The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-04-29
News of the Week.

ffl0ay nlgnt OI laSt week ageu Jz years.
Mrs. Clarissa Raymond, of Wilton, Conn,
celebrated her Tooth birthday Tuesday.
There was SlO,OOO.OOO worth of barbed
wire fences built in this country last year.
I In the L. S. Senate on Tuesday bill ap-
propriating $6.000,000 for the improvement
of the Mississippi river was passed.
John Draft, of Carr Rock, Pa, was found
dead in hotel at Port .Iervis. Tuesday morn
ing. he having blown ont the gas before going
to bed.
Germany great dramatic singer. Nine.
Materna. who is to take a leading part in the
New York musical festival. arrived in that
city Saturday.
The steamer City of Sanford took fire Mon
dav between Sanford and Jacksonville. Fla,
and was totally destroyed. Nine persons were
burned TO DEATH
DIR. John p. Lipseomb, a merchant of Dan
vile, Virginia, was killed in that city, Tues
day morning, by his father-in-law, Sterling
Edmunds in a domestic quarrel.
Lake county. in Oregon, was organized ten
years ago, and ii is asserted that Is murders
have been committed within its boundaries
since that time, without any convictions.
In the obituary columns ofthe Philadelphia,
Pa, Ledger last week the death of 10 per
sons were announced who had lived to or be-
yond 50 years. The oldest was 1913 years.
Senator Hill, of Georgia. accompanied by
his wife, son and physician. arrived in St.
Louis Tuesday, on his way to Eureka Springs.
He is still very weak, and obliged to travel by
easy stages.
On Monday there were 2.000 immigrants at
ST. Paul, Mimi, destined for Manitoba, wait
ing for the subsistence of the Red river floods
Nearly half of this number are quartered in
the new Union depot building.
There was exhibited at Cincinnati Tuesday
a sample of spring wheat grown on ordinary
land near Americas, Ga. 1t was sowR No
vemher D. 1881. harvested April :. 1882, and
threshed April 2I. 1t averaged twenty bushels
to the acre. and is of good quality.
John Baumgarden, of Pottstown. Pa, in
the employ Of the pottstown Iron Company
made desperate attempt TO commit suicide
Sunday. He shot himself twice, cut his
throat, aud stabbed himself IN the stomach
The doctor says there Is possible chance Of
his recovery.
Mr. VIM. Thomas of Plymouth. Mass. aged
ninety-four years. Is now said to be the oldest
Harvard College graduate. He remembers
Ebenezer Cobb. who died "a, Plymouth at the
age one hundred and seven, and Mr.. Cobb re
membered Percgrine White. who was borne
on the Mayaower
While man was sitting in a crotch Of a tree
to saw of limb, at Saginaw, Mich. the crotch
split as the limb fell, letting him down into
the opening aud then closing on him. II took
an honr Of chOpping and prying To get him out
Of the trap. and several Of his ribs were broken
by the squeezing.
The Young women of Nevada city. Cal,
amuse the town while amusing themselves.
TWenty.foar Of them formed a cosapany. in
HiOckery OF the Young men military organi-
EsfioR, and parssded ia uniform of red calico.
with broons for guns Their hast parade
% escort bride Ia the railroad station.
Capt. Bloomer. a veteran 81 the war of
lsI2, died in Hawleyr Pa. Thursday. Their
i an insurance 0f Ssso. go ON his lie hy grave.
yard insurance spectators. Who have paid
over s., 600 in assessments. aud Who will NJ
ccive NO return. - the cempanies have re-
ernfiy hern closed lsy Attorney General Pal
mer.
Abost dozen r,.ugls belonging tt. gang
II bridge huilders. AZ EoFk pear Greenfield.
Massachusetts,. IRAN amaek through that
tnWu. GA Saturday night. aSsaHitiag citizens
aud breaking intn ssoTss. John Flynn,
rsilruad fireman. wss fatally stabbed by oar
Of them. Scvca 81 the rpshans were arrested
Sunday asleraoon.
