The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-01-06
News of the Week.


ian ambassador in Paris, committed suicide
on Saturday
During the month ended Saturday, 97,47S
bales of cotton were shipped to Europe from
Norfolk, Va.
heavy snow storm prevailed at San Fran
cisco. California, on Monday, and the Lrst
sleighs ever seen on the streets were out. ~
Ex-County Commissioners Walker, Ehr-
man and Wilmoyer, of Lebanon county, Pa,
were arrested Saturday for malfeasance in
office.
A shock of earthquake lasting 80 seconds
shook the buildings in Halifax Sunday at md
| night. A shock was felt at Rockland, Me-,
| also.
On Sunday morning near Weeksville, Mon
tana, three Chinamen were killed and three
others seriously wounded by the explosion OF
giant powder, which was being thawed out.
While John S. Shrack, a wealthy farmer
living near Lewisburg, Pa, and some friends
were ON hunting expedition last Saturday,
their wagon upset on the mountain road, and
one of the guns discharged its contents into
Mr. Shrack, inhicting fatal injuries.
The National Board of Health has been in
formed by the United States consul at st.
Helena that the American bark Hercules,
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pox on board, left that port recently, bound
for New Bedford, Mass.
The strikers at the Topton furnace. at Top
ton, Berks county, Pa, on Monday night en-
deavored to prevent new men from taking
their places, and riot occurred. Two OF the
| ringleaders were arrested. The new employees
went to work on Tuesday.
At the special election in the eighth con-
gressional district of Alabama on Tuesday to
fill the vacancy in the present Congress by
the death of Mr.. Lowe, General Joseph
Wheeler, Democrat, was elected over John
| B. Mcclellan, the independent candidate, by
1000 majority.
| The funeral of Jacob and William Rusk,
the two young men who stabbed police officer
in Philadelphia on Christmas night, and jump.
ed into the canal at Trenton, N. D., to avoid
arrest. took place from their mothers house in
Philadelphia last Monday. Five thousand
people passed through the house and looked
upon the faces of the dead.
DR.. Chas. Porterfeld Krauth, D. D., LID,
vice provost of the University of Pennsylva-
mia, and professor of mental and moral phil
osophy. died in Philadelphia on January 2.
He was born in Martinsburg, West Va, March
II, 1928 His father was president of Get
tysburg College, and he graduated there in
| 1889
Returns from the special election held on
| Tuesday, to fill the vacancy in the Forty
seventh and Forty eighth Congresses, caused
by the death Of Hon. j. I. Updegraff, late
Representative from the seventeenth Ohio
district indicate the election of j. d. Taylor,
Republican, over Ross J. Alexander, Demo
crat, by majority of 800 to 1000.
The Indian Rights Association of Philadel,
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adoption of constitution and the election OF
officers with Wayne MacVeagh as president.
The object of the association is to secure to
the Indian the same rights and privileges as
are enioyed by American citizens, and the
matter will be brought to the attention OF
Congress.
Mayor Samuel Galley, of the city OF Salem,
Mass, whose term of office expired on Mon
day, committed suicide in the afternoon.
He went home at 8 o'clock and told his fam
ily he was tired and would retire to his room
and rest. His daughter went up stairs later
to call him, and found his lifeless body hang
ing to the banisters of the back stairs.
A little son of policeman Smock, of Evans
Vile, Ind, was shot on Sunday by one of three
roughs They were from Cincinnati, and gave
their names as John Behrman, George Hlrch-
enberger and John Kraus. The boy died on
| Monday. The men took offence at a remark
made by some of Smock little companions,
and the boy was fired upon with pistol.
Shortly after IL o clock on Sunday night,
while watch meeting services were being held
in the Reformed Evangelical Church at Read
ing, Pa, a large cannon, filled with stones
and powder, was discharged. The front wall
was broken in, and nearly all the window
panes shattered. Great excitement was caus-
ed among the audience, but no one was hurt.
Eight arrests have been made.
A decision was reached in the Common
Pleas Court in Philadelphia on Saturday which
will result in the appointment of an examiner
to take testimony in the suit of the city against
the gas trust. The trustees, who have charge
! of the entire manufacture and sale OF the gas
of Philadelphia, are charged with gross acts Of
mismanagement and with persistent refusal to
account to the city for their stewardship.
Another Colossal Apartment House, OF
rather series of apartment houses, is about
to be erected on Fifth avenue, New York,
between Fifty-eighth and Fifty ninth streets,
at cost, including the ground, of SO, OOO, 900.
The money was advanced by club or syndi
cate The edifce will cover twelve city lots
and, it is said, will far outrival any of the
magnificent buildings of a similar character
which have heretofore been erected.
During lecture by the Ford Brothers il
Boston Saturday rough expressed the opin
ion that the brothers were mo good" His
reflection upon their prowess was Immediately
taken up by the Fords, who drew their revol
vers and leaped from the stage. The audi
ence stampeded. Policeman Robinson seized
both the brothers to take them to the police
station, but the proprietor of the show inter
fered, declaring that the enterprise would be
a financial failure if the Fords were not allowed
to finish the programme.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has
affirmed the judgement of the Erie County
Court in case where Rudolph Fuller, Jr.,
obtained a verdict against the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company for S25, 900 for injuries sus
tanned while passenger aboard one of the
company's trains. The injuries to Fuller were
claimed to be extremely serious, although that
fact was denied by the company. The verdict
was said to be the largest ever obtained in
that State in a similar case.
In New York Monday afternoon exon.
gresham Brigham had an exciting chase with
two burglars. He was entering his residence,
on Broom street, when two men passed him
on the steps having in their possession jew
elry case and other articles. He followed
them, and secured the assistance of two col
ored men, who pursued the thieves. During
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and fired at his pursuers. Both fellows were
caught and locked up.
Lieut. Gov. John F. Lewis has instituted a
suit at Richmond, Va. for $40, 900 damages
against Drs. j. B. McCan and j. S. Wexford,
of the faculty of the Medical College of Va,
and policeman G. H. Matthews for false ar
rest and Imprisonment. The suit grows out
of the arrest of Lieut.. Gov. Lewis at the time
that he, at the head of the new board of d.
rectors appointed by Gov. Cameron, attempt
ed to take charge of affairs at the medical
college, some months since. The old board
will not surrender the management of the
college until legally ousted
The completion of the cotton mill of the
Charlestown Manufacturing Company, at
Charlestown, S. c., and the announcement
of the commencement of operations, marks
another step in the industrial progress of the
South. The factory and equipments cost
over half million dollars, and the appoint
ments are equal in all respects to any cotton
factory in New England or elsewhere. The
main building is three hundred feet long by
one hundred feet wide and FIVE stories in