The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-11-17
News of the Week.


yard every year.
The family of R. F. Palmer, of Akron, o.,
we're all taken violently i'll Sunday The i'll
ness is supposed to be trichinosis, caused by
eating headcheese.
At Comanche, Texas. Sunday night, party
of armed masked men battered in the jail
door and took out two brothers named Bailey
and hanged them to tree in graveyard.
A chorus of $50 voices among the Welsh
miners and their families at Scranton, Pa,
has been organized to cross the Atlantic and
compete in the musical festival at Liverpool
next August.
At Laurenburg, n. c., last Friday, while
gathering of colored people was in, McLean's
Hall, the floor gave way, and the walls imme-
diately afterwards tumbled down. Eight
persons were injured, two MORALLY.
A fire in Shenandoah, Pa, on Monday, de-
stroyed the United States Hotel, several halls
and the newspaper Offices, and over two hun
dred families were left without shelter or
AtNewcastle, Pa, last Friday, while James
Egan, Andrew Mcbride, VIM. Troy and Mar
tin Ballister were working on a seaffold, the
support gave way, and the men were thrown
to the ground, so feet below. Egan was kill
ed, and Mcbride and Troy received fatal in
juries.
In Milwaukee, on Sunday night, August
Grothe, a street-car driver, was fatally shot
in the face and back by highwaymen, who at
tempted to steal his cash box. Whipping up
his mules he drove a mile to the car barns,
where he fell over the dash board.
At West Lebanon, Pa, Saturday evening,
Joseph Sarber shot his father twic1, killing
him. He then entered the house and shot
Mary Kelly, the housekeeper, in the arm and
face inficting probably fatal wounds. Sarber
was captured Sunday. He denies the crimes.
A large four-story frame building in the
course of construction at Buffalo, New York,
was blown down last Friday by a gale of wind,
and Jacob Schoenthal, William Eckert, John
Otto and Joseph Code were killed, and Chas
Fintner fatally injured. Several other work
men were seriously injured.
Near Rochester, N. Y, on Tuesday, a
West Shore Railroad construction train was
thrown from the track, and three box cars
loaded with workmen went over the embank
ment. All the workmen were reported more
or less hurt, and several had legs and arms
broken and skulls fractured. Thirty men in
all were injured.
At a meeting of the American Public
Health Association, at Detroit, Michigan,
DR.. D. E. Salmon, of the Department of Ag-
Washington, read paper on the
Texas cattle fever, taking ground in favor
of the existence of disease belt in the
Southern States from which it is dangerous to
export cattle.
A fire in Wilbur's clothing mandatory in
Charleston, S. c., on Monday spread to the
building of Robertson, Taylor Co., whole
sale grocers. There were eight women en-
ployed in Wilbur's factory, most of whom
jumped from the third story to the street.
Three of the women received injuries from
which they died.
While eight bricklayers were at work on a
scaffold in New York on Monday, the scaffold
broke and precipitated six of the men from
the third story to the street below. Patrick
Kelefick and John Glascoot were killed, and
Peter Monahan, David Barry, John Summers
and Dennis Brady were badly injured.
There is band of robbers, known as the
Buzzard gang, led by Abe Buzzard, in the
Welsh mountains, Pennsylvania. A posse
has been searching for them, and several
fights have taken place, the Buzzard gang
being successful. The gang robbed two stores
on Thursday night of last week, one at Roths-
vile and one at Clay.
At Greenburg, Pa, on Monday mob of
iuduC an dbOCulpI W lOHCn
Noble, who inflicted fatal injuries on John c.
Audley, at Scotdale, Sunday night, with a
Ratchet. Noble was captured at neighbour
house, and women in the neighborhood forced
their way to him with clothes lines, but the
officers succeeded in saving him.
As the tugboat James N. Thompson was
steaming through He'll Gate into New York
harbor Friday of last week, with three schoon-
ers in tow, her boiler exploded, blowing the
boat into fragments. Seven persons were on
the tug, of whom Capt. cards and his wife,
the cook, John Kelly, and Charles Connors
were killed. Charles Kelly, the helmsman of
one of schooners, was also killed. The tide
was very strong and extra steam was put on.
Farmer Seib, of West Mill Creek, Pa, is
lamenting financial ruin through his own
''cuteness" The neighborhood being infes-
ted by burglars, he thought to outwit them by
removing his money from the safe and con-
cealing it in the oven of an unused parlor
stove, taking the additional precaution of
keeping the sagacious trick from his wife, who
unconsciously burned over eleven thousand
dollars by lighting fire in the stove.
The interstate commission on federal aid to
education in the South, appointed at the
meeting held at Louisville in September, met
in New York last week to consider and per-
feet bill to be laid before Congress. There
were present T. W. Bicknell, chairman, of
Boston; G. B. Northrop, of Connecticut;
Henry Randall Waite, of Washington; Milton
S. Lytte, of Pennsylvania, and NJ. A. Newell,
of Baltimore.
Besides her opera, dramatic and May mu-
steal festivals, Cincinnati is to have gigantic
minstrel festival, to be given in the great
Music Hall for the week beginning January
Z, by the Frohman Bros, of the Madison
Square Theatre, in conjunction with Manager
Miles, of Cincinnati. There will be 10 per-
formers, while the supplemental chorus and
will swell the number on the
stage to fully 500 people.
Salathiel Lewis, on trial in Southampton
county, Va, for the murder of John l.. New
son, colored, has been convicted and SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for II years. Lewis
is prominent Mahoneite and Newson was Il
Republican and one of John F.
Dezendorf' S warmest supporters during the
late canvass. The murder occurred at Jeru-
salem, the county seat of southampton, at a
political meeting.
Col. j. H. Haverly states that he is about
to build two new theatres, one in New York
and the other in Philadelphia The money
for the enterprise is to be furnished by Chi
cago capitalists, but he will have the manage
ment of the building and furnishing of the
theatres. He proposes to build the New
York theatre after the plan of the London
Alhambra, at cost of 81, 100000. 1t will
be the largest place of amusement iii the
and its seating capacity will be
4, 600.
report from Jacksonville. Florida, states
that Hamilton Disston. of Philadelphia, has
sold all that remains of his 1000, 900 acres of
Florida land to an English syndicate at Sl.2j
per acre Mr.. Disston sold 1000, 900 acres
last year to Sir Edward Reeds syndicate, of
London. Disston's agents have sold or re-
served for the company, about nine hundred
thousand acres, and the English syndicate
have paid good price for the remaining l.
l00,0 900 acres. Disston will realize IA huge
profit on his investment, beside retaining
about half million acres of the reserved
and.
Mr.. Asa Biggs and his wife, young couple
formerly of Norfolk, Va, were burned to
death Saturday night at their home in South
lmpton county, near Franklin, Va. by the
explosion of kerosene lamp. Mr. Biggs
was about retiring, aud was walking across
he floor when the lamp exploded, setting fire
20 his clothes Mrs. Biggs went to the assis-
.ance of her husband, and was fatally burned
N attempting to save him. The burning oil
set the house on fire. Mrs. Biggs managed to
escape from the house, dying shortly after
wards from her injuries, but the body of her
husband was consumed with the building.
Near Easton, Pa, a daughter of Mr.. Mar
shall aged about thirteen years, had been in