The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-03-24
News of the Week.

Germany, has been shot ana klllcu Dy Il us
appointed Office seeker.
A company for the manufacture of patent
fibre lined paper has been formed in York,
Pa. Capital of 100000 is required.
Capt w. F. Anderson, of Macon, Ca, has
sold his noted mare, Rosa Wilkes, to Mr.. HI.
B. Winship, Of Providence, r. l., for 81 900.
The mining town of Downievilie, Cal, was
almost completely swept away by n fire last
Friday A hotel keeper was burned to
death.
1t has been discovered that railroad bonds
issued by De Witt county, ILL.,, in 1880 have
been extensively counterfeited and put on the
market.
While six railroad laborers were warming
dynamite cartridges near Marlborough, n.
Y, last Friday, an explosion occurred. One
man was killed.
There were go divorces granted in Phila
delphia in 1852. There has been q steady in
crease in divorces in that city for the past
eight years.
Salmi Morse, who was prevented by the
authorities of New York city from presenting
the 'Passion Play has been invited to
present it in St. Louis, and will do so if he is
permitted.
j. T. Brown, Jr., recently appointed United
States marshal for the Eastern district of Ar
kansas, has been arrested on the charge of
forging large number of vouchers and col
lecting money on them.
There were 4,223, 900 hogs packed in Chi
cago during the yer ended March /, 1888, a
decrease of 879, 900 compared with the pre-
ceding year. The number of cattle siaught-
cred during the past year was 714,310.
A prize-fght of SO rounds took place in the
parlor of Col. Rohme S residence, near AL
toona, Pa, early last Friday morning, be-
tween John O'Neal, of Pittsburg, and James
Kohne, of Philadelphia, for a purse of 81 600.
O'Neal was declared the winner.
The emigration from Switzerland to Amer
lea has assumed alarming proportions Sew
eral districts are fast becoming depopulated.
1t is stated that Guttanen is without an inhab-
liant. The exodus is owing to the bad har-
vests and American competition.
Ellen Conway, woman about % years old,
who sold newspapers on Broadway, New
York, for living, was found dead in her bed
on Saturday. Her rooms had miserable
appearance, but when they came to be
searched over So, 900 was found in them.
Sam Scott, one of the most noted charac-
tiers of East Tennessee, died recently at his
home near Wartburg. Scott was the heaviest
man in East Tennessee, his light weight being
800 pounds and his heavy weight $40 pounds.
Territorial Judge Everton j. Conger, of
Montana, has been suspended. 1t is alleged
that Judge Conger is an habitue of gaming
saloons and other places not fit for reputable
people, and more specially where judges
should not be seen.
The new cotton compress building at Mont
gomery, Ala, which is in process of construc-
ton, will require over million bricks. The
compress, warehouse and appurtenances will
occupy half a block, and the compress will
have power of 5.000,0 pounds.
Samuel Ruth, the defaulting cashier of the
Washington Savings Bank, of Washington,
Pa, was convicted on Saturday. A motion
in arrest of Judgment was made. Ruth con-
fessed to having lost over 800, 900 of the
banks money in grain speculations.
A freight train on the Chicago and North
western road was ditched on Friday night at
Woodbine, Iowa. The engine and ten cars,
loaded with cattle and grain, topped over.
making a bad wreck. The engineer and
brakeman were killed. The fireman was
badly scalded.
An unknown man about 80 years old, light
complexioned, and wearing a light mustache,
was found dead Sunday night hanging from
lamp-pos at Ninety second street and Madi-
he came to be there. 1t is not thought that
he committed suicide.
A severe snow storm prevailed throughout
Ontario on Monday. Throughout the North
west Tuesday the temperature ranged from
zero to II degrees below. There was rain
and sleet at Milwaukee, Chicago, and points
further east. In Michigan railroad trains
were delayed by the snow.
A panic occurred at Farantas Pavilion in
New Orleans Sunday night by an alarm OF
fire. and the large audience made a rush for
the doors. The fire having been subdued and
quiet restored, it was found that two men,
two women, a girl, boy and colored youth
were severely crushed by being trampled on.
Owing to the announcement that the Ger
man decree against the importation of Amer
lean hog products has been promulgated,
large provision house in Chicago is gathering
statistics from all parts Of the country to con-
vince the German government that our hog
products are worthy of acceptation.
While Mrs Ann Boand, of Bridgeport,
Conn, was kneeling in front of a stove saying
her prayers, a live coal fell upon her clothing,
setting it on fire and burning it all off. The
body was shockingly burned. She died on
Saturday morning. Her three daughters
were badly burned about the hands and arms
in trying to smother the flames.
The second musical convention of Virginia
and North Carolina will be held in Peters
burg on the 18th of May, the object of which
is to arrange for concerts of a classic order
in Richmond, Petersburg, Norfolk and Lynch
burg, and in the leading cities of Carolina
during the season of l883-S4. In connection
with the convention two or three concerts will
be given.
The anniversary of the Paris commune of
1871 was celebrated by the communists Of
New York on Sunday. There was Il large
assemblage, each person wearing ribbon OF
red Herr John Most in the course of an
address. said the Paris commune was too
humane, and that the commune of the future
will be established regardless of humanity
and with firm hand to WELD the sword OF
destruction.
W. T. Kendall, a well-known Bostonian,
has been arraigned in that city. charged with
forgery and poIygamy. The inspector of
police claims that he has proof that Kendall
has three wives living, from neither of whom
has he ever been divorced. He has only one
child living, daughter by his first'wife, who
is older than the last victim other much mar
ried father.
A gentleman who arrived at Vicksburg,
Miss, on the steamer Sunhower, from Clarks-
dale, at the headwaters of Sunflower river, on
Sunday, reports the country inundated to an
average depth of three to four feet for dis
lance of thirty miles. The country from
Clarksdale to Fasona, three hundred miles,
is under water on both sides of the river as
deep as last year.
In Oglethorpe county, Ga, on Friday,
Joseph Jones shot and killed his wife. She
was married four years ago, when she was IL
years old. After his marriage Jones as
saulted his motherin-law, and subsequently
left the county. lie recently returned, after
having been gone three years, and tried to get
his wife to live with him. She refused, where,
upon he killed her He was arrested, and
attempted to commit suicide in Jail.
The first carload of coal from Pocahontas
arrived at Norfolk. Va, on Saturday, con-
signed by Vice President +. j. kimball, of
the Norfolk and Western railroad, to Mayor
Lamb. The public buildings and the ship
ping were decorated in honor of the event
and salute was fired by the Norfolk Light
Artillery Blues The car was testooned with
flags and passed through the city and back to
the depot amid cheers, The coal will be dis
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