The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-12-31
News of the Week.

coed that OF the present, whlch mas peeu uh-
precedentcd
Six men were shot on Saturday i'll an aiiray
growing out of dog fight at Helenwood,
small mining town in West Tennessee. One
of the men is dead and the other five arc be
lievcd 10 be MORALLY wounded.
The Emperor Francis Joseph has resolved
to erect, at his own cost, memorial chapel
on the site of the Ring Theatre, at Vienna, III
which requiem will be celebrated yearly Tor
the victims of the fire.
Black diphtheria is killing many people IN
Bloomingdale. \. J. The patient tongue
becomes black and swollen. and prOtrudes
from the mouth. Death cnsues in forty eight
hours after the attack.
An additional forgery Of $1,000 was discoy-
cred on Saturday in the accounts OF f. W.
Newberger. Assistant Secretary OF the Ono
Board of Public Works. This makes the
forgeries already discovered $4,000.
When the Senate reassembles a very bitter
fight is likely to occur in executive session
over the nomination of Gen. Watmough for
pavmaster- general of the navy. Personal and
professional iealousies, charges affecting Off
cia integrity, &C., are all involved in the case.
At Harrisburg, Pa, on Saturday, Judge
Pearson refused to quash the writs of quo
warranto against the Steelton and Prudential
Mutual Insurance Companies, and ordered
the defendants to plead, demur or answer
within 80 days.
A body Of masked men, supposed to be the
best citizens of the place, broke into all the
drinking saloons in Cedarvile, Greene county,
Ohio. before daylight on Saturday morning,
and destroyed all the liquors on hand. Some
of the buildings were almost torn down.
William Gresham, while drunk, entered
store in Petersburg, Virginia, on Saturday,
and fourished an open pOcket-knite about his
head. During his gyrations the blade struck
in his throat, inhicting wound which proved
fatal.
During a panic in a church at Moscow
Christmas day twelve women were crushed to
death and forty other persons seriously IN
iured nearly twenty of whom have since died.
The panic was caused by a detected pick
pocket. who cried Fire to facilitate his
escape.
On Saturday night Il number of laborers
employed on the Indiana, Bloomington and
Western Railroad engaged in bloody fight
at Schaefer's saloon, at Tamplco, OHIO
Charles Harris, of Illinois, was killed, his
skull being crushed by boulderS. Another
man received injuries supposed to be fatal.
DIR. c. H. Rosenbaucr. a prominent physi-
clan. was aSsassinated at his residence, nine
miles from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, on Saturday
evening. The assassin fired through window
with a double barreed shotgun and lodged
fifteen buckshot i'll his victim body SnSpl-
cion points to Lee Chow, Il Chinese laundry
man, as the guilty party.
The mayor Of Mount Carmel, ILL.,, has or
dercd all services in the churches to he stop
ped on account of the prevalence OF small
box. One church refused to recognize the
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upon teegraphed for advice to the state board
of health, which instructed him to have every
person who attended the festival rs@cinated.
Phillips Marshall & Co., of London. have
concluded the purchase of 300 900 acres of
land from the state of Mississippi: Seven
hundred and sixty thousand acres are known
as the ''levee lands, and located mostly IN
the Gazoo delta, comprising some of the rich
est cotton and timber land i'll the South. The
intention Of the purchasers is to improve. col
onize and cultivate these lands.
An application for a rule to show cause
why the business of the Lochiel Mutual Aid
Association of Harrisburg. Pa, should not be
closed, was made by the Attorney General at
that city on Tuesday. The court granted the
rule. making it returnable forthwith, where
upon the company fled an answer, agreeing
to decree of dissolution. The decree was
then granted and a receiver appointed.
Early Monday morning Philip Stries, resid
ing at the corner of William and Ash streets,
Philadelphia. cut his wifc's throat while she
was asleep in bed Stries then ran out of the
house and Jumped into FranktOrd creek with
the intention of drowning himself, but was
rescued and arrested. The woman's condi-
ton is dangerous. The prisoner says he does
not know what prompted him to commit the
act.
Rev DR.. Ignatius F. Horstmann, pastor of
St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Philadel-
phia, has received number of threatening
letters from man who is known as Nicholas,
the prophet The final communication, it is
said. threatened his life, fact which led to
placing the case in the hands of the police.
Nicholas asserts himself to be inspired by the
Holy Ghost, and finds fault because Dr. Horst
mann will not be guided by his views.
The L. S. bonded warehouse of Covert,
Ackert & Co., 10 South street, 33 Depeyster
street, and 1852 Maiden lane, New York was
burned on Saturday night. The loss is esti-
mated at about s., 100000. The building $50
Broadway, i'll the same city, owned by Travers
& Collegiate, and occupied by W. T. Moore g.
Co., dealers in linen and dress goods, and
Alvah, Hall Co., umbrella manufacturers,
was nearly burned out the same night. The /
loss is about $4,000 on building and stock. /
The imagination of the most sensational of
French romance writers never conceived of I
scene more grotesque and horrible than was
witnessed in Jersey City, \. j., Monday last. /
A small pox patient escaped from his home
in a delirious condition and died in the streets.
Two drunken men, supposng the dead man to
be III the same condition as themselves, only /.
a little worse, picked the body up, and, sup
porting it between them, walked it to police /
station two blocks distant.
Mr. and Mrs. j. w. Gibbons, living near
Ashland, Kentucky, went out visiting Friday
evening of last week, leaving their 17-year-old /
son, 14-year- old daughterand Emma Thomas. /
aged Il years, III charge Of the house. Later i
in the night the house was entered by villains, /
who murdered the young man and the girls, I
having first maltreated the latter, and set fire /
to the place to conceal the crime. There is t
no clue to the murdercrs. but reward OfSl00O
is offered for their arrest.
very extraordinary case OF death from
hydrophobia occurred at Philadelphia last /
The victim, young clerk, Henry .
B. Comfy, was bitten on finger three years
and a-half ago by a common dog. The wound .
was at once cauterized, and as the animal /
showed no symptoms of madness his friends
supposed that he soon forgot the occurrence.
but it appears that it continually preyed on
his mind until three days ago, when he was
stricken down by the dreadful dis
ease. He died yesterday, after showing all
the symptoms of hydrophobia.
Between five and six hundred colored emf
grants from Edgefeld county, S. c., passed
through Augusta. Ga, on Tuesday, on their
way to Arkansas. They were under the lead
ership ola colored preacher named Hammond,
who promised to have a chartered train wait
ing for them at Augusta, but failed to do so,
and the party had to pay full rates to At
lanta. They say they found it too hard work
to make living in South Carolina, and de-
to go elsewhere. Hammond went
to Arkansas some time ago and examined the
country, .....
The West Shore Railroad laborers at Corn
wall, New York, engaged in a row last Sun
day night. An Italian was shot in the leg,
and an lrishman, who was set upon by Ital-
ans, was seriously stabbed and will probably
die. Several others were injured. Fearing
another outbreak, the authorities on Monday