The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-07-17
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The National Bank of York, Nebraska. has
failed.
In Columbus. Ohio, on Sunday, 3. 10 inches
OF rain fell in four hours.
Decker. Howell & Co., brokers. of New
York city failed on Tuesday.
Joseph Miller. of near Bowlder. Adams
county, Pa. fell dead on Tuesday.
Danzis IL Schoenthall, importers and Job
bers in millinery, New York city, have failed.
From January 1st to June 20, inclusive.
277. 672. LOT pounds of wool were imported into
this country.
By the explosion of gasoline stove in
York. Pa, on Friday of last week 81. 200
fire followed.
one year old child of Robert Wilkinson.
of Carlisle, Pa, drank some coal oil ON Tues
day and died shortly after.
General John F. Farnsworth died at his
residence in Washington, d. c., Wednesday.
aged a years.
w. A. Noble, formerly Auditor of the city
of Roanoke, Virginia, has been charged with
being short $1,000 in his accounts.
H. NJ. Higgins, once a noted publisher and
song writer Of Chicago, died Wednesday on
his ranch near San Diego, California
One tree on the Thomas farm in New Gar
den township, Chester county, Pa, has yield.
ed over 500 quarts of cherries this season.
Immense damage has been done along the
north Atlantic coast by the rushing water
caused by the prevailing east winds of the
past week.
After separation of 80 years Amos Weed,
aged 81, was reunited to his mother, who is
100, at Merrimac, Wis, and she quickly rec
ognized him.
Gu ~
lawyer, brother of Frderic r. Condert, died
at Middletown, New Jersey, on Tuesday
night, aged GO years.
Robert Ainsworth, of Chicago, was found
murdered on Tuesday in shanty at New Or
leans. 1t is supposed that the crime was
committed by two negro tramps.
The big steel drawbridge uniting Superior
and Duluth was opened for traffic on Tuesday,
with appropriate ceremonies. The bridge
is 1904 feet long, SO feet wide and cost about
81 200, 600.
The number of silver dollars coined at the
United States minis during the last fiscal year
was q ,203, 70l, on which the seigniorage,
or profits to the Government, amounted TO
ST, 1886, 104.
At Urbana, Ohio, Tuesday, Z. L. Lewis,
the bond forger, pleaded guilty and was sent
enced to eight years in the penitentiary. His
fraudulent operations in bonds are said to
have amounted to S250,000.
A. NJ Winebremer, arrested for cruelty to
his stepdaughter, was t,ken from Jail at Bea-
trice, Nebraska, Tuesday, by a mob, horse
whipped and tarred and feathered. He is a
son of John w. Winebremer, of Frederick
county, Md.
The strike of the engineers in London,
England il is thought will be a long struggle.
Both the masters and the men have refused
all offers of arbitration. Forty London firms
have joined in the lockout. About 100,0 600
men will be idle.
The grand jury at Nashville, Tennessee,
has returned indictments against nine of the
leading ice manufacturers and dealers in that
city, charging them with having formed
trust or combination to control the supply
and advance the price of ice.
Charles A. Kuhn, of Lancaster, Pa, shot
snake while driving near Shenk Ferry.
Charles Neff, boy, on mule, said the rep
tile had followed him nearly mile. 1t
measured seven feet in length and was thick
as a good-sized arm Kuhn took it home to
have it stuffed.
Dispatches from Cloquet, Mimi, July IL,
say the river situation is very grave. Bridges
both above and below town are out. The
Duluth and Western tracks are three feet
under water, and Grand Rapids is cut off from
all communication. Nearly 100, 900, 900 feet
of logs are in the boom above Cloquet and if
they go, as is feared, they will take out FIVE
large saw mills and all buildings on Dunlap's
Island. Later reports state that the boom
bursted
U. S. Senator Isham G. Harris, of Tennes-
see, died at his residence in Washington on
July 8. The Senator was last in the Senate
chamber, about ten days before his death, but
was unable to remain long. He had almost
completed his 10Th year. He had been Gov
ernor of his State three times in succession,
and had served several terms in the lower
house of Congress. He was elected to the
U. S. Senate in 1877, and remained mem
Der of that body until the time of his death.
He was actively engaged in the Confederate
army.
Rev. Thomas H. Yardley assistant pastor
of Christ's Episcopal Church, of which the
Rev. George Brinley Morgan is pastor, at
New Haven, Connecticut, became suddenly
insane on Tuesday and jumped through
window of his apartments at 81 Elm street to
escape an imaginary enemy. The window is
in the second story. Mr.. Yardley was not
hurt seriously. He was clad only in his shirt,
trousers and slippers, and in this condition
ran through the streets toward the northwest
ern part of the city, in the direction of East
Rock Park.
The Grand Duchess Sophia of SAKE Wei
mar left fortune of $40, 900, 900, besides her
large estates in Siesia and Holland, which
bring in huge income every year. She be-
queathed 100000 600 to hes husband. the
Grand Duke Charles; 81 500 900 to her daugh
ter, the Princess of Reuss, and the remainder
is to be divided between her two grandsons,
the Princes William and Bernard, sons of the
late Hereditary Grand Duke. The estates
are left in strict settlement the Grand Ouch
ess having made special arrangements in re-
spect of her landed property in case Prince
William should succeed to the Dutch throne,