The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-05-01
News of the Week.

News of the Week.
Destructive forest fires are raging in the
big pine belt Of Burlington county, \. J
AN unknown worm is destroying the
clover and timothy fields in Chester county
Pa.
Chile has been visited BY such continu
Gus rains as to cause the partial destruc
ton of several towns
No. 2 red winter wheat sold in st. Louis
April 23 at 81 03 per bushel, the highest
price reached since 1890
The barns Of john P. Lippincott, near
Vincentown, New jersey, we're burned
last week. Also 90 cows, 20 calves, 10
horses and mules
Deer are so plentiful on Long Island
n. Y. as to be nuisance. They are
destroying growing crops, yet the law will
not allow them to be shot or trapped.
The Troy, n y, Methodist Confer
exec on Saturday decided by a vote of III
to 81 against the admission of women as
delegates to the General Conference.
Joseph K. Kelley, charged with the
murder Of cashier Joseph A. Stickney, of
the Great Falls National Bank, of Somers-
worth, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty on
Saturday.
During a quarrel in Philadelphia, Pa,
ON Sunday, Joseph Mawhinney, 80 years
old, stuck Lewis Bender, aged 40 years,
with pitchfork, inficting wound which
may prove fatal.
Mrs. Irenos Elton, the oldest resident
Of Vineland, N. j., died April %, aged
SO years. On the same day Josiah Buzby,
for many years proprietor Of the Lenox
Hotel at Asbury Park, died. at the age of
"a years.
Joseph Mccoy, colored, was lynched at
Alexandria, Va, on Thursday, for assault
ing hk employers two daughters. He
had lived with his employer over 16 years.
The children we're aged and . years
One viii die.
Abraham Schoenfeld was arrested in
New York, on Saturday charged with the
theft of about $4,000 worth of jewelry from
his employers, Minter Bros. Three other
jewellers wore also arrested for buying stolen
goods of Schoenfeld.
Harry W Cassin, cashier of the Georgia
Loan, Savings and Banking Company, at
Atlanta, has misappropiated some S45,
600 of the funds of that institution Cas-
sin has always been known as young man
of exemplary habits and fine business quail
ifications.
The Southern Pacific Railway Company
is making arrangements to build bridge,
to cost 50, 600, 900, across the Mississippi
river Mt New Orleans. The Illinois Cen
trail, Texas and Pacific and Louisville and
Nashville roads will cooperate in the un-
dertaking
Frank r. Hadley, ex-treasurer of the
Bennett 4 Columbia Mills, at New Bed
ford, Mass, died April % Mr. Hadley
was under arrest on several charges of per-
jury in connection with the affairs of the
corporation, and was short in his cash over
81, 900, 600
George Erickson, a West Philadelphia
Pa, real estate broker, is missing, and
warrants for his arrest on charges of en-
bezzlement have been issued by number
of persons for whom he collected rents
which he failed to turn over. Erickson,
it is said, is about $4,000 short III his
accounts
Wakeman Haynes and Lizzie Hudson,
nncie and niece, aged % and 6 respect
lively, who eloped together from Lorraine
village, Illinois, week ago, were found /
dead, locked in each other embrace, in a
pasture lot two miles from Lorraine, on
Saturday morning They had taken
strychnine and died together.
Heavy rain throughout Nebraska and
iowa, last week, caused serious floods in
all the streams At Creston, Iowa, a dam,
which formed the city water reservoir,
was washed away. Railroad travel in all
directions was interrupted by the floods.
AT Beatrice, Nebraska, the sudden rise of
the Blue river cut off the escape Of many
people, who had to be rescued from tree
tops and house roofs.
AS Simcoe, Province Of Ontario, Cana
da, on April %, the man hypnotized and
buried in the ground for three days was
disinterred. Great crowds followed the
box containing the body to the Opera
House As the man was being brought
back to a normal condition he became very
restless, and finally smashed the box into
pieces. 1t required FIVE men to control
him in his struggles until he was fully re-
stored to consciousness.
A terrific wind storm, accompanied by
heavy hail and rain, swept over Harvey
county, Kansas, on Thursday night of last
week, doing great damage to property
Several farm houses were demolished
Mr.. and Mrs Weams, the occupants of
one of the houses, were seriously injured,
the latter probably fatally In Wahaun-
see county the house of Henry Miller was
wrecked his S-year-old son killed and him
self and wife fatally injured. Running
trains had their windows driven in by the
wind or were crushed by the hail, and
of window lights were broken BY I
hail Many cattle we're killed, and whole I
orchards and groves uprooted. The dam
age to fruit in the immediate vicinity of
Newton will be great In parts of Iowa
the same results followed the course of the
storm.
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