The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-07-24
News OF the Week.

Inc DrOaunlOOf casino, near COlOfauO
Springs, Colorado, was burned Monday; loss
$4,000.
Lightning struck the Methodist Protestant
Church at Atlantic, in Accomac county, Va,
on Tuesday.
The steamer Hope, with the Peary and
other Greenland expeditions on board. sail
ed from Boston Monday.
At Newport News, Virginia, there is an
epidemic of typhoid fever, there being over
100 cases in charge of the physicians
In the famous Garden of Olives at Jerusa-
lem there are eight fourishing olive trees that
are known to be over ZOO years old
Miss Jean Ingelow, the distinguished poet
and novelist, died in London, England, on
Monday night. She was in her 18th year.
A heavy hail and rain storm on Sunday
night did great damage to property between
Cripple Creek and Mound City, Colorado.
j. E. Nebert, near Waynesboro, Pa, re-
allied 60 bushels of wheat per acre on three
acres, and on SO acres so bushels per acre.
English sparrows in droves, not to say
hordes, have picked all the grains from the
wheat stalks in field outside of Wabash, Ind.
A Chicago despatch says, that 5000 tons of
Bessemer pig iron, the product of Milwau-
kee mill, have been sold for export to Ger
many.
The three -masted schooner Alice G. Crab
tree, which sailed from Franklin, Maine, two
weeks ago, for Philadelphia, has not been
heard from since.
Joseph Fife, colored, has been convicted in
the Richmond Eva. Court of assaulting two
young white women, and sentenced to be
hanged August &c.
AT Pottsville, Pa, on Monday, six school
directors we're sent to Jail for six months for
malfeasance in office, and ordered to pay
costs of prosecution.
gang of tramps stopped freight and
passenger train on the Omaha road at Teck
ahama, Nebraska, on Wednesday and de-
layed traffic for time.
Herbert Taylor was sentenced in New
York Tuesday TO two and half years i'm
prisonment for stealing $2700 from his en-
ployers, Monroe Il Co., bankers.
The cornerstone of the old State Capitol
building at Harrisburg was unearthed on
Monday and the contents found intact, just as
they were when placed there IS years ago.
funis Delamater "a years of age, who
lived near GAINESVILLE, Montgomery county,
N. Y, committed suicide by hanging himself
to a bed post on Monday. He had grown
weary of life.
James f. Babcock, inventor Of the fire ex
tinguisher bearing his name, and a well known
lecturer, died on Tuesday at his home in Dor
chester, Mass, aged SO years. He had filled
several State offices.
Advices from Fargo, Grand Forks, Crook
ston and other Red River Valley points say
that too much water is falling for the good of
the wheat crop. AT Fargo 4.46 inches frain
fell in two and one. half days.
The Association of American Agricultural
Colleges and Experiment Stations, in annual
session at Minneapolis, has decided to make
collective experiment station exhibit at the
Paris Worlds Exposition in 1900.
A jar containing SIG, 600 in gold was plowed
up in field near Hogansvile, Ga, the other
day by negro farmer. The treasure was
under an iron plate hanked by two big stones,
and the spot was marked by circle OF stones.
Forest and field fires are doing much dam
age i'll various parts of California. Near the
town OF Red Bluff about a dozen residences
have been burned, cattle ranges destroyed,
and standing crops are threatened. The loss
is already over $500, OOO
At New Haven, Conn, on Wednesday,
four women and three men were killed by an
explosion in the loading department at the
armory of the Winchester Repeating Arms
to the hospital badly injured.
Deep interest is manifested in geographi-
cal circles in London and all parts of the
world over the return to Tromsoe Island of
carrier pigeons, supposedly from the Andree
balloon expedition, bearing the message
North Pole Passed, Fifteenth. "
Between 300 and 500 armed salmon fisher
men went to Bakers Bay, in the Columbia
river, on Tuesday night, and destroyed fish
traps, etc, valued at from S75, 900 to $685.,
900. Their object was to force the Gamers
to restore the price of fish to cents pound.
Among the historic places in London now
threatened with destruction is that interest
ing corner in Chelsea known as "The Apoihe
carries Garden Those gardens date back
as far as 1921, when Sir ID. Sloane handed
them to the apothecaries fer scientific pur-
poses.
Lewis May, the millionaire chairman of the
finance committee of the New York Mutual
Life Insurance Company, died Thursday
from peritonits at Dobbs' Ferry, n. Y. He
was born in Germany IA years ago, and came
to this country with his parents at the age of
6 years
A company has been formed at Port Town
send, Washington. which will send buyer at
once to the sheep ranges of Eastern Wash
iugton and Oregon to- purchase a thousand
head of sheep, which will be shipped north
and driven to Dawson City to supply mutton
to the miners
Sundays storm was very destructive in
parts of Pennsylvania. In Mercer and Mon
roe counties and in Pittsburg and vicinity
many buildings and barns were struck by
lightning and burned; houses and barns were
unroOfed, and great damage resulted to for
ests, orchards, crops, etc.
A terrible hailstorm devastated the country
north of the lake of Zurich. Switzerland, on
Wednesday. Crops and fruit trees have been
destroyed, buildings damaged and telegraph
wires blown down. The damage is wide
spread, and general CONSERVATION prevails in
the district affected.
A cloudburst near Carnegie, Pa, Monday
night damaged property to the extent of S25,-
600. At the Pan Handle mines of NJ. A.
Hanna & Co., the powder storehouse, rail
road tracks and cars were washed away. The
water rose so rapidly that the miners were
forced to flee TO the hills for safety.
Miss Mary Fluck, of Srringtown, Bucks
county, Pa, while returning from a neigh
boris on Saturday last was confronted by four
polecats The lady did not faint or run, but
with stick succeeded in killing them. On
the same day, near the same place, Jacob
Sassaman killed blacksnake that measured
eleven feet.
Rev. T. j. Marion, for 80 years pastor of
St. Palrck's Church, Audenried, Pa, and
one Of the oldest preates in the Philadelphia
Diocese, died Thursday. Rev. Marian was
an eminent Latin and Greek scholar, and
taught these branches in the Catholic Semi
nary before going to Audenried. He was re
pnted to be very wealthy.
At Moundsylle, West Virginia, on Tues.
day, two boys, Stanley Mason, aged II years,
aud Willie Mason, aged years, were at
tackled by an unknown man with a brar hoe |
and terribly cut and beaten. A negro boy, |
aged - years, has confessed that he murdered |
the boys for revenge, he having been fogged |
for stealing from their father.
The harvest in Hungary is proceeding. 1t
is estimated that the yield of wheat will he |
y, 600, 900 10 $4,000 600 metric hundred.
weight, as compared with Sc, 000, 900 metric |
hundredweight in 1896; that Of rye 10, 300, |
600 metric hundredweight. against -, 400, 900 |
last year; barley $500. 900, against 1880, |
600 and oats s, 700. 900. against 10, 800, 900.