The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-05-27
News of the Week.


James King. aged twenty years, was fatal
ly gored in the throat by an Infatuated bull,
at his home in Chesterfield county, Va, Mon
day evening.
The New Jersey Medical Society has adopt
ed a resolution eondemning the recognition of
homeopathic physicians by the New York
State Medical Society.
Mrs. Vanderbilt. the wife of the late Com
modore 5 heir. pays her chief cook 5000
wear. or more than the annual compensation
of United States Senator.
DR.. Glenn, the great California wheat grow
er. is making preparations to harvest 100000
bushels of wheat this year. DIR. Glenn Is
native of Augusta county, Va.
Mrs. Maria Bruce, of Rappahannock. Va,
beat her ten -vear-old Step-child to death and
took the body to log cabin fired it and burn
ed the body. She has been arrested.
1t is estimated that there are S30.0o0,0O0
invested in the Pennsylvania railroad shops
in Altoona, Pa. When in full operation they
employ 300 men, and the payroll reaches
$40. 900 per month
4 man named George Beecrott was instant
" killed Thursday morning at the Feuton
Iron Works. in Trenton. y. j.. By coming in
contact with the fy-wheel. His head was
completely taken off.
Seventy of the principal business firms of
Moscow have addressed memorial to the
Russian minister of finance. setting forth the
disastrous consequences o. the expulsion of
The Jews from Moscow.
Reports from southern and eastern Iowa
state there was heavy frost Sunday night,
Fruit large aud small and corn were much
damaged In some places the leaves ON the
trees were turned brown.
At Allentown. Pa, on SUNDAY. Elmer Er1-
man. aged IL, Chas. Reuter- and John Shuun
we're swept over the Lehigh dam in a rowboat.
Erdman was drawn under the dam aud drown
ed. The others swan To the shore
Six steamships with over 200 British immi-
grants for the Northwest arrived az Montreal
TUESDAY. Adyicrs received from Grrat Bril-
tain state that every ship eomming out dur
ing the season will De crowded with Iassen-
gerS.
Ten prisoners escaped from the Lancaster
county. Pa. prison during the dinner hour on
"Wednesday The escaped criminals were
amongst the most notorious confined u the
prison. Their terms of sentence ranged from
s to 70 years.
1 fire AZ Wvnan. Mich. ON Sunday de-
sfruvcd o. ". Avery ss.wmili, causing loss
Of about So 900: also 4.ihl. 100 feet OF lum-
Der and 2.up,Ws0 shingles belonging TO II. 2.
Wymau 4 Co, whose loss !, estimated At from
S7o.uo 10 $4,000.
4 baud % sigilant- have been chasing eight
horse thieves ia Missouri ior over two weeks.
Three were captarcl aud lyuehyd. oBe has
SINCE been killed, one nortally shot and a
third one captured and in jail The other tWo
Will he captured and lynChed.
Frank James aud several of hi, notorious
c0Hledersies are reported te be ia Texas. Wlth
headquarters AZ Dallas. They have stolen
many horses aud other valuable property, bat
have hsca spotted by Pinkertou detectives.
who hope soon 20 capture the gang.
An overcuas was found TUESDAY hanging on
the fence near the whirlpool 81 Niagara Falls
in the pocket ~ which nnsc was found 90 the
rifccs that the writeT. Heary II. Gp1H had
committed saicide by jumping inSo she whlTi-
p-ol lie belonged in Sc Catharines-
John Ne Msuenpa, farmer. near Nuscs-
iiue. Iowa, was sho, and killed by hi- httrva.
yrns-oid daughter last week. The father AMI
daughter wcre quarrcliag wkcn the glrl
breihsr aged l.. handed her 3 revolver. with
which shc shos her father through she bFeast-
The scarcity oflallr q, Victoria, b. e.. cou-
tuass, and the shipping IS s,rifEsly affected.
THo large vessels are Wing IN tlie hsrbor, be-
iae unable IN - a Sra The nited States
rsveunr cutter Al thai station has les, al bai
one man b. dFssrtion. As high - SO per
nonih has he-n offered 80 ssslors and refused.
