The Democratic advocate., 1898-03-19
News Of the Week

owing to impure water York. Pa, is suffering
frem typhoid fever
4 blizzard ragged the 1lth in Northern Wis
consin and Michigan.
Five stores at Lebanon, Kentucky, were burned
on saturday. Loss, s5O,OO0.
Ex-Governor II. p. Bell, of Texas, died on the
18th at Littleton, North Carolina.
Mrs. Ellen Duquette died last week at Gou-
veneur New York, aged 105 years.
A ledge of gold bearing quartz has been found
by men engaged in grading street in San Fran
cisco.
President Scott, of Rutgers College, n j., an
nounced that Miss Helen Gould had made gift Of
$4,000 TO the college.
large block of bonded and wholesale ware
houses, i'll Toronto, Ontario. Canada, were burned
on Saturday. Loss, Sl95,O0O
Jacob Beidler, the millionaire lumber merchant
and real estate owner, died in Chicago Tuesday.
He was born i'll Pennsylvania in 1915.
Near Berryville, Virginia. on Monday. the barn
and stock yard of George C. Irwin WAS burned By
coored boy. Everything destroyed
SIX boats and several floats, carrying $4,000
bushels of coal, sunk in the Ohio river Tues
day, between Pittsburg and Cincinnati.
The Union Pacific Railway has given SIS. 100
toward the Omaha Exposition, this making $780,,
900 contributed BY tine railways entering Omaha.
Mrs. Katherine Darmody, perhaps the oldest
woman i'll the country, died the llth instant,
at Shenandoah. Pa. Her age is authenticated at
lis years.
Charles C. Cutten, night agent of the Adams Ex-
press Company at orrville Ohio, is reported to
have disappeared with an express package contain.
ing $4,000.
S. 5 Cunning, the paying teller of the First
National Bank, in Cincinnati, is under arrest in
that city on charge of embezzling S26 900 of the
banks funds.
Henry ]. Butler, of Fort Scott, Kansas, agent for
the Chester Co. (Pa) Guarantee Trust and Safe De-
post Company is missing. and said be short in
his accounts.
Contractor John Ross died suddenly in Lancas-
ter, Ontario, Canada, on the llth 1t is said that
he built more lines of railroad in America than
any other man.
W. +. Spencer, Journal Clerk of the United
States Senate, died in Washington on Saturday,
aged IS years. He had been i'll the service of the
Senate since 1862.
Dennis J. Canty, u stock broker and former gov
ernment clerk, shot and killed George Rye a well
known horseman, in the street in Washington D.
u. on IueS1ay.
Perry Gardiner enticed Will Rogers into an un.
occupied building at Pulaski Illinois, Tuesday,
and killed him with club Gardiner and Rogers
were playmates, aged Ii.
George F. Fink, a missionary of the Moody Bible
Institute who was at work in the lumber camps
IN Northsrn Wisconsin, is reported as missing It
is fearea that he is lost in the woods
An S6foot span of the Chicago and Northwest
drawbridge across the river ut Winona, Minnesota.
fell Monday, with six men on it. Il distance of q
feet The men were all more or less injured
W. .. Lavake, prominent attorney of DUBUQUE,
Iowa, was shot dead in his Office in the business
centre OF that city Tuesday evening. Although
the streets were crowded at the time the murderer
escaped recognition.
All the Bessemer pig iron producers in the Cleye-
land, Mahoning Valley and shenango districts
with one exception, have formed a combine
which, it is claimed. will control the Bessemer
market of the United States,
Benjamin 4. Willis has been arrested i'm Coum-
bus, Ohio, charged with the murder of David 5. II.
Lambert, at Wilton, Connecticut, in December last
Max Broekhause, wanted for the same crime was
captured in Chicago Il few days ago.
The Victor Mills, of Cohocs New York, were
burned Tuesday. They are said to have been the
largest woolen mills in the United States employ
ing over 1000 operatives. The loss is between
100000 and 100000 covered by insurance.
Heavy rain on Sunday at London. Ontario.
Canada, caused the lower sections of the city
to be overfowed, and many people were driven
from their homes. Many people were rescued In
boats Brantford and Gait were also flooded