The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-01-23
News of the Week.

Mrs. Sarah Helierstay, the oldest resident
of Martinsburg, w. Va, died last week, aged
81 years.
Joel I. Headley, the weIl-known author,
died in Newburgh, New York, on Saturday,
aged "a years.
A heavy snow storm prevailed Tuesday in
Northern and Eastern, Texas, and in the
Indian Territory.
Joseph c. Willard, owner of the we'll
known Washington hotel of that name, died
Sunday aged so years.
An Omaha despatch says that the warm,
wet weather of the past few days has spoiled
great quantities OF corn throughout Nebraska.
A St. Johns despatch says that the whole
east coast of Newfoundland is blocked with
iee An artic foe is now visible off that har-
Dor.
Sixteen children persisted by the burning
of Buckners Orphans Home, near Dallas,
Texas, on Saturday evening. Nine others
were injured, three fatally.
At Flat Rock, West Virginia, on Friday
night, ''Lew Grim shot and fatally injured
three outlaws who were trying to break up
dance that was being held at his house.
Swift & Co.. of Chicago, have bought the
st. Joseph Mo. stockyards and the Norma
packing house for 1926, 900, and will cOncen-
trate their Missouri river interests there.
A contract has been awarded in Boston to
the Pennsylvania Steel Comany for furnishing
the steel for the new Southern Union Station.
1t amounts to between $500, 900 and S400, 900.
A fierce gale on Sunday did considerable
damage to buildings in portions OF Indiana,
Illinois and Michigan At Marquette the
temperature fell - degrees and two feet OF
snow fell.
At Saranac Lake, N. Y, the mercury
reached ~ below zero Tuesday and the in
dications are that it will go still lower. AT
Boston, Mass. there was a fall of "a degrees
in y hours.
Kishm Island, in the Persian Gull, was Wis
tied by an earthquake on the 18th instant. 1t
had population of over 5000, and at least
one-halt are reported as being drowned or
killed by falling walls.
The bubonic plague in Bombay, India, is
growing worse daily. 1t is estimated that
nearly two-thirds of the population has fled to
the country towns, in many instances carrying
the contagion with them.
On Saturday the large barn and contents
on the farm of Rev. j. w. Bentz, III Lower
Windsor township, York county, Pa, was
burned Two mules were also burned In
sured for about $500.
J. b. White, commission merchant, of Nor
folk and New York, has been arrested in the
former city, charged with forgery by the
Maunns Island Cunning Club, of which he
was secretary. The amount involved is ST.
200.
Charles Rothchild, 30 years old, committed
suicide on Saturday morning by throwing
himself from the eighth floor of the Cable
Building, at Broadway and Houston street,
New York, through the air shaft to tie base
meat.
BY means of forgery Charles B. Grub, OF
Lancaster. Pa, has lost about $4,000 Most
of the checks were cashed by telegraph mes
seuger boys who were sent to the bank by an
18-year- old boy, and the latter has been ar
rested
negro of Williamsburg, Va, owns the
largest store in the town. He employs nine
clerks, all white, and the great majority OF his
customers are of the same color. He attends
strictly to business, and does not NEEDLE IN
politics.
The immense commercial warehouses of
Meyer q Strauch, in Hohethorsrasse. Bremen,
Germany, were destroyed by fire January 10.
The contents of the warehouses consisted
mostly of tobacco. The loss is placed at
3,000,000 marks (S750,OOO.)
Diamonds and jewelry valued at $4,000 were
taken from the house of Mrs. Goodwin Boyd,
in New York, Saturday night. French
maid, who was in her employ, has been ar
rested She denies her guilt The jewelry
has not been recovered.
Los Angeles, dispatches on the night of
the 18th, say that the worst rain and snow
storm in years has ragged throughout Southern
California for the past "a hours. The noun
tans and foot hills are covered with snow and
the streams are overlooking.
Ex-Burgess Joseph Althof, aged 81 years,
the last surviving charter member of the old
Hanover Branch Railway, died at Hanover,
Pa, on Monday Of general debility. He is
survived by widow, 6 children, 45 grand
children and 48 great grandchildren.
Among the many interesting letters from
Henry Clay, which were burned in the house
OF Mrs. Hayne Davis, at StatesvIle, n. C.,
the other day. was one in which the noted
Kentuckian made the statement that ''only
horse jockeys and Democrats wear mus.
taches.
A despatch from Apalachicola, Fla, Monday
night, stated that the British steamer May,
Captain Goahle, had been totally wrecked
while bound from Savanilla, ETC., South
America, for New York. Her crew were
saved. She carried cargo valued at $780,
600. which is largely insured in Philadelphia.
A party of emigrants travelling from Mis-
souri, to Oklahoma were held up by seven out
laws in the Greek reservation and robbed of
all their valuables. amounting to several thou
sand dollars on Saturday. The leader of the
gang was recognized by one of the Missouri
ans as George Taylor, the escaped murderer
of the Mesks family.
Three masked men walked into Frank Will
IN, 4hn ocfa OtINn rbS nj
lumbus, Ohio, on Saturday night, and held
up the proprietor and twelve persons who
were drinking in the saloon. taking all the
money and valuables they could find in the
place, and on the persons of the visitors. Will
son was shot and slightly wounded
A Princeton, Illinois, despatch Monday
night reports food in the Illinois and Bureau
rivers. A portion of the Hennepin Canal
embankment, thrown up along Bureau river
to turn the river from its natural bed, was
washed cut and the overflow is running
through the unfinished portion of the canal,
causing much damage.
At the meeting of the board of governors
of the New York Lyng-ln Hospital last week
letter was read from ]. Pierpont Morgan,
offering to erect new building for the insti-
tuition to cost 81, 600, 900. The only condi-
ton Mr.. Morgan makes to the gift is that
funds sufficient to ensure the work of the hes
pital be raised. The board accepted the gift
with thanks.
VIM. Mcbride, assistant postmaster. and j.
w. Cunnington, stamp clerk of Salt Lake
postoffice, are in the custody of the United
States marshal on charge of embezzlement.
The former is alleged to be short in his accounts
81. 600, and the latter to the amount of $3.50.
Mr.. Mcbride is a son of Judge Mcbride, of
Spokane, Washington, and has been in the
postal service II years.
Sparks from a burning planning mill near
Mobile, Alabama, set fire to the city magazine
Tuesday afternoon, and caused an explosion
which was heard for miles away. There were
so, 900 pounds of powder and 300 pounds of
dynamite in the magazine A number of cot
,ages were blown to pieces. The alarm was
given in time to allow people living near by
to get to place of safety, although several
were hurt.
Walter Hines, aged 3d. a bartender, and
another man, name unknown, were asphyxi-
ated by escaping gas in a Boston lodging
house Monday morning. Richard S. Ben
ning telegraph operator, and Walter Sample
were also found dead from the same cause in
Benning's boarding place, in Boston. In
both cases the men had been drinking Mary
N. Reynolds, aged years; Margaret H.
Reynolds, aged years, and Annie Connolly,
aged IA years, were asphyxiated by gas at their
home, in Boston, on Saturday night.