The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-02-05
News Of the Week


Rathbum and her daughter Mary.
The number of passengers who used the
railways of this country during the year end
ing June 80, 1897, was jll,772, 1871.
Forty three horses persisted in a fire which
DESTROYED the Copeland Stable. in Providence.
Rhode Island Monday. Loss, S25,
j. j. Horns, aged 30, prominent druggist.
was found dead at South Portsmouth,. Ohio.
on Sunday morning, having frozen 10 death.
Five thousand operatives of the Atlantic
and Pacific Cotton Mills, at Lawrence, Mass,
accepted the ten per cent. reduction in wages.
Asa result of race war in Lanoke, Ar
kansas. negro families are reported 20 be
leaving the town and business is almost at a
standstill.
Mrs. George Cornell. aged 81 years, was
found frozen stiff near Troy, \. Y, on Sun
day. She was overcome by the cold while on
her way home.
The Canton, Massachusetts, post office was
broken into early Monday morning, and after
blowing open the safe the robbers carried off
over $1,000 worth of stamps.
The International Paper Company, COM
binatiou of nearly all the big firms in the
country, has been incorporated at Albany. n.
Y, with "A capital of S45, 000,Oo0.
7. Edgar Claytons stock and breeding
barn, at Mt. Pleasant, Delaware, was burned
on Saturday together with Il number of
blooded and trained horses, feed, harness, &c.
w. H. Bird aged 20 years, former cashier
of the birmingham Savings Bank of Mas
sachusetts, has been held for the grand jury,
on the charge of Incorporating $4,000 of
the bank S funds.
Earthquake shocks in Asia Minor have
cause numerous fatalities, and great damage
to property has been done. The Snltan has
ordered the Minister of Finance to take steps
to succor the injured.
Four masked men entered the residence OF
Mrs Nancy Fix, near Delaware. Ohio, on
Tuesday night and tortured ner until she re-
vealed the hiding place of her money. The
robbers got about SLIGO.
Two young men have been arrested for in
cendiarism, in connection with the recent
fires at Mahanov City, Pa. and one of them
has made a confession. They have been
lodged in the PottSville Jail.
Hamilton Haines. IA wealthy resident OF
Haddonfeld, y. j.. was Monday night fined
$50 for beating Il boy. On leaving Tor his
home he was attacked by Il mob ana l;ld I"
be escorted home by the officers.
Cashier William j. Quinlan of the Chemi-
cal National Bank. New York, resigned, say
ing in IL letter to the banks president that he
had lent S393. 900 of It's money and concealed
the transaction by improper methods.
II is feared that the plague in Bombay will
increase rapidly in few weeks. and that.
through the penning up of a large population.
Il panic will occur. \ camp has been eS-
tabished on the islands across the harbor.
The mail steamer Channel Queen. which
ran between Plymouth, England, and the
Island of Jersey. struck on the rocks of the
Island of Guernsey during fog and sank on
Tuesday Nineteen persons were drowned.
The Belleville, Illinois. police believe they
have in custody Pau! Miller. alias Ed. Gigner,
The mau charged with the murder of Frances
d.. Sarah A. and Elsie Newton. at Brock
field Massachusetts on the night of.Iauuary ..
The Pacific Coast Steamship Company :
steamer Corona. bound for Alaska with 24l
passengers, struck on Lewis Island. $50 miles
north of Victoria, B. c.. OH January 24ti and
sank. All of the passengers and crew were
saved
S. Trier 4 Sous card bard factory in
Brooklyn, y. Y. was burned Sunday. to-
gether with Samuel Shindelman knitting
goods mill and Schneider Brothers cut glass
factory. The Triers' loss is said to be over
500. 600.
HartyilIe College, an institution of the
United Brethren Church, near Columbus.
Indiana, was burned on Sunday. Loss, $40
600 The college has been in financial diff
culties and the buildings have been moccu-
pied since last June.
In Vienna. Austria Hungary. on Sunday
night, a hurricane ragged and continued the
next day. doing great damage TO property.
tearing off roofs and blowing in windows.
1t was dangerous to venture on the streets
and there were many accidents.
Mrs. Reuben S. Ranch, for many years ii
Moravian missionary in the West Indies and
one of the oldest and best-known deaconesses
in the North America Moravian Church, died
in Bethlehem. Pa. on Monday. of compli
cation of diseases. aged 81 years.
Samuel Robinson, who has just completed
a sentence of eight years i'll the Canon City
penitenliary for robbing the Florence, Colo
RADIO, post-ofiice has been arrested, charged
with the murder of Government Agent Robert
Hubbard, in No Mans Land, in 1888.
A suit for 500, 900 damages has been begun
at Wheeling, West Virginia, by the Alexander
Lumber Company against the II. G. Dun
Company. The bill of particulars alleges "A
false and malicious rating issued on January
81. 1897, by the Dun Mercantile Agency.
The Kirby-Dennis Cedar Company, of
Marianette. Michigan. has bought all the pine
and cedar lumber on $4,000 acres of land in
the Upper Michigan Peninsula. -Four mills
will be erected and put in operation before
May. and by that time 1000 men will be en-
ployed.
In Philadelphia, Pa. execution has been
issued BY William Wolstencroft on a Judgment
note for S96, 247.37, executed by James
Wolstencroft, William III. Wolstencrott and
Isaac H. Wolstencroft, trading William
Wolstencretts Sons, gun felt and wadding
manufacturers.
Three hundred farmers from all parts of the
Cumberland Valley attended a meeting in the
interest of sugar beet culture at Carlisle, Pa.
on Saturday. Frank G. Bosler offered to
furnish seed free to the farmers to experiment
with the growing of beets, and suggested the
establishment of a refinery.
At Gloversville. n. Y, on Tuesday, the
Alyord House was burned, six persons were
roasted to death and several others were
severely injured by fire or BY jumping from
windows. Loss on building and contents
over S1OO,000 The cold was so intense that
the fremen could do nothing.
An unknown negro, who was refused the
privilege of walking through a tunnel of the
Norfolk and Western Railroad near BRAIN
we'll, West Virginia, Monday night, shot
Harry Draper, the Waterman, killing him I'M
instantly The negro was arrested and sub
sequently taken from the Jail by mob and
lynched.
At Butler, Indiana, on Tuesday, Andrew
Casebeer, aged 90 years, was granted d.
vorce from his wife, Mary Jane Casebeer, but
a few years younger than himself, who now
lives with daughter in Chicago. Mr.. Case
beer walked long distance in a binding biz
card to be present at the trial He is hale
and hearty.
Warrants have been issued at kokomo,
Indiana, for the arrest of "Dr. j. L. Steven
son and Samuel Fuller, leaders of the ''Chris-
tan Scientists in that vicinity, on the charge
of manslaughter. They are held responsible
for the deaths of child of the former and the
wife of the latter, both of whom died without
receiving medical attention.
Antonio Lanato, an Italian laborer. en-
ployed at the Davis Coal and Coke Com
pany's mine at Thomas, w. Va, on the line
of the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg
Railroad, met an awful death on Tuesday