The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-02-22


been committed to prison by "a magistrate
for contempt of court, in refusing TO dis
close the secrets heard in the confessional.
In London, England, on Sunday morn
Ing, tenement house caught fire. Five
children and three adults were burned to
death One man jumped from Il window
and was impaled on an iron fence, causing
his death
State Senator Charles Il Folsom, OF Ep-
ping, New Hampshire, who failed two
weeks ago for $50. 900 and who died on
Friday night of last week, was defaulter
to the amount of $4,000 or sl2, 600 of
the town funds.
Mrs. +. X. Nicholson, widely known
by her nom de plume as Pearl Rivers.
owner of the New Orleans Picayunne, died
in that city on Saturday. Her husband,
George Nicholson, the business manager,
died a few days previous.
The Minneapolis and St Louis Railroad
has announced that it will follow the lead
of the Wisconsin Central and Chicago and
Great Western roads, and grant the thirty
day time limit on tickets to the G. \. II.
Encampment at st. Paul.
William Bailey, preacher, of North
Platte, Nebraska, was tarred and feathered
and ordered to leave town by vigilance
committee, consisting of $50 citizens, ON
Saturday night. Bailey is an imitator Of
Schlatter, the Denver '.healer
Robert Charleson, ex-United States
Commissioner at Alfalfa Alabama, who is
under Indictment on six different counts
for presenting fraudulent claims against
the Government and thereby swindling the
Government out of nearly 800, 900, is
in custody in San Antonio. Texas.
Daniel Brown and John J. Swan, ex-
attendants at the Delaware Insane Asy-
lum, who were charged with causing the
death of Leon Pisa, patient, were found
guilty of manslaughter at Wilmington, on
Sunday. Supervisor Michael j. Lynch,
acquitted.
Charles Quimby and his wife of Sand
witch, \. H., aged respectively 90 and 81
years died within a few hours of each
other last week. They had been married
40 years, and their children, the young
est being about 80 years old, are all liv-
ing There had not been death in the
immediate family of the aged couple in
81 years.
Mrs. Robert Laughlin, wife of farmer
living near Augusta, Kentucky, and May
Jones, aged 13 years, were killed and their
bodies burned, together with their home,
early on Saturday morning. Laughlin,
the woman husband, at first told story
of his struggle with two men and of their
attempt to kill him, but on Sunday confessed
that he committed the murders.
\ lighted match carelessly thrown by
boy among some oily waste in STREET.
heimer's shirt-waist factory, in Troy, n.
Y, on Monday, caused fire and a panic
among the 300 female employees Many
of the women jumped from the windows
and Others persisted in the flames. 1t is
believed 90 lives were lost. The factory
was destroyed, causing loss of about
$3.50, 900.
Monday, February II, 1896, can be
set down as the coolest day known east of
the Mississippi river. Temperatures were
reported as follows Saratoga, n. Y, 81
below; Saranac Lake, \. Y, 40 below
Scranton and Wilkesbarre, Pa. II to %
below; Boston and vicinity from to 10
below; in other parts of the New England
States temperatures from s to 33 below
were reported.
The coroner at Cleveland, o., has given
decision holding the Canton Wrought
Iron Bridge Company, of Canton, Ohio,
criminally responsible for the collapse of
the Akron, Bedford and Cleveland Flee
tric Railway bridge across Tinker creek,
which fell about a month ago, by which
an electric car was precipitated 75 feet
into the creek, killing two men and badly
injuring another.
\ lawyer of Biddeford, Me-, is afflicted
with peculiar mania for collecting lamps
of all sorts. His house is filed with every
kind of lantern he has been able to buy,
including full line of bicycle lamps. He
visits Boston frequently and always brings
back with him new lot of lamps. His
craze costs him good deal of money, and
he declares that he is aware of the folly of
it, but is entirely unable to resist it.
\ wealthy resident of Kokomo, Ind.
is going to move to Peoria, H., and will
take his $50, 900 house with him. The
house is of stone and brick and handsome
ly finished and decorated. 1t will be
taken down very carefully, the stone,
pressed brick, plate glass, mahogany
panels, and every other part being care
fully marked, and will be shipped by rail
to Peoria and there reconstructed The
cost of moving the residence will be about
SIS, 600.
Perhaps the most remarkable feat of
building moving was that successfully ac-
complished in Chicago recently when a
large stone church, with massive square
tower, was lacked up from its foundations
and moved distance of so feet to another
lot. The church was moved in order to
admit light into the rooms of big hotel
on Michigan avenue, at the corner
of Twenty-third street. The hotel direct
ly adjoined the Emmanuel Baptist Church,
and new owners of the hotel figured that
the rooms next the church would be worth
vastly more if they had more light. They
paid for the entire cost of moving the
church, bought new land for it to stand,
on, and also bought the lot from which it