The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-02-01

John Tyler, son of President Tyler, died
Sunday evening at his home in Washing
ton.
Hon. Theodore Runyon, American Am
bassador to Berlin, died of heart failure on
Sunday morning.
Edward Kirssbom, treasurer of Plymouth
county, Iowa, is missing, and his accounts
are said to be short S25, 900.
At St. Mary's, Ohio, on Saturday,
wagon containing 760 quarts of nitro
glycerine exploded, killing San Angel, the
driver, and two horses.
Fl. Belfeld & Co.'S iron pipe works,
Philadelphia, Pa, was almost destroyed by
fire Sunday night The loss is between
$50, 900 and $4,000
DR.. Marcus T. Taylor, of Bonneville,
Mississippi, died in the University Hos
pital on Saturday of malaria, contracted
while riding 10 miles through storm to
visit sick friend
A Columbus, Ohio, despatch says that
State Representative james A. Spear, of
Clinton county, has admitted that he asked
a constituent for $500, to secure for him
an appointment as a guard in the State
prison. Spear has announced his intention
to resign.
Five men who were members of mob
at Lewisburg, Tenn, which recently de-
tanned railroad train Gin which were two
negroes bound for the penitentiary) until
the arrival of party of lynchers, were in
dicted on Saturday for delaying the United
States Mails.
The steel steamship jamestown, of the
Old Dominion Line, running between New
York and Norfolk, Virginia, had 80 feet
of her starboard rail stove just aft of the
bridge, and her upper joiner work knocked
full of holes, bya big wave, which boarded
the steamer on Friday afternoon off the
Highlands of Navesink.
While constable Fielson was taking two
prisoners, Sam Foster and Peter Smith,
charged with murder, to the st. Louis Jail,
on Friday evening of last week, mob,
intent on lynching, surrounded the wagon.
The constable surrendered, but the prisoners
whipped the horses and got off, Foster be-
ing shot in the hip. Felson finally caught
up with the prisoners and they were safely
lodged in Jail.
In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Charles
Schmaliug, chief steward. and George
Coll, steerage steward of the steamer
Switzerland, and Joseph Pauline,
wharf laborer, were on Saturday held in
bail to answer the charge of attempting to
smuggle phenacetine and anti-pyrine. An
drew Bennett, steward of the vessel, was
relieved of the charge, but required to en-
ter bail to appear as witness.
Col. William F. Benchoff died at his
home, Montana Springs, near Blue Ridge
Summit, Pa, Saturday, of cancer, after
an illness of eight months. He was 40
years old and was well known to many
Baltimoreans who frequent the springs and
vicinity during the summer. Colonel
Benchoff was director in the Gettysburg
Branch of the Western Maryland Rail
road \ second wife, whom he married
about two years ago, survives him, with
eight children.
The mildness of the winter thus far is
causing great loss in Aroostook county,
Me-, in all lines of business. The re-
markable lack of snow has tied up all the
numbering industries. The bark haulers
and lumbermen are unable to get their
material to the mills, the mills are idle for
lack of lumber, and, as lumber is the chief
industry of the county, all lines of business
are suffering The farmers, too, complain,
saying that the grass fields are seriously
damaged for the lack of the usual covering
of snow