The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-07-30
News of the Week.

Typhoid fever is still proving atal in York, Pa
Sunderland, England, had a s2OOO,0OO fire on
Monday
Recent rains have benefited the wheat in Aus
tralia to about Sj,OOO.OOl
Several deaths from snnstroke occurred in Lon
don, England, last week
4 mandatory of counterfeit cents has been
found in Brooklyn, N Y
At galveston, Texas on SUNDAY the Beach Hotel
was burned loss about S25OOG0
Evan McColl the Scottish Canadian poet died on
Monday, in Toronto Canada aged % years
Baron Norman is visiting Western agricultural
colleges in the interest of the German government
A hen in Hanover Pa. was 10 years old last
week. ltisSaid that several clearinghouse keepers
offered large price for her
A number of vessels arrived from the Klondike
last week, bringing about g 0El,W0 in gold and Il
large number III KaSse.i geTs
The Cymrir. the largest freight steamer ahont,
can carry about 10000 tons of dead weight, about
what G!j freight carry
Rye good crop III York county, Pa. this
year. but the acreage was small. The corn crop
will be failure unless more rain falls.
The oats crop in Adams county, Pa, is Il very
small one, owing the long continued dry weather.
and the corn is suffering greatly from the same
cause.
J. Dixon Cunningham IL Middlesex county New
Jersey lawyer, taken to the State prison on
Monday to serve sentence of eighteen months for
fleeing client.
In Manchester, England, on Tuesday Judge Parry
was preparing paper dsmissing court bailitf
Taylor, when the latter drew a revolver and shot
the Judge. The wound viii prove fatal
Tie 14th annual Conowago, Pa, pic mic by the
congregations of Conowago Chapel and Holy Trim
ity church. McSherrystown, will be held on Tues
day August I'd, in the grove at Conowago Chapel.
Many Reform and Lutheran Churches i'll Penn
sylvania have decided not to allow dead bodies
brought into their churches. Funeral services will
be held, but the collins must remain outside ;he
building.
Right Rev. Thomas McGovern, Bishop of the
Harrisburg Pa. Diocese, died Monday afternoon
at the episcopal residence in that city, after n
lingering illness from complication of diseases.
He was &c years old
fire which for PC years smouldered i'll the Pen
ny Royal NINE at Connelsville, Pa, broke through
at brattice wall, the 18th instant, and sent
out a column of smoke and flame fifty feet in di-
ameter and mile high
Carlisle Pa has been experiencing influx of
negroes from the South for some time past. 1t is
said that the negroes fear that the closer uniting of
the North and South by the war with Spain will
bring back the days of slavery
The town of Pugwash, Nova Scotia, was destroyed
by fire Monday. Two hundred dwellings, five
churches, twenty stores, three hotels and several
mills were burned. The inhabitants are now en-
camped in the fields and woods.
Prof. E. B. Andrews, in an address at a Wisconsin
Chautauqua, predicted European war very SOON
and said that the United States would be drawn
into it, though he favored this country taking a
leading share in international politics.
Mrs Geo. Julius, of Jackson township, York coun-
ty Pa, died on Sunday afternoon aged 1902 years,
months and 10 days Mrs. Julius was the Oldest
resident of York county. She was the mother OF
eight children, and has about 100 descendants. She
was married at the age of % and had been widow
Al years. She was member of the Reformed
Church.
On Sunday afternoon, at Norwood Mass, Frank
A. Waller, the long-distance bicyclist started al
425 O'Clock to lower the American 24-hour paced
cycle record of 355 miles and 100 feet made by
Evans The course 81 miles to Taunton and
return of the best roads in Massachusetts,
He finished at Stoughton at 4.49 Monday afternoon,
one minute short of the "a hours, having covered
1868 4-1O miles His finish was strong.