The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-10-23
News of the Week.

Thirteen stores and dwellings in Flat Creek,
Tennessee, we're burned on Saturday.
Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York
Sun, died at his home in Glen Cove, Long Is
land, N Y, on Sunday, aged 70 years.
Reuben Wildasin, tenant on A. G. Keagy's
farm at LIE Fevre station, Adams county, Pa,
from % acres of corn gathered 5000 bushels.
Good crops are now assured, and it is esti-
mated that Argentina will have about 1900
600 tons of wheat for export. She will also
be able to export about 100000 tons of lin
seed.
The Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite
Masons, Southern Jurisdiction has decided
to erect monument in Washington, ID. c.,
to the late Albert Pike, Grand Commander.
1t will cost $4,000.
The jurors in the Luetgert (the German
sausage maker) murder case reported dis
agreement and were discharged on Thursday
in Chicago. The final votes stood nine for
conviction and three for aaquittal.
A seven-story factory building on Spring
street, New York, occupied by Fitzpatrick q
Co., mirrors, plate glass, etc., and the Bradley
Currier Co., fine frames, mantels, ETC., was
destroyed by fire on Sunday. Loss, $500, 600.
William Williams, colored was taken from
the Jail in Hamburg, Mississippi, Saturday
night by mob, and it is supposed he was
lynched He had assaulted and severely in
jured Mrs. T. R. Whitehead, of Wildwood
Springs.
John Beaman, aged so years, proprietor of
the Beaman House, at Fond du Lac, Wiscon-
sin, was murdered early Sunday morning by
William Payne, colored, in the presence of
several white men in the hotel bar. Payne
was intoxicated.
In Longansport Indiana, Friday night of
last weak, Charles Ward shot and fatally
wounded Miss Laura Bopp and then killed
himself. They were to have been married
but Miss Bopp broke the engagement owing
to Wards dissipated habits.
The town of Windsor, the seat of Hants
county, Nova Scotia, thirty-fve miles from
Halifax, was wiped out by fire Sunday. Few
buildings in the town were left standing and
5000 people are homeless. The losses are
roughly estimated at So, 000.0 900.
Lizzie Fleming, servant in the employ of
A. C. Dixon, in Stamford, Connecticut, was
seized with homicidal mania Saturday night.
Procuring an axe she attacked the family.
wounding Mr.. and Mrs. Dixon and their
daughter. Mrs Dixon's injuries may prove
fatal.
In the penitentiary at Pittsburg, Pa,
complete counterieiter's outfit has been dis
covered for making half dollars. Twelve
prisoners were engaged in the work and the
money was circulated by persons in the city.
The money was so perfect as to deceive ex-
perts.
A remarkable engineering feat was accom-
plished in Philadelphia, Pa, on Sunday. In
two minutes and thirty-two seconds an iron
bridge span 242 feet long, % feet wide and 30
feet deep was replaced with one of steel at the
Pennsylvania Railroads crossing over the
Schuylkill River.
DISPATCHES received in Madrid report that
Carigara and Burugo, on the eastern coast of
Leyte, one of the Philippine Islands, were
destroyed by a cyclone October II, and that
an immense wave swept inland, engulhng vii
! lagos Several thousand natives persisted,
and immense damage was done to property.
Admiral John L.. Worden, aged 80 years,
retired, died from pneumonia in Washington,
d. c., on Monday. He commanded the
Monitor during its engagement with the Mer-
rimac in Hampton Roads during the late war;
In 1886 he was retired with the full rank and
pay of an admiral, the only instance OF the
kind
Cora Gress, aged about 20 years, was mur-
! dered in the kitchen of her home near Scran :
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first cousin and lover who shot her down as
she stood before her mirror. He had asked
! her to marry him and she had refused. he
is a married man and said he would get a
divorce.
Henry A. Halcombe, director of the Ben
nett and Columbia Cotton Mills, of New Bed
ford, Massachusetts, which went down in a
financial crash last spring, has been held to
await the action of the Grand Jury on charge
of conspiring with Frank r. Hadley, the late
| Treasurer, to defrand the corporation of
800, 900.
On October l6, on the Island of Jamaica,
floods suddenly visited Montege Bay, sea-
port town of Cornwall county, on the northern
! coast of the island, wrecked great many
buildings. sweeping some houses out to sea
with occupants, and undermining others that
fell. killing those inside. The town has 5000
| inhabitants. =
! Eli Shaw. the son Of Mrs. Shaw and grand
sor of Mrs. Emma Zane, who were murdered
in Camden, n j., on Tuesday morning of
| last week. was arrested on the 10Th and com
mitted to prison, charged with the crime.
The revolver with which the deed was COM
mitted was found Monday by the police in the
chimney of the house where the tragedy oc-
cured.
AT Mayfeld, Kentucky, on the 10th instant,
"a negro woman entered the house OF Mrs.
Brentz McKelvy, white, and demanded of
Mrs. McKelvy her jewelry and money. Upon
her refusal to give up her valuables the black
yirago threw Mrs. McKelvy across red-ho
stove and held her until she received probably
fatal burns The negress then made her es-
cape
At Harrisburg, Pa, city solicitor Seitz has
| brouoht suit against the bondsmen for Isaac
! w. Guiles, delinquent tax collector during
| 1898. to recover SC, 438. sc, which remains un-
paid. Judgment for $50, 5l3 has been entered
against the bondsmen. The accounts OF Mr..
| Guiles have not been settled for twelve years,
and it is alleged that several large property
owners of Harrisburg have not paid taxes for
many years back.
| Cosmus Christus, 60 years old, and his
nephew, Michael Christus IA years old, oc-
! cupying an apartment in Roosevelt street
| tenement house, New York, were awakened
| from nap Sunday afternoon TO find the house
on fire. In their fright they leaped through
window and down an air shaft, where they
| were found by firemen after the fire had been
subdued. They were terribly burned, and the
old man died at a hospital soon afterwards.
Geo. |. Platt, a milkman, who lives near
| Milford, Conn. ,quenched fire that threatened
to destroy his home Sunday morning. The
numn was broken but some men had just fin
| ished milking Mr.. Plat herd of sixty cows,
and they poured gallons of milk on the flames,
holding them in check until farm hand sum
moned the fire department from the village
The fumes from the burning milk created an
odor which overcame Mr.. Plat and two of
his men.
The dome of Robinson's Opera House at
| Cincinnati, Ohio, fell into the orchestra at 20
minutes to 9 o'clock on Friday night Of last
week. Four persons were killed and fifty or
sixty injured. The first intimation that there
was anything wrong with the root was early IN
the evening. There was sharp crack, and a
piece of the ceiling, one foot long and three
inches wide, fell into the orchestra from the
east side of the room. Many in the audience
started to their feet, but there was no further