The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-06-13
News OF the Week.

Cuban agents are paying 500 per
month in gold for American volunteers.
By the recent cyclone in st. Louis So
miles of streets were INSTRUCTED by the
debris
Jamas Monham and John Atkinson,
two prominent citizens of Duryea, Pa,
were drowned Saturday night while fish
ing in the Susquehanna river.
The latest figures on the Russian disas-
ter on May 80, on the plain near Moscow
state that 8, 1873 persons persisted and A.
900 were injured in the crush.
The new -four warehouse of the Anchor
Line in Erie, Pa, was destroyed by fire
Saturday. Loss 500, 900. James Good
win, night Waterman, was killed.
David Wilson, colored, of Morristown,
New Jersey, on Sunday split his wife s
head open with an axe. Jealousy was the
cause. When arrested he confessed.
Professor Won Soden, of Germany, is to
be tried for heresy because of his criticisms
of the Emperor and the Evangelical
Church at the Evangelical Social Congress.
Negro delegates to the St Louis Re-
publican convention are unable to find ac-
commodation at the hotels. The commit
tee have issued an appeal for the go dele
gates
Cyrus Moser was killed and Alexander
Kidd fatally injured by the collapse of a
scaffold at the top Of an elevator shaft at
Lips 4 Sutton's silk mill, Bethlehem, Pa.
Saturday
NJ. J. Atkinson, Vernon Gait and Roy
Slosson, members of the senior class at the
Nora Springs Seminary, Mason City, Iowa,
were drowned in the Cedar river while row.
ing Saturday.
The authorities of East St Louis. ILL.,. i,
have sent out an additional appeal for aid
for the storm sufferers. The known dead
in both cities number 257, of whom 104
are in East st. Louis.
Three buildings in Brooklyn, owned by
Howard 4 McDermott, leather manufac
turers, were burned on Saturday; loss
$3.50, 900. Five hundred persons are
thrown out of employment.
The American Line steamer ST. Paul
arrived at New York on the 9TH inst, six
days, FIVE hours and twenty eight minutes
from Southampton, the fastest time ever
made between those ports.
-Four of the bandits who few weeks
ago attacked and robbed mule train
loaded with silver bullion, which was on its
way to Durango, Mexico, from Resale s
mining camp, have been captured and shot.
While two men were whitewashing the
top of an elevator shaft in Bethlehem,
Penna., on Saturday, the scaffold upon
which they stood collapsed, and one man
was instantly killed, the other was fatally
injured,
The bodies of Stephen Shamarian, aged
35 years; his son, Benjamin, aged 10;
daughter, Kueen, aged 80, Armenians,
were found FIVE miles from Fresno, Cal. i,
Saturday, all having been shot in the back
of the head
Major J. B. Denworth was arrested al
Williamsport, Pa, Saturday, on the charge
of illegally retaining money of woman
pensioner. Major Denworth was defeated
for department commander of the Grand
Army of the Republic at Chambersburg
last week.
4 bronze statue of Benjamin Franklin,
presented to the printers of Chicago by
Joseph Medill, publisher of the Chicago
Tribune, and erected in the Lincoln Park,
was unveiled on Saturday afternoon by
Rene Bach, of Philadelphia, great-gr
grandson of Franklin.
A Toledo, Ohio, despatch says that all
the bicycle factories of that city, except
two, and which employ altogether about
5000 men, are to shut down for an indef-
mite period next week. This is said to be
the first movement towards curtailing the
output, the primary object of which is to
force prices up to the 500 notch on
standard machines.
On Saturday night, while Klein large
store, in Chicago, was crowded with Gus
TONERS, three men made their way to the
cashiers desk, placed reyolvers at the
lady head, told her not to say word but
to hand them the money. She refused
the crowd started to her rescue, one man
robbed the drawer and the others held them
at bay until they escaped.
On Saturday night tramps set fire to the
barns of Henry Chappell, farmer living
near Elyria, Ohio. Chappells son-in-law,
VIM. Hobill, discovered the fire, and when
he went to the barn he was shot and dang
erously wounded by one of the tramps. Mr..
Chappell went into the barn to release some
cattle and was overcome by smoke and
burned to death. The tramps escaped.