The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-08-24
News of the Week.

4apsizing OF sail-boat, near Davenport.
Iowa, on Sunday afternoon.
Marchand 4 Son, dealers in gas fixtures
anu steam heaters, at Chicago. went into
bankruptcy Monday. Liabilities, $50, 900;
assets, 100000.
=, Inc only steamer leaving New York for
New Orleans on Saturday carried a cargo
consisting mainly Of disinfecting materials
and marble for tombstones!
The dividend sheet of the insolyent firm
OF Bond Brothers, brokers, of Montreal.
SHOWS Their liabilities to be $4,000. Their
assets VIII be one-quarter of a cent on the
Charles W. Angel, Secretary of the Pull
man Palace Car Company, has disappeared
win Sl2O,OOO of the Company's funds. 1t is
said me company will not be embarrassed by
The Emperor William, of Germany, has
completely recovered from the attack of
tne assassin Hoedel, who attempted to take
ms hie Hoedel was beheaded on Friday of
/ last week.
On July 9Th James Gilmore, clerk of the
United States Express Company, in Cincin-
natl, disappeared with SI3, 900 of the Com
panyi IS funds. He was arrested in Richmond,
KY, on Friday.
Jacob Haddock was killed by lightning
while driving home from church with his wife
and two children, at Warwick Quebec. ON
Sunday evening. The children we're serious
| ly burned.
In England the bicycle business is assum-
ing large dimensions. There are 100 makers,
million pounds are invested in the business,
and sixty thousand bicycles are in existence
in London aud the provinces.
Up to Sunday last there had been 1000
cases of yellow fever reported in New Orleans
and SlS deaths. The scourge is fearful one
and has visited Vicksburg, Grenada, st. Louis
and Memphis in great severity.
I The freight houses of the Chicago and Al
ton Railroad in East st. Louis, we're destroy
ed by fire on Saturday night, with nine load
ed cars and twenty transfer wagons. The
loss on the freight is estimated at $4,000.
Elias Black, of New Britain, Pa, has not
sold an ounce Of his farm products in years
He believes in keeping everything. A field
OF four acres is covered with stacks of grain,
some of which have stood there for fifteen
years, and are The homes of vermin.
| Senator Blaine and family, while driving
near Mt. Vernon, in Maine, Sunday was over.
taken byaviolent thunder storm. The horses
became unmanageable, and running away,
the vehicle was thrown against tree and up
/
the other occupants escaped unhurt
Corporal Hasson Salih, of the Turkish
army, detailed as inspector of arms, shot
himself in Providence. r. l.. on Monday
morning, after a carouse The ball, which
lodged in the abdomen, has not been found,
and the result is uncertain. Several months
ago Salih attempted TO kill a woman at a
house of ill-repute.
In Waterford, n Y, Monday afternoon,
Richard Shannon, aged 80, murdered Mrs.
Rice by cutting her throat. She formerly
lived with Shannon, but was recently marri-
! ed, and the cause of the murder was her re-
fusal to leave her husband and live with
Shannon again. The latter was arrested
after desperate resistance.
A carrier pigeon race from Tobyhanna, N.
u, to New York city, took place on Sunday
morning. Twenty-six birds started from
Tobyhanna at o'clock, and twenty three of
them arrived together at their destination at
1890 A. NJ, making the ninety miles in an
hour and halt. The remaining three birds
arrived soon after the others.
When the body of John Ten Eyek, hanged
at Pittsield, Mass, reached Chester Station
1t was exhibited for several hours in the freight
house of the Boston and Albany Railroad, an
admission fee OF ten cents being charged.
Ten Eyck, had the body in charge, and they
made fifteen dollars by the exhibition.
/ A telegram to the Galveson Nelcs saws that
/ Mackenzies force, after crossing the Rio.
/ Grande, surrounded Newtown, but did not
succeed in capturing Auerola, who they were
after. All the Mexican troops at Piedras
Negras, about 100 lin number, have "gone up
/ the river, and are reported to have been or
dered to skirmish with the Americans, but
avoid general engagement.
A murderous assault was made on Chris
tian Hornaiius by three unknown eolored
men near Lancaster, Pa, Tuesday He was
walking along the turnpike, when one of the
negroes cut him across the face with razor,
the wound extending from the forehead to
the chin. BE was also cut on the arms and
shoulder, and fell to the ground bleeding and
unconscious. His recovery is doubtful.
a rainfall of more than four and half
inches occurred in the neghborhood of Mus.
eatine, Iowa, on Monday night, raising the
water in the three creeks that traverse the
city fifteen feet and OVERLOOKING all the low
lands, and causing great destruction of prop
erty. Fortunately, no lives were lost, though
there were many narrow escapes by the occu.
pants of two buildings partially carried away.
Some apprehension is felt in naval circles
about the U. S. steamer Wyoming. She was
signalled off Cape Horn last Friday morning
while on her way to Washington from Havre,
but has not been sighted since. She was
short of coal and under sail, and was proba-
/ bly, blown off the cost in the recent gales A
dispatch was received on Tuesday from Fort
ress Monroe stating that she had broken her
shaft, and was being towed in by govern
ment steamer.
! At meeting CT the officers of the Grand
/ Lodge of Odd Fellows of the United States,
held in Baltimore, on Saturday, it was decid-
ed to hold the next session of the Grand
Lodge on the third Monday of September
next, in Baltimore, instead of Austin, Texas,
as at first proposed. A proclamation an
nouncing the change of place has been issued
by the Grand Sire, j. W. Stokes. The rea-
son for the changeis the prevalence of yellow
/ fever in the South.
The powder magazine of II. A. Weldy &
| CO., on Mount Hope, one mile from Potts
Vile, containing $1,000 pounds of blasting
powder, was exploded by lightning stroke
on Saturday afternoon. A private picnic
was progressing in grove at the foot of the
hill, and the stones and timbers crashed
through the grove among the participants
Two boys were killed, and several of the other
picnicers were injured. Houses in the
village of Mount Hope were shattered. and
several persons were injured, one perhaps
fatally. In Pottsville many buildings were
also damaged and much glass was broken.
Dennis Kearney addressed an audience of
nearly 200 persons in indianapolis, on Satur-
day evening. Sunday a Socialisiic demon
stration in his honor, consisting of process.
sion and picnic, took place. The demonstra-
ton was a failure, the parade comprising a
colored band and sixty-eight Communists,
carrying a red flag and several banners, and
the picnieers, Wandering about FIVE hun
/ bred men, women and children Speeches
we're made by Kearney, Haynes Ia eolored
orator from Kentucky Mcclure, of Connec-
tieut, Parsons, of Chicago, and Clark and Van
/ Patten, of Chicago. Kearney, in his speech,
referred to the red flag as ''the emblem of
universal labor emancipation.
A fire in Petroiia, Pa, Monday morning
destroyed W. b. Ladd's building, the Boul-
ger House, Griffin Il Sunefield's Hotel. the
Centennial Hotel, Smiths restaurant, the
! Pennsylvania Transportation Companys bull
ding, II. l.. Taylor & Co. S offices and dwell
ings, 4. Jenning's offices, the Oil Exchange
building, the Western Union Telegraph Off ce,
and Irelaud's machine shops. The loss is
estimated at 1900. Nineteen buildings.
seventeen of them occupied as stores, in
Briggs, Butte county, CAL, were destroyed by
fire Monday morning. Loss, $50, 900. Sew
eral persons were arrested on suspicion OF
having started the fire. The Washington