The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-05-23
News OF the Week.

Many turnpike roads are being purchased by the
county authorities in Pennsylvania and made free
roads
Mrs Irene Leonard was convicted last week in
wichita, Kan. of numbering her husband TO secure
his insurance money
Kansas is counting OH a wheat crop this year of
ss,OOOOOO bushels, which would be the biggest yield
in the history of the State.
Henry Cuyler Bunner, editor of Puck, died
last week at his residence in Nutley, n. j.,
from tubercular consumption.
Henry II. Farmer, aged g. years, postmaster at
Hillsvile, Carroll county, Virginia, has been ar
rested for robbing the mails.
In York, Pa, last week Ivan Mulligan shot
and seriously injured his brother David, with rife
that was supposed to be empty
AT Atlanta, Georgia, on Sunday the Markham
Block and other business places were burned.
Loss over $4,000; insurance small
DIR. salmon, aged IOe years, died in London,
England recently. He was the oldest MEMBER
of the Masonic order in the world
At Syracuse, " Y, on June %, there will be
shooting MATCH open to the world. In addition to
the prizes 5000 in stake money will be added
sister Rosini, the last of eight Sisters of Notre
Dame who came to this country from Belgium in
1910. died on the 14th instant, at the Convent at
Reading Ohio. She was born in 1872.
Henry Bolton, the embezzling Treasurer OF
Omaha Neb., has been sentenced to nineteen years
in he penitentiary and pay also $40 fine that
being double the amount he is convicted of EN-
bezzling.
new railroad, to be known the Duluth and
Great Western, is to be built from Duluth to the
Missouri river, in North Dakota. The road will tap
the best part Of the wheat fields in Northern Min
nesota and Dakota.
The prisoners in the Newport, KY, Jail sawed the
hinges ofra rear door on Saturday night, and all
escaped except Jackson and walling, the alleged
murderers of Pearl Bryan, and one other prisoner
who refused to leave.
The house occupied by Michael Harvey, near
BIackwater, Ontario, Canada, was burned last Sat
uriay and two of his daughters aged and II years,
persisted in the flames Harvey and two other chill
dren were badly burned.
Gfeat damage to growing crops and other yege-
tation was done by hail storms which prevailed
Sunday in several places in Italy. severe thumb
er storm passed over Parma, and four persons were
killed and five injured by lightning.
The test suits brought by the Grain Dealers As
soeiation of Iowa against the railroads In that
state to recover about 81 alleged overcharges
ON grain shipments to Chicago were filed in the
Federal Court ut Sioux City on Saturday.
franklin City, on Chineoteague bay, just below
the Worcester county, Maryland line, in Accomac
county, Va, was destroyed by fire. sunday morning.
About p houses were burned and many families
were rendered homeless. The loss is over 5000.
gift of 500 900 from the estate of Joseph Jeanes.
of Philadelphia Pa. assist in the establishment
int hon II
and infirm among Friends, announced at the
opening session of the Friends Yearly Meeting this
week.
Miss Yeatman, the Regent of Tennessee, has pro-
cured a heard of thoroughbred registered cattle
and presented them to the Mt Vernon estate. Mrs.
Goldsborough, of Maryland presented . set OF
mahogany chairs, of the pattern in use during
Washington's time.
The Bronson House. the plant of the Western
Engine Company and other property at Painted
Post y. Y, were burned Saturday. Loss, $780,
CO., The fire was probably of incendiary origin.
Less than year ago the village voted against a
water works system
Ex-CoroneFs Daniel Butler and Joseph Bettnger
and their clerks, W. H. Bird and Henry Bensinger
who were convicted of conspiracy to defraud Wayne
county Michigan, by holding false inquests, were
on Saturday sentenced to serve IS months each in
the Detroit House of Correction.
William Daley aged 20 years and William T.
Reed, aged IS years, of Cambridge, two dangerous
'firebugs" have been arrested by State Fire Mar
shall whitcomb in Boston, Massachusetts. They
have confessed to setting about 60 fires, which des
troyed property valued at 100000.
A. NJ. s Hilgard a prominent young lawyer of
Spokane, Washington. on Saturday climbed over
the railing of bridge directly over the big falls
and in plain view of large number of pedestrians,
fired bullet through his brain and dropped into
the Spokane river. &c feet below. His body was
swept over the falls
Walter Jenkins has been appointed postmaster at
Gwyned. Pa. The postmastership has been in the
family for about 100 years. and the building was
erected in 1863. and during the war Of the Reyolu-
tion hotel. 1t passed into the jenkins family
in 1884, when it was purchased by the great-grand-
father of the present postmaster.
Near Fremont, Ohio, on Saturday morning. Louis
Billow shot and killed Jacob Hess, aged farmer,
and fatally wounded Alvin Hess, son. Billow,
who was in love with daughter of Hess, but
whose suit was discouraged by the girls parents,
previous TO the shooting tried TO blow up the Hess
residence. The murderer escaped.
determined attempt was made Tuesday night
10 burn down the mammoth Bunker Hill eoneen-
traitor at Warden Junction, Iowa. The eoncentrator
was fired with the aid of boxes, sacks and kero-
sene and at the same momenta portion of the large
hume was blown up with dynamite, which shook
the buildings at Kellogg, nearly mile distant.
Judge Grosscup, in the United States Court in
Chicago, has sentenced Nine Melanie BonnefOi,
alias Nine Thee, keeper of a disreputable house, to
prison for six months and imposed fine of $500 for
violation of the immigrant laws The woman
brought two girls from Paris ostensibly to be en-
ployed as milliners, but they were taken to her
resort
Dispatches from Davis, West Virginia, on Sunday
night state that over 500 600 in valuable timber had
been burned during the past 40 hours previous.
Several villages were in danger of being burned.
All the wOodmen. escaped. it is believed. In parts
of Pennsylvania the fires still burning and win
probably continue until either put out by min or
burn out.
The Frick Company of waynesboro Pa, have
shipped the big Armour refrigerator to Kan
sas City. special train of fifteen cars carried it
West over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The
train was decked out in bunting on which is paint
ed the fact that the machine made by the Frick
Company and is the largest single-acting machine
ever built in this country.
The men who robbed the State Bank of Buffalo,
Illinois, Thursday of last week. have been
captured and have made full confession. They
are Carl Koppenburg. the cashier of the bank, and
Joseph Kloppenburg. drug clerk. sons of August
Kloppenburg, wealthy resident of Springfield.
Carl Kloppenburg confessed to sheriff Baxter. The
stolen money was recovered
The winter of 1886 will be recorded as the best
the cattemen in Western South Dakota have ever