The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-03-12
News of the Week

Eastern capitalists have purchased all
the Cleveland (Ohio) breweries and formed
trust with capital of SO, 900, 900.
Terrific weather is reported from North
ern Persia; over 100 persons have persisted
IN the snow and many others are missing.
The Very Cycle Manufacturing Com
pany, of Boston, has made an assignment.
The liabilities of the firm are $42, 866,
Lorenzo Barnes was hanged at East
Cambridge, Massachusetts,, on the 4th in
slant, for the murder of John Dean,
farmer, in December last.
The Georgia Supreme Court has sus-
tanned tie validity of marriage contract
made on Sunday. Property worth ST.
900, 900 was involved in the case.
\ hurricane swept over the port of Ba-
| tabano, on the south coast Of Cuba, oppo-
site Havana, on the 4th instant, doing
great damage Two soldiers were killed
and % others injured.
\. Wright Quincy, colored, of Calves
ton, ex-National Republican Committee
man from Texas, and for years the leader
of the Republican party in Texas. died at
San Antonio last week
The Hotel Graham, at Graham, Vir-
sinia was burned on the 4th instant.
Loss, 500, 900. The Colony block at
Keene, New Hampshire, was burned on
the 4th instant Loss, SIS, ,00O
A party of capitalists, among whom are
Representative White, of Chicago, and L.
u. Letter, are said to have offered ST.
900, 900 for the plant and goodwill Of the
Washington, D. G., Gas Light Company.
In Philadelphia, Pa, George W. B.
Hicks has begun suit against his brother,
postmaster Thomas L. Hicks, to recover
SIC, $50, with interest, alleged to be due
on money loaned the plaintiff several years
ago.
The funeral of Walter and Andrew
Dick, twin brothers, aged 25 years, of
near Shippensburg, Pa, took place en-
/ Friday of last week The men died from
measles two hours apart. The bodies lay
side by side in one casket, which had been
specially built, with hands clasped. There
were 800 conveyances in line. and nearly
l, 900 persons viewed the remains.
| At Phenixville, Pa, Oh Wednesday
afternoon of last week, John Kovolski, a
roller in the employ of the iron works in
the bar mill was attending one of the
big six inch steel rolls, when the feed
chain slipped off the pulley. He at
tempted to adjust the chain without stop
ping the machinery, and in so doing was
caught and thrown into the rolls. He
gave an agonizing cry, and the next min
ute he was a mass of mangled, quivering
flesh The roll fattened his body. The
dead man was about So years Of age.
The large barn on the Chesterbrook
Stock Farm, owned by A. j. Cassatt, near
Berwyn, Pa, was destroyed by fire last
week, and % head of fine thoroughbred
Guernsey cattle perished in the flames.
The barn contained large quantity of
grain and 100 tons of hay, all of which
was consumed Hundreds of persons were
assembled, and, with the Berwyn Fire
Department, saved adjoining buildings.
The barn, magnificent structure, cost
$40, 900. 1t was 1870 feet long by 60 feet
wide and about so feet high, and the farm
stable, 100 feet long by 80 feet wide.
The origin of the fire is amystery.
The cows were valuaed at $500 each,
one of the mothers of the herd cost 81, 100
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