/ tract q eaal land containing over Zoo
acres, en the Hroad mountain. in the Mahaaay
valley, Pa. and estimated e. coptaia over
i0a.Wn.Uo toss 81 eusl. has been leased Tor
period Of = years by psoiaInsnt capitalists Of
Nes York aud Nsuch Chunk. SIX larzr col
iieries sal be ezccted and minlng operations
hessn a. oage-
The raiiroad coal miarrs ut the Ptssbarg
iisirirg bed 3 WcetiHg a. PiitsbarE, Pa, sat
urdar uue hundred aud thirty pits we're
represented AZ the meeting and ii Has resolved
10 continue chs strike a-alas, the reduction,
and iu aust WeFk Ia rvefy pii 10 the district u
the coi0gcd uea employed asc noi discharged
by che j., Of laar.
The rcparss u shs- crops ia Illinois aud 9th
rr states arr not calculated 20 inspire conn.
,isure. The State Department 81 AeTirul,src
20 iliinJis has received reports shas corn
planting has icca DELAYED by frost and rains.
and that the svny worm has made It's appear
nnce in such uarnlsrs ~ o. raHss unsas3ness
regarding thc grass and grain crop.
Eta Mas kissed yonnz man. on hl,idiag
him gu1d -byr az . Davenport. iOua, railroad
station aud wAs 81 nucg iariuasiy assaulted by
Mr.. Apologize. she s,ossl BY. As Mrs. APP.
plrsate = no; 4 rrlatIvr 90 thr fellow Mo W4s
kissed, Miss NAY j. pszzlcd So acc0uut for
ths LADY,, iuferg.; n the matter. aud Mr.. APP
plsgale has separated from her IN conse.
queace-
The hmsl conference bctweeu the u.auuiue-
tarers and the committee Of the Ana gaiaated
Association ot lroa aud Steel workers relative
10 signing a wages scale for the ensuing year
was hrid a, PitssbarE. Pa. on Monday The
manufacturer refused 10 conce,is the advance.
aai . strike on June is expected. Ii strike
occars sn,0pO men wlil be thrown cut Il en-
ploymeu,.
The BROOKLYN SUNDAY school anniversary
Vas ceiebraied On "Wednesday by a parade OF
the children and teachers. Fisgs we're DIS
played ON ali she municipal hujldiugs- About
l2.Uo0 children this year JOINED Ia the Pros.
pect Park division. that place having been Sc
iecgcd Tor their celebration. Abust 5O,0OO
children aad teachers joined in the parade
from l26 schools.
There Is in the White House at Washington
an aiabaster clock that has quite an historical
value II IS surmouuted by statue OF the
Muse OF History, and Is oue Of the most beau
tifai time pieces in Washington. The clock
vas a present from Bonaparte Is Lafayette.
who 10 turn gave II 50 Washington. who de-
creed that it should b. handed down TO his
SUCCESSORS IN the Presidential office.
sunday. IA NAruUoFA. y. H. 4~tF + aaN e. sl-eN
~ wears a well-k known citizen, visited ms
wife. from whom be- had temporarily been
separated and left after brief but stormy
interview Mrs. Faye soon afterward went 10
her mother grave and strewed It with flow
ers. Returning home gun was discharged
from the bushes near by, and she fell mOrtally
wounded her asssilani being her husband.
Fave was arrested.
VIM Brockway, alias Edward ". Spencer.
aud Charles III. Smith, alias Charles SIaythe,
were indicted by the grand jury OF Washing
ton Thursday for having distracted bond.
plates from the vaults OF the Bureau OF En-
craving aad Printing Brockway and Smith
are the men whom Doyle, the counterfeiter,
implicated in his recent confession at Chicago
in connection with alleged stolen bond-plates.
Warrants for the apprehension of Brockway
and Smith have been issued.
The steamship Alaska, of the Guion Line,
which reached her dock at New York early
SUNDAY afternoon. made the quickest western
passage on record. She passed Roche :
Point. near Queenstown on Sunday, the 18th,
at II - a. m. and reached Sandy Hook sun
day morning at lilo. The actual tilae was
seven days, four hours and ten minutes This
is two hours and eight minutes faster than her
last westward passage, which until this one
was the quickest on record.
A dispatch from Detroit, Michigan, May
p. saws Major Charles Burdott, the we'll