The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-02-29
News of the Week.

Floods have almost destroyed Las Palmas.
Grand Canary Island.
Grace Street Baptist Church in Richmond.
Virginia, was burned on Tuesday: loss $685.
600.
Heavy SHOWS are reported throughout Hum
gary, in many places all outdoor labor is sns-
pended.
At Hoboken, New Jersey, on Tuesday, 81
families were rendered homeless by fire; loss
S25, 900.
Louis Valiquet, barber at Haverhill,
Massachusetts,, Monday was fined S25 for re-
fusing to shave a negro.
Samuel Edison, the father of Thomas Edi-
son, the inventor, died Wednesday in Nor
walk, Ohio, aged so years.
Matthew J. Robbins, died in a New York
city hospital on Wednesday from blood pois-
oning, caused by the bite of a pet cat.
Henry C. Bowen, aged 80 years, we'll
known as the editor and proprietor of the
New York Independent, died on Monday.
james Donaghy died in West Philadelphia,
Pa. on February 81, aged 90 years, and Mrs
Elizabeth Coleman, in Galesviile, Wisconsin,
aged 100 years.
Flora Hodgkins, aged 5, and Mary Hodg-
kins, aged 8, were burned to death at their
home in Brooklyn, N. Y, on Wednesday.
The children had been playing with matches.
A. W. Patterson, wealthy resident of
Madison, Wisconsin, on Monday night shot
and fatally injured his wife and then com
mitted suicide. No reason for the deed is
known.
More than 100000 gallons of beer were
spoiled by fire in the cooling rooms of the NJ.
Brand Brewing Company, in Chicago, on
Tuesday night. The damage is estimated at
81, 200.
The British steamer Maori, from Baltimore,
February l5) for Rotterdam, with cargo of
grain, put into New York on Monday night,
having been disabled by hurricane on the
18th instant.
A vessel that was being loaded with arms
and ammunition in New York harbor on
Tuesday for Bermuda, was seized by the Gus
toms authorities; 200 volunteers were released,
but the officers were held for action Of the
U. S. court.
The dead body of Nellie johnson, daughter
of wealthy farmer of Appleton, New Jersey,
was found in the woods near her home GU
Tuesday evening. She had been assaulted
and strangled.
William Walters, colored boy, was burned
to death Tuesday morning at the office of the
knickerboeker Cycle Company. in New \ ork
city. He had put naphtha on a fire to make
it burn quickly, and an explosion occurred.
A four-story brick block in Binghamton
N. Y, occupied by the Binghamion House
Furnishing Company. and building adioin-
ing, occupied by Babcock & Stowell hard
ware dealers, were burned Tuesday. Loss,
5000, 200.
Ben Brown, who has travelled all over the
country with circuses, posing as California
giant, was murdered and robbed at Blanches-
ter, Ohio, on Saturday night. Thomas Hall
is under arrest, charged with the crime.
| Brown was feet inches tall.
Jacob Dietzel shot his daughter, Mrs.
Henry dinner and himself, at his daughter
residence, in Chicago, Wednesday. Both
were fatally wounded. Mrs. dinner had or
dered her father to leave the house on ac-
count of his continual complaining and ILL
temper.
At Keystone, West Virginia, on Sunday
night, a general fight is reported to have &C.
CURED between 200 colored miners. Several
shots were fired. and on Monday morning the
dead bodies of James Sarran and Pearl
Kimms were found near the railroad tracks
riddled with bullets.
Early Monday morning westbound Lake
Shore freight train broke in two II miles east
of Waterloo, Indiana, and the two sections
collided. Ten cars of coal oil ignited and
the flames spread rapidly, doing great damage
in destroying surrounding property. All
traffic was suspended for hours.
S. Haas, Chicago butcher, was attacked
by three men just as he was closing his shop
on Tuesday evening. The men demanded
Haas money and were overpowering him,
when he seized carving knife and ran it
through the body of one Of his assalants, Ed.
Hickey, inhicting a fatal wound. The other
two men then fed.
At Lexington, Virginia. William J. Maho-
ney, general manager of the Virginia Iron
and Railway Company has been appointed
receiver for the company. The company
owns and operates mines, IA mile railway,
a 100000 furnace, 5000 acres of valuable
land and houses at Goshen, Virginia. The
Appropriated Indebtedness Of the company
| is over $3.50 600