The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1905-08-05
News of the Week.

During a severe thunderstorm at Coney Is.
land, n. Y, on July so, six persons were
killed by lightning and % persons were severe
ly injured.
Bishop Isaac W. joyce, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, died in Minneapolis, July
%, as the result of hemorrhage and paralysis
suffered on July while preaching at a camp
meeting.
Thomas NJ. Fields has been sentenced to
five years in the West Virginia Penitentiary,
at Moundsville, for embezzGng nearly 200
from Washington Beneficial Endowment As
sociation.
A consolidation of thirty of the largest pot
terry concerns in the United States has been
effected under New Jersey charter. The
capital is 100000, furnished equally by
New York and Philadelphia banking houses.
A steel pin q inches in length, with glass
head, was extracted July 23rd from the left
lung of Bessie Chalmers, Is months old who
three days before was taken to the Children 5
Homeopathic Hospital, Philadelphia, from
her home in Pleasantville, n. J.
Louis Moienen, of Houghton, Mich, is only
10 years of age, but is feet inches tall,
weighs $40 pounds and is still growing. He
is well proportioned and strong as an OK.
His parents are understood people, Mrs.
Moilenen weighing less than 100 pounds.
Bishop Conaty, of the Roman Catholic
Church, Los Angeles, California, says that he
has received the personal check of Los AN
geles man for 1925, 900 as a donation to the
Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor, work
on the construction of which is about TO be
begun.
Johann Hoch, the condemned multimur-
derer of wives, who was to have been executed
in Chicago, has been given respite until the
middle of September through the interceSslon
of Miss Cora Wilson, who gave $500 to enable
the condemned man to complete the records
of his case for an appeal to the Supreme Court
of Illinois.
In the National Museum at Washington
there are only three relics of John Paul Jones.
These consist of an old flag which flew at the
masthead of the Bonhomme Richard, an old
hint-loek musket, aud a herce-looklng cutlaSS.
both of which were captured from the Scraps
when Captain Jones took that battleship in
the famous naval engagement in September,
1879.
Loss of life and immense damage TO property
followed the bursting of reservoirs north of
Bridgeport, CT, as a result of the unprece-
dented fall of rain early Sunday. The pre-
cipitation in the series of showers which struck
across Connecticut Saturday night and Sunday
morning reached total Of seven inches. The
dam at Wards Mill and EaSton went out at ,
o'clock Sunday morning, sending great body
of water down through the town of Irumbuii.
In a short time the dam at the paper mill
reservoir broke. There was no warning to
the people who lived on the banks of what Is
usually small watercourse. The house oc-
cupied by John LeSco his wife and several
children was picked up by the flood and car
ried mile below. The Lesco family were
aslaa,, tho time aud yypra rDSrupt after "A
perilous journey. A house occupied by Mich
ael Moran was hurled against the Berkshire
bridge aud smashed 10 kindling wood, and il
is believed that Moran was drowned. Police
and firemen went 10 the rescue and saved
several lives.