The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-03-20
News of the Week.


900 fire in the business part of the city.
The worst snowstorm and blizzard of the
season ragged Monday at Kalamazoo, Mich.
In Mandalay, India, on Monday, 1900
houses were burned, and 1000 families were
rendered homeless. Loss G400, 900.
Andy Beard, negro, who eloped with a
white girl in Pickens county, Alabama, was
shot and killed by mob few days ago.
Seven tOllgates were destroyed in Mercer
county, Kentucky, on Sunday night One
house was burned, another fired, and the
keeper badly shot.
Reading, Pa, celebrated its 50th anniver-
sary on Tuesday. When it was incorporated
its population was $1,000. 1t now has over
$4,000 people in its limits.
Postmaster General Gary has decided to
adhere to the four-year tenure of Office policy
for postmasters, except in cases where such
officials should be removed for cause.
In Duryea, Luzerne county, Pa, Jacob
Cramer dropped dead by the bedside of his
son, who was suffering from hydrophobia, on
Monday. Soon after the boy also died.
William Drury, said to have been the
largest individual landowner in the United
States, died at his country place, near Keiths-
burg, ILL.,, on Saturday night, aged 81 years.
A fire at Elkins, West Virginia, on Sunday,
destroyed twelve stores, the West Virginia
Hotel, law Office, printing Office a livery
stable and several residences. The loss is
500, 600.
At Omaha on Tuesday Charles Rojonsky, a
shoemaker, his wife and baby were fatally
burned by a gasoline explosion in an emf
grant wagon, in which they were setting out
for Kansas.
Miss Sue Worthington, daughter of the late
Edward Worthington, of Baltimore county,
was married on Thursday, in Charlestown,
West Virginia, to Mr.. John Selden, a resident
of that place.
The plant of the Junction Iron and Steel
Company, at Mingo junction, Ohio, was dam
aged by wind storm, on Saturday night.
Frank Hobson and Larry Fahey were killed
and John Weikers fatally injured by falling
walls.
Barbara Newman was burned to death in
fire which destroyed the home of her uncle,
William Spier, in Chicago, on Tuesday night.
Her cousin, Rose Mayfeld, jumped from a
second-sto window and was seriously in
jured.
The rush to withdraw goods from bond in
anticipation of the new Tariff law continued
in New York on Monday, and all previous
records at that Custom House were broken.
The total receipts for the day exceeded ST.
100000
George Harbaugh, prominent citizen of
Waynesbore, Pa, died at his home Sunday
night, of cancer. He was the father of Prof.
A. j. Harbaugh, dean of Ursinus College,
was 81 years old, and leaves a widow and six
children.
An investigation shows that Robert Harvey
a reform member of the Philadelphia, Pa,
city council, is guilty of receiving $500 for
the passing of an ordinance increasing the
salary of the policemen 5000 each in the 34th
ward. Harvey will be tried as will also six
policemen for bribery.
Ex-President Milton G. Cope, of the First
National Bank of Paducah, KY, is charged
by the bank officers with forging notes for
$13, 900. The notes were carried as assets of
the bank. This money, with $4,000 he Dor
rewed, is said to have been lost in wheat deals.
Cope was forced to resign several weeks ago
and has disappeared.
News from Bismarck and other Western
North Dakota points on Tuesday night state
that the snow is rapidly melting under chinook
winds. Twenty four hours ago the mercury
at Bismarck was So below zero, on Tuesday
noon it was so above. This will probably
save the lives of many thousand of cattle that
were dying from cold and hunger.
The President on Tuesday sent to tie Sen
ate the nominations of john Hay, of the Dis
trict of Columbia, to be Ambassador to Great
Britain; Horace Porter, of New York, to be
Ambassador to France; Henry White, of
Rhode Island, to be Secretary of the Embassy
to Great Britain, and Major H. H. c. Dun
woody, Signal Corps, United States Army, to
be Lieutenant Colonel
Three negroes, named Ed. Holmes, Jim
Miley and jim Gilmore, were lynched at Blue
Springs Station, southeast of Ocala, Florida,
on Monday, by an armed mob of ever 400
men, The negroes confessed the murder of
postmaster j. NJ. Barfeld and his clerk, l..
j. r. Turner, at Julietta, March 8. Another
negro, named Otis Miller, is reported to have
been lynched later in the day for completely
in the same crime.
f. D. Stegar, secretary of the Mutual AS
surance Society of Virginia, with chief office
in Richmond, is missing, and is said to have
taken $35, 900, during period extending back
over nine years. Stegar was sent for, but had
left the city. This society is over a century
old The defaulting secretary is a brother
n-law of ex-Congressman Tazewell Elicit,
and belongs to prominent family, with wide
spread connection.