The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-06-23
News of the Week.


mated at 60, 000, 600 bushels.
Sam. Collyer, the ex-pugilist, has been ap:
pointed chief of police of the Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs.
At Mansfield. La. on Saturday Methodist
minister shot and killed another Methodist
minister for running his fiance.
Heavy rains have caused the Mississippi,
Ohio and Missouri rivers to rise, and river
bottom lands are covered with water.
Since September 1st 1872, 1852 bales of cotton
have been received at Norfolk, Va, an in
crease of 1S3, 252 bales compared with the
previous year.
A bug has made it's appearance in Berks
county, Pa, which is doing havoc with the
fruit. When the frut or the branch on which
it hangs is stung by the bng it withers and
drops off.
The Virginia Agricultural Fair this year
will offer 81, 800 in prizes for the best drilled
military companies in the state, the competi
ton for which is to take place ON the grounds
of the society.
Over 1000. car loads of strawberries were
shipped from the Maryland Delaware PENN
sula this season, besides those that were
shipped by water to Baltimore, Wilmington
and Philadelphia.
In Chicago on Sunday night Rudolph Brem,
so wears old, was struck down and killed by
Albert Tusch. The dead man met Tusch by
appointment to urge him to make PREPARATION
for the seduction of his daughter.
McGeoch, Everingham & Co. failed in
Chicago on Saturday, owing to the collapse
of corner in lard. The losses of the
firm are estimated at $2,000,000. Several
other firms were carried down by the panic.
1t is stated that twenty-one suits so far have
been commenced against the trustees of the
Brooklyn bridge by relatives of the victims OF
the disaster on Decoration Day. The DANA
ges claimed aggregate about S500,O0O
In the presence of an invited company last
Friday. Mr.. w. H. Vanderbilt drove Maud S.
and Aldine one mile in 2.15!, the greatest
double team performance on record. Mr..
Vanderbilt and his top wagon weighed All
pounds.
At Mt. Carmel, Pa, on Sunday, Mrs.
John Ford, while intoxicated, demolished
everything in her house, set fire to the build,
ing and tried to burn her nine months ola
child on the stove, but was prevented by cltl-
zens and officers
During Il recent thunder shower Il young
lady at Ipswich, Mass, was bereit of her
reason by flash of lightning. She was sit
ting by II window, and when the flash came
! fell to the floor, and when taken up her
| reason had fed.
The steamer Arabic, which arrived at San
! Francisco on Sunday, brought 700 cases OF
opium. valued at $500, 200, and on which the
duties amounted TO $250,000. 1t is estimated
that before July 1st there will be S3,OOO,OoO
worth of opium in San Francisco.
James Dee, the leader of gang Of roughs,
quarreled in a saloon in New York on Sunday
/ II Dbl, af no fpl lnI
ers. Dee went outside and hurled paving
stone through the window. fracturing Butler S
skull. He is not expected to recover.
Charles H. Morton and Sam. Wilson, col
ored men, quarreled in ST. Louis saloon
Saturday night about coored woman, Nor
ton fired twice at Wilson, missing him, but
killing Paul Lassoux, another colored man,
who was washing the windows of the saloon.
A man named Warner believed to be the
person who assaulted and stabbed little Nellie
LYONS at Cheboygan, Mich, on Tuesday OF last
week. was taken from the jail at that place
Thursday night by Il mob and hanged. The
girl identified him, but he maintained his in
nocence.
On North avenue, Chicago, Sunday night
Thos McGuire, dock laborer, met Mrs
Mary Little, proprietor of Il laundry, and cu
her throat with a razor, which he then turned
upon himself. The woman died IN few
minutes McGuire will probably recover
Jealousy was the cause.
While a public sale was in progress neal
Ravanna, Mo-, last Saturday, heavy thun
der-storm came up. and about thirty men took
refuge in a large barn. The building was
struck by lightning. and John Bowers, James
Berry and George Wyatt were killed and two
or three others were injured.
The correspondents of the Kansas Board o.
Agriculture report that although the acreage
is short of last year, the yield per acre will be
above. the average for the past five years
The area of corn is greater than ever before
and although backward in some localities. The
State has never had such n bright prospec
for big corn crop.
The Milton Hydraulic Mining Company
reservoir, near Smartsville, CAL, containing
$50. 900, 900 cubic feet Of water. burst on
Monday afternoon The rush of water wa:
irresistible and swept everything IN ITS path
1t raised the Middle 1uba river 100 feet ant
carried away all the bridges. Several live!
are reported to have been lost.
Mormon missionaries have been PROSECUTING
in North Carolina Ten converts, three
men and seven women. one day last wcel
were led naked into creek to be baptized
into the new faith, and the people became Sc
incensed that the missionaries were glvel
notice to leave, which they did the next da.
taking the converts with them.
Mrs. Henry Rotger, living near Jamaica
l.. L., was chopping wood in the rear OF he
house. and was startled by her children crying
In the house she found tramp chasing ont
of her children with a cleaver. She inter
fered whereupon he turned upon her an'
struck her several blows on the head, trac
turing her skull. The tramp was arrested,
Bernard j. MaIlan was in saloon in Bos
ton on Saturday night when 4 man with two
women of the town entered the saloon ant
invited him to take drink. He refused, ant
one of the women stabbed him with shawl
pin. The wound was thought to be slight
and Mahan left the saloon, but he was tounc
on the street soon afterwards IN dying con
ditiOn.
Arthur H. Blamey, cashier and head book
keeper of the Massachusetts Loan and lrus
Company at Boston, is under arrest for EN-
beZziing S44, 900 of the company S funds. til
has confessed the crime, and states the cause
to be speculation in mining and other stocks
He is only thirty years old, and has been il
the employ of the company some ten years
The stealings extended from November, 1882
A New York civil engineer is in Chicago il
matte pipe line between New York and tina
city. The plans are to lay four-lnch lror
pipe for the transmission of letters, messages
grain samples and other light parcels at ;
very low tariff Way stations will be estab
lished at Clevel and Buffalo and other points
A meeting will be held on the 10Th to organize
the enterprise.
There is a prospect of war among the
members Of the Western Flint and Lime
Glass Association, who operate thirty factories
in Pittsburg and the West At a late meeting
of the association it was decided to shut down
on July for three months, in order to restric
the production, as the trade during the pas
year has been exceedingly duh. Sevefa
firms, however, refuse to obey the order Of
the association, and say they will continue
their factories in operation during the sum
mer.
During school exhibition at Sulphur
Well, Metcalfe county, Kentucky, Marshal
Henry Beauchamp asked j. b. Winfrey and
]. Price to desist from making disturbance.
Winfrey and Price opened fire on Bean
champ, who returned it. McFarlane, by.
stondar was shot dead. Beauchamp was NOR