The Democratic advocate., 1883-08-04
News of the Week.

Senior Barca, Spanish minister at Washing
ton, committed suicide at the Albemarle
Hotel, New York, on Sunday morning.
During q severe storm at Mayersville, Miss,
on Saturday, several skiffs on the river con-
tanning ten colored men capsized, and five OF
the number drowned.
Reports from Europe indicate a demand
for all the wheat we shall be able to spare,
and we shall have a good deal more than the
croakcrs arc willing to admit
Mrs. Gadding, living eight miles from
Troup, Texas, was struck by lightning and
Instantly killed during heavy storm last Fri
day. She was bride of only two days.
James Carey, the informer in the Phoenix
Park murder cases, was assassinated on ship
board few days ago, whilst on his way to
Africa, by a fellow passenger named O'Don-
nell.
A Charlotte, n c., firm is about to estab-
lish a clothing factory at that place, which
sons. The firm also proposes to introduce
the electric light in their establishment.
The cholera is abating in Egypt slightly,
though the daily death rate is very large.
There were 500 deaths in Cairo on Wednes-
day, and 665 in other places. Twelve British
soldiers died of the disease the same day.
Springs, North Carolina, recently, the skele-
ton of mail carrier was found, with a leather
mail bag containing over 30 letters of the date
of 1927, some of them inclosing old bank
bills.
Levi D. Jarrard, the missing ex-postmaster
and defaulting ex-county collector of Middle
sex county. n. j., was captured by Chlet-ot-
Police McDougal at Niagara Falls, Ont, +,
on Tuesday. His defalcation amounts to
$4,000.
William Rech, patient in the Utica, n. Y,
State Lunatic Asylum, was so frightened by
a storm last Friday that he ran away from the
keeper while on the lawn, and, reaching the
Erie canal, a quarter of mile distant, leaped
in and was drowned.
George Inkster, farmer, living near Grand
Forks, OAK, was herding his cattle when
they became mixed with passing herd. In
trying to separate them he got in trouble with
the owners of the passing herd, who rddled
his body with bullets.
William Mosely, aged SO years, committed
suicide by hanging in his cell, in the Jail at
Sunbury, Pa, on Sunday night. He was
recently sentenced to u years imprisonment
for the murder of David Powell at Mount
Carmel on Christmas night last.
Mrs. Dolly White, of South Newburg, Yer
mont, was one hundred years old on the 23d
of July. John Holland of Nashua n. H. is
one hundred and two years old, and travelled
from Bentonsport, Illinois, recently to Nashua
where he intends to end his days.
Among the immigrants on the steamship
! Westphalia, which arrived at New York on
Sunday, was Carl Theiller, German shoe
maker whose avoirdupois was over 400
pounds. He claims that he is one of the
! largest passengers that ever crossed the ocean
on single ticket.
At Norristown, Pa, on Saturday William
| Hewitt, Is years of age, employed to run the
/ elevator at Simpson cotton MILL was killed.
| While the elevator was moving he leaned
over the side to look below, when his head
was caught between the floor and the elevator
beam. His neck was broken.
| At Carbondale, Pa, on Tuesday. Geo.
Rowley was instantly killed by the bursting
of circular saw, a large piece of which
struck him in the neck, nearly severing his
head from his body. His father, who was
standing close beside him, was sprinkled with
his sons blood, but escaped injury.
In a cavern on the side of Peters Mountain,
in Perry county, Pa, has lived for many years
a hermit by the name Of Jonson Terwilliger,
whom was born in Frankfort ont the Main in
1914. Being involved in the revolutionary
movement of 1913, he fled to America, leav
ing behind him a wife and child whom he has
never seen since then.
From $50 to 800 cats are destroyed weekly
during the warm season i'll Philadelphia by
the agent Of the WOmen's Branch of the City
Refuge for Lost and Suffering Animals They
are not drowned, but sutiocatcd with charcoal
gas. Last year no fewer than I, ,l51 unhappy
cats were thus put beyond reach of the sings
and arrows of outrageous fortune.
The body of Richard Moring was found on
his farm in Nottaway county, Va, on Thurs
day of last week, with his throat cut from
ear to ear, and one of the ears cut of.
The day preceding the crime Moring had
some trouble with two colored men employed
by him, who are suspected Of the deed. One
has been arrested.
A posse of citizens of Montgomery, Yell
and Garland counties, Arkansas, who were
pursuing the Daniels brothers band of out
laws. were led into an ambush on Sunday.
and Shelton Caldwell, Charles Carter and Il
man named Barnes were killed. A blood
hound that was assisting in the chase was
also shot by the desperadoes, all of whom
escaped uninjured.
+. II. Carson, of East Rochester, n. H.,
rode down Mt Washington on a bicycle, and
accomplished the most dangerous and difficult
feat ever known on the wheel. His machine
was a ''star, with the little wheel in front.
He whizzed around The curves of the steep
nine mile track at mile a minute pace using
his brake with rare judgment, and never los
ing his head for an instant.
Reports from all sections of Lancaster
county, Pa, show that the hail and rain
storm of Saturday night was as destructive as
was indicated by the earlier reports Over
thousand acres of growing tobacco were com
pletely destroyed much Of which, however,
is insured. The streams were greatly swollen,
and several bridges carried away, number
of narrow escapes from drowning being re-
ported.
Nearly ZOO pilgrims left Ottaway, Canada,
on Tuesday, on an eXcersion to st. Anne de
Beaupre. They were accompanied by the
Roman Catholic Bishop of Ottawa and a
number of cergymen. This annual pilgrimage
is anxiously looked forward to by French
Roman Catholics owing to alleged miracle
cures having been effected on previous eX-
cursions. Among the people who went were
scores of invalids on crutches and blind men
and women.
Patrick Moulton was killed by Bernard
McCaffrey at Troy n. Y, on Tuesday. The
men were street laborers McCatfrey asserts
that Moulton nsulted him in the free use of
a woman's name. Moulton challenged him
to fight, and the challenge was accepted.
McCaffrey struck Moulton over the right eye,
causing his death. 1t is rumored that the
prisoner struck Moulton with shovel, but
the accused claims he used only his fist.
Mrs. Charles Burke, aged 43 years, left her
dwelling on Clifton street, Cleveland, on
Monday night, attired only in her night dress,
walked to the lake at the foot of Wason street
and drowned herself. The body was found
early Tuesday morning. Her husband, when
questioned was reticent concerning her prob
able motive. The ncighbors have theory
that she was driven insane by Burke's treat
ment of her eighteen year-old son by for
mer husband whom he lately drove from
home.
Homer j. Smith, cashier of the National
Bank at Orange, n. j., entered a Delaware
and Lackawanna train at Hoboken, n. j., on
Saturday with $4,000 in valise. He had
scarcely taken his seat before man began to
beat him about the head with piece of lead
pipe, and then made an unsuccessful grasp