The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-06-25
News of the Week.

Park City, Utah, had $1,000, 900 fire ON
Sunday.
Wheat in parts of York county, Pa, is
badly damaged by the fly.
Recent rains have improved the wheat crop
i'll Melbourne, Australia. f1,O00,000.
Seven hundred houses belonging to Servan
Christians nave been burned by the Turks.
Osborne, Hutchns & Hunt Of Cincinnati,
/ Ohio, have assigned, the assets and liabilities
each being placed at 100000.
Serious anti-Semitic riots have broken out
in Austrian Galicia. At Frysztak the police
fired on the mob, killing six and wounding
five.
\ fire caused by the explosion of a gasoline
stove, Monday, destroyed the entire business
portion of Tracey. California, entailing ii loss
of SS7 600.
Adam Angel, prominent resident of Cam
den, New Jersey, died on Saturday, aged "a
years. William o. Bsbec died at Waterford,
same State, on Sunday, aged "a years.
Gov. c. NJ. Barnes of Oklahoma says the
crop outlook in Oklahoma was as good as it
could possibly be, and that the Territory
would harvest at least 30,000,000 bushels Of
wheat and, III all probability, Il corn crop
largely in excess of that of last year.
Henry W. Stoll and w. Harry Salway, of
the firm of Stoll & Salway, real estate brok
erS, Philadelphia, Pa, have been held in
$4,000 bail to answer charges of uttering and
publishing forged mortgages and forging the
certihcation of the Recorder and Deputy
Recorder of Deeds to bogus mortgages, with
intent to cheat and detraud.
Henry Smallbrook and Frank kinsley, both
of Gorh. Pa, had IL dispute on Saturday night
III regard 10 religion, when kinsley suddenly
stabbed Smallbrook. who is a Catholic.
kinsley was knocked down by the friends of
both, and the prompt arrival of policemen
stopped his being lynched. as there was no
cause for the murderous assault.
Fire early Sunday morning entirely de-
stroyed the Paxton rolling mill, owned by the
burg. Pa. The mill had not been in active
use for some time, until recently, when the
Hanging department was placed i'll this build
ing. The loss will reach 10000 partially
insured. The fire originated near the fur.
mace, and was caused by the ignition of the
woodwork
The old Habersham Rice Mills, block of
the oldest buildings in Savannah, Georgia,
one of them having been built in 1923, were
destroyed by fire Sunday afternoon. The FIRE
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among the most historic in Savannah. One
of them was fitted up at one time for the pur-
pose of rendering a ball to Henry Clay but
he was not elected President, and the ball
wasinever given. Loss covered by insurance.
When about to go in bathing at Pablo
Beach, Jacksonville, Florida, Sunday after
noon Jas. I. Gateweod, private stenographer
to General Fitzhugh Lee, was struck by light
ming and instantly killed. Gatewood was
from Richmond. Va. and had been at Jack
sonville a week. The lighting came from a
clear sky, hitting Gatewood at the base of the
brain and passing down the spinal column.
Chris. Robertson was walking beside Gate
wood, and was thrown to the ground, the
lower part of his body being paralyzed. He
recovered after time, however.
A severe electrical storm passed over York
county, Pa, Sunday afternoon. The large
frame barn owned by Daniel F. BIen-
neman, of Winterstown, was struck short
ly after FIVE o'clock and completely de-
moished. The barn was built about six
years ago and was one of the finest in that
section. Mr.. Breneman estimates his loss at
fully S25, 900, of which about half is covered
by insurance. All the live stock with the
exception Of seven sheep, few hogs and
number of chickens, were saved from the
ruins Eighty-five bushels of old wheat, IS
bushels of rye, 100 bushels of corn and last
seasons crop of hay and straw were burned.
Mr.. Brenneman was standing nearby when
the crash came and for a little while he was
stunned and could not speak. There were
two different crashes, the first of which struck
tree and felled it to the earth and the Sec
ond struck the barn and set it on fire. The
rain was not so bad in that section the storm
being mostly electrical.