The Democratic advocate., 1896-12-12
News of the Week.

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during the recent storm.
The First PRESBYTERIAN Church, Chicago,
was damaged by fire Sunday to the extent
of about $1,000.
An incendiary fire Sunday destroyed q
store buildings and five dwellings at Shaws,
Miss. loss about s75, 900, partially insured.
Be caresul of whom you entertain over
night, as smallpox prevails at Ironton,
Ohio; Pittsburg, Penna., and Pensacola,
Florida.
The Westham Granite Company, own
ing large quarries in Chesterfield county,
Virginia, has made an assignment. Liza
bilities, $50, 900.
The Henry County Bank, at Clinton,
Missouri, has suspended payments. The
deposits are about S125, 900, and bills pay
able about $40, 900.
The funded debt of the railways of
Pennsylvania is 1897 0S6, 938, which,
with capital stock and floating debts,
makes total capitalization of S2,OO7,-
191, ,535.
Daniel Ryan, aged years, and William
and Josephine Burk, aged and IL re-
spectively, were drowned in the Nauga-
tuck river, at Thomaston, Conn, on Sat
urday, by the breaking of the ice.
4 fire in New Orleans, Louisiana, on
Saturday destroyed the wholesale grocery
of B. H. Flaspoller & Son, and the store
of the j c. Morris Co. dealers in wooden
and willow ware. Loss, S155, 600.
\ Santa Fe train was wrecked % miles
north of Fort Worth, Texas, on Friday
night, by miscreants, who placed obstruc-
tions on the tracks. Two Of the trainmen
were killed and another badly scalded
During fight in New York city on
Saturday night Giuseppe Dsario shot and
killed Francisco Garlula and fatally wound
ed his brother James Garinla. The row
started in saloon over Il game of cards
According to Chicago despatch the
Standard Oil Company and the Rookie
fellers have bought large tract of land in
the Calumet river region Of South Chicago
and will build the largest steel plant in the
country.
Because their demand for food and shell
ter was not complied with, two tramps, on
Saturday night, set fire to and destroyed
the home of Sarah and Mary Leech, near
Shelbyville, Ind. Mary Leech was proba
bly, fatally burned.
Sophia Lawrence, aged 8; Sarah Law
renee, aged 40, and lodger, named Saw
yer, all colored people, were found dead in
their house. in Roxbury, Mass, on Satur-
day. They had been asphyxiated by gas
from a leaky pipe.
United States Secret Service detectives
in New York on Saturday night arrested
Charles Poppas restaurant keeper, and
Annie Kranis, on charge of making spu-
rious coin. Dies, moulds and furnace
for melting metal were seized.
The United States District Attorney at
Des Moineo, Iowa, on Saturday swore out
warrants for the Commandant and Trus-
tees of the Iowa Soldiers Home at Mar
shaltown, charging them with violating
Federal laws by retaining liens on pen
sions.
George Evans and Charles Pink were
killed by negroes near Sugar Hill, Perry
county, Tenn. on Thursday of last week;
while endeavoring to check race riot
which was in progress. The murders have
intensified the trouble and further blood
shed is probable
An opinion of importance to Eastern in
vestors was handed down by the Kansas
Supreme Court, in Topeka, on Saturday
1t was in effect that the Kansas law does
not authorize the assessment of judgments
rendered by the State Courts in favor of
citizens of other States
A Kansas City despatch says that the
Omaha, st. Joseph and Kansas City
packers have determined to form com
pany and purchase salt mines in Kansas,
and hereafter produce all the rock salt
that may be needed in the packing bust
ness of the three cities.
County treasurer w. N. Coe was ar
rested at Dallas, Tex, on Saturday night
on a grand jury Indictment charging him
with embezzling s5695 of Dallas county
funds Coe claims to have been robbed
in his Office by two men at midnight last
| Sunday night and to have been shot in the
back of his head
An investigation of the work of the
turnpike raiders in Kentucky shows that
1900 miles owned by corporations have
practically been coniscated and are being
travelled free of toll. 1t is estimated that
the destruction of tollgates in the Blue
Grass region has affected 81. 900, 900
worth of property.
1t is said that Senator Faulkner will re-
sign his seat as United States Senator this
winter so that he can accept very lucra-
tive offer as attorney for New York cor
poration Senator Faulkner said Sunday
night in reference to the rumor that in view
of political conditions in his State he will
not resign until the expiration of his term
in 1899.
The grand jury at Chicago, on Satur-
day, found indictments against five West
ern Union officials, on the charge of aid
ing and abetting bucket shop keepers
Assistant States Attorney Lynch refused
to draw the bill, however, holding that
neither the facts nor the law justified it.
The court took the same view, and the
grand jury reconsidered its action
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