The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-07-07
News of the Week.


About $50 lives are reported to have been
lost at Glasgow, Scotland, on Tuesday by the
overturning of steamship which was being
launched
Three murderers, Martin Joseph, negro,
| VIM H. Finch, u white man, and Iualista,
! Creek Indian, were executed at Fort Smith,
Arkansas last Friday.
Some 200 miners are on a strike at Ely,
| VT. Their pay is two months in arrears. On
| Monday they broke into the company s store
and stripped it of goods
A destructive hail storm passed near Fort
! Collins, Col, on Tuesday. Haistones an
inch in diameter fell to depth of five inches.
! Growing crops in the storm track were de-
stroyed.
An old colored servant of Commodore
/ Decatur, named Alexander Taylor, died in
| Washington on Wednesday, in his Goth year.
! He is said to have been the last living witness
of the Decatur Barron duel.
At the close of work in the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad shops, ut Reading, Pa,
on Saturday evening, over $50 machnists,
blacksmths and helpers were indefinitely
suspended on account of scarcity of work.
A three days reunion of the soldiers who
| fought in the battle of Wilson's Creek Mo-,
will be held at Springfield, Mo-, beginning
/ n -. ~
ex-Confederate soldiers are expected to at
! tend.
1t is reported that the volcano on the island
of Ometepe, in Lake Nicaragua, which has
been smoking for some time, is now in
state of eruption. A panic has been caused
among the inhabitants, who are all leaving the
island.
Mrs Kirkland, residing at MassilliOn, Ohio,
arose early Tuesday morning, intending to go
to Crestline. AS she opened n window a
burglar out on the roof of a low portion of
the house fired at her, the bullet taking effect
| in her chin. She has since died.
The corps of Cadets of the Virginia Military
Institute, at Lexington, went to New York
this week, and formally presented ito the
thirteen survivors of the 146 New York regi.
ment the flag captured from it by the corps in
1868 at the battle of Cold Harbor.
Six hundred and eighty Mormon converts,
in charge of twenty two missionaries, arrived
at New York Sunday by the steamship Nevada.
The converts are from Sweden, Denmark,
Wales, England and Norway. The men and
women about equal in number.
The Supreme Court of Missouri has decided
that the high license bill passed by the last
! Legislature is CONSTITUTIONAL and that it APP
plies to st. Louis as well to other sections
;
! licenses will cost about 81 900 year.
Forty-seven bicyclists started out from
! Windsor, Vermont, on Monday, on a tour
through Canada via St. Thomas, GOderich,
| Stratford, Brantford and Toronto to Niagara
! Falls. There are wheelmen in the party
| from Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, Louisville,
Minneapolis, Peoria, Worcester and other
/ cities.
/ Gov. Blackburn of Kentucky, has issued
a circular to the Governors of other States
requesting them to send delegates to the
State education convention which meets in
Louisville September 10, during the exposi-
ton, to discuss federal aid for Southern
schools.
Mrs. Grover, of 167 Summer avenue, New
ark, n. j., was shot on Monday by some boys
who were playing with a toy cannon in an
alley-way in the rear of her house, mimic
ball entering the body behind and below the
left shoulder and coming out i'll front, near
the left breast.
A sad accident occurred during a temper
ance fete at the Botanical Gardens, Sheffield,
Eng, on Monday. There were thousands of
school children on the grounds. A number
of them clibmed upon a dray, when the horse
became frightened and caused panic among
the little ones, two of whom were killed and
over twenty injured.
A race has been made between St. Julien
and Clingstone, admittedly the fastest trotters
on the turf except Maud S., for 81 900 side,
with $1,000 added by the association, and
81 900 additional to beat the best record, .
1Oi, mile heats, best three in five; to be
trotted at Chicago, Thursday, July 18th.
Richard F. Berne, editor of the Richmond
State, challenged Vim. c. Elan of the Rich
mond Wig for offensive language used in the
| Wing. After lodging officers for a week,
they met near Waynesboro' Va, last Satur-
day morning. They fought at eight PAGES.
Both missed at the first fire, and Elan was
badly wounded at the second.
The total assessment of real and personal
property in New York city for 1888 is 81 PIG,
677, 1914, an increase of S43, 200 765 compared
with the previous year Despite the large
increase in values, there is larger relative
increase in expenditures, which will require
an increase from S2.25 to 1927 on the
hundred dollars for municipal expenses.
The number Of failures throughout the en-
tire country for the first half Of the year ended
June %, as reported by r. G. Dun 4 Co., is
1867, against 1857 during the same period
in 1882. and 2,S63 in 1881 The total
amount of liabilities for the first half of 1883
is SOC, 900, 600; for the same period in 1882 it
was $50, OO0, 900, and i'll 1881, S40,000,OOO.
Major Ellis P. Phipps, ex-superintendent
of the Philadelphia almshouse, who was re-
Gently convicted of forgery, was sentenced on
Saturday by Judge Allison to five years i'm
prisonment in the Philadelphia county prison,
separate and solitary confinement and hard
labor. An appeal to the Supreme Court will
be taken at its session in November.
/ Prof. Brooks, of the Red House Observa-
| tory, Phelps, N. Y, reports telescope OBJ
servaton Sunday morning of an enormous
group of spots now central upon the suns
disc, The diameter of the group is $4,000
miles, and the spots are visible to the naked
eye. They exhibit violent cyclonc action,
/ electrical storms and aurora accompanying the
/ solar outbreak.
/ In Milwaukee, Wis, on Saturday, team
/ attached to a farmers wagon became fright
ened by a band of music in procession of
school children, and dashed through the ranks
/ of little girls. One school girl was killed and
I three received fatal injuries, and Mrs. Engle,
who saved many of the little ones by pushing
them aside, was severely injured.
/ The certificate Of incorporation of the
/ Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
was filed Saturday in New York The com
pany is to construct and maintain telephone
lines between New York, Baltimore and
Washington, and to connect with other lines
! throughout the United States The capital
stock is fixed at $50, 1000, with power to in
crease to $1,000, 600.
Abram Coppernoll, a farmer of the town of
/ Victory, n. Y, was shot three times with
/ large navy revolver, on Sunday, by Lew
/ French, a young farm laborer. Suspected
intimacy with Coppernoll's wife was the
cause of the trouble. The wife was present
at the shooting, and ordered French to fire.
Both French and Mrs. Coppernnll are under
arrest. The victim will die.
The first section of coal train on the
Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad, to which
was attached a passenger car, broke in two
on heavy grade, near Rasselas, Pa, on
Sunday, and seven of the cars ran back into
the second section, smashing the cars to pieces
Six persons, including the conductor and a
brakeman were killed. and the others were
wounded more or less severely.
The steamer Queen, of the National line,
arrived at New York on Monday with 731
passengers The emigration inspectors learned
/ that 75 of them were manner immiprantc