The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-12-03
News of the Week.


Mrs. Sarah E. Pressler, aged 107 years,
months and q days, died at Plattskill, n. y,
on November a.
The Democratic members of the Kentucky
Legislature on Thursday night unanimously
decided to re-elect L nited States Senator Beck.
A boy seven years old, playing in paper
mill at Manayunk, Pa, on Wednesday, was
caught in the betting and his head and arms
torn from his body.
James P. Holland. implicated with two 9th
ers in the murder of Burgess Jones, in 1879,
was lynched by mob at Dardonel, Arkansas,
on Sunday night.
An affrav occurred in the Nashville. Tenn,
penitentiarv on Tuesday, between two con-
victs named McDaniels and Lambert, in which
the latter beat the former to death.
A freight train and coal train on the Read
ing Railroad collided Tuesday morning west of
the Phenixville tunnel, and an engine and
thirty-seven cars were wrecked, delaying travel
for about two hours.
Joseph Noel, car inspector at the Northern
Central Railroad depot at York, Pa, was run
over by car Tuesday afternoon, whilst in the
discharge of his duties, and received injuries
from which he died in two hours.
The Paulding Iron Furnace, at Cecil,
Paulding county, Ohio, owned by Giraffe,
Bennett & Co., of Pittsburg, was burned on
Sunday morning. Loss, 100000. Its de-
struction throws 500 men out of employment.
William Kneir, of Petersburg, Lancaster
county, Pa, and Nathan Graybill, went out
to hunt muskrats Wednesday night, and in the
darkness Graybill, installing his companion
for the object of their search, shot him fatally.
Insurance Commission Foster, at Harris
burg Pa, has ordered thorough examination
of the books of the State Capital Mutual In
surance Company, to ascertain whether 1t has
conducted its business i'll accordance with Its
charter.
The barns of the Maxwell brothers, on their
farm. near Geneva, New York, were destroy
ed early "Wednesday morning by an incendIary
fire. with fifty head of Holstein cattle; fifty
hogs, five horses, and quantity OF feed. The
The loss is about S45, 900.
Twelve oil tanks and four freight cars of a
Lehigh and Susquehanna train were thrown
down the bank at Weissport, on Monday night.
Tuesday afternoon the oil cars took fire from
sparks from a passing engine and were de-
stroyed, with a large section OF track.
The American Rubber Company factory.
at East Cambridge Mass. was totally destroy
ed by fire Monday night, with valuable ma
chinery and q large stock of goods. The loss
is estimated at S5OO,OO0. The factory empfOy-
ed 600 persons, three -fourths of them women.
A devil-fsh captured at Portugal Cove, near
St. John s, Newfoundland, on November 10th,
has arrived in New York, preserved with ice.
It's body is FIVE feet, and its head nearly foot
and a half long. 1t is about five feet around,
and one of the tentacles measures twenty-five
feet.
Henry Seward Hubbard, of Providence, r.
l.. arrived in Washington on Sunday morning
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and soon gave indications that he was a crank.
On being asked his mission there he said he
was the spirit of Garfield, and came to pre-
side at the trial of Guiteau.
Last Saturday four men passed through
Aberdeen, Mississippi, in wagon ON the way
to Arkansas, and they camped for the night
few miles east of Aberdeen. On Sunday
three of them were found dead, lying on mat
tresses, each with his head split open. There
was no evidence that they had been robbed.
The Bank of Prince Edwards Island, at
Charlottetown, in that Province, suspended
Monday. 1t had a capital of Sl20,0O0, and
circulation amounting to 100000. The cash
Ter, it is said, made unauthorized advances to
the amount Of $780, 200. 1t is believed the
stockholders and depositorS will ultimately
''come all right.
In Harrisburg, Pa, Monday, Judge Pearson
mutual insurance companies against whom
writs of quo warranto have been asked, to file
their answer by December 9Th. This was
done at the request of the Attorney General,
in order that no delay may be occasioned on
December 18th, the time set for argument.
A recount Of the votes cast in the second
Assembly district Of Mercer county, n. D., for
VIM. Ossenberg, republican, and William j.
| Convery, democrat, took place at Trenton
Saturday, before the chief justice, and result
ed in changing the majority from "A for Os
senberg to for Convery. This makes the
Assembly as follows Republicans 30, indie
pendent republican l, democrats 80.
Columbia College is again in luck, the late
Stephen Whitman Phoenix, having left it
$500, ZOO together with large library. No in
structions are given as to the application Of
the money, but wish is expressed that it be
applied in part to perfecting the laboratory in
the Department of Physics. Deceased was a
graduate of 1859, and three of the family had
previously graduated from the same institu-
ton.
The official vote of New York State was
canvassed Wednesday i'll Albany. It gives
the following pluralities Carr, Republican,
for Secretary of State, 1902; Davenport, Re
publican, for Comptroller, 14,084; Maxwell,
Democrat, for Treasurer, 20, 943; Russell, Re
publican, for Attorney General, II, 335; Sey-
mour, Republican, for Engineer and Survey
or, 6, ITO; Finch, Republican, for Judge of APP
peals II 300.
The ninth annual convention of the Ma
tional Butter, Cheese and Egg Association
opened Tuesday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
| Twenty-Five States were represented Gov
ernOr Gear welcomed the delegates, and tele-
grams were read from the Boards of Trade of
Philadelphia, New York and Chicago. The
display Of butter is the largest ever seen in the
| United States, while that Of dairy appliances
and machinery can only he computed by the
acre.
The Richmond and Allegheny Railroad
Company have Just closed a contract to deliv-
er 10000 tons of ore at Chester, Pa, from the
Greenway district on the James river. The
district embraces the Stonewall, Riveville
and Greenway mines, in Amherst county, Va.
The contract, requiring 5000 cars of ten tons
each, is one of the largest ever made in this
country, and shows how rapidly the iron re-
sources of the James River Valley are heing
developed under the advantages afforded by
the Richmond and Allegheny road.
Sherman and Ellis, itinerant preachers, call
ing themselves the Holiness Vanguard, hired
a hall in Quincy, ILL.,, and soon had revival
under full headway While they made nu.
merous converts, they also offended the clergy
Of the city by violently abusing them, and
their meetings became disorderly with turbu-
lent divisions of sentiment. The two revival
lists were at length shown to be unprincipled
adventures, bent only on making profitable
collections, and, ON being arrested as Migrants,
! they promised to leave town Immediately if
released.
Seven persons from Kentucky with an at
torney, who hold policies in the graveyard in
! in Hor D., Il
vicinity on persons who have died, aggregat-
| ing $50, 1000, are in Harrisburg to prosecute
their claims. They have thus far been unable
to get satisfaction from the companies in which
they had insured their men. Some of the
companies in which the Kentuokians hold po.
lioies of insurance have paid as low as fifty
dollars on thousand dollar policy. One of
the benefciaries from Kentucky claims that
he has paid about $500 in assessments on a
policy of $4,000.
Three accidents occurred on the Pennsvl-
| Yania Railroad on "Wednesday morning wb;ob