The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-11-13

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belonging to the Reade Paper Company was
burned On Sunday night. Loss, $4,000.
Nearly three. fourihs Of the mining town OF
bingham, ia Utah, was destroyed by tire 90
Sunday The loss is estimated AZ $4,000
The shipments Of wheat on the Northern
Pacific Railroad during October were 14I, oOO
bushels to Dnluth, and 81 ,O0Ot0 Minneapolis
More than 1000 houses in Toxic, JAPAN
we're demolished by the October typhoon and
hundreds Of fishermen were drowned IN the
bay.
Large numbers Of Cinnamon are leaving
San Francisco for their native land because
Of the scarcity Of employment for them in that
city.
Professor A. J. Gordon, of the LOeustdale,
Va, Military School, died suddenly on sun
day, while attending church service IN Cui'
pepper.
average Of II 10 bushels to the acre sowed.
This is the heaviest yield by 5000, 900 bushels
reported.
The ep1ooty prevails toan alarming extent
| in Moutreal where it is Of a seyerer type than
on previous yisitahons. A number oil horses
have already died.
William Manson, saloon keeper, aged 90
| years; John Suttlage, aged 90 years, and Der
tina Young, aged % years, committed suicide
| in New York on Monday.
| A violent gale passed over the central and
western portions Of the Province Of Ontario
Sunday morning, dwelling trees and telegraph
| poles, and doing other damage.
In ten years the Louisville Ky manniac,
| turing interests have more than doubled, and
employ l6, s5i hands in l, l9l establishments,
representing a capital OF $40, 36i, iio.
Isaac Denike, aged l0l years, died at
| YNnkers, N. Y, on election morning. He
was sterling Democrat, and his last wish
was that he might live TO vote for Hancock.
! Eldridge j. Dawson, assistant postmaster,
and Edward A. Clark, stamp clerk, al Lead
vile, Col, were arrested on Friday of last
week on the charge Of stealing $4,000 from
| the Government
The Mormon girls have a society, the mem
bers Of which take vow 10 marry no man
who will not pledge himself to be contentwith
one wife. Five grand. daughters OF Brigham
Young have joined il.
j. II. Zerby, editor OF the schuylkill Re
| public, has been arrested at Pottsyille, Pa,
charged with libeling Hon. J. W. Ryon, whom
he accused Of robbing the mails by franking
documents contrary to law.
| A Board Of Trade was organized ia Den.
yer, Col, on Saturday. Nearly 1000 houses
have been built in Beaver this year, but rents
continue high, "and many families are unable
to find houses at any price.
Sara Bernhard made her first appearance
in New York at Booths Theatre, Monday
/ evening. There was n crowded aud fashion.
able audience, and her personation Of "Adri.
enne Lecouyreur' evoked enthusiastic ap.
plause.
A Knoxville telegram contradicls the recent
rumor that General John Morgan is living in
| New Mexico. Several Tennessee ex Conied
crates are living in Knoxville who saw Nor.
/ gan killed while escaping from a raiding party
of Union soldiers al Greenyille. during the
\ war.
Col. E. l.. Drake, who drilled the first oil
well at Titusville, Pa, and thus founded the
immense petroleum business, died at New
Bethlehem, Pa, Monday. He had been re
eeiying pension from the State for some
years. A statue Of him will be erected at
! Titusyille.
Two colored men entered the house ofJohn
Frazier, near Morrisyille, Pa, on Saturday
afternoon, aud asked for drinks. Being re,
fused, they stabbed Frazier four times in the
breast, inhicting wounds believed to be fatal
The rulhans escaped, but are known to the
authorities.
A magazine containing ton aud a half OF
] powder, at Lacrosse, Wis, was blown up
| Monday, by two men, who fred shots into
tie building. The scoundrels were arrested.
| The explosion was heard for distance Of ~
miles, and windows throughout the town
were shattered by the shock.
A cyclone passed over the northern part oil
Middletown tow nship, Bucks county, Pa, last
Saturday night. The roof of Mr.. James Pal.
mer's large barn was torn of, haysiaeks and
| fodder ricks were scattered ia every direction,
hundreds of turkeys aud other fowls we're kill,
ed, and several trees uprooted.
| There are four mines on FIRE in Pennsylva.
MIA, Kelley Run, near Shenandoah, has
been burning for six months, the Coal Castle
mine has been burning since 1886, the Sum.
init Hill mine, near MRuch Chunk has been
mine, near Pittson, has been burning three
years.
Warrants have been issued by Gov. Hoyt,
OF fennsylyania, for the execution n, on Thurs
day, January 9, 1881, Of Daniel +. Sullivan,
who murdered Josie Irwin in Philadelphia;
Patriex Hayes, who murdered his wife in
Philadelphiai George Smith and Calharine
Miller, who murdered Andrew Miller, hus.
band OF the latter, in Lyeomiug county
sister Gertrude VeroAa, of the Protestant
Episcopal Home of St. John Baptist, in New
York, was shot three times and seriously
wounded by Thomas Stanton, an insane man.
as she was entering the Home on her return
from charitable visit, Sunday morning. The
man, being arrested, said he was s'bewitched
BY some one, and he thought Sister Gertrude
was the person.
The seyerest gale known nj Erie, Pa, for
twenty years, ragged there Sunday. The
schooner Jnra, from Toledo for Buffalo, with
l0,ooO bushels Of grain, put into the harbor
Tor shelter, but driited 10 the eastern part OF
ihe Day and was in great danger at las, &C.
counts. Her crew were taken off Tbe
schooner Porter, from Milwaukee, was living
near the buoy, flying signals Of distress.
seventeen year old white girl in Ulster
county, New York, having fallen in love with
her fathers eoored hired man, eloped with
him on Saturday last, but several ministers
and Justices OF the peace to whom they ap
Piled to be married declined to peform the
ceremony, and finally, as a last resort, the girl
blaekened her face with burnt cork, and a
Dutch Reformed clergyman was duped into
making the twain one
meeting Of the Land League Of Lowell
Mass, was held Sunday afternoon. Address.
es were made by John Warren and Thomas
7. Byron, both predicting revolution IN Ire.
land should Parnell be convicted. Anumber
OF new members were received, and John
Donley was reelected President for the en-
suing year. II was announced that Lowell
would probably send the first contribution
for the defence fund, as il did last fall for re.
lief"
On the 4th instant, at Paterson, N. j..
Mary Warnock, aged 10 years, employed al
the mill Of the Barbour Flax Spinning Com
pany in thai city, while engaged in oiliug a
shalt was caught by her long and flowing
hair and drawn up by the machinery I'M.
vi the scalp was torn completely from
her head, and her ears both torn loose.
so that they, together with the outer covering
Of the skull, hung down on either side to her
shoulders.
In Batesyille, Ohio, on Saturday night.
Frank NJ. Biedenbaugh, a wealthy farmer. 30
years of age, murdered his wife 10 pasture,
where she Was milking cows, cut his son !
throat with the edge Of an axe, killed yisi.
tor, named Mrs. Stephens, fatally wounded
her daughter and then cut his own throat. lie
died on Sunday night. Bicdenbaugh always
bore good reputation. II il believed Il
committed the murders in a lit of insanity.
Biedenbaugh is not dead as first reported, bal
was insensible from the loss of blood. lie Z
now Ia jail
The Sound steamer Rhode Island, from
New York for Providence, with l25 passen
gers, grounded on Whale Rock, Narragan.
set Bay, about half past four O'Clock on Sat.
urday morning, during a thick fog. Aner
daylight broke the passengers were all 20,