The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-03-13
News of the Week.


Mrs Christana McCoskey, aged lOS years, died
near Crown, Pa, on Saturday
Mrs Beecher, widow of the late Henry Ward
Beecher, aged IS years, died on Monday last.
John D. Rockefeller, of New York. has given $40
600 to Mount Holyoke College for dormitory.
Thomas Wilson and Andy Hill. farmers of Topeka,
Kansas, fought duel with axes on Saturday. Hill
was killed
Worcester, Mass, had $4,000 IRE on Thursday
night of last week. Several iremen were injured
by falling walls.
A bill has been introduced in the New York
Senate appropriating 100000 for the acquisition
OF additions to the Adirondack forest preserve
Hugh Smith, 70 years old has been arrested in
Perry Co., Pa, charged with the murder of Manda
Snyder, lS-year-old girl, who disappeared Is
years ago
Eastern capitalists are in Huntsville, Alabama,
for the purpose of starting mill for the manufac
ture of fine goods They have 81 100000 TO invest
in the enterprise
George Whitaker, of Wilmington, Delaware, on
Monday night jumped from hay loft and struck a
pitch fork the handle of which entered his bowels
Whitaker viii die
The President issued proclamation on Saturday
calling an extra session of Congress on March 10,
ito receive such communications as may be made
by the Executive"
An indianapolis despatch says that as result of
last weeks rain in Central Ohio and Southern
Indiana lis bridges and trestles over rivers and
creeks were washed away
warrant has been sworn out against George A.
Taylor. cashier of the defunct Argentine Kan
sas) Bank. charging him with receiving deposits
when he knew the bank was failing.
A Salt Lake City despatch says that Richard II.
Cabell. United States Internal Revenue Collector,
has been discovered short in his accounts With the
Government to the extent of over $4,000.
The Committee on Military Affairs of the Massa-
chusetts Legislature has reported against the petit
ton for 900 appropriation for the erection of
equestrian statue of the late Gen. B. F. Butler.
Leslie Combs a Confederate bushwhacker and
the most noted moonshner in the mountains, was
found dead near Hazard, KY, on Tuesday with his
! throat cut He boosted he had killed fifty men.
Thomas Bran, the convicted murderer of Captain
| Nash, of the harkentne Herbert Fuller, was SEN
fenced in Boston Tuesday to be hanged on Friday,
June Is The prisoner declared that he was inno-
| cent
All incoming vessels report extraordinary storms
at sea, and all were damaged to greater or less
extent Since the LIST of last December to March 10
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for 10 years past. English insurance companies
have lost over So 600 for the rs 80 days of this
year
Washington despatch says that Paymaster John
Corwin, United States Navy, stationed at Newport.
R. l., has sbsconded. He is alleged to have ca shed
check for s5OOO and his accounts are short in adj
dition, between 5000 and $4,000.
Salem, Oregon, despatch says that all other
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forcibly compel the attendance of members of the
lower House of the Legislature for the purpose OF
/ effecting permanent organization
The Ohio Supreme Court has affirmed the SEN
tence of death in the case of William Haas, Gin
cinnati murderer, and he will be executed on April
s. unless Governor Bushnell interferes He will be
the first victim of the electric chair under the new
law.
President Hermann, of the Cincinnati Board OF
Administration, places the loss in that city from the
recent high waters at s5OO.OOO Gangs of laborers
in both water works and engineers department
were put to work Monday on damaged streets and
bridges.
wagon containing Lawrence L. Lavancher. his
wife and l5-year-old son, of Fassets Penna., was
struck at Fentons Crossing near Elmin, n. V, on
Saturday, by Northern Central train. LayancheI
was instantly killed and his wife and son fatally
injured
Fred Schanubel, of Appleton, Wisconsin; Kittie
Duprel and Mrs. Peter Ross drove together to a
road house. near Kaukana on Monday. Peter Ross
followed them, killed his wife, MORALLY wounded
the other woman and Schanubel and surrendered
himself
D. D. Moody, ex-clerk of DeKalb county, Indiana
on saturday pleaded guilty to a charge of embezzle
ment of 5000 of county funds during his term Of
Office and was sentenced to the penitentiary fol
one year Other officials and ex-oficials are under
Indictment.
Mrs. Elizabeth Harmon was found murdered
Tuesday in her junk shop in Brooklyn, n. Y. Hel
head was crushed, and, from the appearance of the
store, it evident that the woman had had a ter
ribls struggle with her assailant There is no clew
to the murderer
An unknown man was sandbagged by thug late
on Saturday night in Fifteenth street. near Third
avenue, New York. He was not injured and fled
The sandbagger was arrested by two citizens
While in their custody he became suddenly i'll and
died before the arrival of an ambulance.
The Kankakee Illinois, Roller Mills and Kanka
kee Water Power have been sold to syndicate
represented by the Kankakee Electric Light and
Power Company The new owners propose to de
velop power to generate electricity. Nearly 500,
900 will be expended in improving the plant
Gustav Rimbald, who arrived from Europe OF
Sunday on the steamship st. Louis committed sui
eide Monday in the Astor House. at New York
while United States Marshals attempting tt
break down the door of his room to arrest him fo
the embezzlement of 800 crowns from the Swedish
Government
Prof Walter RastOn of the Smithsonian Insti
tute. Washington, D. c., has captured the big
python which escaped from vessel that wa
wrecked on the Florida coast The Professor ant
his assistants had hard fight before it was cap
tured, in fact he was caught in its coils and nearl!
squeezed to death.
Robert J. Powley shot and killed his wife OF
Monday night as she lay in bed in her room at sus
pension Bridge New York. He then set fire to thu
place and fed, but was arrested soon afterward
Powley and his wife had been separated for SOM
time, and the murder was committed because thu
woman refused to again live with him.
W. c. Macdonald, the wealthy tobacco manufac
turer of Montreal, Canada, who has already givel
81, 100000 to McGill University, has just made
further donation of 100000 to that institution.
this amount $4,000 is for the erection of building
for chemistry and mining and metallurgy and TO
the endowment of chairs in architecture and min
ing and metallurgy.
A sn w slide swept down early on Sunday morn
ing upon the works of the Daily mine, at Park City
Utah, burying eight men. Four of them were re
covered and resuscitated; the dead bodies of three
were dug out by the miners, and one is not yet re
covered although it is certain he is dead. Th'
four men who are alive were more or less injured
and the mill property damaged to the extent o
$4,000
Parts of Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio Ken
lucky Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and
Pennsylvania we're visited the afternoon an6
night of Friday by cloudbursts In some portions
food existed before the inhabitants were aware
of rain having fallen. An immense destruction Of
property followed; washouts on railroads caused
trains to collide and many persons were killed o.
fatally injured From to inches of water fell an6
streams overhowed their banks, washing away
dwellings barns etc.
By the heavy rains of Monday and Tuesday sew
eral counties in Southern Indiana Will loose from
900 900 to $4,000 by the washing away of bridges
and roads. In Michigan there was q continuous
fall Of rain for As hours, causing a sudden giving
away of the ice which packed in shallow streams
and flooded the surrounding country. All the
rivers in Missouri were ont Of their banks. West
ern Pennsylvania also suffered. The dam at Mt
Morris y. s. gave away owing to the great pres
sure of water and fats in the Genesee valley are
flooded causing great damage towheat rye, grass