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

Littlestown, Pa, is suffering from the
odors Of pig stys and outhouseS.
Alex. Robert, Of Adams county, Pa,
has received 100 tons Of hay off of 40
acres.
A Cincinnati despatch says that Boston
capitalists have formed safe Trust, with
principal factories at Hamilton, OHIO.
A shipment of $500, 600 in gold from
Alaska has been received at the San Fran
cisco mint. An equal amount is expected
TO arrive next week.
DIR. G. Il. Cadwalader, head Of one of
Philadelphia oldest families, caused
sensatation in society circles by marrying
Bridget Mary Ryan, his former house
maid
Assaults by negroes upon white females
in the South seem to be increasing.
Lynching nor burning alive at the stake
has no terrors for them, as almost every
day several assaults are announced.
A company has been organized at Seat
tie to develop the coal and oil fields re-
Gently discovered in Alaska, $50 miles
west of Juneau. Thirty thousand feet of
pipe has been ordered from Pittsburg.
The saw mill, pulp mill, blacksmith
shop and 100, 900 feet of lumber belong
ing to the Royal Paper Mill Company, at
East Angus, Quebec, Canada, were de-
stroyed BY fire on Saturday; loss about
$3.50, 900.
James Stevens, miner, was rescued
from the Mammoth Mine, at Phoenix, Arl-
iona. ON Sunday, after an Imprisonment
of fourteen days without food or water.
He is frighttully emaciated but his mind
is clear
At an early hour Saturday morning the
trunk factory in Petersburg, Virginia,
owned and operated by Messrs. Romano
Il Barham, was totally destroyed by fire,
together with the entire contents. The
origin of the fire is unknown.
The trustees of the estate of the late II.
Grafton Dulany, Jr., have sold to Colonel
Seibert, of Washington, 'Llangollen, a
farm containing between seven and eight
hundred acres, situated on the slopes of
the Blue Ridge, in Loudoun county, Vir-
gia, for $50, 900.
John G. Nickel, the defaulting cashier
of the South Bethlehem National Bank,
of Easton, Penna., waived examination in
Little Rock on Saturday, and was placed
in the penitentiary pending an order OF
transfer. He made full confession, i'm
plicating the teller of the bank.
At Laiback, Austria, an earth shock
occurred Thursday morning Of last week
at four 0 clock. 1t was followed just be-
fore seven O. clock by one much more Sc
we're. The latter lasted six seconds.
Great damage was done to many buildings,
walls were split open and the people were
panic stricken.
An accident at the works Of the Penn
Steel Casting and Machine Company,
Chester, Pa, Saturday, through the fall
ing of the travelling crane, caused the
death of two employees and probably fatal
injuries to a third The crane was built
to handle thirty tons, and bad only 5000
pounds in charge at the time
A letter from Pulaski, Virginia, says
l'Cattle and sheep are in fine shape and it
is estimated that the counties west OF Ro-
anoke county in Southwest Virginia will
send to the market $500, 900 worth of
sheep and lambs and the wool will run 1t
ND to 5000, 900, and the cattle from the
same counties will reach about the same
amount, making 81, 500, 900 in all
DR.. Thomas Z. Norman, or Campbell
county. Virginia, was indicted by the
grand jury, on Thursday of last week on
the charge of forging. Following as 1t did
upon the indictment Of his brother, ex
Treasurer E. S. Norman, charged with
the larceny of $25, 600 of county and state
funds, the announcement created a sensa-
ton. The indictment against DR.. Moor
man contained three separate counts,
each alleging the forgery Of notes aggre-
eating 81, 800.
Henry B. Wisner, of Montgomery coun-
ty, Pa, while threshing last week, sud
denly felt slight pain on the top of his
right foot. 1t soon passed off, however.
AT night when he drew off his boot he
found embedded in his instep two grains
of wheat He paid no attention to it, ex-
cept to rub the instep slightly. The next
day he went to Philadelphia in his market
wagon, and while on the road the foot be-
came very painful He went to physi-
clan who treated the wound and advised
him to 90 hospital On Friday mortif-
cation set in and the leg was amputated
between the knee and ankle. He will die
from blood poisoning