The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-04-16

etc. DR.. i.audeTdale and wife were severely
injured aud several eolored people are report.
ed 10 have been killed.
Wm- b. Alexander. lcOlorej, discharged
p1s;olhcc clerk al San Antonio, Texas, has
made affidavit charging John c. Manning,
the postmaster, with embeEElemenl Man.
usng has givoa 5oad for his appearance be-
fore the United States commissioner.
A passenger train on the Oregou Rail road
vas wrecked, on Monday, by falling from a
tresile bridge, a, Chiaa Galch, near Reddiug.
California The engineer and tiremen were
KILLED, and two others we're badly injured.
The disaster vas caused by ''cloud burst.
4 vessel, looking like two mas,ed steam
er, square rugged On the ioremasI, was seen
on ire from Highland Light, Cape Cod, a,
haii-past seven o clock On Saturday evening.
About quarter Of sa hour after being seen,
both masis werc IN flames, and at eight o clock
she had disappeared.
TIE padd.srs employed Ia the sheet mill Of
the Reading Iron Works, about seventy in
aanbsr, s.rssk on Monday for an advance Of
50 cents per ton. Aboat two hundred men
are thrown cut OF employment By this strike.
The paddlers al the keystone Forge. Read
isg, struck Moaday afternoon.
The Chicago labor uaion, a powerful or
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luton calilng upon ali tenants to refuse 70 give
SIP their holdings on May !, or to rent Others
or pay any advanced rent. Steps will be
taken % raise funds and employ counsel To
defend the action OF the tenants under this
resolution.
H. r. Andrews, distributing clerk ia the
poet ofice a, Chicago, WAS arrested on Saiur-
DAY evening for stealing letters. lie eOafess-
ed h,s gaiIs. tie hai been SIX years ia the
post office. aud on a salary Of $50 a month
paid the expenses OF = medical education and
lived in such style as to AwAkea suspicion,
hcnce his arrest
The I njted States Treasurer aow holds at
the New ! ork assay Office and the Phiiadel
phia Mint nearly niaeiy millions OF gold bu-
lion IN amount Sufficient 10 keep The Philadei
phia Mint constantly employed for the next
hiIess months IL IS estimated that the i'm
ponasion Of gold bullion aud coin during the
earrent Rseal year will reach at least one hun
dyed millions
Mrs Augusta Gejelga, aged ., wife Of a
cigar maker in New York, Jumped from the
roof OF i've story tenement house on Tues
day, aud vas 50 dresdiuly mangled that
death ensaed ia q few hours, Her arms, legs
aud skull we're bTokea. breeding over the
dagger u her three chiidren being exposed
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acighboFhood. caused the act.
A raAic exists at Giovers Gap, MaTioR CO.
". Va, on account OF the rayages of small
rox Ihe doctors are ali sick, and there Is
noboiy 70 bury the dead. The disease is
spreading The Governor was ,elsgraphed
Tor help TO barry the dead, but replied that
the county authorities must attend to the mat
ter. fraIas pass through the town without
stopping. The disease was Imported by a
young man returning home from the North.
While number of laborers we're clearing
suow from a railroad track, near Bingham,
Minnesota, on Thursday night Of last week,
an engine was ordered 10 make a dash at a
suGW bank, beyond which the men were cat.
ting, bat no notice of the ordsr was given to
the men The engineer backed half "a mile
aad ran At the snow, through which il plunged
to = second cut. The men were ovsrtaken by
the engine; one of them, named Ludwig Lud-
ka, vas killed; another, named August Bog
laster, was fatally injured, and three others
sustained some injuries.
The iewclry store of William Wise, in
Brooklyn, vas entered by burglars on Satur
day night, and desperate efforts were made 10
break open q large safe, containing 100000
worth OF jawelry. The burglars bored six
holes in the safe door, bat the steel plates
broke their drills, pieces Of which were after
wards found on the floor. Batfied in their
attempts, they turned to another safe, weigh
ing 100 pounds, which was built in the wall.
By means Of jackscrew, they broke it from
the wall, moved it into the back part of the
store, and forced it open, stealing therefrom
100 watches left by customers for repairs, and
also quantity of jewelry. Wise's loss is
estimated at 5000.
A man named Goodwin, accused of larceny,
was lodged in jail at Clearfed, Pa on Thurs.
day of last week. On Friday night a man
and woman, claiming TO be the brother and
sister of the prisoner, were admitted to his
cell After they left Goodwin was found dead
from knife wounds, and they were pursued,
overtAken and lodged in the Curwensvlle
iail. At the inquest on Saturday it was de-
veIoped that Goodwin had been killed by a
fellow prisoner named Evans not by his visi.
tors. The woman who visited the Jail with
Goodwin brother is a disreputable character,
and being acquainted with Evans, the jsior
''indiscreetyH permitted Goodwin and she
woman to visit Evans cell. There the men
quarreled, and the stabbiag took place.
Goodwips brother was discharged, but the
woman was held as accessory to the murder.
The flood in the Missouri Valley, above
Sioux City, Iowa, continues to recede. Vim.
AuuuluSuduls hH olu oGNtlti VI AtdhOtd Guilty.
Nebraska, was drowned while trying to escape
from his house, to join his family on higher
ground. The damage done at YaRkton is re-
ported to be great, the Government ware
houses being destroyed and many houses re
moved from their places or swept away. Sew
eral steamers lie on the railroad track, and
one is on the prairie, a mile inland. De-
spatches oh Wednesday say;-The overflow
OF the Missouri in Dakota is gradually subsid-
ing, through the ice is piled up ON the banks
from ten to thirty feet high. Yankton is fill
ing up with refugees from the low lands, and
there is great need Of hel for them. Nearly
all they possessed in stock, houses and crops
has been swept away. Hundreds ofthousands
of cattle have been drowned. Immense areas
of country are still under water, and all rail-
road communication has been cut off by wa
ter or snow. Yankton is almost destitute of
fuel and coal oil, and short of provisions
which renders the situation urgent The citi
zens are doing all they can for their own and
the refugee sufferers. The damage to steam
boat property at Yanktoa amounts to about
100000. The losses to other property is very
great.