The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-12-22
News of the Week.

county, Pa, IS sald to have dressed $3.50 lbs.
Minnesota's butter product for 1883 will
nearly reach 100000 pounds, worth S.
300, 900.
Capt Harris, of the Salvation Army, has
been arrested in Pittsburg -en-a charge of
perjury.
Detailed charges of extravaganza made
by Boston newspaper against Willard =
Northern Pacific management
Congressman Haskell, of Kansas, who had
been i'll for some days, died in Washington on
Sunday. He was Republican and had served
several terms.
Capitalists of Staunton, Va, have bought
80, 900 acres of land near Great Bend, Kan
sas, for 100000. They will establish colo
ny of Dunkards.
A great storm has caused much damage to
houses in the town of Abadia, Turkey. Six
large ships and fifteen coasting vessels have
been lost and their crews drowned.
Strawberries are in the Savannah market.
Although very early in the season, the fruits
grown in open ground just east of the city.
The market opens at one dollar ii basket
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury New
says Chaffee was beaten for chairman of the
Republican national committee because the
latter was outspoken in his hostility to Arthur.
About two thousand coal miners have been
thrown out of employment in Pennsylvania
by the suspension of large number of mines
on the Monongahela river on account of the
depression of the trade.
Sanford Norris, of Paris, H., on Wednes-
day shot his gun in the air to brighten some
boys, but fatally shot his brother Tod, and
seriously injured his brother Orlando, Winston
Griffin and Ben Mclaughlin
Leading politicians of Wyoming Territory,
irrespective of party, are getting up petition
to President Arthur to appoint Mrs. Durway,
the leader of the women's enfranchisement
cause, Governor of the Territory.
The formal opening of the Cantilever bridge,
over Niagara river, near Niagara Falls, took
place on Thursday, and was a success. Its
strength was tested by running over it 20 To-
comotives and "a cars loaded with gravel.
The examiner of pensions in Philadelphia
Saturday sent warrant to Lancaster, Pa, to
be lodged as detainer against Rev. John A.
Moore, alias jerks, who has been arrested
there, and is charged with swindling pension
erS.
Rev. Charles A. Stork, D. D., president
of and professor of theology in the lutheran
Seminary at Gettysburg, died in Philadelphia
on Monday. Some two years ago he was
pastor of st. Mark Lutheran Church, Balti-
more.
A heavy snowstorm visited New York on
Wednesday, From all directions the mails
were reported from one to three hours behind.
Ferryboats running to and from Jersey City
were delayed by the denseness of the falling
snow.
At durango, Col. Monday, several burglars,
headed by a colored burglar named big Ike,
broke into the bank. An attempt was made
to capture them, and the colored man fired
and killed Bruce Hunt, son of ex-Gov.
Hunt.
At Pittsburg, Pa, Wednesday, Jas. Weav-
err, employed in a factory, had his arm caught
in the betting of an engine, and he was drawn
into the machinery. He was torn limb from
limb, portions of his body being scattered
distance of hundred feet
The Rev. Dr. Joshua Morsel, while con
Quoting the services in Grace Church, City
Island, near New York, on Sunday, motioned
for a window to be opened and sank down in
the pulpit as though in faint. He was
found to have died from heart disease.
A number of highway robheries are repor-
ted at Huntington, Oregon, by a gang of
seven men. They robbed merchant named
j. Tyler of cash and drafts to the amount of
5000; the paymaster of the Railroad Con-
struction Company of So, 900, and other per-
sons of smaller sums.
The report of the secretary Of the Pennsyl
vania State board of agriculture shows that the
value of dairy produce for the past year was
S40,648, 106. The value Of the grass crop,
623, 308 tons, is S84, $40 ,620; cereals, $72,
401, 736. The number of horned cattle in the
State is 1,740,227, and their value sol, 1885,
100.
At Youngstown, Ohio, Monday, the en-
ployes of the New York. Pennsylvania and
Ohio Railroad Company tore up the tracks of
the Pittsburg Cleveland and Toledo Railroad.
Two hundred employees of the latter company
drove off the New York, Pennsylvania and
Ohio men and relaid the rails. No one was
seriously injured.
Memorial services for the lost fishermen
were held in Gloucester, Mass, Sunday.
The services were deeply impressive. Two
more vessels overdue, if proved to be lost,
will swell the number of vessels lost to twelve,
with probably $50 men. The number of
lives lost during the year will not fall much
short of 200.
At Woodberry, n j., Monday, Rudolph
Helm was found guilty of manslaughter in
killing his wife by kicking her while they
were playing croquet one Sunday several
weeks ago. They were engaged in the game
on the farm of neighbor, when a dispute
arose over the balls kissing" and Helm
kicked his wife, inActing injuries which
caused heF death,
At Maple Rapids, Michigan, early Monday
morning, robbers entered the house of S. p.
Creasinger, chloroformed him, secured ST.,
500 in cash and quantity of valuables and
set fire to the house. Mr.. Creasinger recov-
cred from the effects OF the phlorpfnrm just in
time to escape from the burning house, which
was destroyed. Loss $2S,0Qq.
Last week Edward f. Baldwin, wealthy
real estate dealer of Newark, n. j., went to
the forests of Wyoming county, Pa, hunting:
He was accompanied by W. s. Cannon and J.
b. burnett On Friday he got lost in the
forests, and after search Of several hquFs was
found dead with his dog watching beside his
body. He had died of heart disease, from
which he had suffered for years.
In Philadelphia Saturday the judges of
Common Pleas Court No. refused the up.
plication of Mrs Carrie B. Kilgore, a married
woman, for permission to practice in that
court. She has passed II satisfactory exam
ination before the proper boards, and has been
admitted to practice in the Orphans Court.
She will apply to the Supreme Court for ad.
nfissinn Ae&t Manths
The Hartford Conn Times says that the
persistence with which this years rains keep
aloof from New England is really remarkable,
In Connecticut they have had very little rain
since the end of July, and almost none during
the autumn and beginning of winter. The
deficiency for the year threatens to amount to
II inches at least and that out of total an
nual average of about A or 45 inches, is a
sqriaag mattpFi
While Deputies Broekan, German and Der
lin were conveying five prisoners to the peni
Tertiary in Pittsburg, Saturday, they made
desperate effort to escape, throwing red pep
per in the eyes of one of the deputies and
i4eHapigg fhe nthers with 0 razor and pistol.
Two of then succeeded III getting away frqlH
the officers, but were regaptHred after a short
chase. The red pepper. revolver and razor
were handed to the prisoners during the trial
seereted in package Of tobacco.
Elections were held in the Norfolk, Peters
burg and MeckIeburg senatorial districts in
Virginia, Monday, for Senators to fill vacan-
eies IN eaelt fqee ihp Coalition. nominees
were ELECTED, the PemoSfaFs refFaIiRliing trp pm
voting for the reason that the Democratic
members of the election committee of the
Firgigiq seHaia hqg decided that the Cover
nor had no right TO issue bis proclamation Ar-
dering The filing of these vacancies. Another
lt1sat!o, viii dOnbtIace no hold under - prno