The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-05-12
News of the Week.

mtS having set hFe Ia her uncle mouse IN
Providence, K. /
Miss Eva Hendrickson, Of Westyille
y. J., saved little girl from the attacks
Of mad dog last Sunday
The Opera House at Lexington, Va,
was destroyed by fire Monday. Loss
50, 900; insurance IS, 500.
Miss Susie McKeon. uf New Haven,
Ct. has been driven insane 10y scandalous
storie, affecting her character.
Mrs Carolyn Ahrcns, j singer in the
choir Of the Church of the Holy Redeem
er. in New York, committed suicide sun
day.
During the siege If I.adysuith 1000
horses Of the cavalry brigade were con
verted into soup or sausages IN single
month
Statistics Of the criminal population Of
the United States show that only = per
cent. Of the total number Of criminals are
women
Two men are in custody at Johustowm.
Pa. charged with the murder II ave men
al Wirdber. Somerset county, on the
night Of April Is
The Government owns many thousands
Of acres of land in New Mexico that have
never been taken up Ii i the finest
country 10 the world tor .tock raising
indianapolis liycryuscn have formed
continuation. Supported by undertakes, tn
discontinue Sunday funerals An advance
OF cne-thini ia price on Sunday Is made.
Adyicss from s., Kits ,ay the ilaHi i
in a terrible financial c,ndition oEIug to
the shortage of the sugar crop. and Waut
and starvation prevail au'"as She people
\ terrific wind storm struck San "A.
tonic. Texas, Monday doing grca, dam
agc \ Eve story bank builiing was sie
tnulishel The Lz,> l. estimated az s7S
GOO
New discoveries 81 nch quicksilver de-
Js-its has. hecn made ia Brewster county.
Texas. duung the last fc~ DAYS ami an
other big rush u pncp,vioT 90 'b~ district
has begun
10 seven onautle- IN Saulhcrn Missouri
rirh heli, oi minerals have beea toaad.
and there Is great activity there shi- spring
Land Ellcd eth lead and une = tDo vaiu
able Tor farming
\ Denver despatch -ays that II vii take
tso weck. aud s2o0 uo0 tn rcpair TIE
damage u the r,sasit-i IL the Ioiura,lo and
Southern Railway in Platte Canon by the
rcccns dr-si,
1 severe >s"wStoru prevailed for over
three hours on Friday OF last seek IN pare
Of northern and western fcnusyivan'a
Frmt AMI early vegetable, sere ki'lei b.
the freeEr following
Charlie. 7. Neely, former rrasur 1t the
Postofhce Department, in Cuba, has teen
arrested ia Rochester y Y, 20 the
charge II ennbeEHling $50 600 belonging
to the government
William Crowuinshieid Eadioo,t, Sec
resaEy oi War under Pp-iieBI cleveland
fir., administrator. died st his residence
in Boston Mas. Sunday afternoon. q
pneumonia, aged - year.
lee formed a, many pants in Northern
Ohio on the night of May 1 The cold
wave was accompanied by very heavy
and destructive fry@I, which Was almost
general throughout the State
4 despatch from Bombay saws cholera
IL alarniingly yirulrnt among the natives
on the famine relief works, where there
are ffty draths daily Elsewhere in !nd',
millions are starving ~ dying If disease
Fire destroyed the Mallory Line pier.
New York. aud several barses nooEed near
it on Sunday There were many narrow
escapes Of people who were forced To leap
into the water Ope child was drowned
The property loSs i estimated at 81 600,
0O0
The old stone house at Tappan, y. Y,
where Major Andre was confined before
his execution and which has been used
recently as a hotel, will be turned iEto an
office for soap factory firm unless some
body with the necessary means will come
TO the rescue.
A society has been formed in Berlin,
Germany. which purposes to deliver cook
ed food to poor families at the cheapest
possible prices. All sorts of boiled and
roasted meats and vegetables are sold on
the streets The soup wagons receive the
biggest patronage.
The steamer Quito, which has been Sc
cured by the Navy Department to convey
to India the supply of food collected IN
this country, began leading Monday. She
will sail for Bombay, with lS5, 600
bushels of corn. The Government pays
$40, 900 for the transportation.
A washed out trestle leading to the
Black bridge, south of st. Charles, Mis-
souTi, Sunday night, caused the wreck OF
a fast passenger train on the Missouri,
Kansas asa Texas Railway, resulting in
the death Sf John Boyle, fireman, and the
fatal injury of L. d. Palmer, engineer
Increasing demand for electrical power
from Niagara Falls and the approaching
Pan American Exposition, at Buffalo,
have induced the construction of a second
wheelpit and station at the falls. Eleven
new turbines will add 80, 600 horse power
to the so, 900 already supplied by ten
turbines
Harry Taylor, brother of Arthur Tay
lor, of the engraving firm Of Taylor Il
Bredell, who made the Monroe head
500 notes, has waived hearing on the
charge of passing $50 counterfeit notes.
His brother, now in Moyamensing prison,
Philadelphia, Pa, confessed to having en-
graved the plates three years ago
The British steamer Virginia, from
Cuba to Baltimore, went ashore on Dia
mond Shoals, n c., on April 25tn during
heavy weather Six of the crew were
rescued by life saving crew, five were
drowned and sixteen are in small boat,
their whereabouts unknown. The steamer
is broken in half and will be total loss.