The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-10-07
News Of the Week.

IL
was DESTROYED by fire below Vicksburg on
Saturday night, and twenty-one lives were los''
The taxable value of railroads in Illinois as
determined bvthe State board of equalization
is $50, 727, $50. There are ,539 miles Oh
railroad in the State.
The floods in the Tyrol. Switzerland, have
reduced hundreds of wealthy landowners 70
poverty. The laboring class IS IN terrible
distress. The approach of winter greatly ag-
grayates the situation.
. A company of capitalists from Iowa are
about erecting another blast furnace at BIZ
mingham, Ala. There is now So, CSC, 600 IN
vested in the manufacture of pig iron IN the
Birmingham district. l.; ya;asys TED .j8f
The Railway age reports the construction OF
1,209 miles of main track during September,
and a total for nine months of the present year
of 8,O75 miles; estimated construction for the
year, 10, 500 miles, an amount far greater than
ever before built in one season. is'k
Henry Holloway, eolored, had a hearing at
Prospect, Tenn, on Tuesday, before a magls-
on Saturday night. The magistrate decided
to commit him for trial, but he was immedi-
ately seized by a mob and hanged from a
bridge near by. AfI 9ai
At the National Farmers Congress in St.
Louis on Saturday a resolution to send a COM
mittee to the tariff commission was passed.
1t characterizes the present tariff as burden
to agricultural interests, and declares in favor
of making the commissioner of agriculture a
cabinet officer.
At republican club meeting at Mobile,
Ala, Monday night Gen. Jos. W. Burke,
United States collector of the port at Mobile,
was assaulted by Allen Alexander, a eolored
republican politician, and severely injured.
The assault was made with cane or UNI
brella.
4 Six persons were killed in collision OF
passenger trains on the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railroad at Salem Switch, Kansas
on Sunday night. An inexperienced brake
man caused the accident by misplacing g
switch. He ran away after the collision, but
subsequently gave himself up.
| A passenger train on the Mount Alto Rail
road ran over a COW Tuesday morning, sever
miles east of Waynesboro, Pa. One passen
ger car was thrown from the track and nine
passengers were injured, four of them, Mrs
Ditlow, of Huntingdon, DR.. Hayes, of Ship
pensburg, j. G. Hess, of Quincy, and Con
ductor Fahnestook seriously but not fatally.
A train on the Memphis and Charleston
Railroad was thrown from the track on Monday
near Decatur, and two coaches, in which
| there were % passengers, rolled down an EN-
bankment 20 feet high. All of the passenger,
| except FIVE were more or less seriously injur
ed. Conductor Baughman, whose home is il
Lynchburg, Va, was fatally injured
At the Jefferson College Hospital, in Phil
adelphia ON Saturday, Dr.'H L. Little per
formed an operation on a young Irishmar
whose eye had been burned by sulphuric acid
destroying the conjunctiva. The correspond
ing section of rabbits eye was stitched tc
the injured part of the mans eye, and it j:
believed now that the operation of transplant
ing will be entirely successful rla
In the United States Court at Trenton, on
Tuesday, Carl Anders, of Camden, was charg
ed with getting up false affidavits to secure
pension as a soldier, and Robert Estell, O
Monmouth county, was charged with having
taken in one case $500 and in another $500
from soldiers for getting pensions. Col. Chas
| H. Haughton, collector of Perth Amboy, was
put on trial on the charge of defrauding the
government by means of false vouchers.
The s'Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin
eers'' was organized in 1862, at Marshal
Michigan, with only II members. Since then
it has steadily progressed until now it in
| cludes nearly all the locomotive engineers il
this country and Canada. In 1867 they es
tablished an insurance association, and in 1!
years they paid to the widows and children
81, 2O3 1888. rs; fund has been established fol
the benefit of the needy which has given on
$3.50, 900. ..,-..i....I.... 1850. .,..-. -,
Judge Thomas W. Merriwether lives il
Newton county, Ga, and his near friend, DR.
R. w. Lovett, in Screven county. They were
schoolmates. They first married twin sisters
daughters of Bishop Andrew. Their wives
died and they then married two other sisters
also daughters of bishop-Bishop Price
600 xy;yacf d;ad opd fbaIy fbaD ;ad .
third pair of sisters, not daughters of bishop
but two sisters-being the daughters of Mr.
Smith, of Green county. With these last sis
tiers they are living happily. r a.H5
Jas. Kelly died at his residence in Allie
gheny county, Pa, last Friday, aged SO years
Twenty-Five years ago he was the wealthies
man in Western Pennsylvania, his possession
at that time being valued at $5,000,O00. HI
lost over 5000, 900 by indorsing for his friends
he sunk $4,000 in car-building enterprise
Much of his property was in the suburbs o
Pittsburg, and it was heavily assessed for city
taxes. He refused to pay, and carried the
which decided against him. He died PENN
less. ft.-.s T.-. r.f 5 ~
John R. Bagges, Jr., living near Clarks
burg, W. Va, killed his wife and daughter
aged ID, Sunday morning, while mentally de
ranged from the effects of drink He attacked
his wife while she was in bed. She called
her daughter, who assisted her to escape hel
husband grasp. Mother and daughter ther
fed from the house. Bagges seized a large
iron poker and followed. Overtaking his
wife, he struck her twice, the last blow prov
ing fatal. The daughter, coming up to save
her mother, was killed by one blow. The
other children ran away. Neighbors found
the mother and daughter lying dead in the
road and discovered Bagges in the house in
toxicated He denied the killing and all
knowledge of it. .fa -eaat-'
The funeral ofMoy Chang, Chinese laun.
dryman, who died in New York, took place
on Monday, the remains being inferred in q
Presbyterian cemetery in Westchester county
A large number of Celestials accompanied the
body, and as they proceeded on the New Y ork
and Harlem Railroad they threw little scraps
of paper out of the windows. After the grave
had been filled in they placed upon and about
it one large plate of chicken, three bowls Of
rice and demijohn of some kind of liquor.
Then, after placing the joss stick in the ground
and lighting about 800 candles, they went to
! the depot and returned to New York. Moy
Chang was a. member of the West Thirty,
Ninth street Presbyterian Sunday school
Six months ago Max Lowenstein, of Phila-
delphia, was happy husband and father.
Sunday he blew his brains out over his wife s
grave. His little daughter died on May 81,
and two days after the child was buried in a
newly bought lot in Greenwood Cemetery.
On July z Lowenstein visited the vice presi-
dent of the cemetery company in state bor-
dering on distraction. ''My God" he cried,
wringing his hands and crying like child,
81 don't want to live now. Ny wife is dead,
and I'll be the next" When his wife was
buried he spent lengthy vigils at her grave,
sometimes remaining day at time. On
September 8 another of his children, boy,
died at Chester. This was the third death in
five months, and Lowenstein was completely
broken down. He spent all day last Friday
lying ON his wife's grave. Sunday he kissed
his children and said he was going on a long
journey. He went quickly to the cemetery
and threw himself ON the grave of his wife.
While in this position he put pistol to his
head and blew his brains out. - i''.h.sI
d -. al &. . 81 ~ a.