The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-02-15
News of the Week.

city, on Saturday morning, caused loss of
$165, 900.
Grace Presbyterian Church, in St.
Louis, was totally destroyed by fire Sunday
afternoon; loss, $50, 900.
George Barnard, cashier of Fort Stanwix
National Bank, Rome, n. Y, who COM
mitted suicide last week, was a defaulter for
over $500, 900.
The shops of the Chalfant Hardware
Manufacturing Company, in Lancaster,
Pa, were burned Saturday. The loss is
$50, 900; insurance S17,
The plant of the Tri-C City Packing and
Provision Company, in Davenport, Iowa,
was destroyed by fire Sunday. Loss,
s125, 900. partially covered by insurance.
The State Bank, of Savannah, Missouri,
was entered on Friday night of last week
by three men, who murderously assaulted
tie night Waterman, and escaped with
s25, 900.
Along the Erie railroad, in Pennsylva-
MIA, on Saturday night and Sunday, snow
fell to the depth of two feet and over.
At Rochester, n. Y, the snow fall was
about one foot.
A despatch from Velasco, Texas, Sunday
night, says that the Brazos river is higher
than ever known and that the town is now
an island Two white men and one negro
were drowned on Friday.
An English syndicate has bough 500,
900 acres of coffee land on the Isthmus of
Tehuantepec, and will plant coffee trees.
American capitalists have invested a mil
lion in similar lands recently.
Owing to o-years' drouth on the
Pacific side of Nicaragua, the coffee crop
has been much reduced, and instead of the
200, 900 expected, it is not believed that
the crop will exceed 100, 900 quintals.
Lizzie Hickman, of Knoxville, Tennes-
see. on her deathbed made confession
that Isaac Wright was the murderer of
Edward Maine, and not Lee Sellers, who
was lynched for the crime over 10 years
ago.
The balloon expedition to the North
Pole, which will take place under the
auspices of the King of Sweden, in 1896,
is progressing favorably. The balloon will
be filed on one of the islands northwest of
Spitzenbergen, and weighted to float about
900 feet high.
An organized band of thieves, equal to
the "Forty Thieves, has been discovered
at Huntingdon, Long Island, n. Y. 1t
was discovered by an old woman, who in-
formed the parish priest. The gang are
now in jail. The cave contained a little
of almost everything.
A lumber trust has been formed on the
Pacific coast 1t represents combined
capital of so, 900, 900, and includes in
its membership every lumber mill and all
the wholesale and retail dealers, as well as
the ship owners of the coast. The first
moye will be an advance in prices.
A phenomenal salo Of bit of unim
proved real estate was made in Atlanta,
Ga. few days ago. A lot on Whitehall
street, sixteen feet front, with depth of
only twenty eight fest, sold for SOB, 24S,
being 81, 453 per front foot, or $50 80 a
square foot. This lot was sold in lS4T
for Sl75,
The Mayor of Chicago has issued a
formal invitation to the Governors of IL
Southern States and to the Mayors Of 90
Southern cities, asking them to gend dele
gates to meeting to be held in Chicago,
February 10Th, for the purpose of organ
izing the proposed Southern Exposition
Company.
Judge George Mason, distinguished
lawyer of Galveston, Texas, died in San
Antonio last week, aged 60 years. He
was a son of James w. Mason, United
States Senator from Virginia, who, with
Slidell, was sent by the Confederate Gov
eminent as special envoy to Great Brit
ain and France during the Civil War.
An FL Paso, Texas, despatch says that
Colonel Albert j. Fountain, of Las Cruces,
New Mexico, a prominent lawyer and
Speaker of the Territorial House Of Repre-
sentatives, has been murdered, with his
9-year-old boy, by cattle rustlers on the
desert between Tularos and Las Cruces.
The cause was his activity in prosecuting
the cattle thieves.
William L. Wheelock & Co., piano
manufacturers, of New York city, have
made an assignment. The firm has in
terests in concerns at Norfolk, Richmond
and Portsmouth, Va, Chicago, Denver,
Pittsburg and Waterbury, Conn, which
were considered as branches The Weber
Piano and the Stuyvesant Piano Company,
Of New York, are also involved, and made
application for the appointment of receiv
ers. The liabilities of the Weber Com
pany are said to be 1884, 900 and the as
sets at least $3.50, 900,
The boy baby of Mr.. and Mrs William
Maeley, of Nelson street, New Bruins
wick, N. j., is thought to be the smallest
youngster in the United States. Although
I mosths old, the child weighs only 3
pounds, but Is healthy and has good
appetite When born the baby was but a
tiny midget, and for six weeks he did not
grow an ounce He was wrapped warmly,
bathed in cod liver oil, and slept nearly all
the time. After that time he began to
gov Z little. He is dressed in DOLL
clothes
At Gettysburg, Pa, on Tuesday of last
week, Rev W. H. Keith, formerly pas
tor of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
died, after long illness, due to diseases
contracted in the late war He was born
in Cecil couaty, Md, August 9th, 1929,
entered the ministry in 1858, and remained
actively engaged in his profession until
1894. He was chaplain of the Seventh
Maryland Regiment, serving throughout
the war. His services as minister in
cluded charges in MELVILLE, Harrisburg
Carlisle and Hanover. He was Mason
and Grand Army man. A widow and
five children survive him.
At Carlisle, Pa, on Sunday, st. Pat
rick S Catholic Church, of which Rev.
Father CAMS is rector, celebrated the
li7tb anniversary of its organization.
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