The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-04-14
News of the Week.

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From one acre of lang staple cotton in
Rankin county, Miss, Mr.. w. Waddell real
lied $3.50.
The population of Roanoke, Va, by the
assessors books, is 1850. 1t is only couple
of years old.
The total number of deaths at New Orleans
from smallpox.
Wilmington, n. c., for the first time since
the war, is free from bonded debt, and its six
per cent. bonds are in demand at par by in
vestors.
The State Agricultural College at Des
Moines, Iowa, has been temporarily closed,
owing to the breaking out of scarlet fever
among the students.
Representatives of the labor unions have
prepared memorial asking the President to
call an extra session of Congress to deal with
| the labor question.
7 Cornelius Vanderbilt has contributed S., 600
towards the 81 ,000,0 which the Protestant
Episcopal Church proposes to raise for the
erection of new churches.
The Key West sponge fleet, numbering sew
enty vessels and about six hundred men, Is
out on a cruise. A large catch of sponge
brings about $500, 900 into that city.
Aunt Polly Hatch died at Manchester,
| n. H., last Friday, aged 105 years. She was
the oldest person in New Hampshire and
! probably in New England. She was native
of Lincoln, n. I'll.
| The auction sale of season tickets for the
dramatic festival at Cincinnati closed last
| Friday, 2,453 seats having been sold for to-
tai sum of S64, 1925. There are still 1857
seats to be sold.
When the body of John Bryant, which was
buried two years ago at Bedford, Ind, was
dsinterred for removal to another graveyard,
recently, it was found to be rapidly petritying.
1t weighed 700 pounds
! One soap mandatory, one cracker manu-
factory, one cotton press mandatory, two
sash and blind manufactures, and one cotton
compress company have been organized at
Montgomery, Ala, within the last sixty DAYS.
Over eight inches of rain fell at New Or
! leans in Is hours on Saturday. The Missis-
sippi river Overfowed its banks on the Algiers
front, causing considerable damages to prop
erty. Other suburban towns were overfowed.
George A. Edmunds, of Correctionville,
Iowa, upon reaching his home at midnight on
Saturday night found there a grocery dealer
named Hose and shot him, inhicting fatal in
iuries. Jealousy was the cause of the shoot
ing.
A prize fight occurred on Saturday near
| Nanticoke, Pa, between Tom Slavin and
Mike Cavanaugh. Twenty-Five rounds were
/ fought and Slavin was knocked down twenty
one times Cavanaugh was declared the win
ner.
| The four men arrested in London on sus
! picion of being concerned in plots to blow up
government buildings, were arraigned in Bow
/ Street Court last Friday, and remanded
! Their examination revealed some important
matters
/ Daniel Van Noy and his wife were walking
on the Erie Railroad track, near Port Jervis,
/ n. Y, on Saturday evening. TO avoid a
freight train they stepped to the opposite track,
directly in front of an express train. Both
were instantly killed.
/ Samuel Lewis, colored, who murdered
| 'EDink'' Weems, also colored, on Feb. I,
was taken from the Jail at Anderson S Station,
/ Ala, on Monday night, by a mob composed
/ of six white men and seventy-fve negroes,
and hanged. He had confessed his guilt.
( The dynamite campaign in London and
other cities of England is causing the English
| government much alarm. Several parties
| have been arrested, and important iuforma-
| ton concerning the dynamite plot is said to
! have been obtained. Great excitement pre-
walls.
An old Indian woman over 80 years of age,
known as the "Widow Jim,' living a lonely
/ life near Onaga, Kansas, was murdered two
or three days ago and her cabin afterwards
set on fire to conceal the crime. Money was
the object of the murderer, the old woman
being known to have several hundred dollars.
A prairie fire is devastating the country a
few miles north of Lincoln, Nebraska. Mrs.
Dalton, a farmers wife, was suffocated while
| fighting the fire. Barns, houses, granaries
and haystacks are being destroyed. 1t is es-
timated that fifty square miles of territory have
been burned over, and the fire is still raging.
Rev. Charles Steck, pastor of the Messiah
Evangelical Lutheran Church, Pittsburg, con-
templates leaving the pulpit for the stage, and
benefit of the Newsboys' Relief Association.
He is a fine scholar and a good elocutionist,
and is said to possess considerable hstrionic
ability.
While Police Sergeant William Becker, of
Reading, Pa, was returning in carriage
from Wernersville, Berks county, on Satur-
y,lwith Martin Weinrich, noted desperate,
whom he had arrested on a charge of horse
stealing, the latter drew a revolver and shot
Becker, inficting a probably fatal wound.
Weinrich was afterward arrested.
A severe..wind, rain and haistorm prevailed
in central aud southwestern Arkansas on
Thursday night of last week, doing considera-
BILE damage to buildings and fences and blow
ing down many trees. A car was lifted from
the track of the Hot Springs and Malvern
Railroad and rolled down an embankment.
Several persons were bruised, but none
seriously.
A dispatch from Vienna, April 6, says -
Seven hundred and fifty Hungarian emigrants
from Bukowina have arrived from the domains
of the State at Panchooa. Two thousand
more men are enroute, and the whole Hun
garian colony at Bukowina, numbering about
10000 souls, have determined to leave that
place. owing to the insuficiency of crops to
feed the population.
The Griswold mills at Darby, near Phila-
delphia, having been employing children un'
der l3 years of age, in violation of law, Mr..
James MeGahey called the attention Of the
authorities to the matter, and, as result
twenty-five children were dismissed from the
mill. In retaliation the operatives of the mil
have Joined in movement to boycott the store
of relative of McGaheys.
In Cabarrus county, n. c., Friday last
Mrs. Peter Fink, feeling unwell, took dose
: of what she supposed to be quinine and gave
her husband dose out of the same bottle.
Mrs Fink was taken suddenly ill, when the
discovery was made that the medicine taken
a few minutes. The husband was also made
quite ill, but he will recover.
The Ende Hotel, a three-story brick build
ing, at Greenvile, the county seat of Hunt
county, Texas, was blown down. or fell down
about one O. clock Saturday morning, and the
ruins were then destroyed by fire, with al
appalling loss of life. There were nearly
fifty guests in the house. most of whom were
asleep when the crash occurred, and of thu:
number thirteen were buried beneath the
ruins, and then to suffer the terrible torture'
of cremation. " it
A boiler attached to an engine of 75-horse
power exploded in the factory of Geo. Bishop
at Newberne. N. c., on Thursday evening O
last week. The engineer, Abram Brown, anc
the fireman, Frank Emmett, were killed
The house of Isaiah Wood, one hundred yards
distant. was DESTROYED, and Mrs Wood was
it is believed, fatally injured. Two employees
in the factory named Duncan and Staub were
hurt by flying bricks. Half of the factory. was