The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-03-27
News of the Week.

Hannah Chard, the oldest woman in New
Jersey. died on Tuesday at Terrell, aged los
years.
Stories of disastrous floods are reported from
Ontario. Canada. Many persons are reported
drowned, farms DESTROYED, and stock washed
away.
A serious water famine exists in the central
and western districts of the Island of Jamaica
and there has been some rioting in conse
quence.
Marshall f. Hayes was arrested on a
charge Of embezzling about $4,000 from his
former employers, Damon, Poets & Co., of
New York.
Mrs. Mary Skifington died in Woonsocket,
Rhode Island, on Saturday, aged 102 years.
She dropped dead while attending to her
household duties.
The foundry at Glenville, York county,
Pa, was burned on Sunday night. Many
valuable patterns were destroyed; they were
insured for over So, 600
On Saturday and Sunday North Dakota and
Western Nebraska were visited by blizzard.
The temperature fell to 10 below zero, and it
is feared the loss of cattle will be great.
John King, formerly of Baltimore, Nd,
once president of the B. & o. R. R., and
subsequently, president of the Erie, died at
Beaulieu, near Nice, France, on Saturday
J. Austin Sullivan, of Altoona, Pa, stu
dent at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa, was
attacked by ten negroes on Sunday and his
skull fractured. The young man will not re-
cover
Rev. DR.. Morgan, of New York, on the au-
thority of Elbridge I. Gerry, of the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children,
SAYS that there are actually schools in that
city where the art of stealing is taught.
In the Central Pennsylvania Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, at Clear
field, on Saturday, both the propositions to
admit women to the General Conference and
to grant equal lay representation were de-
feated.
A remonstrance has been filed in the North
ampton county court. against granting a
license to the Pacific Hotel, of South Bethle
hem, Pa, alleging that the place had been a
headquarters for ''green goods swindlers for
years.
A cyclone that swept over Southwestern
Georgia and Southern Alabama Saturday blew
to pieces the Arlington Academy, at Airing
ton, Ga, killing a number of the pupils and
wonndng many others. Eight dead bodies
have been taken from the ruins.
A river pilot at st. Louis says: ''All the
rescue work seems to be done on or near the
Mississippi river Nothing is known of the
fate of the 100, 900 poor people in the lowlands
of the White, the Arkansas and the Black
rivers in Arkansas. When the death roll is
made up it will be largely from these valleys.
The long overdue ship T. T. Cakes, which
left Hong Kong July 4 for New York, and
which had been given up as lost, was towed
into the latter port on Sunday by the British
tank steamer Kasbek. which picked her up
last Thursday. The Cakes had lost six Of her
crew from scurvy and those remaining were
helpless.
A terrible accident Tuesday afternoon
caused the death of Catharine, aged years,
daughter of J. G. Mengis, of Mengis' Mills,
near Hanover, Pa. The child was playing in
her uncle's mill, and running too near the
machinery her hair was caught in an upright
shaft, whirling her around with frightful force
and tearing the scalp from her head. She
died shortly after.
Eufala, Alabama, was struck by cyclone
on Monday. Men we're taken off their feet
and whiried through the air, houses unroofed
and property greatly damaged Rain fell in
torrents, and lightning flashed and thunder
rolled, causing the greatest alarm. Cynthiana,
Washington and Wheatland, Indiana, on
Monday were visited by tornadoes and seri-
onsly damaged. Churches, dwellings, barns,
outhouses, orchards, &C., we're torn to pieces
or damaged so rs 10 cause them to be torn
down. No lives were lost,