The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-03-26
News of the Week.

News of the Week.
Berkeley Springs hotel West Virginia. was burned
on Tuesday: loss 600.
severe hail storm did much damage at Spring
field. Ohio, on Saturday afternoon.
Woodstock Virginia, postoffiee robbed
Monday night Of 500 in stamps and money.
The furniture warehouse of May, Stern x Co, in
ST. Louis was burned the 18th instant; loss S50-
Url.
4 gang OF robbers are touring through New Jer-
sew Several tow rs and villages have been raided
10y them.
The Schiller piano factory Oregon. Illinois,
was burned saturday. Loss $4,000; partially
insured.
The Pacific mill at Tacoma, said TO have been Tie
largest single mill in the world, was burned on
Tuesday. Loss 100000.
James McMakin is under arrest at Gloucester
City, " j., for buying votes, and also paying Tor
same in counterfeit money.
Disastrous prairie fires have prevailed in parts of
Nebraska this week. Much winter wheat was de-
sroyed by the intense heat.
The great Mantaschcff petroleum business, in the
Russian Trans Caucast, valued ut Sl13N.WN, has
been purchased by an Englishman
The Woodside a large frame hotel at Colorado
springs and several adjoining cottages were burned
early Tuesday morning. Loss. Sl2O,o@.
In Chester county, Pa large number of dairy
COWS have been killed because of tuberculosis. A
dairy of 10 were killed, and 81 in another.
Fire in Detroit on saturday night. damaged
property of T. Wing & Co., ship chambers and
T. W. Noble, sails, to the extent of s73.otH.
The schoeneman Building in Chicago, burned
Monday entailing loss TO several tenants and 10
the owners of the building of upwards Of 100000
The rccturv Of ST. Paul's Protestant Episcopal
Church. at East Chester, New York, which was
built 300 years ago, destroyed 10y fire on We'd
nesday.
Thomas B. Youtz ex cashier of the First National
Bank of Newport, Kentucky, has been convicted Of
misappropriating the bank funds. in the United
States Court, at COvington.
An explosion took place on the 18th instant III
the Santa Isabel mine, at BelmeZ. province of
Cordova, Spain. Sixty bodies have been recovered
and many unaccounted for
Pitts Kimhal & Lewis importers and retailers,
of Boston, have assigned. The firm is one of the
largest in the city. The amount of assets and liza
bilities is not stated.
The walls of the partly burned furniture ware
house of May. Stern & Co., in St. Louis were blown
uOWU OIL JUCS'dN. IHlllp DthuS WAS hIliStr HiA''
nm adjoining dwelling was crushed.
Excounty treasurer William Holdeman has been
convicted In Goshen, Indiana. of embez2ing 3d.,
600 of county funds and committed to the peniten-
tary under the indeterminate sentence law.
The club house, cottage and stable at Great Bar
rington Massachusetts, owned by Leonard ID.
Hosford and other New York men, were burned
Saturday morning, with their contents. Loss, S52-
O00
The Minneapolis and Northern Elevator Com
pany's large grain elevator at Lakota North Da-
kOta, was burned Thursday night of last week.
The contents included $4,000 bushels of wheat and
5000 bushels of flax.
A passenger train on the Southern Pacific Rail-
road was held up on Tuesday night, four miles
south of Trevor California. The robbers blew open
the mail car and escaped with the registered mail
and 200 in cash from the safe.
Judge SIabaugh, in Omaha on saturday. SEN
fenced Charles Hendricks to Is years imprisonment
at hard labor for highway robbery. The prisoner
held up three men, shot two and got 10 cents He
was captured by his third victim.
At Jersey City, n. j., on Monday, the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad station was damaged to the amount
of about 100000 by fire in the restaurant. Several
fire engines and nearly all the fire boats soon
drenched the building with water.
| The bark Helen W. Almy, which sailed from San
Francisco for Copper River Sunday last, with q
passengers and crew OF thirteen, was found bottom
up off Point Bonita, California, Tuesday. 1t is
supposed she was capsized and all hands lost.
While number of children were fishing from a
bridge on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad at
Danville Kentucky, on saturday, several were
struck by fast freight train. Mary Van Arsdall,
aged H. was killed and Claude Baker aged 10, was
fatally injured
William Oimstcd, who died recently at his home,
near Cassopolis Michigan, left a strange will. He
gave his wife the homestead consisting of buildings
and forty acres land and the balance of his pos
sessions, amounting to about $1,000, was left to
Barnum'S circus.
A six-story building in Chicago, occupied by the
Monroe Catering Co. and the Building Trades
Club was destroyed by fire Tuesday. -Four women,
employees of the catering company. who were on
the top story asleep, barely escaped with their
lives Loss $50, 600
John Callow, negro was lynched near Round
Mountain, in Northern Alabama, on Sunday night.
He had been paying attention to young white
! girl, whose name is Stout, for several months The
! young woman'S father became cOgniZant of the
| affair, and the lynchng followed
| The double turretsd monitors Puritan and Terror
have been ordered to Key West, to reinforce the
squadron in those waters. The eight single tur-
reted monitors at League Island are also be put
in service. TwOw be sent to Boston, two to New
York and four held in reserve at Philadelphia.