The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-07-21
News of the Week.

at Lancaster, Pa, on Monday.
The number of deaths at Havana during the
past week from yellow fever was 80.
An epidemic of pleuro- pneumonia prevails
among cattle on Staten Island, n. \.
There was a slight frost at Davenport,
Iowa, Wednesday, but it did no damage.
Louis Walso, an Indian chief, died at Lake
George, N. Y, last Friday in his 109th year.
A slight shock of earthquake was felt at
Cairo, ILL.,, Saturday morning at about =
o'clock.
Three female pauper immigrants and their
children were sent back to Europe Saturday
from New York.
There are about 1000 deaths weekly in New
York. Last week the number Of deaths
reached LILO.
Congressman Archibald McAlister, of
Altoona, Pa, dropped dead OF appopleXy on
Wednesday.
At Wellington, Ohio, Tuesday night Mar
shall George Brainerd was shot and killed by
two robbers.
Two men were killed and one seriously in
iured by an explosion last Friday at Dupont
powder mill, near Wilmington, Delaware.
Telegraph operators throughout the coun-
try struck for higher wages and less hours on
Mrs Mary Austin, of Washington, Ca,
died recently. She had been the mother OF
forty four children, including six sets of trip
lets.
An unfounded rumor was circulated over
the whole country on Thursday that General
Grant had dropped dead in New York from
apoplexy.
Saturday evening, near Helena, Ark, two
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one with a rifle, fought duel at twenty PAGES
Both were MORALLY wounded.
The army-worm has made its appearance
in the northern section of Lancaster county,
Pa, in large numbers, and is committing
ravages in the tobacco fields.
The court of inquiry to examine into the
trouble between Commander j. f. McGlen-
sey and Commodore W. X. Mayo, at the Cos
port navy-yard Portsmouth, Va, got actively
to work on Wednesday.
A special cable to the Philadelphia Times
of last Sunday states that disease closely
resembling cholera has made its appearance
in the slums of London, and that several sail
ors have died of it.
Mr.. Erastus Brooks has seen more than
one hundred and twenty journals live and die
in the city of New York alone, and believes
that over $40, 900, 600 has been spent on the
city newspapers since 1886.
The London Chamber of Commerce has
adopted resolution in favor of referring the
question of the construction off parallel Suez
canal to a royal commission. The question
may cause trouble in Europe.
An express train was thrown from the track
by misplaced switch near Knoxville, Tenn.
Wednesday. The engine ran into the main
building of the zinc works at that point, tear
ing away the whole side OF the building.
Frederick Schuldt, ST., of Reading, Pa,
had his son Frederick arrested Saturday for
threatening his life. The son was locked up,
and half an hour afterward was found dead,
having hung himself with strips torn from his
shirt
Eight boilers exploded in an anthracite
| furnace at Kutztown, near Reading, Pa, on
| Tuesday, killing one man and severely inlur-
ing four more, and several others. The
building was shattered to pieces. The Oper
atives were nearly all out at the time.
/ Mrs. Langtry announces that she is engaged
in writing a book on this country, its society
and institutions. As she has not yet managed
to enter American society her observations
of it will have to be drawn from her inner
consciousness, and will, no doubt, prove very
| curious.
!
! Chingan, of Polk City, Iowa, were surrounded
at Elk Horn Grove Friday night. Smith was
! captured and Gates killed in the fight, con-
! Tossing before dying that he had killed Chin
gan and also Mayor Stubs a year ago. One
/ man of the attacking party was killed and
/ two others wounded.
The state colored convention to nominate
| delegates to the national colored convention
met at Columbia, S. G., on Wednesday. An
address was adopted denouncing the Repub-
lican party for its course toward the colored
race during the last six years, and for con-
! ferring every office of honor and trust upon
white men. and denouncing the state govern
ment as the most damnable to which a free
people were ever subjected.
During a severe thunder storm on Sunday
afternoon, about 6 o'clock, the lightning
struck a dwelling near Samson's wharf, on
the Great Wicomico river, Va, occupied by
| a colored family named Tracey, killing Mrs.
Tracey and her son William, aged % years,
and badly stunning three other inmates OF
the house. The lightning also burned rick
of straw belonging to a farmer by the name OF
Booth, near the same place.
The fastest Western railroad run on record
is said to have been made last week from
Cincinnati to st. Louis. The distance is 341
miles The Ohio and Mississippi train OF
four coaches, baggage aud express made the
run in exactly eight hours, including about
fifteen stops and two changes of locomotives.
The rate was 428 miles an hour, including
stoppages, or about 45 miles per hour net
running time. That equals the speed of the
fast express from Euston Square, London, to
Lime street, Liverpool, which runs pol!
miles in A hours, stopping only at Rugby and
Crewe.
! At Cokato, Mimi, Saturday morning, light,
ming set fire to hotel there, which was full
of railroad and travelingmen, three Of whom,
James Nottingham, Richard Kelley and a
young man named Shepherd, all section men,
were burned to death before they could escape.
A large number of others received injuries
more or less severe. A travelling man named
Storm broke his leg by jumping from win
dow. The fire, spreading, burned twenty one
buildings, or nearly the whole business part
of the village.
The York, Pa, Gazette, of Wednesday,
saws: The storm which commenced on Friday
evening soon after four o clock was very Sc
we're, and did considerable damage throughout
York county. Some hail fell in Conewago
and Manchester townships, and the outstand-
ing crops were leveled to the ground. The
storm was particularly severe in Hellam and
Windsor townships, uprooting a number of
trees and tearing the llmDs OH OF many others.
The roof on the church at treysville, in
Windsor, was blown off, and the roof on the
barn on the farm formerly belonging to Mr..
Arnold J. Beatty, in the same township,
shared the same fate. Springgarden town
ship, Mr.. William Cunningham, about fifty
years of age, was struck by his barn door,
which was blown shut by fierce blast of the
wind and knocked senseless, and remained
in that condition for some time. He had
three ribs broken, and received other serious
injuries.
Charles Haywood Stratton, generally known
as Tom Thumb, died at his home in Middle
boro', Mass, on Monday of apoplexy. He
was born in Bridgeport, Conn, January 4,
1888, and was consequently 45 years old.
At the age of IA he entered the service of P.
T. Barnnm, and has been before the public
ever since. He leaves widow, who has been
on the stage with him since their marriage, in
1868. She was the pretty and conspicuously
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