The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1899-05-06
News of the Week.

week
Florists around Chicago, ILL.,, estimate
their losses by the February freeze at 81 :
900, 900.
The Chenille, Pa, Foundry and Ma
chine Company has made an assignment
of all of its property
Princeton University has received an
endowment valued at S100, 900 for the
establishment of chair of politics.
Filipino prisoners report that there are
70, 900 refugees north Of San Fernando,
and that smallpox is spreading among them.
Mrs. Susan McKeever, of Mercer coun-
ty, Pa, was los years old last week. She
and blind son live together, she doing all
the housework.
Fire Saturday night in Boston, Mass.
destroyed the building occupied by G. }.
Peters & Son, electrotypers and by other
tenants. The loss is 500, 900.
A FIVE story brick building on Dover
street, Boston, Mass, occupied partly as
a storage warehouse by the Boston Fire
Department was destroyed by fire Sunday.
Loss 500, 600.
A prairie fire south of Mitchell, South
Dakota, has burned over 80, 600 acres Of
farm land, and is still spreading. Frank
Howard and Al. Smith lost their lives in
an attempt to save property.
The body of Mrs. Henry Temper, who
disappeared from her home in Waterloo,
Iowa, about six weeks ago, was found IN
the Cedar river there Monday. 1t Is be-
Geved that she was murdered.
The bodies of Mrs Mary +. Davie and
Miss Millstead, who evidently had been
murdered while they slept, We're found IN
the house of f. VI. Davie, = miner near
Murfreesboro, Illinois, last week.
George Retter and Winfield MOles, Of
Ohio, were held up by four negroes near
Allentown, Pa last week, and their clothes
and money taken Moles was beaten into
insensibility and will probably die.
The Hotel Thornton, at Sturgis, Mich,
burned to the ground on Saturday The
Sturgis, Altman and Mclaughlin blocks
were also consumed, and the fittings of the
Citizens Bank were badly seorched.
L. NJ. Pitkin. 20 years of age, Presi-
dent of the Variety Iron Works and one
of she best known business men of Cleye-
land. Ohio. was struck and instantly killed
by train at Colts, suburb, Sunday.
Edward Oswald, aged 80 years. of South
Camden, n. j.. last week, murdered his
wife. Mary, and their 6-year-old daughter,
Gussie, and then attempted suicide by
cutting his throat Oswald will probably
recover.
James and Joseph Caldwell, brothers,
living on a ranch near Wilhamsport, North
Dakota, quarreled last week, and james
shot his brother to death with rife. He
then committed suicide by drinking car
bolic acid.
Frederick Wood, repulsive negro, Is
in Jail at Bordentown, n J. for assaulting
Mrs. Mary Z. Shinn, widow, last week.
Mrs. Shinn resides with her married daugh
ter The man was placed in jail in order
to prevent lynehing.
A fast mail train on the Burlington
railroad has made the run from Chicago to
the Mississippi river, distance Of POO
miles, in 1879 minutes. This included ten
miles of slow running through the com
pany's yards in Chicago
The United States Wersted Company.
capital $40, 600, 900, the American
Plumbing Supply and Lead Company, cap
ital s35, 600, 600, aud the Borden Con
deused Milk Company, capital 500, 600,
00e, were Incorporated at Trenton \. J.
last week
Reports received at Kingston, Jamaica
from Cayenne, capital of French Guiana
and Surinam, Dnch Guiana, say a dcstruc-
tive earthquake visited those colonies, last
week, coming from the direction Of the
Cordilleras. In Cayenne many houses
were injured, but there was no loss Of life
Rev. Roby Ryland, oldest Baptist
clergyman and educator in the Uuited
States, died at Lexington, Kentucky, last
week, aged "a years He was for 2S
years President of Richmond College
During much of this time he was also pas
tor of the largest African church in the
world
The body of Otto Goette, ranchman,
has been found near Byers, Colorado,
with bullet hole in the skull Goette
disappeared six months ago. Two thou
sand sheep on his ranch were shipped to
Omaha, and draft for the proceeds of
their sale was eashed by r H. Beeler,
of whom all trace has been lost.
At Galena, Kansas, last week, Charles
Williams, negro, strangled to death his
mistress. He was arrested and sent TO
jail for action by the Court. Early Tues
day morning a mob of negroes forced the
jail doors and endeavered to take him out
Williams resisted so strongly that he was
shot BY some of the mob and left dead in
his cell
Two persons were killed, more than a
dozen seriously and fifty Others were less
seriously hurt as the result Of a wreck Sun
day afternoon on the Rochester and Lake
Ontario Railroad a. Rosenbaur' Corners,
near Rochester, New York Two cars Of
a crowded excursion train left the track
while rounding curve, and were com
pleteiy wrecked.
In Philadelphia, Pa, on Tuesday of
last week, an explosion in the chemical
laboratory of Frank H. Fleer 4 Co caused
the death of Walter Nanwairing, aged 20
years, the superintendent; Charles MeGin-
ley, aged 81 years, the engineer; injuries
to score of people; the destruction ofthe
plant, and damage to many nearby build
ings. The loss is estimated at 5000, 900.
About 1000 striking miners and sym
pathizers at Wardner, Idaho, on last Sat
urday blew up the buildings Of the Bun
ker Hill and Sullivan Company, doing
$3.50, 900 to $500, 900 damage. The
strikers came TO Wardner on train they
seized, and carried with them 5000 pounds
of giant powder A picket for the strik-
ers was shot and killed and an employee of
the company was probably fatally wound
ed. About 1000 shots were fired. The
230 non-union men at the mill took to the
hills for safety