The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-12-18

CLAW T.. Lewis, aged ID years. cashier OF
the Western National Bank Of York, Pa.
and Unknown through his connection with
public enterprises. died on the 10th instant.
Michael Dyer and John j. Laughlin both
over 20 years old, had fist fight in Day Ton,
Ohio. Saturday night. Dyer was knocked
down, his head striking the curb. Death fol-
lowed.
\ fall of rock on the New York Central
Railroad, IN cut five miles north Of Pough
keepsie, early Sunday morning, caused Seri
Gus freight wreck. An engine and III loaded
cars were derailed.
Mrs. Janet Carlyle flaming. sister of
Thomas CARLYLE. the author and the last
member of the family. died on Monday at the
residence Of her Som-in-aw in Toronto. Can
ada, aged 81 years.
The Rcdden brothers. who for number OF
years have heen operating an Illicit dlStI!iery
in Raleigh county. West Virginia. ave been
captured by Government officers and their
dsiilcry confscaied.
Francis Lingo. tie moioriou, negro. is in
the Camden. y J. prison. in let;lu!r of Sill.
600 bail ON charges of improper msa Of The
mails. forgery and attempted abduction of
Miss Katherine Y. Berry.
The j. W. Wilson wholesale and retail dry
Tuesday upon executions amounting to 81,
600. of which the Ogdcn>burg Bank holds
1000. Assets Sl9.0OD.
George d. Farl;,. Il well known farmer
near Wilmington. Delaware. was hiiied and
robbed on Tuesday night by Il negro man
name Charles Thorn. who wis in EMPLOY.
Ii caught he will be ynchrd.
Frank Miller, of Mannheim, Lancaster coun-
ID 4; i I,,lI
than week with Il broken neck. He wa>
injured by being caught under tee which
he was assisting to cut down.
\ fire in Duryea, I.uzerne county. Pa.
early Tuesday morning, caused loss OF about
SGG. 600. William IL. Law. bookkeeprr for
Simpson a. Watkins lost his life while trying
to save books from their store.
Daniel W Powers, reputed /" he The
wealthirst resident of Rochester, New York,
died on Saturday, after an illness of only
few hours. He possessed one of the finest
collection of paintings in the United States
Franklin Whiting. president of the Viii
lamsburg Savings Bank. Brooklyn, died on
the street. opposite the bank building, ON
Tuesday He had been connected with the
bank since 1885. He was IS Years old and Il
native of Vermont.
Postal ofiici Is are investigating recent
robberes of registered letters i'll the Railway
Mail Service. said to have occurred ON the
New York. Somcrvile and Eastnn Branch OF
the Cent al Railroad of New jersey. The
loss is about 100000.
A hurricane struck Pointe la llache.
forty miles below New Orleans, on Monday,
lemolshing st. Thomas Roman Catholic
Church. two houses and one store. lugger
was carried clear across the river. and one of
her crew. an Austrian, was drowned.
Two cars on the Detroit Birmingham and
Pontiac Suburban Electric Railway collided
on the Isl instant, at the tsot of two
steep grades, about midway between Birmiug-
ham and Pontiac Michigan, killing three
persons and seriously imiuring twenty others.
A Kansas City despatch on Monday says
that the first substantial rain since last June.
in parts of Eastern Kansas, fell on Sunday.
On Monday Il" od-tashioned blizzard pre-
vailed all over Kansas and all the way west to
Ration. New Mexico. In Western Missouria
wet snow had been falling since Sunday night.
The Governor of Missouri has committed
the sentence OF William Williams, Kansas
City negro. who murdered a Hungarian in
that city on the day Of the carnival last fall.
for ''hurrahing for Bryan Williams, who
was sentenced to hang Monday. will get of
with fifty years imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary.
Judge Clyde. at Waverly. Iowa, on Satur
day sentenced DeliIah Fails and Will KEN,
aged 20 and Il respectively, to 20 and u
wears in the penitGntiary. Young Kern and
the Fails girl were lovers to which the father
of the boy objected. The Fails girl planned
to murder the father and persuaded the son
TO assist her.
The body of man, believed to be Christian
j. Ansen. Of Milwaukee. Wis, has been found
Western Railroad tracks near ConStantia. \.
Y. In the pockets was ticket between
Chicago and New York. and also Il steamer
ticket. He had been seen by Il ticket agent.
to whom he said he was going back 10 Mil
waukee.
The steamer George W. Morley, of Cleve
land. valued at 900, was burned to the
waters edge on the beach at Evanston, Hi
nois. on the I'd inst Her crew of thirteen
men got ashore without difficulty. The
Morley was bound from Milwaukee to Chicago
without cargo, and when off Evanston lamp
exploded in the engine room, scattering
burning oil in all directions.
BENJAMIN +. Allen, of Pennington. W. Va.
celebrated his l0Gth birthday on the 18th in
stant and the occasion revives interest in his
wonderful career. The old gentleman, who |
recently made an overland trip ofthirty miles,
is exceedingly lively. He is an Englshman
by birth and fought for the empire in the wars
against Napoleon. He served in three wars
involving the land of his birth.
Professor William r. Brooks, of Smith
Observatory, Geneva, New York, reports the
observation of a great group of sun spots APP
preaching the centre of the suns disc. The
i Al. i II. l.
smoked glass, and may be well defined with
small telescopes. Measurements made by
Professor Brooks show this vast sol IL disur-
bance to be 100000 miles in length.
Two masked mon held up proprietor j. j.
Lands, of the Lands Hotel, Middletown,
Pa, and four patrons Of the place in true
Western style about ten clock Tuesday
night, and appropriated 500 in silver and
notes. Mr.. Lands was disposed to treat the
men as iokers, and ordered them to vamoose,
but changed his mind when one of them sent
a ball close by his head and into the wall
The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
Company and the Sloss Iron and Steel Com
pany have shipped 5000 tons of Alabama pig
iron to Pensacola, whence it will be forwaded |
to Kobe and Yokohama. Japan. A trial
shipment of Alabama iron made to Japan
several months ago gave such satisfaction that
extensive orders are resulting, this shipment
being the first of series. Japan heretofore |
was supplied with iron from European fur
naces.
Fire of unknown origin, on Saturday night
last, destroyed the building of John & James |
Dobson, carpet manufacturers and retailers,
on Chestnut street, above Eighth, Philadel- /
phia, Pa. Falling walls and water damaged
the building and stock of Sharpless Brothers,
adjoining on the east, and the building of the
Title and Trust Company and |
the establishment of William H. Hoskins on
The west The total loss is estimated at $3.50
300. which is fully covered BY insurance.