The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-10-05

Two Wyoming stage robbers, named Brown
and Barns, have been captured. and the FIR.
mer is in Jail at Cheyenne
The removal of the Red Cloud and Spotted
Iaii Indians to their new reservations is be-
ing effected in a quiet and satisfactory man.
ner.
There is no noticeable improvement in the
large towns ofthe fever-stricken districts. and
me condition OF the small places is worse
than ever.
Hugh o Conner, a prominent Democratic
politician of Texas, Baltimore county, Nd.
died on the 18th ultimo, it is supposed Of
heart disease.
Captain Eads has declined the invitation
OF Dom Pedro to superintend river improve
ments in Brazil, and has recommended n
prominent American engineer in his stead.
Rain fell on thirteen days of September,
but the total rainfall was only eightT-two
hundredths of an inch, which is the Smallest
1874.
At st. Louis on Tuesday Hopeful made an
attempt to beat the time Of Rarus. He trot
TED a mile without a skip in 2.I5i. A tor
rent OF ram then put an end to further racing
for the day.
Senator Thurman was seized with sndden
illness while addressing meeting at Bellaire.
Ohio, on Monday night. 1t is said his illness
Is tne result OF overwork, and is not consid-
cred dangerous.
rive hundred Russian army officers of all
grades, including forty Colonies, are impli-
Gated with frauds in the commissariat and
misapplication of the public money during
the war with Turkey.
During the Montcalm county. Mich fair
a cook stove will be given to the couple who
VIII be married on the fair grounds, and al
ready fourteen loving impecunious pairs have
entered their names for that stove.
In the Z. S. Court at Trenton. N. J., Tues
day, Charles s. Fredericks. ex-cIerk of the
Newark Post-ofice, pleaded guilty to the
charge OF robbing the mails, and was senten-
eed to twelve months imprisonment.
Wesley NJ. Bishop, of Norwich. Conn. char.
ged with the murder of his wife and Charles
H. Cobb, Dr., has made confession. impIi-
eating Kate K. Cobb. He says he bought
the poison and she administered it to the vic.
Tins.
>. Major August Bollman, one of the old sol.
dIers of Napoleon l., whom he followed
through all his European campaigns subse.
quent to 1905, beginning at Ulm and ending
at Waterloo died in Newark on Sunday, in
his 9th year
A heavy defalcation in the Grocers' and
Produce Bank, State institution, of Provi-
denee, K. L., has come to light. ]. B. Calder.
the cashier, IS charged with accommodating
ms friends at the expense of the banks Cant
tai one third OF which is hopelessly lost.
An attempt was made to rob the Bristol
Savings Bank, In Bristol, n. H., on Monday
night 80 heavy charge was used to blow
open the vault that It not only shattered the
doors ana windows, but frightened off the
burglars, who fed without securing anything
Z. II. Irish, of Nebraska, lately Assistant
1hiet OF the Bureau of Engraving, and
PRINTING, was appointed Chief of that bureau
tuesday, to succeed Mr.. Mcpherson. Dan.
iel w. Wilson, of Ohio, an official in the
same Bureau, was appointed to succeed Irish.
The bondholders of the Denver extension
OF the Kansas Pacific Railroad charge Charles
>. freely, Receiver at st. Louis, with enter
ing INTO a conspiracy with the directors and
oiheers OF the Kansas Pacific and Jaw Gould
and his associates to defraud the bondholders
of the company.
Easton, Nd, had $50, 900 fire on the LIST
instant. Eight dwellings, eight stores and
the Odd Fellows Hall were burned. One of
the stores was robbed and then set on FIRE.
Only partial insurance. This is the third
time that this block has been burned within
the last fifty years.
j. NJ. I. Particle, of Washington. made a
wonderful score at the Columbia Rife Range.
near that city, on Tuesday He made Is
consecutive bulls eyes at 500 yards, IA bulls
eyes and one centre at 800 yards, and Is con-
seeutive bulls eyes at 1000 yards, making
score of PA out of a possible DDS.
At Akron, Ohio, on Monday evening. two
poheemen went to an old forge within the
city limits to arrest tramp on suspicion of
being concerned in a post-ofice robbery.
They were met at the forge by gang of thir-
ty tramps, who chased them into the town
with revoivers. A company of militia was
called out, who dispersed the gang.
About 100000 pounds of new type have
been purchased for the Government Printing
Oihce, at Washington, to replace that which
has been IN use for more than ten years, and
Is worn out. The old material viii be sent to
the stereotype foundry connected with the
Government Printing Office, to be melted
and used in the manufacture of stereotvpe
plates.
The contractor for carrying the mails be-
tween Fort Worth, Texas, and Yuma, Arizo.
ma, reports that his mail coaches have been
attacked and robbed by Mexican bandits
twenty-six times in the last six weeks. In
one instance the robbers drove away q coach
containing 700 pounds of silver The War
Department has ordered an escort of troops
for the coaches.
It is announced from Washington that law
officers of the Government have taken stems
to eject certain persons from about one thou
sand acres of land in the Pennsylvania oil
region. The land was taken in part payment
OF debt of 100000 due the United States
by the Nenango County Bank. In the days
of the ''oil fever its then owner refused an
offer of 100000 for it.