The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-06-09
News Of the Week.


is not so healthy as at this time last year.
His Majesty, the King of Gaboon, in Afr
ca, is no more, having recently died, aged 100
years.
Peter B. Sweeney's trinl in the $4,000, 900
suit was begun in New York Monday morning
and was compromised,
A pension of G75 has been granted by
Queen Victoria to each of the Misses DeFoe,
descendants of Robinson Crusoe.
Forest fires continued near Au Sable, Mich.
on Saturday evening, and the people of that
village are trying to save their homes.
There is a severe drought in Alabama.
No rain has fallen for several weeks, and the
corn and cotton crops are suffering.
BY the burning of 0neota, Mich, seven
hundred people were made homeless and
100000 worth Of property was destroyed.
Charles and st. Mary's counties, in the
southern part of Maryland, are at present
overrun with myriSds Of the seventeen. year
locusts.
George H. Wade, of New York, challenges
any man in the United States to n swimming
race Of from three to ten miles from 500 to
$500 side
SylvesterF. Wilson, George Francis Train S
agent, has been held in $4,000 bail for hav.
ing forged passes on the Pennsylvania Rail.
road Company.
The Pittsburg Steel Casting Works, in
| Pittsburg, Pa, were destroyed on Saturday
by fire originating from n gas furnace.
Loss $4,000.
There were Ga carloads of strawberries
shipped over the Delaware railroad on Mon.
day for Jersey City, Philadelphia and Boston,
making 293 carloads so far this season.
George F. Leber of the grain and coal firm
Of Leber & Sprenkle, hanged himselfin York,
Pa, on Saturday. He had been i'll, and was
supposed to be temporarily insane.
In the South Carolina House of Represen
tatives on Friday, bill to prevent intermar.
riage between the races was defeated, the
euacting clause being struck out by large
majority.
1t is stated that the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company have purchased the North
ern Market House in Washington. The oh.
ject is to build an imposing station upon the
site.
The Legislature of Minnesota passed
grasshopper bounty law, but Gov. Pillsbury
says that the taxation consequent upon its
execution would be n greater burden than
the grasshoppers.
A reduction Of ten per cent. in the pay of
all the employees of the Northern Central and
Baltimore and Potomac Rrailroad Companies
went into effect on tho LIST instant. II was
accepted without opposition.
During the past month 62 persons were de.
tected in mail robberies and other violations
Of the Postal laws. Most of them were off.
cials in the postal service, but some were en-.
ployes of the New York Evangelist and var.
ious firms.
The Ancient and Honorable Artillery, of
Boston, celebrated its 239th anniversary on
Monday by II street parade, services in the
Hollis street Church, and banquet in Fan
euil Hall. Governor Rice and staff partici.
pated in the banquet.
| There are 200 silk manufactures in the Uni.
ted States, employing 100000 operatives, and
last year | 1884 800 pounds of silk thread were
used in the production of goods, costing Sl2,-
| 679,570. The value of the goods manufac.
tured amounted 10 S26,593, 1903.
Frederick Friendly, colored, aged q, was
stabbed TO death by Adam Bell, colored, aged
| II, in Prince Georges county, Nd, on
Thursday night. They quarreled over
game of cards. Bell gave himself up, saying
that he acted in self.defence.
Elk Governor Hendricks will reach New
| York in a few days and for the week preced.
ing his departure for Europe, on June 10,
will be the guest Of Elk Governor Tilden, and
is to be entertained by the Manhattan club
| 1t is believed that some important political
programme will be discussed at that time.
| A large oil tank near Millerstown, in But.
! Ter county, Pa, was struck by lightning on
Saturday, and the FIRE spread until $1,000
barrels of oil belonging to the United Pipe
Lines and Columbia Conduit Company were
destroyed, together with number Of der.
ricks The loss is stated at $4,000.
| The New York Custom House continues to
be focus Of excitement of one kind and an.
other, with much anxiety between the ms and
outs. The talk among the knowing ones is
that Collector Arthur, between now and the
meeting of Congress, will send in his resigna.
ton, in order to accept foreign mission, and
that his place will be given to Ex-Governor
Fenton.
Sunday last was celebrated all over the
christian world as the jubilee of the Pope, on
! the occasion of the fftieth anniversary of
his elevation to the episcOpacy. Fifty years
bishop is a thing so rare as to be almost with
out precedent, and never before has this
happened in the person Of the Pope. This
pope has also exercised Papal functions
longer than any other in history.
The American whaling schooner Ellen
Rizpah of Provincetown, has arrived at Key
West, and reported that while on the Keys
south Of Cuba she was boarded by Spanish
cruiser, and her papers demanded under pen
atty. The captain produced his papers, but
they were not considered sufficient, and he
was detained in close confinement for four
days until the arrival of Spanish frigate.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal at Annapolis,
Nd, Monday, elected the following :-Presi.
dent, A. p. German; directors, James G.
Berret, Of Washington city; NJ. Bannon, of
Anne Arundel; b. B. Crawford, of Montgom.
cry; H. ID. Farnandis, Of Hartford; p. Hamill,
Of Garrett; John Humbird, Of Allegany. The
State was represented by Gov. Carroll, who
presided, Comptroller Woolford and Treas.
urer Compton.
A woman named Fanny Brown, arrested
in st. Louis for vagrancy, had with her a
bright little girl of seven years, who gave her
| name as Mary Masterson, and said her home
wasin Philadelphia. A girl of the same name
and age was stolen by a woman from her
grandmother, Mrs Ann White in Philadel.
phia, on the 18th day of April, and search
has been made for her in New York and
Brooklyn. A Philadelphia detective will go
to St. Louis and bring the child and woman
back with him.
On Monday afternoon about five o'clock
while John Riley and Michael Fay were ut
work blasting rocks at the Gunpowder Water
Works, about three miles from the dam and
FIVE miles from Towsontown. premature ex.
plosion took place, scattering the rocks in
every direction, and one falling on Riley
killed him instantly, while Fay escaped with
some serious bruises about the body The
wounded man was taken to his hotel and
physician sent for who dressed his wounds.
Riley's body was buried by his contractors,
Allen & Fenton.
A most atrocious attempt was made on
Sunday night to wreck passenger train on
the st. Louis and San Francisco Railway.
The engine and baggage car were thrown
down forty feet embankment and the engi.
neer and two other men killed. Several
pistol shots were fred at the train, by the
flashes of which five men were seen standing
near. An examination plainly revealed that
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