The Democratic advocate., 1898-11-19
News of the Week.

sons committed suicide in New York city
The entire business portion of Canyon
City, Oregon, was destroyed by fire on
Saturday. Loss, $100, 900.
Seventeen railroad engines have been
shipped from the Richmond, Virginia,
Locomotive and Machine Works to Fin
land.
Window glass factories in Pennsylvania,
employing 5000 men and boys, resumed
work on Sunday night last after being idle
since June.
The trial of Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, ac-
eused at San Francisco of the murder of
Mrs. John P. Dunning, of Dover, Della
ware, by means of box Of poisoned candy
sent through the mails, has been set for
December 5.
By the decision of the Texas Court Of
Civil Appeals on Saturday, affirming the
decision Of the lower court, Fort Worth
won a case involving the validity Of an
entire issue of city bonds amounting to
over 50, 100000.
John 7. Veny, colored Baptist
preacher of Topeka, Kansas, has arranged
to make settlement of colored people
near Santiago, and expects to start from
Topeka with about 30 families about the
middle of December.
At Reading. Pa, early Sunday morn
ing, Harvey Lutz, aged II years, shot
his father, aged 45 years, twice in the
head, and committed suicide by cutting
his throat with razor. The father re-
covery is said to be doubtful.
Rowe & Co.'S stable at Perry, Michi-
gan, was burned on Saturday. Charles
Taylor, one of the proprietors, and family,
lived over the barn. Mrs. Taylor, her
daughter, and an old man named Clark
were buried beneath the fallen roof and
burned to death.
Miss May Wallace, teacher in the
Pendleton, Oregon, academy, was shot
and killed, on Saturday, while standing
by window at the home of her parents
in that city The shot was fired through
window by some person who stood out
side of the house.
Vice Chancellor Reed has filed an
opinion in which he holds that Ex- Mayor
Mcgowan, of Trenton, n. j., overdrew
his account $3.50, 900 as President of the
Trenton Rubber Company. Ex-Treasurer
Hayes is also held responsible for $4,000.
and Allen Mcgowan for SIG, 5000
John C. Roth, County Treasurer and
wealthy pork packer, was found on the
third floor of his packing house, in Gin
cinnati, Ohio, on Saturday, with his head
crushed between the floor and the freight
elevator. 1t is not known whether he
slipped, Or fell from heart disease, to
which he was subject. He was 65 years
old
The Supreme Court at Chicago on Sat
urday decided against Mrs. Dawson Nc
Cafrey in the suit she brought shortly af-
ter John McCaffrey' death in 1894, to
be recognized as the rightful widow of the
decedent and to share in the $500, 600
estate. 1t was shown that the woman
had for many years drawn pension as the
widow Of another man.
DR.. j. H. Tufts, formerly of Column
bus, Ohio, was seized with Il spell of
sneezing at Parkersburg, West Virginia,
on Friday afternoon Of last week. All
efforts to relieve him proved unavailing,
and after sneezing constantly for two
hours, he died from exhaustion and par
alysis, caused by the repeated shocks to
his brain and spinal cord.
Labolt Gantzburger died at the Berk'
county, Pa, hospital, last week, and al
though he was 81 years of age, it is be-
lieved his end was fastened by the fact
that he was teething He had hardly
tooth in his mouth until about two months
ago, when one made its appearance. He
!'cut'' two more since then, and fully ex-
pected an entire set to develop. The
teething aggravated his other ailments,
and he died suddenly. Physicians say
that it is one of the strangest cases on
record The deceased was for many years
in the clothing business in Boyertown.
On Saturday of last week, at Easton,
Pa, the largest sale of real estate sheriff
of Northampton county has had in many
years was that of the property of Edwin
Laufer, of South Bethlehem, when $50
houses, hotel, half dozen of the largest
and finest business places in the Bethle-
hens were disposed of under executions
aggregating $780, 600. In almost every
instance the properties were heavily en-
numbered, and but little money changed
hands as result of the sale. Mr. Laufer
was considered wealthy until a panic sew
eral years ago struck the Lehigh Valley.
Whole rows of his houses had been erected
for employees of the Bethlehem Iron
Works. When the men were laid off
they left town, and Laufer was unable to
secure tenants for his houses.