The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-11-26
News Of the Week.
Last week there were 229 failures in the
United States for over $4,000 each.

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United States for over $4,000 each.
The shipment of deciduous fruits from
California the past season amounted to
1850 carloads, falling off of $50 cars
compared with last year.
Near Paducah, Kentucky, on Saturday,
Ed Ross in fit of jealousy killed his wife
and also John Walker, of whom he was
Jealous, and then committed suicide.
Three white tramps set fire to the house
of Andrea Shackelford, farmer of Decatur
county, Georgia, on Saturday, and three
little children persisted in the flames.
w o. Finney and his son, Tom, fought
street duel at Milledgeville, Georgia, on
Saturday, with w. B. and J. r. Stanley.
w. O. Finney was killed, and the other
three were all seriously wounded.
News reached Newport, Oregon, on the
18th, of the wreck, 16 miles below that
point, of the ship Atlantic, from Tacoma
for Cape Town, with wheat. OF her crew
of 80 men, only two got ashore alive.
A jury at St. Paul, Minnesota, on Sat
urday convicted j. H. Southall of selling
forged Government time checks to the
amount of about 500, 900. Southall was
chief clerk in the United States Engineer 5
office.
An express train on the Pennsylvania
Railroad crashed into party Of laborers
on the Hackensack Meadows, near Jersey
City, on the morning Of the 18th, during
a dense fog, killing II men and injuring
two out of party Of 20.
By an accidental explosion of blasting
powder at Portsmouth, Ohio, on Sunday,
two children of George w Ferguson, ii
quarryman, were killed; Ferguson was
fatally injured, and his wife and another
child were terribly burned.
A Denison, Texas, despatch says that
the most destructive prairie fire ever known
is devastating the Indian Territory; that
the damage will run up into the thousands
of dollars, and that the dry spell is jeop
ardizing the entire wheat belt of the Terri
tory.
Weaver Smith, little white boy beg
gar. was found murdered in the street at
Greenville, South Carolina, on Friday of
last week. He had been cut in the stom
ach. A soldier from the camp at that
place is supposed to have been the muir
derer.
The miners in the Knob Hill mine, at
Greenwood, British Columbia, have cross
cut the ledge and demonstrated that the
great ore body is 1874 feet wide. The ore
will average $40 per ton, chiefly in copper.
Mining men say it is the greatest copper
mine in the world.
A freight locomotive on the Chicago 4
Erie Railroad exploded near Lima, Ohio,
Sunday morning, killing David Little, the
fireman, and probably fatally injuring
Walter Shirtleff, engineer; Edward Quick,
conductor, and Frank Smith, brakeman.
About % cars were wrecked.
Bank Examiner Jobes, temporary re-
ceiver of the First National Bank, of En-
poria, Kansas, reports that the amount Of
President Cross's defalcation will reach
S65, 600 1t has been learned also that
Cross loaned his own firm $50, 900 of the
banks funds, and probably the greater
part of this will be lost.
The most expensive bicycle ride on record
is that taken in June last by John Niles,
Harvard student, at Il cost Of $3.50.
Niles ran into and knocked over Il woman
who has just recovered $500 from him.
l. IL II al, a.
cident obtained judgment for $3.50 for
medical expenses incurred.
Two freight trains ON the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific collided at Moscow
Iowa, on the 18th. One man was killed
and one injured \ wrecking train which
was about to start to the scene from Wilton
was run into by Il fast mail train The
fireman of the mail train and sixteen men
on the work train were injured
Frank O. Neil and John Atkinson. con
victs in the Ohio penitentiary, at Column
bus, made ii desperate attempt to escape
Friday morning of last week They killed
Guard Charles B. Lauterbaugh, and were
themselves seriously injured before they
were subdued. They are said to have had
weapons concealed in the prison since last
July.
Archie S. Miller, civil engineer, died
in hotel in Washington, D. c., on the
18th, of yellow fever. He arrived with
companion, n. +. Herbert, at New York
from Nicaragua, on Monday previous, on the
Atlas Line steamer Alleghany Herbert
went to West Pittston, Penna., where he
had the fever, but he is said to have re-
covered
Fred. Bechel, who for Is years was
chief auditor of the Pacific Express Com
pany, has been placed on trial at Omaha
for embezzling the funds of that company,
to the extent of $50, 900. One of his
clerks testified that he had frequently
forced balances, and understood that this
money was used for legislative purposes at
Lincoln.
On Sunday at Toledo Ohio, a post
mortem examination on the body of Il
woman named Wheelock, who died at the
County Infrmary, developed that in her
stomach was quart of hairpins, needles,
brass pins, safety pins, pumpkin and melon
seeds, small nails, pieces of glass, the pieces
of glass being from one to three inches
long. A ring, set with fine stone, was
found among the mass. A hole three
inches wide had been eaten in the walls of
the stomach