The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-08-01
News of the Week.

Rev. DIR. H. L. Baugher, who was
recently retired from the Greek chair which
he has held for about twenty years in
Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, it is
stated. has been rendered the presidency
Of the Lutheran German Seminary at
Chicago.
The fire losses in the United States for
1895 reached total of SAP, 10, 223
This is almost equal to the vast sum paid
out by the federal government for pen
sions, no other single item of expenditures
approaching it in bulk.
A natural ice vault has been discovered
in cave near Evansville, Brown county,
Indiana. 1t is on the farm of William
Moore
John Stevenson died at the Old Man 5
Home, in Philadelphia, Pa, last week, in
his l05th year.
The Chicago police have recovered
S27, $50 worth of the S53, 600 in bonds
stolen in March last from Christopher
Schrage. Jacob Mclean, one of the men
who stole the bonds, revealed the hiding
place Edward B. Smith, proprietor of a
road house, was also arrested, charged
with receiving s21, 900 worth of the bonds.
Several other men are under arrest charged
with completely in the crime.
Charles J. Mccarthy, formerly money
order clerk in a station Of the New York
post-office, has been arrested in the City
of Mexico, charged with. embezzling money
order funds.
S. G. Fleming, cashier of the Exchange
National Bank, at EldoradO, Kansas, has
been arrested for alleged forgery and EN-
bezzlement in the sum of $40, 900. The
same bank was robbed of Sl5, 900 about
year ago.
The Superintendent of the Chicago
Milwaukee and ST. Paul Railroad has ap-
piled to the United States Marshal at
Omaha for protection against an army of
tramps which has for some time past been
taking possession of trains and defying train
crews and passengers.
Joseph Wesley Harper. of Harper
Bros, publishero, New York city, died last
week, aged Go years.
Rev. Alfred L. Curtis, Bishop of the
Catcholic diocese of Delaware, has asked
to be relieved owing to the inirnatives of
age.
Ore shipments from Michigan, up to
June 30. are 500, 600 tons greater than
last year.
The weekly Iowa weather crop bulletin
shows the oat crop in that State to be al
most ruined by rust. \ majority of the
fields are not worth cutting, and the total
output will be less than one-third the heavy
yield of last year.
French Greek, West Virginia, was ont
of its banks on Tuesday caused by 10 hours
continuous rain Along the b. x q. and
West Virginia railroads traffic was sus-
pended for sometime; towns and villages
were under water along the various streams;
farming land almost destroyed; millions
feet of lumber swept away and great
number of cattle drowned Nearly three
inches of rain fell in few minutes at
Morgantown. The Monongahela river at
Greensboro rose rapidly and the town was
under water The Grafton log boom at
Morgantown burst, and ! o. 900 logs started
down the stream.
Serious floods have occurred in the Ber-
nese Alps, the Jura mountains. the Canton
of Vaud and the lower Valsis. Bridges
have been carried away, roads destroyed
and railway travel interrupted. but no ia
talities are reported.
Gen. Cassius NJ Clay has been contin-
uous master since 1855 of what he holds
TO be the Oldest flock of Southdown sheep
in the world under one Engagement. He
imported the first of it in that year, and
has not since brought over any ewes, but
has improved the stock by rams The
carcasses average go pounds and the
feeces seven pounds.
Men are so scarce or so pupular in At
Gibson, Kansas, that mother was obliged
to ask the police to corral her son. who,
after three days absence, she concluded
had been kidnapped by the girls. They
had kept him up so late nights to take
them to parties and got him out so early
in the morning to go bicycling that he had
found it not worth while going home at
all. she said