The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-10-30


Frost was reported II Blue Mountain, Mis-
sissippi on Monday morning.
The Sturges elevator, at Buffalo. New York,
was burned Wednesday night Loss, $92, 800.
The plant of the Verify Pow Company, at
Brantford. Ontario, Canada, was destroyed by
fire Tuesday night. Loss. ever $500, 600.
The general Offices of the Wabash Railroad
in St. Louis were destroyed by fire on We'd
nesday, together with ell the records of the
engineering and real estate departments. The
estimates of the losses reach 100000.
Norfolk and Western passenger train was
wre ked near Welsh, West Virginia, Tuesday.
the engine, mail and baggage cars going down
12-foot smbankment. Engineer A. j. Mays
was killed and Fireman Frank Biggs had his
right hand cut off
Henry Galloway, farmer living near Git
ten, Ohio, was held up within sight of his
home by two white men on Tuesday night,
robbed of his valuables, and deliberately shot
with shotgun. Galloway wounds will
probably prove fatal.
Francis j. Kieckhoefer, former disbursing
officer of the State Depart :ien. at Washington,
recently charged in three indictments with
embezzlement of over $50. 600 of Government
funds, was arraigned in the criminal court on
Saturday and pleaded not guilty.
Sunday night four men wearing masks
drove up to the Hicks home, near Monrovia,
Ind. and entered. demanding money. The
six members of the Hicks family were
curely tied by the robbers, who proceeded to
rob the house. They secured about $3.50 in
cash and drove away.
Charles A. Bonal and David A. Weeks,
who are wanted for the murder of Marcus
Nicholas at Daniels farm, Connecticut,
few montns ago, and for whose arrests re-
wards aggregating over $4,000 were offered,
were arrested at the home of Mrs. Bassett,
Weeks's mother, near Huntington, on Tues
day night.
Frank Moon, aged-50 We RS, and Mrs. ID.
Wells were found dead Monday at the bottom
of thrty-foot we'll on Moons farm, near
Derby, Kansas, having been asphyxiated.
Moon had been overcome while working, and
the woman, alarmed at his not returning,
went TO the well late at night 10 investigate
and fell in.
The river Tronto, in Central Italy, which
enters the Adratic east of Ascoli, overfowed
on Saturday, flooding the plain of Ascot.
At Chiaravale bridge has been swept away;
several persons have been drowned at Forli,
and near MENDOZA house collapsed burying
nine persons in the ruins. Floods are re-
ported in various other localities.
Three masked burglars robbie the State
Bank of Blairsburg, Iowa. early Sunday
morning. They used dynamite and badly
wrecked the bank building. The robbers Sc
cured $4,000 worth of securities and small
amount of cash In making their escape they
shot and MORALLY wounded Edward Gillison,
one of their 'pals, " whom they mistook for
an officer.
Edward jacques was on Saturday found
guilty of murder in the second degree at White
Plains New York. He was accused of kill
ing Walter B. Adams, the postmaster at Bed
ford Station, during fight that followed an
attempt to rob Adams store and in which
John Glare was killed and another of the
gang, John Jenkins, was fatally wounded by
Adams's son.
A Buffalo express train, east bound, on the
New York Central Railroad, plunged into the
Hudson river three miles below Garrisons,
N. Y, at dawn Sunday morning, owing, it is
supposed, to the widening of the tracks and
the collapse of the retaining wall The en-
CINE aud six cars were submerged, and many
of the sleeping passengers were drowned with
out hope of escape The loss of life as stated
by the railroad authorities is tweDty-eight
At midnight seventeen bodies had been re-
covered, of which ten had been identified. 1t
is said that the wall was blown out by dyna-
mite in order to rob the express car, which