The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-01-30
News Of the Week.

Arthur Palmer, the Mamaroneck. New
York. murderer, has been arrested in St.
Louis.
Samuel Kirby and wife, of French Lick,
Indiana, were killed by burglars on Saturday
morning.
Charles NJ Troxell, native of Emmits-
burg, died in Baltimore, on Saturday. in his
47th year.
Frank J. Lespa, cashier of the Clarkson
State Bank at Clarkson, Nebraska, committed
suicide on Tuesday night.
While resisting arrest Thomas Johnson, of
Wytheville, Va, was shot and killed by Chief
of Police Meyers on Tuesday.
Roy, aged years, son of j. W. Beach, of
Roanoke, Va, was burned to death on Mon
day while playing with matches.
Defalcations among persons bonded by in
surance companies during the past year show
the enormous total of So, 465, 92l.
AT Jackson, Mississippi on Sunday night
the temperature was 22o above zero, and on
Monday there was seet and snow.
Scarlet fever and grip are raging in WayneS-
boro, Pa Many departments i'll the factories
are closed owing to the scarcity of hands.
Vineyard Hall, one of the dornitores of
the Northern Indiana Normal School at Val
paraiso, was burned on Saturday. Loss, S18,-
90.
a negro held in the Enfield, North Caro-
lima, Jail for shooting man, set fire to the
building on Friday night destroying himself
and the Jail.
Edward Cattell, aged about 40 years, who
resided at Gloucester City, was instantly killed
Tuesday at the Camden, n. j., Iron Works
by flask falling on him.
Pierson Taylor, negro, charged with an
attempt to assault Miss Emma Apthorpe at
Tallahassee, Florida, was taken from the Jail
at that place Sunday and lynched.
The largest estate in Engamd's Probate
Court last year was that of Sir Charles Booth,
whose fortune had its source in breweries.
His estate was valued at 50, $50, 900.
Mrs. Margaret Hamilton Angles Hunger
ford, an Irish writer of light fiction, died in
Dublin, Ireland, on Sunday. Most of her
books have appeared under the pseudOnym
''The Duchess"
The Greenlee Brothers l. Co.'S wood
working machinery plant and the Northwest
ern Stove Repair Company's factory IN Chi
cago were entirely destroyed by fire Sunday
night. Loss 100000.
Colonel f. S. Ranking, attorney for the
Illinois Central Railroad, committed suicide
in Milan, Tennessee, Sunday, by shooting
himself through the head Financial troubles
are supposed to be the cause,
Alexander Freeman, colored, died in the
Staten Island, N. Y, Sailors Snug Harbor
last week. His age, as stated in the death
certificate and on the records of the institu-
ton was lO9 years and month.
John Harper, aged 80 years, and his son.
George, of Trnway, Ohio, were tortured with
hot irons by five masked burglars on Sunday
night. The robbers got but $l5. The elder
Harper was probably fatally injured.
The New York grand jury has indicted
Herbert Z. Seeley, Theodore D. Rich and
James Phipps. The indictment charges
to procure people to give an indecent perform
ance.
The grand jury at Chicago on Wednesday
indicted William A. Burns and twelve Others
on charge of victimizing the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad out Of thousands of dollars
worth of transportation by means of forged
tickets.
Captain John Campbell, master of the
British bark British America, now loading
lumber i'll Mobile, Ala, was frozen to death
on tuesday night, about two miles from the
city. He had been drinking, and died from
exposure,
Park Sterling and George Boon were found
frozen to death near their home, at HamI-
ton, Missouri on Monday. They had been
drinking Ernest Sothern was frozen to death
in the street in Washington, D. c., on Mon
day night.
Marsenus H. Briggs, a prominent lawyer of
Rochester, N. Y, indicted for embezzlement
of $500 belonging to the Rochester and Char
lohe Turnpike Company, has been sentenced
to serve one year and six months in Auburn
State Prisop.