The ne~ branch 81 the Chesapeake and
OHIO Railroad from NewpoSs News to old
Point !. under way. and the unrk Is being
pushed forward a. raridly ~ possihle. Il Is
che integsioa 70 have d completed hy ialy |,
aud TO Fan through Pullman slceperS fgofa
there % the GFrenhrieE White Sulphur Spriags
and usher mountain resorts.
John e. CLARK, = venerable printer II Phil
slelphiA. died on Saturday. aged a9. He
vas the printer for Congress, and be frequent;
y szw Pvsdeni Washington and witnessed
the Washington olsseqRics IN iTg9. While
working a. a eOmPesitor he so up from The
original manuscripts n eolame 81 Thomas
Moor poems, the author then being in Phil
sdelphia-
A Paris milliacr has ias, concluded con.
tract by whieh dealer Ia game IN Berlin
dsFfakrs 80 deliver the skins II 50 90 pigeons
dEri0g the thu season for the adornmcnt Of
hsts and bDnaets. The birds arv 20 be eAnght
10 all parts Of Germany and taken 10 the rail
way yayd, and there Killed and Immediately
skinned, the skin being forwarded 30 PARIS
and the earcasscs sesailrd ST. small sam each
on The spot.
Icsse james brother Is reported TO b. orgs-
niEing party II Avengers They wili call
themselves The Death Avengers and pro
high o. low. shO had anything 10 do with
bTingiug ahoat the death ii Jesse. The avon-
gcrs are being REGRETTED fFuns the county
which proslaecd the outlaws Polk Wells. Bill
Norris. Jim Doaghsfty, John Pomffy and
others like them.
An extensive strike was inauguratsd IN Chi
easo Thursday morning aader the aasI8ceS Of
the Team Owners Mutual Benefit Association.
of Chicago, which has a membership Of 1890
men aud controls between I. 100 and 30
teams. About !. leo trans, headed bya band
Of music, have been marching thrnagh the
principal streets and the owners have ex-
pressed the determination not 10 20 10 work
until they ges s. per day
Aa Indian outbreak has occurred in Arizo-
IN Territory, and an number of persons have
been massacrcd. Dispatches On "Wednesday
state that later news from the front Is to the
effect that the whole force of about $40 In
dams including women aud children, crossed
the Seathern Pacific track last night, going
South, near Lorishnrg. The prcsent out.
break i the most disastrous which ever occur
"a in Arizona. Nos less than seventy persons
have been killed.
= b. Andrews, an insane Han. fractured
has wile's skull with rolling pin, at their resi-
ienee near Hayesvilie, Delaware county. Pa,
On Monday night, and she died Tuesday morn
ing Andrew had amassed fortune nv won
1erful skin "a a mathematician, and light
aing calculator; bat he bad been insane for
several years, and under care of an attendant.
II is supposed that his insanity was the result
Df the peculiar, one sided mental exercise in
which he INDUCED.
Frank Lee. confidence operator, known
10 the police Of New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Brooklyn and Chicago, was ar
rested Monday in the former city. ltappears
hat he would go TO the wharf ON the arrival
81 a steamer, note merchandise in small par
,els consigned to private parties, visit the
adde's Of the house, and, representing himself
10 be Custom House officer, ask for the duty.
which he generally received. HE never ask
"a over SIS or less than So
John Trey, aged Is years, son of Benz Trey,
81 IawrencevilIc, Chester county, Pa, died
IN Monday of hydrophobia. On Sunday he
mad spasms aud 1t required eight men to hold
MIN in bed. His rawlings were terrible. He
rothed 1T the mouth and barked like dog
He was bitten in the arm by dog last fall and
/ was almost impossible TO get away from the
lninlal. He was placed under the treatment
IF DIR. Emery, the Phenixyille hydrophobia
physician, but il is said he did not follow the
loctor's advice. Several other persons bitten
~ the same dog are in great s.ate ofanXiety
md considerable excitement prevails
The American Electric Light Company Of
has failed, It's assets being moth
ng and its liabilities $4,000. The firm was