The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-01-18
News of the Week.

school for g. years. and is still in harness and work
ing hard.
The tallest man alive is Col A. APowell, ofTexas.
He is "a years old and stands feet ~ inches in his
stockings.
Reports from Sydney, New South Wales, state that
the heat is terrific and many deaths from sunstrokes
have occurred.
One million two hundred and eighty-six thousand
eight hundred and sixty-three persons visited the
Atlanta Exposition.
vermont's copper mining industry. which -four
ished few years ago and lately has been stagnant,
is likely to be revived soon.
Peter Hougaard, of Englewood, Illinois, on Mon
day, morning asphyxicated his wife, five children
and himself by means of Illuminating gas.
william Craig, general manager of the Duluth
Gas and Water Company, has been indicted by the
grand jury for causing the typhoid epidemic in that
city.
John Neill, an employee of Upton Co. IS packing
house. at the Chicago Stock Yards, fell in cauld-
ron of boiling oil, on Monday, and was fatally
scalded.
A groom of "a and a bride of 60 were married in
North Adams, Mass, recently. The groom had out
lived wives but the bride had only mad one other
husband.
Benjamin Johnson a Philadelphia, Pa, broker is
missing He took sl5, 900 and left last week. His
wife has turned all her property over to the eredi
tors of Johnson & Co.
Two tarners of sharnsbure XIV. bought SO
worth of law apiece last week in trying to settle in
court a disputed debt of 20 cents. Then they took
the matter out of court and compromised.
nv tho fall of nainter,s scafbld in Philadelphia.
pa on Monday Edward r. petrowsly. aged IS
wears and william Newkirk. aged "a wears. were
killed. and Henry Peterson was terribly injured
The large elevator of the Minnesota Linseed Oil
comnany in Minneapolis COLLAPSED Tuesday morn
ing and its store of 80 600 bushels of axseed pour
ed ont of the wrecked bins in glistening stream
and snread over the ground
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bia river this season. and some pretty big fishes
80 No., narah, IN tho Last waet mr. two ono
s,,,,,,ao ,voighno 40, Mounds as caug hit near the
49,, or rho no,Ies las, veek
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o;oh, ohi,dror and then hung himself seven of
Tho children died the otaer was alive at last ac-
counts but could not recover
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Da'i.' ""..- $50 -, - -
p ee.'' - ~ =, p,.;,aso,,h;a
mysterious explosion at 'ne,r nome IN
them revealed the cause Oh 'he eAPiosion'
close estimate of the crop of organges in south
ern California this season. made by the President OF
the Southern California Fruit Exchange. puts II al
5000 car loads, or 100000 boxes. This Is an in-
crease OF about 4Oo'ooo ooxes over last season.
The fishing schooner Fortuna was in collision
with the British steamer Barnstable off Highland
Light Cape Cod. Monday night, and was almost
cut in two. Fourteen of the crew were saved by
climbing on the steamer, but nine were drowned.
Very heavy snow storms occurred in the Cascade
Mountains, through Washington and Oregon, dur
ing the last week OF December Miners reported
from ten TO twelve feet oil snow on the hlgher IeVe
and the railroad tracks were covered oy iee' Oh
SNOW
verInonts oldest citizen is Moses Pierce of Derby,
who is little more than 1O2 years old. Mrs Eliza
A. Pinkham of Millbrdge, Me-, celebrated her hun
dredth birthday last Tuesday. She is in excellent
health and her eyesgh and hearing are practically
perfect
| One buyer and shipper Of turkeys in Lancaster,
KY, killed ii, 80 turkeys, aggregating $4,000
pounds, during the Thanksgiving and Christmas
season last year. There are several other turkey
dealers in that place who each did an almost equal
business
Frank Maciewski waiter in Cincinnati res
Coleman, a cook, who threw concentrated I've IN
his eyes as the result of quarrel. Maciewski was
talking to Lizzie Waldron, waiter girl at the time
ana portion OF the I've entered her eyes. Hls De-
lieved both Will lose their sight
Montana mines yielded 81, lis, 900 worth of min
erals last year. The copper production of the State
was about IS per cent of the whole product of the
United States The gold product amounted to 81
100000; silver to 100000 ounces copper to $4,000
pounds, and lead to 1850 900 pounds The gold
output was 10 per cent greater than the previous
year, and ~ per cent greater than in 1898.
VIM. D. Hines died in New Oxford, Pa, on Sat-
urday night in his sith year. For So years he
had been officially connected with the Bank of
Gettysburg and had served as director OF many
local companies Three sons-Prof. Charles T.
Hines of Dickinson College and VIM. A. Hines,
director of the York Trust Company, being two
and two daughters survive. His wife was daugh-
ter of Christian Lanius, of York.
AtToneta Kansas ON Tuesday a horrible deed
was peretrated, by some unknown fend. A child
of Charles Dean aged IA months, was left by its
mother alone a short time while she visited neigh
boris. Upon her return she found that some one
had removed the clothing from her babe, seated it
upon the top of hot stove and fed The flesh of
the child was cooked to the bone. young man
but he has fed the city The child suffered terribly
until death came to relieve it,
Gold mining in tho soptb ia having unite n boom
ms, nov The GOLD mines IN north Georgia no said
10 he doing a nrofitable business. a comnanv with
s25ooooo capital is about to develop gold mines in
West Virginia and hnds OF considerable value ana
importance are reported In North Carolina. IL is
said that hundreds OF miners have recently arrived
IN the gold nelds in Montgomery and Stanley eoun-
ties n c. Gold has also been found in Bucking-
ham, county, virginia, and company with s2ooo'-
oOo capital Il at WORK there.
Tho vounqe.t dapohter of n Revolutionary so,.
d,ar 90 A. az known was disoovarad AZ lebanon
Conn raoan,,v and adda, 10 Tho ,,orohorsbin of
tbe w,,,imant;c cnanter ~ The nsu9bters ~ the
Ravolption She Is Ms Augustus Avery and q
onlv =; wears old Her s,ther was "A wears old at
the time of her birth He was doubtless one of the
youngest soldiers in the war There are only eight
other daughters Of Revolutionary soldiers belong
ing to the order Virginia has several sons and
daughters of Revolutionary soldiers.
A Messenger train with a candida in the rear
loaded with ties was coming down the mountains,
in Tennessee recently. As the train passed coal
tnne train heavi,v loadad s,ddanlv STA rted after