The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-06-19
News of the Week.

One person was killed and ten injured
during the tornado at Lyle. Minnesota. on
Thursday night Of last week.
At Tiller. Arkansas on Saturday. Mrs
p. \. Wilson killed her husband, a well
known lumberman, by beating his brains
out with hammer.
The foods in New England last week
caused loss Of nearly dozen lives and
damage to railroad and mill property esti-
mated at $500. G00.
News reached Meridian, Mississippi,
Sunday from Kemper county of the muir
der of three women and two children by a
drunken negro named Sibley.
During quarrel over some trout lines
near GRANVILLE, Illinois, sn Saturday. llar
man Woods and John Mckay were shot and
killed by young man named Hensley.
Policeman William Schregler, of Cam
den. n. J., while taking a prisoner to Il
patrol box on Friday of last week, was
shot in the back by IA companion of the
prisoner, and will probably die.
As IL precaution against lynching, the
three negroes implicated in the assault
upon child at Decatur, Alabama, were
taken from Huntsville to Birmingham, I'M
der guard of militia, ON Saturday.
Dispatches received at Bombay on Fri
dav Of last week. from Simla. India. re-
mort the massacre Of a number Of British
officers and native soldiers in the govern
ment employ at Maiza by hostile natives.
Hiram A. Waite, ex-CHy Comptroller
Of Port Huron, Michigan, was sentenced
on Saturday to five years in the House Of
Correction on conviction of embezzlement
Of several thousand dollars from the ety.
Two men from Holyoke, Massachusetts.
while engaged in efforts to save lumber
which was being carried down the Connect
icut river by the food waters, were drowned
at ThOmpsonville, Connecticut, on Satur-
day.
The head of woman. who had appar-
emily been dead three on four years, has
been found in the cellar of vacant house
in Rushville, Indiana. 1t is supposed she
was murdered but there is no clue to her
identity.
The Bartlett Lumber Company has pur-
chased Mt. Washington. New Hampshire.
the highest of the White N fountain peaks.
its altitude being 6, 292 feet 1t was pur-
chased for its timber and the price paid
was 500, 600.
A heavy hailstorm passed over the
southern part Of Jefferson county, West
Virginia, Saturday afternoon. In some
places the hail stones were almost as large
as hen eggs 1t is thought no damage
was done to the wheat.
While the canvasmen were at work on
the big tent of Ringing Brothers circus,
at Wahpeton, North Dakota on Thursday
of last week, the centre pole was struck by
lightning. Charles Walters and Charles
Smith were killed and four other employees
were injured.
4 terrible rain-stOrm occurred Saturday
afternoon at Elkins, W. Va A number
of houses were unroofed, and the end of
one, the shop Of the West Virginia Central
Railroad, was blown in Considerable
damage was done, to farmhouses and barns
in the vicinity and to forest trees.
A very heavy rainstom, accompanied
by terrific lightning, visited Denver and
vicinity Thursday night of last week, doing
considerable damage. Lightning struck
the new four-story building of the Stude-
baker Manufacturing Company, setting five
to It and causing loss of about S25, 600