The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-03-03
News of the Week.


Dispatches from several places in New
England announce slight earthquake shock
Tuesday morning.
Rev. W. E. Krebs, of Littlestown, Pa,
has accepted the Presidency of Allentown
Female College, and will remove there in
April.
Frank Callahan, letter carrier of Wash
ington, was arrested Tuesday for robbing the
mails. Fifteen decoy letters were found on
him.
The freight steamship Glamorgan was
wrecked at sea February Is, and seven lives
were lost. The rest of the crew were rescued
by the Republic.
Strawberries from Florida, South Carolina
and Georgia, are selling at rs cents a quart in
New York. Several weeks ago they were
S2.75 per quart.
A dispatch from Wausau, Wisconsin. on
Tuesday says that snow lies three feet on the
level, business is at standstill and even log
ging and numbering is stopped
1t is said that the new depot to be built in
Buffalo by the New York, West Shore and
Buffalo road will be the handsomest in the
State outside of New York city, and will cost
$3.50, ZOO.
During the month of February %, 41O bales
of cotton were exported from Norfolk, Va.
The value of exports from that port for the
month is 81, 124, Cos, of which amount 81 ,033,
All represents cotton,
A house at Providence, r. L., occupied by
William Hadley, was burned on Saturday,
and an infant child was suffocated. Five
others were dropped from the third story to a
man below and saved.
The fusion greenback State committee for
Maine held meeting at Augusta Wednesday
night and decided to act with the Democratic
party in 1884, and that the Scion Chase green
hackers be ignored in the future.
The residence of Samuel Bixler, an old
farmer, living near Zoar, Ohio, was entered
on Monday night by two masked robbers who
overpowered Bixler and his daughter and
stole nearly 81 200 in gold and silver from a
chest.
The boiler in Banholzer's brewery, at St.
Paul, Mimi, exploded Friday of last week,
Among the wounded are five women, who
had come to the place for malt. The loss is
from SIS ZOO to $4,000.
The contributions for the sufferers by the
floods received at Cincinnati aggregate $780,
OOO 1t is probable the $4,000 appro-
priated by the city council will be returned to
the treasury. The losses at Lawrenceburg,
Ind, aggregate $4,000.
The loss by the fire at Lynchburg, Va, on
Tuesday night will foot up 1920, 600 About
200, 900 pounds of manufactured tobacco and
900 pounds of leaf were burned, as well
as the machienery and the factories. Myers
Bros & Co., are insured for $66, 500.
Col George W. Cummins, of Smyrna,
Delaware, sent John Wilkinson to Ireland
with purse of $500 to bring over a family of
laborers, and John returned a day or two ago
with party numbering 49, Mr.. CumminS
readily found homes for all of them.
John Crawford, ex-State auditor of Arkan-
sas, who is short in his accounts, has handed
to Mr.. Judkins, president of the Senate,
mortgage on his property, which he desires
not to be foreclosed unless he fails to pay
principal and interest by January l, 1885.
Eighteen white and four colored convicts
from the Arkansas State penitentiary, while
at work on a levee two miles below Helena,
mutinied on Saturday and disarmed the
guard. Mr.. James H. Cant, a contractor,
was killed by the mutineers, who then es-
capped.
The greater part of the stove works of
Myers, Osborn & Co., in Cleveland; were de-
stroyed by fire of unknown origin on Tues
day. Incendiarism is suspected, because for
months past the strikers, whose places had
been filled by non-uniou men, have been
troublesome.
Charles Breslin, Martin Brennan and Thos
Gallagher were burned on Saturday by an
explosion at Green Ridge colliery, near Mt.
Carmel, Pa. A gangway at Bickel colliery,
in the same district, caved in burying Joseph
and Elias Powell, miners. Both were recov-
cred alive, though badly injured.
A farmer living near Galway, Saratoga
county, n. Y, dug well near his barn ~
feet to obtain water. The cattle refused to
drink the water, and sample was analysed
and found to contain 80 per cent. of petrole-
UNI. 1t does not look like crude petroleum,
but would pass for refined kerosene.
In the Maine House of Representatives
Wednesday an amendment to the capital pun
ishment hill was adopted that a jury, in rem
dering verdict for murder, may recommend
the prisoner to the mercy of the court; also an
amendment that counsel for the prisoner shall
have the closing argument to the jury.
A widow washerwoman named Caroline
Bernheimer was taking in clothes on the roof
of the box factory of George Blair in York
street, New York, Monday night, when she
stepped through skylight and fell upon
revolving circular saw. She was cut entirely
in two, the saw passing through her heart.
She leaves a daughter eight years old.
The length of track of the Pennsylvania
Railroad laid within the bounds of that State
aggregates 1920 miles. This does not include
side tracks or double tracked portions of its
lines. The total length of the lines owned,
leased and controlled east of Pittsburg is g.
$50. 93, including 406 miles of canals and fer
ries.
An explosion of dynamite occurred on
Saturday, in the open air in the village of
Ganshorten, Germany. 1t is stated that of
the two men who were wounded, one named
Metayer has since died. The prisoners be-
longed to committee of anarchists They
were experimenting with new kind of fire.
work when the explosion accidentally occur
red.
In the Pennsylvania House of Representa-
tives on Tuesday. bill was reported favora-
bly, from the judiciary committee providing
that if the city of Philadelphia shall furnish
suitable accommodations for the executive
business and for the sessions of the Legisla-
ture, without cost to the State, the Legjsla,
ture will meet in that city on the first Tuesday
in January, 1885, and thereafter.
A party of 81 Germans, ladies and gentle
men, left Hawley, Pa, on Monday night, in
a large open sleigh, on pleasure trip. Half
u mile from town the sleigh slid off the icy
road into the empty Delaware and Hudson
Canal, distance Of 40 feet. All of the party
were injured, six of them seriously Rein
hard Wary, Il merchant, died on Tuesday
Of his injuries.
An apple in perfect preservation, although
ninety-six years old, is in possession of a
gentleman in Ulster county, n. Y. AS it
rounded up from the blossom of the parent
stem in the early summer Of 1857, a bottle
was drawn oyer it and attached to the branch
and after the apple had ripened the stem was
severed and the bottle sealed tightly. 1t
looks as fresh as when first plucked.
The committee on constitutional amend F..
ments in the lower house of the Missouri
Legislature have 1921 petitions asking that |
the prohibitory amendment be submitted to
the people of the State, and 1851 remon-
strances against such action. The committee !
takes this as a fair expression of the sent,
ments Of the people, and will report unfavor-
ably on the joint resolution providing for the
submission.
A man was arrested in Boston for drunken
ness. He gave recognizance to appear be-
fore the onurf He than wont