The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1899-08-19
News of the W eek.
Dispatches Of Aagijst II.

region near Pittston, Pa.
A fire destroyed $3.50, 900 worth of
property in Dallas; Texas.
DIR. Charles J. Stille, of Philadelphia,
died at Atlantic City, aged so.
A street car dropped from a bridge, in
Merrill, Wis, to the river below.
Vice President Hobart brother, c. I.
Hobart, was fatally hurt at Conner, Ohio,
Mormons in Kentucky and Southern
West Virginia have been ordered to leave.
Work on the new railroad station in
Richmond, Va. will be started next week.
Alexander Mcdonald, King Of the Klon-
dixie, has failed His liabilities are Sc,
600, 600.
A number of Japanese ports that will
be opened under the new treaty have been
made public.
Ivy Crabtree was sentenced at Carmi,
H., to IS years in the penitentiary for
killing her brother by poison.
Miss Ann ?. Ellis, aged 90, died in
Fredericksburg, and Muscoe Garnet, aged
76 died in Caroline county, Va.
Last Sunday was big Sunday a
Pittsburg Grove, n. j., camp, the attent
dance numbering about $4,000.
William Chambers, colored, was lynched
near Belle Buckle, Tenn, for criminally
assaulting 14-year-old girl, whose con
dition is critical.
Lightning struck Smiths hardware
store in Parkersburg, W. Va, and it was
DESTROYED by fire. Also several other
buildings. Loss $3.50, 600.
The quarantine against Newport News,
Old Point, Norfolk and Portsmouth was
raised Saturday by New York and Bal
timore. and steamers may resume their
trips. There were no deaths from yellow
fever at the Soldiers Home, and no new
cases. There are still "A patients in the
hospital at the home. The quarantine
against Hampton has not been removed.
Dispatches Of august u and IS.
Rev. Aloise Nevins, Paulist father,
died in New York, aged fortysix.
Two eonyicts made a successful escape
from the New jersey State Prison at Tren-
ton.
Solomon Quinter, of Reading, Pa,
killed his wife and her paramour at Read
ing.
One hundred thousand German-Ameri-
cans participated in a convention and re-
union at Chicago.
The body Of Frank H Shaw, of Brook
lyn, was found with the hands tied, on
Scarborough Beach, L. |.
John Harper Bonnell, the well-known
Brooklyn and New York publisher has
failed; liabilities $40, 1871; assets 5000
Two police officers we're shot and killed
in Denver, Colorado. by a recruit belong
inc to the Thirty fourth Volunteer lnfan
try.
The New York Branch Of the American
Protective League congratulated Governor
Gambler, of Georgia, for his manly stand
against lynch-law.
Amos Mcdonald, of Philadelphia, Pa,
died in the surf at Atlantic City on Sat
urdav while bathing having been attacked
with heart failure.
Charles Howard Haven, aged 81 years,
of Trenton, y. J., fell from a second
story window on Saturday, and died short
" afterwards fvom his injuries
A fire started BY careless smoker in
cigar booth at Rochester, New York, on
Saturday, destroyed 80 booths, The
streets Of the Fair Grounds were crowded,
but no one was injured.
VIM. Fl. Carson, Assistant Prosecutor
Of Camden county, \. j., was shot and
killed By Alfred Sheets, his brother-in law,
at Belmer, on Saturday night, the muir
derer then committing suicide
Howard s Mazarie, an employe Of the
Pennsylvania Railroad shops at Altoona,
Pa. was killed in the mountains back Of
that city, on Saturday by being thrown
from a wagon in which he was descending
a steep hill.
Fire which broke out on Saturday in the
the paint department of the CleyelandStone
Company plant, at Berea, Ohio, destroy
ed number of buildings filled with valu
able machinery, and large quantity Of
lumber, all owned by the Stone Company
The loss is estimated at upwards Of 500,
600.
The roasters at the Omaha and Grant
Smelters in Denver, Colorado, have been
started, and the former employees in the
plants are rapidly applying for work. The
union voted to continue the fight, but the
men are said to be breaking away, and it
is expected that all the old men viii be
back at work within week.
Probably 5000 persons have fallen vic
Tins to the West Indian hurricane, the
death losses in the district of Ponce, Porto
Rico, alone, being said TO exceed 2O00,
while other towns report hundreds killed.
Relief measures have been started for the
100, 900 homeless people in Porto Rico,
and the first ship load of supplies sailed
from New York on Monday. Contribu
tons are being raised in many cities and
towns throughout the United States.