The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-03-31
News of the Week.


in Wisconsin Sunday afternoon.
John Brown, the personal attendant and
body guard of Queen Victoria, is dead.
The New York Herdlds Western food re-
lief fund closed Saturday evening with sub
scriptions aggregating $4,000.
Five persons were executed for murder on
Good Friday, one in Little Rock, Ark, two
in Georgia, one in North Carolina and one in
Texas.
A letter from Bishop Logue, of Donegal,
Ireland, says "Were it not for the substan-
tial aid sent from America the people would
die of starvation"
David E. Small, of the firm of Billmyer d
Small, died at York, Pa, on Sunday, aged %
years. He leaves a wife ard five children,
and an estate valued at 100000.
In the old days, when the stage-coach was
used as means of travel, the loss of life among
people who travelled was one in 5000, while
at the present time it is only one in 5000, 900.
Two soldiers of the Third Cavalry lost their
way on Tuesday night near Chilpanango,
Mexico, and rode over precipice. The men
and horses were killed.
The Catholic church at East Hampton,
Mass, was burned on Saturday, only the
walls being left standing. The loss is placed
at between $50, ZOO and $4,000.
The will of the late Gustavus S. Benson, of
Philadelphia, Pa, disposed of property
amounting to 100000. 1t bequeaths $780,
600 to various Presbyterian institutions.
The remains of John Howard Payne, the
author of "Home, Sweet Home arrived in
Washington on Saturday morning, and were
deposited in a vault in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Aunt Nancy Voorhees,, colored, 90 years
old, walked from New Brunswick, N. j., nine
miles, ON Sunday, to attend the funeral of her
old mistress, the widow of Judge j. V. ID.
Hoagland.
A dispatch from Vienna says that several
localities at the foot of Mount Ararat have
been destroyed by snow avalanches. 1t is
stated that $50 persons have been killed and
100 injured. .
The boys preparatory department of the
high school at Prescott, Ark, was blown up
Monday by dynamite, with which experiments
were being made. The explosion awakened
the town and produced great excitement
A charter has been granted to the Rich
mond (Va.,) Wooden Mills Company. The
capital stock is to be not less than $780, 900,
but may be increased to an amount not exceed
ing 81, 200, 900, to be divided into shares of
500 each.
Just before Treasurer Vincent, of Alabama,
absconded he handed his wife a package,
which, upon opening, she found to contain
SIS, 900 for her personal use. Concluding
that it was the State money, she turned every
cent over to the proper authorities.
James II. Bartlett, Herbert Wood Leach,
John Lauterbach and Frank Manson, survi-
vors of the Jeanette expedition, and En-
sign Henry J. Hunt, who belonged to the L.
S. Steamship Rodgers, arrived at New York
Tuesday in the steamship Westphala. .a
At the sale of DIR. David Kings (of New
port. r. L. library in New York Monday
night an almanac of the year 1886, the first
work of the first printer of Philadelphia, W..
Bradford, was sold for $500. The only other
copy in existence is i'll the possession of Geo.
Brinley, of Hartford, Conn.
w. c. Woodward, formerly newspaper
reporter in st. Louis, was arrested in Nasn-
vile, Tenn, or Monday night, on the charge
of passing gilded nickels for S. gold pieces.
While being taken to Jail he knocked down
two policemen and ran away, but was recap
tured. ....
Thomas J. Stephens has been nominated
for mayor of Cincinnati by the Democrats.
He is a wealthy manufacturer, and, never
having been identified with any of the factions,
will poll the full strength of the party, besides
securing large support from the dissatisfied
Republicans
A locomotive burning coal dirt was attach
ed to a fast express on the Bound Brook
Railroad Tuesday, and brought the train to
Philadelphia on schedule time. The cost for
the prepared coal dirt for the round-trip OF
l2O miles was 81 .05, or ne-seventh the usual
expense for coal.
Mrs. Jennie Parks, wife of Il prominent
merchant in Herkimer, n. y, was found dead
in bed Sunday night with bullet hole IN her
head Her two children were in bed with
her, both of them shot in the head and dying.
She had a revolver in her right hand, three
of the chambers of which were empty.
c. p. Markle 4 Sons, of Pttsburg, the
largest paper manufacturers in Western Penn
sylyania, on Monday made an assignment for
the benefit of creditors. Their liabilities are
about $500, 600, their assets nearly 81 ,OOO, OOO
Heavy failures in the West the general de-
preston of trade and Improbable investments
caused the failure.
The strike of the cigarmakers of the United
States for an increase of wages has reached
Boston, Tuesday morning ten workmen OF
the Boston Cooperative Mandatory asked
for an increase of one dollar per thousand:
The demand was not acceded to, and they left
the shop. Similar action is expected by a
large number of workmen.
A meeting of Lutherans was held in New
York city Tuesday night, and permanent
organization formed for the purpose of cele
brating the 4OOth anniversary of Luther S
birth, on the 10th of November next. The
association will also collect funds for a monu-
ment to be erected in Washington on the an
niversary of the reformer's birth.
J. n. Peers, editor of the Collinsville Gil. }
Herald, was horsewhipped in that town on
Tuesday by Mrs. Henry Marshall, wife OF a
business man there, for the publication OF an
article which reflected upon herself her hus-
band and her mother. Peers was badly
marked about the face and neck by the raw
hide, vigorously applied by the indignant
lady. ...u. .i.r.
Perhaps the largest transaction in cattle
ever made in this country was effected at Fort
Worth. Texas, last Saturday, the sale being
Is. 600 head of full grown cattle by the lizards
and Harold Brothers to the Franklin Land
and Cattle Company of New York. The price
paid is kept private, but the figures are under
stood to be about S25 per head, which would
aggregate about 81, 100000.
A thousand roll makers at Lynchburg, Va,
struck Tuesday for increased wages, and
nearly all the tobacco manufactures have
SUSPENDED work. The manufacturers are de-
termined to resist the demand of the opera
tives. A party of 800 strikers went to Ford S
factory Tuesday and threatened the roll max
ers there with violence if they continued work,
but the menace was disregarded. Trouble is
apprehended.
The remains of Charles Soehner, of Indian
apolis. Indiana, in accordance with his dying
request, were cremated at Washington, Pa,
last week. The remains, after being wrapped
~ tho usual way and laid in the crib, were
slid quickly into the retort and the door closed.
In less than two hours the body was success
fully reduced. Deceased was prominent
revolutionist in 1S49 and left Germany to
settle in Indianapolis.
In St. Louis. Tuesday, Russell Brown, a
dissolute Young man, who held his grand
mother, Mrs: Sarah Doris, by the throat
while Pat McGlew, an accomplish, robbed
her of her diamonds and other valuables, was
sentenced to ten years Imprisonment in the
penitentiary. McGlew received the same
sentence. Mrs. Doris died from the chok-
ing, but the court was not certain that case
oould ka made ont and according