The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1899-03-25
Ex-senator Patrick Walsh died Sunday
in Augusta. Georgia

Ex-senator Patrick Walsh died Sunday
in Augusta, Georgia.
Richard de Logerot, of Newport, Rhode
Island, formerly proprietor and manager
of the Logerot Cottages, fled a petition in
bankruptcy on Saturday. Liabilities,
S192, 722; no assets.
In Chicago on Saturday Miss May Kutt-
ner was awarded $50, 900 damages for
injuries alleged to have been received in a
dispute with her landlord Christian Scher-
horn, over the payment of rent
Thomas Carroll Boone the telegraph
operator in the war balloon in the opera
tons before Santiago, died in Boston
Monday, after an operation. He was
terribly injured when the balloon fell
Seven span. of the bridge across the
Platte river, at Kearney, Nebraska, were
carried away on Thursday of last week. by
high water \ heavy ice gorge threatens
the bridge at Elm Greek, 16 miles west
of kearney.
A dispatch from Wheeling, West Vr-
ginia, says the Riverside Steel Works have
practically passed into the hands of the
Iron Tube Combine, the deal having been
sanctioned by the stockholders. The con-
sideration is Sc, 900, 600.
\ fire at Amesburg, Massachusetts,
early ON Saturday morning, destroyed the
Opera House block, Bahan block, Rand :
Adams block and ST james Episcopal
Church The losses aggregate about
5000, coo.
Eaoch D. Howell, aged 50, and his
wife. aged 81 years, were buried in one
grave in Wilmington, Del, on Wednes-
dav Of last week He died on Saturday
night. and she from grief oven his death
on Monday.
The exports from the United States
now exceed the exports from Great Britain,
according to the figures Of the Bureau of
Statistics. The growth Of America for
eigu trade in twenty years has been 90
per cent. while Great Britain increased
about - per cent. in the same time.
The first train from Denver since Feb
ruary y. consisting of a rotary and four
engines. reached Como Thursday after
noon. March I6 1t had been week
coming from Grant, a distance Of % miles
Breckenridge Is expected to be reached IN
about ten DAYS and IeadyilIe within four
OF five weeks.
Schwarzeschild x Sulzber-er. Of New
York and Kansas City. have bought FIFTY
acres on Fortieth Street, near the stock
yards. in Chicago. on which they viii
erect packiu. establishment The new
plan, viii c,st 50. o0a. 600, aud viii have a
killing capacity Of I00o cattle, 5000 hog
and 5000 sheep daily.
Il is rumored in San Francisco that a
commercial bank i to be established there,
with a paid up capital Of s. ooo, noo. It.
hackers are .aid to have already acquired
minin. and other property in California
Mexico and British Columbia, and sugar
Interests IN Hawai-. which. it i alleged
will be gathered under the control Of the
new bank
The Cheyenne and Northern passenger
tram. which has been FOR tnrec week,
bIockaded by the snow. near Iron Nouu
tain, Wyomin. on Tuesday night ot aa
week wa S,ill ten mile, beyond the re.
cuiuE work train. aud j, will require sew
erai days to eet her oat Dispatches GA
Sunday say the train -ot through that day
after being detained a moath
George 6 Rock take from hi~ prcui,
e in Quincy township Frankhn county
Pa, from 500 to So0 ton. IF hrc clay
and mineral sand yearly tie has found
many euriou. and pe,ri6ei objects such
a. oranges. lemons. cocosuu,. and skele-
tons Recently he took them to the Pea
body Institute, Baltimore, Nd wherc
they created a good deal Of interest pr
Uhler. Of the Institute ha, 50 interested
himself that this summer be will yl.it Mr.
Ra,k mines AMI make an investigation
DIR hlcr will summer a, Blue Mountain
House and probably have ASSISTANT. The
peirihcd objects were found az a depth 1T
forty feet from the surface