The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-08-18
News of the Week.

| Col. JOSIAH w. ware, q prominent clLlZeh
of Clark county, Virginia, died on Monday,
aged 81 years.
A fatal disease resembling the "hog -chol-
era is prevailing among the hogs IN the VI
cinity of Womelsdorf, Berks county, Pa.
The Kimball House at Atlanta Ga, which
cost 1925, 900, was burned before day on Sun
day morning. There was no loss of life.
Judge jeremiah S. Black is suffering from
a painful illness at his home in York, Pa,
but no immediate danger is apprehended.
A farmer named J. Fulford was lynched by
citizens of Milford county, Ga, on Saturday
for the murder of his wife, i'll which he was
aided by two colored men.
A gang of Winnebago Indians employed on
the Union Pacific RoiIroad have proved to be
excellent workmen, and in some respects
superior to those of any other nationality
-Four prisoners escaped from the Camden,
n. j., Jail on Saturday. This makes the
twentieth time since its erection and third
time within the last year that prisoners have
escaped.
1t is reported that Wells, Fargo & Co.'s
express has been robbed near Riverside, Ariz.,
of Sc. POO, and that John Collins, express
agent, was killed, one passenger being
wounded.
Elizabeth Gloucester, colored proprietor
of a boarding house in Brooklyn n. Y, died
last week aged &c years. She left an estate
valued at $4,000 She was born at Rich
mond, Va.
The official returns from sixty mine of the
III counties of Kentucky show Knott's ma
| iority for Governor to be over $1,000. In
the same counties Blackburn's majority was
but 5000.
The Canadian police authorities at Niagara
~ i
tempt to swim the whirlpool rapids as coming
from insane persons, and to prevent all such
attempts from being carried out from the
Canadian shore.
Professor C. H. F. Peters, of Clinton, n.
Y, has announced to the Harvard College
Observatory the discovery by him on the
night of the 18th inst. of new planet. 1t is
unusually bright for an asteroid, being of the
ninth magnitude.
+ A collision occurred on the race track at
Charlotte, Mich, on Wednesday between the
trotting horses Raymond and Banker Roths
child. Raymond was killed outright, and
/ the other horse was dangerously injured. An
offer of 5000 had been refused for Raymond.
Frank Vail and August bunker quarreled
over game of cards in St. Louis saloon on
| Sunday night. bunker invited Vail to go
out upon the sidewalk, when he shot him
7 ldIdlly III IUe dDuOHleI, anu GueH W
his own house he shot himselfin the head and
/ will die.
/ A heavy thunder storm prevailed at Lin
! coin, Neb, on Saturday. The Telephone
| Exchange was set on fire by lightning, but the
/ flames were soon put out; several houses were
! struck and four persons were injured. Three
boys who took shelter under tree, were
killed.
, A fire at Vineyard Haven, Mass, which
/ began at 9 o'clock on Saturday night and con-
/ tinued until after 2 clock Sunday morning,
destroying fifty acres of buildings in the heart
of the town, causing loss estimated at $780,,
900. All the buildings were of wood. Sew
eral hundred persons are made homeless by
this fire.
/ At a meeting of the Universal Arbitration
League i'll Washington on Tuesday it was
solved that a general disarmament should be
proposed to the representatives of all nations
/ when they meet in this country in 1892 to
celebrate the 400th anniversary of the discov-
of America.
/ On July 80 hostile Apaches made an attack
on the village of Nacori, Sonora, where Lieut..
/ Morens is stationed with a small picket of
State troops, killingfiv of the guards. They
repealed two assaults made by Lieut. Morens
and his command, and then drove off large
herds of cattle.
( Dave Robinson, young man of Lowdville,
Ohio, has been crippled for life by VIM.
Grist, Il companion, who revenged himself
for a petty grievance by pouring oil Of vitriol
over Robinson's wrists and hands. The flesh
was eaten entirely off, leaving the bones eX-
posed. Grist made his escape.
{ Governor Cameron on Tuesday ordered the
/ Lynchburg Home Guards to Chatham, Pitt
! sylvania county, Va, to guard the Jail there
from q threatened attack by mob of 500
persons, who are said to be determined to
lynch the three negroes who murdered Shop
pard. The Guards left Tuesday night for
Chatham, Capt. Holt commanding.
The Chicago Times says that secret agents
of the Canadian government have been in that
city for some time shadowing prominent Irish
nationalists, and that they have positive in
formation of premeditated design to destroy
the Welland Canal by the use of explosives.
1t is further asserted that the United States
government has been asked to assist in thwart-
ing the conspiracy.
At Pueblo, Col, on Saturday a woman
named Ida Davenport was murderously as
sauted and had her throat cut by gambler
named Hutchinson. To escape from him she
jumped out of a second-story window just as
two policemen were passing. They ran up
to the room, kicked in the door, and found /
Hutchinson dead with his throat cut. The /.
woman is MORALLY wounded.
Rain fell at Lynchburg, Va, on Wednes- |
day and Thursday, the first rain that has Wis
tied that section of the State for five weeks. |
The drought throughout Southwestern and
Piedmont Virginia has caused the destruction I
of the corn crop in several counties, and has
done irrcparabe damage to the tobacco crop
in Others 1t is thought that the rain has .
come too late to mend matters much.
~ II Hunfar Of Illumination pa
saw a stone too large for him to move on the .
railroad track near his home and hearing the
roar of an approaching passenger train he
went crazy with excitement. He succeeded, |
however, in stopping the train, but with not
a foot to spare. This was three months ago.
He lost his mind through the act, and has
just died raving maniac.
Last Friday night three men, named Owen
Doris, J ohm kirwis and James Cannon, were
walking on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
track near Demmler Station, not far from
Pittsburg, and in stepping aside to allow a
freight train to pass they were ground under
the wheels of an express train coming in an
opposite direction. Doris and Kirwis were
instantly killed and Cannon was fatally in
jured.
The records of the Postofiice Department
show that during the fiscal year ended June
30, 1888, the postal revenues received at the
Baltimore postofiice from the sale of postage
stamps, rental of boxes, etc., amounted to
$40, 20392 The expenses of the office, in
Guiding the salary Of the postmaster, clerk
hire, rent and incdentals, were 1913, 626.3O,
leaving net profit to the government of
SAG, 577,62.
A corps of engineers is engaged in survey
ing on the line of the proposed extension of
the Washington, Ohio and Western Railroad.
They are at work in Smokers Gap, on its
western side, working in the direction of
Berryvlle, Va. An effort is to be made to
have the road pass through Winchester by the
city subscription of $50, 200, originally voted
to the Alexandria, Loudoun and Hampshire
Railroad and then made available to the
Washington and Western Railroad, trans
ferred to the new organization.
Watermelon shipments from Savannah,
Ga closed last week The shipments of