The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-06-10
News Of the Week.

Eighteen counties in Kansas show an ia
GREASE in crop acreage Of lss. S'iS-
Two hundred and iffy-six Thousand yoang
shad we're placed in the Potomac al DAVIS
Bridge, near Piedmont, West Virginia. on
Tuesday.
Captain Tenneek, o; the British steamer
Strawberry, has been arrested ia San Fran
cisco for bringing So more Chinese than the
Law allows.
A conference of the iron manufacturers Of
the West wAs held at Pislsbarg, Pa, on We'd
nesday. Il was unanimously resolved not to
eoueede the advanced demanded in wages.
Two Of the four horses which the Emperor
If Russia has just given 10 the German Era-
peror are the identical ones that drew the late
Cars carriage when he was assassinated.
The Representatives of the Knights Of Labor
Of Philadelphia are consulting with other or
sanizations throughout Pennsylvania with re-
ference to holding State labor convention in
July.
Thirty-fve lodges of starving Indians are
encamped within three miles Of Fort Sisseton,
OAK. They are unwilling to return to their
reservation because there Is 40 food for them
At the agency.
Gen. Garibaldi died on June md, at Capre-
IA. Italy, aged nearly 75 years. He was born
in Nice, July 4, 1907, aud was mariner by
profession. He played many parts in his
time. He came TO this country in 1850, after
a defeat in Italy, aud engaged in eandle-mak-
ing in New Aork.
AT large memorial service in Brighton,
Mass, Sunday nigat, under the auspices Of G..
A. X. posts, Col. j. ID. Washbnrn, of Worees-
ter, delivered the address. warmly advocating
repeal of all legislation disqualifying Confed
crate soldiers from filling positions in the
United States army.
The storm in Southampton county, Va. San
day, did great damage to crops, and number
of houses were blown down. Hail fell to q
depth of several inches. Many stones are re-
ported a foot in length and weighing n pound
and half Mrs. Caroline Williams, an aged
ladys was so frightened by the storm that her
life is despaired of.
Privy Councillor D'Alinge, the director of
a large reiormatory institution in GERMANY
estimates that there are 200, 900 professional
tramps and beggars in that country, and that
their maintenance consumes over 200, 000, 900
marks $50, 200, 600 annually, all cost and no
return. The proportion of Jews in this army
of the idlers is small.
A San Antonio, Texas, special says A
terrible explosion occurred ON Tuesday in
tunnel number one, ON the G. p. and I. rail-
way extension. Two hundred and fifty kegs
of blasting powder were ignited by workman
on the east end of the extension. The work
men in the west end were at once overwhelm-
ed with earth, rocks and trees. Three were
killed and FIVE wounded.
A destructive hail and wind storm occurred
Sunday afternoon, extending from Halifax to
Garysburg, n. C., distance of ten miles.
Several houses were blown down and huge
trees uprooted. Matilda Gary, colored, and
her two daughters, four and fifteen years old,
living near Garysburg, were killed by the
blowing down of her house, The others of
the family narrowly escaped alive. The hail
stones were as large as ones fist. 1t is fear
AIDES of fallen trees.