The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-01-09
News of The Week.

see, on Sunday, aged 10Y years.
After three days rain Chicago, Illinois, was
flooded on Saturday and Sunday.
Hon. VIM. E. Gladstone of London, Eng
land, was 81 years old on December 90.
The York, Pa, Gazette, formerly owned by
A. B. Farquhar, has been purchased by +.
B. G. Hiestand and Lemon Love.
Several eounterfeiters, with complete out
fit for making 10. % and so cent silver coins,
have been arrested in Shamokin, Pa.
Col. Philip Duncan Elkins, father of United
Safes Senator Stephen B. Elkins, died at
Elkins, West Virginia, on Sunday, aged IS
years.
Rev. Mother Benedict, Mary Kennedy
head of the Order of Sisters of Charity of the
Incarnate Word, died on the LIST, in Calves
ton, Texas.
Senator Wolcott sailed from New York for
England on Saturday to confer with European
bimetallists as to the prospects for an interna-
tional conference.
Tennessee has raised the $500, 600 necessary
to make available the Government appropria-
ton for the centennial celebration recently
passed by Congress
William Ridall, who built the first boat
that ran on the old Pennsylvania canal, died
at Wilkesbarre Sunday, aged SO years. He
left 135 descendants.
Rev. Michael J. Mcbride, pastor of St
Joseph's Roman Catholic Church at Bonneau-
vile. Adams county, Penna., died on Sum
day, in his 4sth year.
Professor Theodore G. Wormley, of Phila-
delphia, Pa, the eminent chemist and toxi-
cologist died, after two months illness, on
Sunday. He was born in 1920.
Mrs. Jane Campbell, of Philadelphia, Pa,
died on Wednesday, in her Gath year. Her
father, Morris Seaman, was los years old
when he died, and his father was lis when he
died
James Kirk, who in 1874 strung the first
telegraph line between Baltimore and Wash
ington, has been stricken with paralysis. and
is in critical condition at his home III Piqua.
Ohio.
George Sands, alias ''Dr Clark has been
sentenced TO seven years, and Mrs. Mary
Knapp to four years, in the United States
Court at Trenton, n. D., for passing counter
felt money.
Otto Wasmansdorf, of the Chicago banking
house of Wasmansdorff & Heineman, which
failed two weeks ago as result Of the dosing
of the National Bank of Illinois, committed
suicide on Sunday of last week.
Isaac Zucher, the convicted ''frebug, has
been sentenced in New York to thirty-six
years Imprisonment. The Supreme Court
subsequently granted a writ of reasonable
doubt and stay pending hearing.
In the case of the three small children of
George Duttera, who were burned to death
last week near Hanover, Pa, the coroner S
jury gave a verdict of neglect. They are said
to be extremely poor, and lived in hut.
Robbers on Monday entered the residence
of j. S. Powell, a wealthy Mercer county,
Pa, farmer, and, after beating Mr.. Powell
into insensibility, tied and gagged the other
members of the family and then stole several
hundred dollars in cash.
A hurricane has swept over Palmerston,
{ Port Darwin seaport village of South Aus
tralia, at the junction of the overland tele-
graph with the ocean cable to Java. The
place is almost wrecked and telegraphic com
muncation with it is Interrupted.
According TO a Frankfort, Kentucky, de-
spatch, Governor Bradley intends to resign
his office al an early date. He is reported TO
have said that the place was killing aim, and
that he could not afford to stay in it until
what little health he had was lost.
Dr. William H. Pancoast, noted surgeon,
died in Philadelphia, Pa, on Monday, in his
62d year. He was Professor of General,
Descriptive and Surgical Anatomy and Clint.
cal College and member OF many medical
societies of this country and Europe.
Alfred r. Tubbs, well-known California
cordage manufacturer and 'Forty- miner,
died in San Francisco, on Dec 26, aged 90
years. Captain William F. Swasey, one of the
oldest of the California pioneers, died III San
Francisco, on the same day, aged 10 years.
A mob of SOC people gathered at the jail at
T ahnI
intent on lynching lobe Lanahan, o prisoner,
accused of assaulting and numbering Nellie
Gaines the night before. Governor Stone
addressed the mob, and persuaded them to
disperse.
Mrs. Mary Cole, aged 80 years, was found
in her room in Willimantic, Connecticut,
Monday, with fractured skull, In the door
way of her room was the corpse of Abraham
Ernesti, who boarded with her. He had
hanged himself Mrs. Coles condition is
precarious.
Twenty-seve persons were killed and sew
eral others fatally injured by the plunge of a
passenger train through the Cahaba river
bridge, near Birmingham, Alabama, on Sun
day of last week. 1t was the work of train
wreckers. The cars fell distance of l 10 feet,
and were broken to pieces on rocks. The
wreck caught fire.
Charles Payne, colored, met with terrible
accident in Richmond, Va, on Wednesday,
which may result in his death. While wash
ing windows on the third floor of the Broad
Street Methodist Church, Payne fell on the
iron fence below, distance Of 20 feet. He
landed on one of the iron pickets, which pen
etrated his right side.
A mortgage has been Gled in New York
for SIC, 100000 1t was given to the Farm
ers' Loan and Trust Company by the Com
mercial Cable Company, pledgirg all its tele-
chises, including those of the Postal Telegraph
Company, to secure an issue of gold bonds
and debenture stocks.
Claude NJ. johnson, director of the bureau
of engraving and printing, in his annual re-
port says that during the year postage stamps
were delivered to postmasters in the United
States in the following amounts Ordinary
stamps, 3,025, 48l, 467; special delivery, A.
466, go; postage due stamps, 19,349, ia;
newspaper, etc, 5,502,672; total number,
1854, 802, l23.
In attempting to alight from his carriage
on Friday night of last week John ID. Freder
icks, of Waynesboro, Pa, fell and broke his
neck Mr.. Fredericks left home some time
during Friday afternoon and drove to Penmar
Park, where for the past four years he has
conducted photograph gallery. Upon reach
ing Highfeld he fell from his carriage. He
was about fifty-fve years old and leaves wife
and four children.
At Lima, Ohio, on Wednesday, Frank
Enock, years old. hid cigarette in the
bosom of his waist when his mother came
upon him unexpectedly. The garment took.
fire. He rushed from the room, and the wiud
famed the flames until the clothing was burned
from his body. His mother was probably
fatally burned in trying to save his life. She
finally caught him and pumped water on him,
but the flesh was burned so deeply it fell off
in large pieces.
At San Francisco, California, the litigation
attending the winding up of the affairs of the
great cattle firm of Miller & Lux is to be fol-
lowed by the incorporation of the business,
and all the heirs will be given share. Stock
will be issued to the amount of S12, 1000, 600.
OF this amount Henry Miller, the surviving
partner, will hold Sc, 900, 900, and the remain
der will be divided among the heirs of Charles
Lux. The firm owns thousands of cattle and
millions of acres of land, extending from New
Mexico to Oregon.
1t pays to be speedy bicycle rider. Less
than four years ago two Welsh lads, the Lin
ton brothers, worked in a colliery in North
ern Wales, earning less than so cents day
EACH One of them was taken up by shrewd
cycle trainer and broke all records for period
of two years, at the end of which he died,
leaving a fortune of 10000. His younger
brother, Tom Linton, is now one of the great
est long distance bicycle riders in the world.
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