stafford
county the FIRE is feeding ON the rank grass,
sunhowers and dead hedges on abandoned
farms.
A Columbus, Sandusky and Hooking freight
engine blew up early on Saturday morning
near Fultonham, Ohio Engineer Bert Mead,
Fireman Frank Hesse and Brakeman Fred.
Kreits were killed and Conductor Ira Morris
fatally injured.
Harrison Fuller and Frank Simpson, two
negroes, who were to have been placed on
trial at Lexington, Tenn, Wednesday, for an
outrage upon Mrs. Pomeroy and her l6-year-
old daughter, white, were lynched on Tuesday
night by mob.
A despatch from ST. Pierre, South Dakota,
says that within few months there have
been organized 20 new companies, with a
combined capital stock of $40, 000, 900, for the
purpose of developing the Black Hills gold
mining properties.
The Franklin county Children's Home,
near Columbus, Ohio, was destroyed by fire
early on Friday morning of last week. There
were l47 children in the home, and it is be-
lieved that all we're gotten safely out. The
loss will reach $125,000.
A forest FIRE swept over an area of 10 square
miles in Boulder county, Colorado, during the
latter part Of last week, destroying much
valuable mine buildings and machinery.
There is grave anxiety as to the fate of the
men employed in the district.
The National Tube Works Company, at
McKeesport, Pa, have resumed operation
after an idleness of nearly a month. The
resumption will give employment to nearly
| 1000 men. The National Rolling Mills are
| also running, giving work to about 1000 men.
The handsome club house of the Merton
| Cricket Club at Haverford, Pa, with all its
contents, were destroyed on Saturday night
by fire of unknown origin. The Casino
Building, adjoining, was also burned. The
loss is estimated at $4,000; nearly covered
by insurance
William H Dieffenbach, travelling sales
man who was injured in collision on the New
York, Lake Erie and Western Railway, has
obtained verdict Of $35. 600 against the road
before Justice DAILY of the Supreme Court in
New York city. This Is an unusually large
verdict for case of personal injury,
The Governor of New York has granted a
| respite to "Bat'' Shea, who was to have been
executed at Dannemora prison on Tuesday
| for the murder of Robert Ross, until February
4th. This actien is taken because of the con-
fession made by John McGough. companion
| of Shea's ON the day of the murder, TO the
effect that he (McGough did the killing.
An oyster boat, with three colored dredg-
ers, drifted into the mouth of the Savannah
river, Georgia, on Sunday, with one of the
men frozen to death. another barely alive and
the third scarcely able to talk. They were
blewn to sea while attempting to cross Gala
bogue Sound in northwest gale last Friday,
| and were IS hours without food or water.
John Hoffman, aged 10, of Hanover, Pa,
died on Tuesday. His case was peculiar
one. Two weeks ago he fell on his head
while jumping fence. He became uneon-
scious, but soon revived, and since then
slept well and had a good appetite. All that
was noticeable was that he daily became
weaker until death came. The physicians
diagnosed the case as congestion of the brain.
George Busbas, of VAUDEVILLE, Pa, aged Is
years. employed at Draper Colliery, met a
| horrible death while at work on Tuesday.
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