The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-05-08
News OF the Week.


A. D. Hubbard, Kansas St tie President of
the A. P. A, is under arrest at Topeka,
charged with the embezzlement of about S10,
600 while acting as receiver in the Snow
Hamilton printing litigation.
Rev. Edward Fairfax Berkeley, d. D., the
oldest Episcopal minister in the Missouri do
cese, died at an early hour Monday the
result of severe cold. He was 81 years of
age, 40 of which he had passed in the ministry.
By the will of the late Lewis Grocer, of
Delaware county, Pa, $500, 000 is bequeathed
for homeopathic hospital, with home for
incurables attached, while S250,000 is given
to the city of Chester for free library.
While four negroes were rowing in the
overhowed country, about a mile west of
Coahoma, Mississippi, on Saturday, in bat
teau, they ran into snag, which turned the
boat over and three of the occupants were
drowned.
Snow fell to the depth of several inches in
parts of Ohio on Saturday last. There was
a heavy rain from "a to 36 hours previous,
causing streams to overflow, and the sudden
drop in the temperature has caused great
damage to the fruit.
A waterspout struck the house of farmer
named Branders, near Monticello, Kentucky,
on Saturday, demolishing the house and kill
farm hands, who were sleeping in the house,
were fatally injured.
1t was discovered in Cincinnati on Monday
that John C. Milestone, secretary of the
Water Works, and Albert F. Enslin, one of
the receivers, are short in their accounts.
Whetstone's shortage, it Is said, may reach
S150,000.
Charles W. Spalding, president Of the de
funct Globe Savings Bank, of Chicago, and
four other officers of the bank have been in
dicted by the grand jury for ENLIGHTENMENT
and receiving deposits when the bank was
known to be insolvent.
In Cincinnati, on Saturday, ex-County
Clerk Hobson was rearrested, the grand jury
having found two additional indictments
against him for embezzling county funds dur
ing his term of County Recorder, which pre-
coded his term as County Clerk.
There is a movement on foot at Melbourne,
Victoria, to send 20, 900 sheep and 5000 bull
locks to England in connection with the din
ner which the Princess of Wales is promoting
for the poor of the slunls OF London upon the
occasion of the celebration of the Queens
diamond jubilee on June %.
All the indicted officials of the defunct
Globe Savings Bank, with the exception of
ex-President Spalding, gave bonds in Chicago
Monday and were released from custody.
Spalding's bonds foot up nearly 1920, 900, and
he cannot furnish that amount of surety.
Pittsburg, Pa, had the largest fire on Mon
day since 1845. The great wholesale grocery
establishment of Thomas c. Jenkins and the
mammoth retail store of Joseph Horne Il Co.
are total ruins, and the loss above insurance
is about $4,000, 600. Several fremen were
killed by falling walls, and a large number
were injured.
Nearly all the lower portion of Virginia
was shaken by an earthquake on Monday.
The quake lasted from Is seconds to one
minute. In Roanoke, Fincastle, Salem, and
other villages chimneys were shaken down
and furniture ratified. The night previous
there was heavy rain followed by snow of
sufficient depth to cover the ground.
On May 81, 1889, John Sharkey and his
young wife were washed out of their Johns
town, Pa, home and borne away from each
other on the bosom of the raging Hood.
Search for each other after the waters reced-
ed was unsuccessful each believed the other
to be drowned, and each started out alone to
search for living. On the 18th Of April,
after nearly years wanderings, the two met
on the streets of Roanoke, Va. and happier
couple was never seen. They left for their
native home, in Buchanan, Va, where they
will start life together anew
The British Government now has under
consideration plan for the greatest submar-
inc tunnel which the mind of man ever con-
ceived. 1t provides for passageway, to be
lighted by electricity, beneath the Irish Sea
or the North Channel, as it is called, from a
point in Scotland, just north of Point Patrick,
to point in Ireland just west of Carriekfer-
gus and several miles north of the arm of the
sea stretching up to Belfast, which is known
as Belfast Lake. The total estimated cost is
ment is considering is that submitted by a
| syndicate which agrees to bind itself to bring
the project to successful accomplishment