The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-10-16
News of the Week.

John K Zeigler, aged rs years, died on
Tuesday in Seitzland, York county, Pa.
1t is proposed to form the new territory of
Lincoln out of the northwestern part of
Alaska.
There was heavy fall of snow Friday night
at Frackville, Schuylkill county, Pa, the first
of the season,
The yellow fever scare in Texas has led to
the almost complete blockading of railroad
travel in that State.
A tornado swept through New Jersey on
Tuesday from Far Hills to Elizabeth, killing
John Clark and wrecking number of build
ings.
In Cherokee, Crawford and Montgomery
counties, in Southeastern Kansas, not half an
inch of rain had fallen in three months up to
Sunday night.
George McMillen, a prominent citizen OF
Wilmington, Ohio, was shot dead on the
street there on Saturday by j. G. Martin,
leading attorney.
Chicago is threatened with curtailment
of her milk supply in consequence OF the
drought. which has almost entirely destroyed
the pastures of the surrounding country.
The trial of 200 brigands and receivers of
stolen property is under way in Tschalschak,
Servia. There was evidence of the torturing
of victims with red hot irons before robbery
A Centralia, Missouri, despatch says that
the prolonged and disastrous drought was
broken Sunday evening by a heavy rainfall,
which appeared to be general over that see
ton of the State
The two hundredth anniversary of the Old
Dutch Church, ofSleepy Hollow, made famous
by Washington Irving, and near which he IS
buried, was celebrated at Tarrytown, New
York, on Sunday.
William DePeyster, well-known charac
ter of Canton, Ohio, is under arrest on the
charge of numbering his wife. She ran out
of their home wrapped in flames, her clothing
being soaked with oil from lamp.
A despatch on Tuesday from Buenos Ayres
saws that there have been good rains in the
south and a slight rainfall in the north, so that
the harvest is now secure. 1t is estimated
that ], COO, 900 tons of wheat will be exported.
In Cincinnati, Ohio, Sunday Frank Early,
colored. shot and killed his wife, from whom
he had been separated six years, and then
shot and MORALLY wounded his mistress, Nan
ME Frey. He gave himself up to the police.
Thomas A. Dillon, wholesale liquor dealer
and distilIer, of Chicago, drowned himself in
Lake Michigan on Saturday. He was AZ
years old. Dependency over continued i'll
health is said to have been the cause of the
suicide.
In Chicago, on Thursday, the mercury
registered $50; at Omaha, 80; all through
Iowa the temperature ranged from 81 to 80,
and in Kansas from SO to 80. At Alpine,
Texas and at Pocatello, Idaho, snow storm
prevailed all day, and at the latter place was
drifting. Snow also fell in England
A tremendous rainfall occurred at Reading,
Pa, Tuesday, causing serious food in the
northeastern section of the city. In Nichols
street the water reached height of eight feet,
and the people were rescued from the houses
by means of RATS and boats. A market house
was flooded, and women had to be carried TO
places of safety. The damage is estimated at
$4,000.
One of the principal water mains at the
corner of Madison avenue and 48th street,
New York city, bursted on Saturday night
and about 10000, 900 gallons of water flowed
ont before the water could be shut of. The
breaking of the main is supposed to have been
caused by blasting some rock near there in
the afternoon, causing crack. which bursted
during the night, as the pressure is much
stronger then. The loss will be very great as
the accident occurred in one of the finest res
ident portions of the city and much valuable
property was flooded, The mains capacity
was 1000, 600 gallons an hour and the water
was not shut off for over five hours
A freight wreck occurred Monday afternoon
ON the Frederick division of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, two miles west of Hanover, Pa,
caused by the train running into drove of
cattle Ten cars of grain and merchandise
were totally demolished, and Otis Noel, of
Littestown, who runs an individual ear line
between that place and Baltimore, was in
stantly killed, his body being horribly crushed
and mangled. He leaves a wife and four
children, and was well-known among the
shipping merchants Of Baltimore Three
acknowledgements Misal, Z. L. Weaver and
w. u. Downy, all of Frederick, were badly,
but not seriously, injured. Eight head of
cattle were killed, and the road completely
blocked, all passengers being transferred
around the wreck