The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-04-17
News of the Week.

Rain and snow Tell all day on the ytli
instant at Rochester. New York.
z. 7. Lewis, the notorious bond forger,
has been arrested at Ypsilanti, Mich.
Sarah Reeser, Chambersburg, Pa, was
80 years old on Tuesday Of last week
Danyille, Virginia, has the largest cot
ion mill il the Sonth and it is running on
full time.
The Cumberland Coal Company. Of
Sturgis, KY, whose mines caught fire two
weeks ago, have assigned
The losses to cattlemen in Wyoming
during the recent storm, viii range from 5
to % per cent of the herds.
John L. Scott, superintendent Of the
poor Of Genesee country, n. y, is a de-
faulter to the amount Of $40, 600.
Charles Butcher died at Bellona, n y,
on the I'd instant, aged 1O2 years He
leaves two sons, aged so and 20 respec-
lively
Heavy snow at indianapolis and vicinity
on Thursday afternoon and night and Fri
day last week did much damage to tele-
graph and telephone wires.
The Poughkeepsie, N. Y, Glass Works
were completely destroyed by fire on the
9th instant The loss approximates about
500, 900; insurance 800, 900.
Knoxville, Tenn, had LILO, 900
Ere on the 18th Thirty-fve persons
were burned to death in hotel and
large number were fatally injured
At church in Castres, France. during
mass, on Sunday, the roof suddenly fell
and seven women and one man were
crushed to death; about 30 others were
injured.
Two passenger trains on the Southern
Railway were in collision at Harrisburg
North Carolina on Sunday Three per-
sons were killed and six injured, one
fatally.
Snow fell at Wapakonata, Ohio, on the
9th to the depth of FIVE inches, and it was
still showing at midnight The fruit crop
viii be badly damaged, because all fruit
trees are budding.
At the sale of Peter W. Camp, of
Dickinson township, Cumberland county,
Pa, two calves worth apparently So
each, were bid up and sold at the enor-
nous figure of $104.
William Il. NEikell, prominent mem
Der Of the Southern bar, has been appointed
instructor in law at the University of Penn
sylyania, and viii enter upon his duties at
the beginning of the next academic year.
In New York city, last week, jesse
Hansee was convicted for classifying pension
p9ers. He had been acquitted on 10
charges, but on the 18th he was found
guilty and sentenced to the penitentiary
for 10 years.
Abraham Lehman family is composed
Of himself, wife and two daughters. They
live N Franklin county, Pa. Mr.. Leh-
man weighs 1856, his wife 226, Annie,
aged IA, 206, and Fannie, aged II, 245
pounds.
In San Francisco, on Saturday, Theo-
dore Durrant was for the second time sen
fenced to be hanged for the murder of
Blanche Lamont, in Emmanuel Church,
two years ago. He viii be hanged at San
Quentin Prison on June IL.
Mrs Julia Nelson, 78 years old, and
the possessor of 800, 600, died last week
in hard uncomfortable bed in cottage
on West Erie street; Chicago, and which,
from its outward appearance and interior
furnishings, might have been the home of
the meanest beggar.
The body of Gen. Joseph S. Fullerton,
of St. Louis, who was killed in the railway
accident on the Baltimore and Ohio Road,
near Oakland, Md, some weeks ago, was
found on the 9th instant, in the Yough-
iogheny river, s miles below the bridge,
where the accident occurred.
A Houghton, Mich, despatch says that
j. I'll. Elmore and Frank Vandeusen, of
Green Bay, Wis, have secured options on
the Minnesota and National copper mines,
at Rockland, Ontonagon county. These
are mass mines, and paid nearly 50, 900,
600 in dividends in the early days of Lake
Superior mining. Both have been idle
Cor more than ten years.
The large barn on the farm of Mrs.
Rebecca Funk, near Waynesboro, Pa,
was totally destroyed by fire on the 9Th.
Six valuable work and driving horses and
FIVE calves, besides farming machinery and
crops, were burned This is the third
barn burned on this farm since SO, two
having been set on fire, including every
thing. The loss viii reach about 50, 600.
The steamship La Grande Duchesse,
which arrived at Sayapnah, Georgia, on
Saturday night from New York, collided
early Friday morning of last week in a
dense fog with the American barkentine
Nellie Smith, bound for Cuba The bark
entine was cut in two and sank in FIVE
minutes Captain Dodge, the first and
second mates and two of the crew of the |
Nellie Smith were lost. Laurence Haar-
son, lookout; Frank Conway, helmsman,
and the steward were rescued by. boats
from the steamer.
The Memphis Relief Committee, in
statement presented to President McKin-
ley relative to the need of Government aid |
for the sufferers in the Mississippi valley,
said THE food is the greatest and most
destructive that has ever devastated the
Mississippi, the water being two and a
half feet higher than the highest stage it
has ever reached before. 1t is estimated |
that fully 700 towns in the Yazoo- Missis-
sippi Delta Valley are now under water,
and the suffering is intense for the want
Of clothing and food. The loss in cotton
alone is over $50, 900, 900. In Arkansas
so, 600 people are without homes and in
nine counties, with popula
ton of IS, 600 are flooded The area
covered by water on Saturday was about
Is, 900 square miles
Maryland Affairs.