The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-06-05
News of the Week.

/ was murdered by burglars on Sunday night.
Several barns and dwellings were burned by
lightning on Sunday in Pennsylvania.
Silas Fl. Forty, aged SO years, well known
lawyer of YORK, Pa, died on Ma 26
On Friday of last week there was an earth
quake along the northern border of New York
Mrs. Laura Hackstaff died at Peru, Clinton
county, n. T., Sunday night, at the age of
l02 years.
Armour d Cos, pepsin factory, in Chicago,
was damaged to the amount of S75, 600 by ire
on Tuesday.
At Ell Paso, Texas, on Tuesday, the Rio
Grande levee broke, the city was flooded and
l2O houses were washed away.
The first train on the Yazoo and Misss-
sippi Valley Railroad since the overflow ar
rived at Greenville, Mississippi, on Sunday.
Namsos, Norway, was burned on May 30;
1900 people were made homeless, and the
wind was so strong that they saved nothing.
Adolph Luetgert, The Chicago sausage
maker, charged with the murder of his wifi,
has been held for the grand jury without bail.
Ed. Prentz and Charles Coffee, under SEN
tence for three months, escaped from the
! Gettysburg, Pa, Jail on Friday Of last week.
| Rev. l.. NJ. Pease, who founded the first
mission at Five Points, in New York city, in
1850, died at Asheville, N. c., Sunday night,
aged 10 years.
| Manuel Oliver Levy, aged 1O4 years, died
at Stonington, Connecticut, on May 81. He
was born May 10, 1893, according to his bap-
tism certificate.
| -Four workmen IN Waterman trench in
! Fort Wayne, Indiana, were engufed in quick
sand Saturday and only one was rescued. He
was probably fatally injured.
| j. W. Roberts, wife and two children were
| killed by an Illinois Central passenger train
at Alma, H., Tuesday. They were driving
in wagon, and were caught at crossing.
| Five children were burned to death in the
residence of j. H. White, two miles from
| Keystone, West Virginia, Monday night
Enemies of the family are believed to have
fired the house.
Sylvester Sharp, colored, was captured at
Merchantville, New jersey Tuesday after
noon, after an exciting struggle with Police
man Lnderman, charged with robbing the
mail of William Buzby.
| Charles Price, a farmer of Jacksonville,
n. Y, on Saturday was at WORK in his potato
patch killing the beetles on his plants, when
swarm of bugs lighted on his face and hands
and stung him to death.
A keg of powder exploded during fire in
Charles King & Sons warehouse, in Char
lottesvile, Va, on Monday. The building
collapsed. killing c. F. Christian and seriously
iniuring three other persons.
At the United Brethren Conference at To-
ledo, Iowa, last week, Bishop Weaver, of
Dayton, Ohio, was unanimously elected Bish
OPP Emeritus, and Bishops Castle, Kephart
Holt and Mills were reelected.
At York, Pa, on Saturday, May %
Do.l ga
paper mill, fell into a machine and was in
stantly killed. He was about % years of age,
and leaves wife and two children.
Cumberland county. Pa, has had num-
Der of incendiary fires recently. On May
% the barn, horses, Is cattle, implements,
wagons, harness, &C., of J. H. Shoop, near
ShirmanstQwn was burned. Loss over ST, 900.
The crevasse at Conrad's Point, below
Baton Roug Louisiana, had on Monday
widened to 800 feet. Trains on the Missis-
sippi Valley Railroad were not able to get
through and will for the present be discon-
tinued.
Mrs. Mamie L. Barr, her 4-year-od boy,
and his sister, Miss Matte L. Alexander, aged
IA, were drowned in tank near their house,
at Abbott, Texas, on Sunday. The boy fell
in. and the others lost their lives in trying to
rescue him
A tally-ho with party of q sxcursionists
from the Greene Avenue Baptist Church,
Brooklyn, was struck by train at Valley
Spring, Long Island, Monday. Five of the
excursionists were killed and Is injured, sew
eral probably fatally.
w. f. Mittman, dancing teacher, shot
himself and then jumped from the thirteenth
floor of the Chamber of Commerce Building,
in Chicago, early Tuesday morning. He fell
Ha of hot "a
had accused him wrongfully."
The barn of Rev. Walter J. Beamer, near
Gettysburg, Pa, was destroyed by fire May
"a. A fine herd of twenty Jersey cows, on
which there was no insurance, was burned.
A tramp was sleeping in the barn, and it is
supposed that he accidentally set it on fire.
a Denver and Rio Grande train struck
wagon at a grade crossing in Denver, Colo
RADIO, on Sunday evening, and of eight children
who were III the vehicle four were killed, two
fatally injured, and the others severely
bruised. 1t is said that the driver was drunk.
A slight earthquake occurred Monday after
noon, the vibration lasting about five minutes,
the motion being from north to south. ltwas
felt from Westminster, Nd, south te Georgia.
and in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennes
see. Pennsylvania was also slightly shaken.
j. A. Kitzmiler, well-knowl lawyer of
Gettysburg, Pa, died from Bright's disease
on May "a He was member of the 13Sth
Regiment, Penna. Volunteers, and also Of
various secret organizations. In politics he
was Republican and had held numerous of
fees.
Miss Anna Hunter, of Atlanta. Georgia. on
Sunday night, while bicycling with Leon
Evans. was accidentally run into by colored !
man named Fate. Each was trying to avoid
al, 4
skull was fractured, and Miss Hunter was
severely injured
Charles K Hillyard, well-known lawyer
of Brooklyn, shot and killed his 13-year-old |
son William, and then killed himself, at his |
home, on Tuesday night. He had made a
will few days previous, leaving about $751;
900 to his son. His wife died a few years
ago, and it seemed to nbalaHee his mind.
His devotion to his son was remarkable.
John C. Colsen, Republican nominee for
County Judge of Bell county, Kentucky, and |
brother of Congressman d. G. Colsen, of the |
Eleventh Kentucky District, was shot and |
killed by John Dugan, saloon keeper, in |
Middlesboro, Tuesday night Dugan was ar
rested and was at last reports in imminent |
danger of being lynched.
James Roster, negro, dubbed and shot |
David Locker, another negro, to death Sat |
urday, May %, on the road between Red |
Bank and Shrewsbury, New Jersey. Both |
men lived at Shrewsbury and were farm la
borers The killing, it is alleged, resulted
from the fondness shown by Rosters wife for
the company of other men, one of whom was
Locker
john F. johnson, President of the State
National Bank of Logansport, Indiana, was
arrested May % for criminal violations
of the National Bank act. 1t is charged that
Mr. Johnson procured from the bank about
5000, 900 on forged notes and about 100000 |
additional by making false entries in the in
dividual ledgers and by certificates of deposit
May % he was sentenced to 10 years in peni-
Tertiary.
Ell Paso, Texas, is flooded, owing to the
overflow of the Rio Grande. Levees above
the city were cut 20 as to carry the water
around the city. Over $3.50, 600 had been de-
stroyed and 5000 persons were homeless up to
May 90. A dispatch from San Antonio, on
the night of the 18th cltimo, says that infor-
nation from above says that the river is
changing its channel so as to throw large
part of Texas into Mexico and Mexican land
into Texas. Fifty city blocks have been
taken from Ell Paso, Texas.
At York, Pa, on May %, DR.. L. NJ.
Lochman, well-known physician, died. after
a brief illness, of blood poisoning. A short
time ago pimple appeared between the toes
of one of his feet 1t soon developed into the