The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-12-24
News of the Week.

offenses during the present year IN Russia.
Thirty-four persons were killed and thirty
six injured by the coal mine explosion at Boil
ton, England, on Monday.
The French treasury is i'll plethoric condl-
ton, the years receipts exceeding the eNPeh-
ditures by 200, 000,0 600 francs.
A sanitary inspection of Newport, r. l., by
government officials shows that over two
thirds of the wells in the city contain water
unfit to drink.
A corrected list of the victims of the Ring
Theatre fire, in Vienna, gives the total number
of victims as 1874, of whom the bodies OF A
have been legally identified.
A family of seven persons in Bloomington,
Illinois. we're poisoned on Monday by eating
canned fuit. They were made very sick, but
it is thought all will recover.
VIM. Cottonham, of Mt. Pleasant, York
county. Pa, committed suicide last week.
He placed the pistol near his heart and pulled
the trigger. Death was instantaneous.
The steamers Britannia, Main, Ethiopia and
Athos, at New York on Saturday, carried out
134. 9l2 letters, of which 9, 1913 were registered
There were shipped on the same vessels 1874
bags of newspapers.
George Hair. of Dillsburg, Pa, last week
fell beneath a wagon loaded with iron ore,
$500 pounds, and the front wheel passed over
his head without doing any serious damage.
A hard head, that of Mr.. Hairs.
At Mount Union, Huntingdon county,
Penna.. on Monday morning, John A. Ingram,
a miner, before going to work, placed can OF
dynamite in his stove to dry. The compound
exploded, blowing the house to atoms, and
killing Ingram, his wife and four children.
The agents of all the steamship lines be-
tween Southern ports and that of New York
state that they are overrun with business as
they have never been before, and that they
carry increasing quantities OF yarns and 90
mestics from Southern manufacturers tor sale
in the New York market.
John Coyle, Jr., was on Monday afternoon
sentenced to be hanged by Judge Wlekes, at
York, Pa. Coyles was convicted for the MUIR
der of Emily Myers at the October sessions,
and a motion for a new trial was Overruled by
the court. The prisoner did not appear much
affected by his sentence.
Daniel Hale Haskell died at San Francisco
on Saturday in the almhouse. In early days
he was manager of the banking and express
house of Adams & Co., with an income OF
$4,000 per year. He gave all his means to
endeavor to save the bank, retired into pow
erty and took to drink, with the above result.
In Rochester, New York, Sunday, Bishop
b. j. McQuaid denounced the Irish land
league as revolutionary and unworthy the
support of Catholics in either America or Ire
land. He severely criticised Rev. Mr.. Sheehy
and the recent Chicago convention as being
directly in opposition to the principles OF gooo
government and the will of the head of the
church.
A special engine containing an excursion
L loft
the jefferson City, Lebanon and Southwestern
Railroad, in Missouri, ran off the track and
plunged down an embankment, uear Russell
Vile, on Sunday morning. Christopher Wag-
ner. Green c. Berry and Oscar Moning, prom
inent citizens, were killed, and two others
severely injured.
A telegram from Poughkeepsie, n. Y,
states that Mary L. Magnes, a student from
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, had been accused by the
officers of Vassar College of stealing S175 at
various times from other students She con-
fessed, but begged that her father should not
be informed. He was, however, informed,
but before his arrival the young girl died OF
paralysis of the heart.
The fate of the steamer Bath City, from
Bristol for New York, is no longer mystery.
She sunk off Newfoundland. Her captain
and crew of twenty-seven men took to the
boats. Four men were drowned by the
swapping of boat, and the captain and five
others died from exposure. The seventeen
survivors were picked up by the bark VIM. J.
Foley, and were landed at Liverpool.
The will of the late Col Forney has been
admitted to probate at Philadelphia. There
are no public requests. The executors are
instructed to endeavor to secure repayment
from the United States government of moneys
paid by Col. Forney while holding the office
of Secretary of the Senate, on account OF the
defalcation of one of his subordinates. 1t is
stated that the amount of money Col. Forney
made good to the government was about $40,
900.
A fifty mile bicycle race for the champion
ship of America took place IN New York
Monday night, in the rink at Sixty third street
and Third avenue. The contestants were
VIM. Smith and C. D. Vessey, of England Z;
Geo d. Gideon, of Germantown, Pa; Frank
Howard, Louis Stearns and b. q. Sanford, OF
New York. Gideon won, Howard second,
Stearns third Time Of winner, hours Is
minutes 81 seconds. Smith and Sanford re-
tired upon completing Al miles, and Vessey
when he had covered 43.
Patton and Malloy, the leaders of gang
of desperadoes in the Independence mining
camp. some 20 miles west of Leadville, Col,
firing their pistols promiscuously through the
streets on Saturday night, when their lives
were cut short by the indignant citizens, who
had determined to put an end to this sort of
amusement. A vigilance committee was i'm
mediately organized, but the other members
of the gang left for safer locality before its
summary processes reached them.
Before the committee of councils of Phila-
delphia investigating the charges of misman-
agement of the almshOuse by the guardians of
the poor, Saturday, it was testified by an in
spector of -four that he had frequently re-
fused to brand -four for the almshouse on ac-
count of its being musty and sour. He gave
the names of several -four dealers and con-
tractors, whose -four he had refused to brand.
Of one firm the witness testified that when he
informed them that the -four was not fit for
human beings to eat they replied that it was
for the almshouse, and was good enough.
A shooting affray occurred at Caldwell,
Kansas, on Friday of last week, between the
citizens and party of carousing cowboys"
Michael Meagher. formerly mayor of the city,
who was acting as a special policeman, was
fleeing Cowboys" overlook them and gave
them battle, but were unable to dislodge them
from a thicket in which they took refuge.
One of the pursuing party received shot
through the wrist, which was the only casualty
of the fight At last advices another party of
fifteen avengers were on the trail of the "cow-
boys
A body of masked men calling themselves
Regulators" or knights of the Switch,
have been operating in Harrison county, Ind,
applying the switch to any person they deemed
deserving of such treatment. A few nights
ago, at Corydon, Ind, they severely whipped
a man named Borden. The following night
they again made their appearance, and, seiz-
ing Borden's step-daughter, 10 years of age,
and putting rope around her neck, they led
her to a tree and demanded that she should
reveal certain secrets. Upon her refusal they
hanged her by the neck twice until she was
nearly dead. Not succeeding in getting
confession, they rode away.
At Philadelphia, on the. l4th,. John c.
Hurst, formerly wholesale. druggist of that
city, was arrested at the instance of his son,
Samuel B. Hurst, charged with the embezzle-
ment of nearly $4,000, the proceeds of the
sale of the business. At the hearing accused
was greatly excited, and the prosecutor, dis