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

ton during the past seven months, com
pared with the same period of last year,
of 45, 525.
The plant of the Janney Electric Com
pany, at Indianapolis, was destroyed by
fire on Friday of last week. Loss, 500,
600; insurance, s35, O00
G.. T. Weaver, a farmer near Coal Hill,
Mercer county, Pa, was robbed last week
of $4,000 in cash, which he bad secreted
in a keg in the cellar of his house.
Barney McKernan died at Phenixyille,
Pa on Saturday, aged Z ] years. He was a
member of the famous Light Brigade that
made the charge at Balaklava, in the Cri-
mean War
The city of Oaxaca, Mexico, is being
devastated by an epidemic of black vom-
it, and the people are said to be panic
stricken. Smallpox is also epidemic in the
western part of the republic
The worst snowstorm in FIVE years ragged
on the 18th instant in the upper Michigan
peninsular and in Wisconsin Great loss
followed. Severe gales on the Lakes and
much damage resulted to shipping.
An epidemic of typhoid fever has broken
out among the employees of the Lambert
vile, (N. j. Rubber Company, thirteen
of whom have the disease, supposed to be
due to contaminated drinking water
A severe wind storm prevailed in the
vicinity of Pittsburg Sunday, and a tow
boat on the Ohio river was overturned and
sunk, drowning the pilot Two workmen
were killed by building being blown down.
A fire in Chicago ON the night of the
18th instant in the wholesale grocery
house of John A. Tolman & Co. resulted
in damages aggregating $3.50, 900. Chase
& Sanborn, dealers in coffee, lose $50, :
600
Rev. f. Elwood Raub, pastor of the
Third Morayian Church, Philadelphia. has
been arrested in Lancaster, Pa, in suit
for damages for breach of promise of mar
rage The complainant is Miss A. Mamie
Schaefer
A combination freight and passenger
train on the Southern Railway fell through
trestle near Rome, Georgia, early on
Saturday morning, and FIVE cars were
burned Four of the trainmen were in
jured, none fatally
A carriage containing Mrs Q. w
Wells, aged 80. and her niece. Miss Laura
Andrews, aged Is, was struck by To
ledo and Ohio Central Railway passenger
train at a crossing near Marysville, Ohio
on Saturday Both were Instantly killed
Expert burglars blew open the safe in
the postofice at Cambria, Montgomery
county, Va, on Friday night of last week.
A small amount of money and about 800
in stamps and over S12, 900 in notes and
bonds belonging to private parties were
stolen.
Peter Watson, colored, was shot and
killed by his brother, Harry at Oxford,
Pa, on Sunday The men quarelled be-
cause Harry had given beating to Mrs.
Peter Watson, and the former followed his
brother as he went to work and shot him
down
Santa Rosa, capital of Santa Rosa coun
ty, California, has Baptist church which
holds over 200 people built entirely from
timber sawed out of a single redwood
Tlmbers, Notwithstanding and inner lining
are all of wood The roofing, too, is Of
shingles cut from the same tree, and after
it was all finished there were 90, 900
shingles left.
Paul CAM, the steamship engineer,
who shot and killed Clara A. Arnim, his
sweetheart, in Hoboken, on August "a,
1894, was re-sentenced to be hanged, in
jersey City, Saturday, April 13, being
the date fixed John Mackin, who muir
dered his wife and mother-in-law in jersey
City year ago was also re-sentenced, and
will be hanged at the same time as GAM.
United States internal Revenue officers
in New Ysrk city on Friday night of last
week raided an illicit still in the basement
of a tenement on Pitt street. They ar
rested man named Freidland, who is al
legged to be one of the parties operating the
still. The officers found two complete
stills in operation, and kettles and coolers,
besides fifteen barrels of sour mash in pro-
cess of fermentation What! illicit distill-
ing in New York city Heretofore it was
supposed that that kind of work was only
done south of Mason and Dixon Line.