The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-01-07

Negotiations for commercial treaty be-
tween France aud England are in muddle.
on the Clydp alone 100000 more tons of
shipping were built than in the most active
previous wears.
''Biaiuisln !, the latest word coinage in
England to designate American 'ilngoism
or political hraegadocio
Herman Wilsing, ex-Trcasurer of Lee
county. Iowa, has been indicted for einbezzle-
men, uf $1,000 while he was IN Office.
The new route Co California by way of the
Texas Pacific Railroad was opened this week.
the FIRST train leaving St Louis on Sunday
morning.
Chinese immigration has fallen III during
the past year. the number arriving IN San
Francisco being II. s67. while SITS Cinnamon
returned to Asia
The attendance at the closing exercises OF
the Atlanta exposition on Saturday wTs cnor-
nous Thousands were unable 10 gam adj
mission 70 the judges hall.
A telegram from Los Angeles, California,
reports that Mrs. Cruz, living at Florence,
near thai place. gave birth last week TO SIX
perfectly formed female children.
Seventeen persOns-eieven of them women
died in New York during 1891, whose ages,
it was alleged, ranged from 100 to lO6 years
All but three of them we're of foreign birth.
Edward f. Ryan, Michael Ryan and Richard
Adkins. railroad employees, were buried one
hundred feet deep by snow slide at Paradise
Tunnel, near Silverton, Colorado, last Satur-
DAY.
George s. Reed, Il widower, killed his moth
er-in-law, dangerously wounded his eight
year-old daughter, and then committed suicide,
in San Francisco, ON Saturday morning. 1t
i believed he was insane.
J. f. :. Lloyd, manufacturer of Lloyd :
Maps, has been arrested in Norfolk. Virginia,
ON a requisition from the Governor of Ten
nesSee. charging him with obtaining $4,000
Ia $50, 600 ON false pretences.
William f. Cameron, Governor of Virginia,
was inaugurated Monday in Richmond. The
oath was administered by Judge Fitzhugh in
the Library of the Capitol building. The
other state officers were also sworn in.
saloon kept by two Germans at Palestine,
near Sheibyville. Indiana, was blown up with
dynamite bv unknown ruffianS on Sunday
night. This is the second building thus de
stroyed in that village within three months.
The business of the Money Order Division
of the Postal Service has increased so much
that il has been impossible TO grant the en-
ployes in that division the holiday allowed the
other Departments in Washington during
Christmas week.
The frame boarding house of Garrett Abois,
near Richburg, New York, not far from the
PENNSYLVANIA line, was destroyed by fire at
one o clock Sunday morning. Gas from an
oil well used as fuel in the kitchen was the
cause Mrs. Ahois was sick of fever, and her
husband, 20 years Of age, was asleep IN char
bv her bedside when the fire broke out. he
was awakened by the smoke and carried her
down into the snow in her night clothes, and
taen turned to save the children, but could
not reach them. Two girls, aged respectively
II and Is years, and boy of nearly 10 years
persisted in the building. Several boarders
were dangerously burned in making their es-
cape, and Mrs. Abois is likely to die from the
effects of exposure.