The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-11-20
News Of the Week.


Owing to the extreme cold in Russia the
Sea Of Azoff was closed to navigation on the
( 18th instant.
Mrs. Margaret BOughan, who died at Chico.
pee Falls, Massachusetts, last week, claimed
10 be 124 years old.
The Georgia Senate has lay a vote of % to
l8 rejected bill which would have had the
effect of making Georgia Prohibition State.
A mob broke into the courthouse at Car.
rollton, Alabama, on the 9TH instant, and
lynehed Bud Beard, who was on trial for
assaulting 7year-old girl.
Albert Voters was hanged at Fayetteville,
West Virginia, the 18th instant, in the
presence of 10, 900 spectators for the murder
Of Charles Gibson in April, 1896.
The shortage in the accounts of ex-State
Treasurer Barley, of Nebraska, have been
found to reach $4,000 BARLEY is under
sentence to serve 90 years Imprisonment.
At lakewood, Ohio, on Wednesday of last
week, Edith and May Roberts, aged 10 and II
years respectively, we're terribly beaten and
iarred and feathered by 'White Caps
Mays condition is critical
Morris Savage, accused of fatally shoot
ing Asa Briggs, an aged farmer, and wound
ing his daughter, Mrs. Howard Burt. of Han
nawa Falls, New York, on Wednesday of
last week, has been arrested at Moria.
James Ponder, former Governor Of Della
ware. died at his home in Milton, Delaware,
on the 9th instant, Of paralysis. He was for
years active in State politics as a Democrat,
served as Speaker of the State Senate and
was elected Governor III 1870
Alfred Blatt, welI-known farmer of near
Reading, Pa, is under arrest for cutting the
curls off the head Of a little son Of Mrs. Mary
Helm, a neighbor The families did not
agree, and in order 70 "'get even with the
child's mother he sheared the curls from its
head.
G. D. Mclean, the millionaire miner Of
Grass Valley, California died at the Lick
How, San Francisco, on the 9th instant,
after a lingering illness. Mr.. Mclean was
interested in many mining enterprises and
with Stephen W. Dorsey owned the famous
Maryland mine.
Miss Grace Margaret Elliott, of San Fran
cisco, California, who claims to be heir to the
$25, 900, 600 said to have been left by the late
Imblay Clark, who died in Australia, has given
a written pledge to the California Bible So
ciety to pay It's debt of Sos, 900 if she secures
the inheritance.
At Dover, New Hampshire, on the 18th in
slant, Joseph T. Kelley was pronounced guilty
of murder in the second degree, and sentenced
TO serve thirty years in State Prison at Con-
cord He confessed the murder of Cashier
Joseph A. Stickney, of the Great Falls Ma
tionat Bank at Somersworh, on April Is.
Three thousand sheep belonging to John
Donaldson, and twenty head of cattle, have
been burned to death in Crosby county,
Texas, by prairie fire, which is sweeping
over the ranges of the Panhandle country.
The damage done to ranches is enormous.
The fall crops are being badly damaged.
A contract has been closed by the Lake
Bonneville Irrigation Company and the Utah
State Board of Land Commissioners for the
reclamation under the Carey act of 100000
acres of land in Willard county About 81,
500 600 is involved in the contract Morton
B. Hirsch of Philadelphia, is President of the
company.
George Persch, alias George Morris, alias
W. d. Thomas, of Mutual Automatic notori-
ETY., has been arrested on the charge of con
spiracy to blaekmai man named Flinadez,
said to be resident of Altoona, Georgia, and
with extorting money from him by threaten
ing to expose an offence alleged to have been
committed.
There were 300 men on board the eight
whaling vessels that are imprisoned in Arctic
ice off the northernmost point of Alaska, and
when there was no prospect of release, pro-
visions being short, many OF the men started
with seds to reach Point Barrow, wlere there
is trading post we'll stored with provisions
Some of the vessels are $50 miles from shore.
Andrew Peashock, Lithuanian, is lying at
the point of death at the Miners Hospital, at
Ashland, Pa, as the result of a combat with
his wife on the LIST inst The couple quarrelled
at the supper table, and the husband left his
home in bad frame of mind. He repaired
TO neighboring saloon and imbibed freely,
after which he returned and resumed the
quarrel. During the row Mrs. Peashock
picked up lighted lamp, which stood on
table, and hurled it with all Der strength Mt
her husband The heavy lamp struck him on
the side Of the head and exploded, the burn
ing oil spreading over his body. When the
woman saw what she had done she endeavored
to extinguish the flames, and was also badly
burned about the hands and arms. The wife
is in Jail to await the result of the husbands
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