The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-10-09
News of the Week.

News of the Week.
On Sunday 5000 visitors at the Gettysburg
battlefield.
Hanover, Pa is suffering from diphtheria, owing
to the uncleanly condition of the town.
Earthquakes are reported from Borneo. new
island has been thrown up near Mempaku
Potatoes and apples have both rotted so in parts
of Maine that not half crop will be harvested.
Dr. Hills, of Manchester, KY, at 20 years of age,
rode in pacing race at Barbourvle last week and
won it.
There is an outbreak of typhoid fever at Maid
stone, England. The temporary hospitals contain
600 cases.
Mrs. Catharine Boyer Julius. of LaBott, York
county, Pa. celebrated her 102nd birthday anuiyer-
sary on Tuesday.
W. C. Cooper, aged 60 years. weli-known mer-
chant of Star Tannery. Virginia. died on Sunday
from typhoid fever.
The Kansas City Police Board has ordered the i'm
mediate suppression of the poolrooms and all forms
of gambling in that city.
Isaac Alderfer died Tuesday at Norristown.
Pa from injuries inflicted by thieves, last week,
who subjected him to horrible fortunes.
! The largest sheet iron mandatory in Austria
! Hungary, joint stock company, has suspended
payment with liabilities of 100000 forms
! A wagon containing seven persons was struck by
a train at crossing Willow Springs, Missouri
Monday. Six were killed and the other fatally
| injured.
! The coveted music prize known the Mendels-
sohn Stipendium, has been won in Berlin by Miss
Leonom Jackson, an American competitor who is
celebrated vioinist.
Margaret, wife of Samuel Brady, of Hanover, Pa
was killed Tuesday morning within few hundred
yards of her home by being struck and run over by
a Pennsylvania railroad engine.
| George and William Cody, brothers, under SEN
tence of death for burglary Marshall, North Car
DINA, who broke Jail several years ago. have been
| recaptured at Red Lodge. Montana.
/ The grand jury at Minneapolis, Minnesota, has
indicted Alderman Roman Alexander Dumbrowski
for Offering a bride of 5000 to John De Laitre, a
member of the State capitol commission.
Cashier SilfyeIberg, of the Mutual Life Insurance
Company, of New York, has been arrested in Copep
hagen Denmark on the charge of embezzlng
1900 crowns and with classifying his accounts.
The three gas light companies of Buffalo have
sold their plants to a New York syndicate for So
100000 The purchasers ii is said, will consolidate
the companies with Il capitalization of sl4,000000
Henry Savage Landor, well-known artist,
traveller and writer, has returned to India from
Thbet where he was arrested by natives. sentenced
to death and tortured with hot irons and on the
rack
serious water famine is reported throughout
Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas. At Oseeola in the
last named State, drinking water has been "sold at
cents quart and the demand greatly exceeds
the supply"
Wash. Farren, negro, charged with criminaly
assaulting two children was taken from the Jail at
Monroe Louisiana, Saturday evening, and
hanged to tree The lynchers made noattempt st
conceament.
Fearful rainstorms prevailed last week in the
greater part of Germany with cold and snow i'll the
mountains. In many districts the potatoes and
hay are rotting in the fields and the fruit is dropp
ing from the trees.
Michael H. Kaufman well-knOwn leaf tobacco
dealer of Lancaster. Pa has been arrested upon
charges of being accessory to larceny and receiv-
ing stolen goods. The arrest follows the recent
robbery of a tobacco barn.
Torrential rains fell in the Departments of Aube,
Ariege and Haute Garonne France, on Friday and
Saturday last Bridges have been demolished,
villages have been flooded, many houses have been
undermined and great damage generally has been
occasioned by the foods.
The entire Board of Commissioners of Cook coun-
ty, Illinois, was arrested Monday on warrants
taken out by the Christian Citizens League of
North Harvey, small town adjoining Chicago.
The offence alleged was the granting of a liquor
license in violation OF the local option law
The Chicago grand jury has returned a true bill
against Jacob L. Kesner, charging him with at
tempting to bride Alderman William Mangler by
offering him $1,000 to influence his vote the ques
tion of passing over the Mayors veto the General
Electric Street Car ordinance last July. Bail was
fixed at $4,000
A. Lincoln lands, of the firm of Myer, lands &
Co., file manufacturers, who was charged with
having set fire to his factory on September 90 was
given hearing in Philadelphia, Pa. Tuesday
morning and held in 81 900 bail for court 1t was
alleged that Lands fred his mill in order to collect
S27 600 insurance.
Gen. Neal Dow, father of the Maine prohibitory
law, died at his home in Portland, Maine, on Sat
urday last. The end was peaceful and he retained
consciousness until an hour before he died, recog
nizng his children, who were gathered at his bed
side His death was due to the infirmities of age.
He was born in 1904 of Quaker parents
Mrs. Caroline Rivinius aged about 40 years, wife
Off soldier at West Point n Y, and her four chill
dren aged from to 10 years, were found dead in a
woman had evidently suffocated her children and
committed suicide by turning on the gas in the
room, after stopping up all the holes that would
allow the gas to escape
September of this year will be noted for its many
disastrous storms in this country and Europe.
More vessels have been wrecked and more lives
lost than for many years. The storms the coast
last week were unusually severe, and incoming
vessels report a large amount of wreckage at sea,
while along our coast, from Halifax to the Dry
Tortugas the shores are filled with debris of all
kinds. Several vessels were seen off shore to go
down and none esca ped to tell of the disaster. On
Friday and Saturday there was terrible hurricane
and many brave fellow went to a watery grave.
Major Lewis Ginter head of the Allen & Gnter
branch of the American Tobacco Company, died at
his home. West Brook, near Richmond, Virginia.
on Saturday night last, aged 70 years. Major Gnter
was native of New York, but went to Richmond
when quite young man and engaged in merchan-
dizing. At the breaking out of the war he entered
the Confederate service and rose to the position of
Major in the Quartermaster's Department. After
the war he returned to New York and engaged in
the brokerage and banking business until the cele
brated "Black Friday" when he met with disaster
He then returned to Richmond, and, In association
with the late John T. Allen, commenced the manu-
facture of cigarettes. Major Ginter accumulated a
large fortune. His private charities were very ex-
tensve. Major Ginter never married but he has
several relatives living in New York. His death
resulted from consumption complicated with kid
ney trouble.
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