The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-11-06

An earthquake lasting five seconds was felt
IN Newcastle, Ont, Sunday.
The Mercersburg Pa, College has suspend
ed, owing, it is said, to financial difficulties.
An ineendiary fire at Bayou Sara, La, on
Sunday morning destroyed S2O0,0 600 worth oi
property.
la, was burned on Sunday night. Loss,
SIS, 0OO
Mr. Hayes has issued a proclamation desig
mating Thursday, November 18th, as Day OF
National Thanksgiving.
The National Bank and two other buildings
in Fort Dodge, Iowa, were burned on Sunday
morning. Loss $4,000.
A life boat was eapsized, Sunday, in the
Harbor Of Wells, Norfolk county, England,
and eleven Of the crew were drowned.
John 7. Keen, Mayor Of North Danville,
Va, was thrown FROM his buggy on Sunday
evening and died Monday morning Of his in
juries,
David A. Wells, exmember of the Penn.
sylvania Legislature, and leading Dem.
oeratic politician OF Pike county, died Sun.
day in Milford.
From l744 to 1900 the deaths in London
exceeded the births by 267 900, while froui
1901 TO 1890 the births exceeded the deaths
by lO2,9T5.
The Tontine Stables, in New Haven, Conn,
were destroyed Sunday evening By an iueen.
diary FIRE. Seventeen horses persisted by fire
and suifocation.
On Sunday night last some yandal got into
Greenwood Cemetry, Wheeling, W. Va, and
with a pick nearly destroyed many OF the fnesi
monuments in the cemetery.
A large barn at Bristol, Pa, owned by Mr..
Daniels and occupied by the worsted mills OF
Gruudy Brothers, was burned on Sunday
night lncendiarism is suspected.
Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., aud Miss Fannie J..
Chaliee, only daughter Of Senator Chaifee, OF
Colorado, were married Monday, in New
York, Rev. DIR. Newman officiating.
A dispatch from London, England, Nov /,
says; Tsere were ls6 British and foreign
wrecks reported last week. OF these lGl
vessels were lost on the British coasts
Chauucey 7. Reeve. farmer, 6j years Of
age, drove into Middletown, N. Y, Monday
morning, to see u doctor for heart disease
and died on his wagon, in front OF the doctor,
office.
Thaddeus NJ. Baird, wei. known citizen
of Surrey county, Va. committed suicide b,
shooting himself on Sunday A few day,
previously he attempted to cut his throat with
a razor.
An ineendiary fire destroyed William NJ.
Henderson's barn, near Carlisle, Pa, Tues.
day, together with seventeen head Of live
stock, all this years crops aud the farming
implements. Loss over 81, 900; no insurance
John Shepherd, q farmer, near Peoria, ILL.,. 4,
has faithfully kept vow made in 1860 not to
cut of his hair or shave until the election of I
Democratic President. HIS whiskcrs reach
almost to his waist and his hair is kept in
braids.
A device by which, it is claimed, grain can
be kept good for a year has just been tested
at Antwerp. Ii consists in covering the door
on which the grain rests with perforated shee
iron and forcing current of dry air through
the grain.
Considerable alarm is felt in England over
the discovery ola system Of signals by light.
along the coast Of Ireland, which cause.
trouble to be apprehended, The Protestan,
clergy have sent an appeal to Mr.. Gladstone
praying that measures be taken for the pro.
lection of Protestants in case Of an outbreak.
Tommy Thomas, boy II years old, while
at work in the Sasquehanna Rolling Mills, at
West Chester, Pa, on Friday was run through
the body by a bar Of red hot.iron, which es.
capped his lungs. After emerging from his
body the iron struck upwards, burning bis
face badly. There are slight hopes OF his
recovery.
Quiet was restored in Denver Monday, and
no further trouble was feared, the police fores
having been Increased, and the militia ken
ready for action. The first accounts Of lhs
trouble were exaggerated, no Chinaman hav.
ing been mutilated. One Chinaman wa
killed. Several hundred Of the rioters are
under arrest.
On Sunday night terrible riot took plac.
in Denver, Colorado, growing out of the poll
teal excitement and anti Chinese feeling
there. The Chinese quarter was attacke,
Monday by drunken mob, and murder anC
ineendlarism prevailed daring the afternoon
and night. The town was in the possession
Of fifteen hundred rioters.
The murdered body of the seventeen years
old daughter Of Samuel Bittenbender, O
Hamilton township, near Stroudsburg, Pa.
was found Monday morning on the roadside
The girl left home on Sunday afternoon to q,
to q neighbours, where she was TO do som,
homework. Several tramps seen early Mon
day morning in the vicinity are suspected o
the crime.
A young man named Long. Of Northumber
land county, Pa, but siding in Dauphil
county, was committed, at Sunbury, on 0cto
Der 20, on suspicion Of having murdered hi
father, aged 50 years The old man wa
found dead on the previous Thursday with hi
skull beaten in. Ii is believed the cause 70
the murder wa an order OF the Court compel
ling the son to support the father, which h
was not inclined to do
Robert Payne and Scott Thompson wer,
arrested in Danyille, Va, Monday for tn
murder OF Scott Hankens, whose body wa.
found in the canal week ago. Payne con
fesses that he and Thompson were playinl
cards with the murdered man 10 a shanty nea
the canal, on the night Of the murder, an
quarrelled over the stakes Thompson strucI
Hankens on the head with an axe and threv
the body into the canal
kilograms from Hull, England, on Satur
day, October 30, says;-Iu terrific storm
prevailing last night and TO day FIFTY vessel
have been wrecked between Spurn Point ani
Hornsea. Twelve vessels are stranded nea
Withernsea. A vessel under bare poles drov
through the new pier at Withernsea and carrie,
away fifty yards Of the structure. AT Hornse.
brig louled with the new pier aud damage
il to the extent Of $4,000. There has beei
large number OF shipwrecks, attended witt
great loss OF life, on various parts Of tn