The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-04-07
News of the Week.


Sunday, & ~ "a
Seven years ago Mr.. Bell, of telephone
fame. was a moor man. Now he is said to be
worth Sc, 100000.
Three vessels were driven ashore in the
vicinity of Aberdeen, during storm on the
Scottish coast last week.
William De Peyster Stagg, formerly OF the
United States navy, died last week at Sailors
Snug Harbor, Staten Island, aged 30 years.
Ingram and Green, the murderers of Cash
Millett, were hanged by mob of thirty-tve
masked men near Hastings, Neb., on Tues
day night.
St. Louis has some rich widows, Mrs. Julia
Maffitt being credited with So, DOC, GOO, Mrs.
Allen with 50 ,000, 900 and Mrs. Mary l..
Tyler with Sl,0O0,OO0.
James B. Gillian, of Chambersburg, Pa,
hung himself on last Friday night. Temper
ary alteration of mind due to business
troubles was the cause.
At meeting of the trustees of the lniyer-
sity of Georgia held at Atlanta, Ga, on
Saturday, Senator Joseph +. Brown donated
$50, 900 in bonds to that institution.
Queen Victoria, Bismarck, Gladstone, EN-
peror William, Emperor Francis Joseph and
Secretary Folger are all sick and daily bull
press.
Colbert Strahl and Jesse Mulholand were
waylaid and shot last Friday night near Oak
field, Audubon county, Iowa, by an unknown
man, who stepped from behind tree and
fired upon them.
In the Massachusetts, House of Representa-
tives on Tuesday the proposed constitutional
amendment prohibiting the manufacture and
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vote of rs to SO.
Burglars blew open the safe in Carson u
Toppings drug store, at Rushville, Yates
stole over $4,000 in notes, bonds and
mortgages, and 5000 in cash.
Ex-senator Thurman fell on the steps of
his residence at Columbus, Ohio, on Thurs
day evening and broke his left arm between
the elbow and shoulder. 1t is not thought
there will be any serious results.
The North Carolina State board of agricul-
ture met at Raleigh on Wednesday, and de-
cided to make IL full display of State products
at the fair of the New England Mechanics
Institute at Boston, Mass, in September
next.
B. c. 0. BENJAMIN, colored lawyer, has
applied for and obtained license to practice
law at the Albemarle county, Va, bar. Ben
iamin is the first colored man who has ever
applied for admission to the bar at Charlottes
vile.
1t is estimated that there are 100000
sheep in Texas. This number will probably
be increased during the coming season to
), SOC, 900, which, valued at 81. so each, would
make the total valuation of sheep i'll the state
S13, 100000.
Charles Rech, aged 50 years, was instantly
killed at Lancaster, Pa, on Tuesday, by the
falling of an elevator on which he was ascend
ing to the fourth story of the county hospital.
The elevator rope had been cut by some per-
son unknown, with criminal intent.
The British authorities are still greatly ex
ercised over the Irish dynamite plots. Three
constables have left Ireland for America to
find Hynes and Vahy, who are suspected of
having murdered Feerick in 1880. A Land
League has been organized in Australia.
Remus r. Harrington shot and instantly
killed his law, Lyman Gilliland, last
Friday, at Newburg, New York. Gilliland
had recently deserted his wife and destroyed
her furniture. Harrington and he met and
quarreled over the matter and the shooting
followed.
A. j. Crawford, deputy United States
marshal in Georgia under Gen. Longstreet,
was arrested some time ago on the charge OF
making false and fraudulent returns of time
and distance. At Gainesville, Ga, on
Wednesday he escaped from the officer who
had him in custody.
Thomas Waldron, better known as ''Broth-
er Frank president of St. Joseph's College,
Buffalo, n. Y, who was tried in that city on
the charge of assaulting little girl six and a
half years old, was convicted on Saturday
night of attempted assault and was sentenced
to the penitentiary for five years.
Three persons were hanged last Friday
Mrs Meaker, at Windsor, Vt, for killing an
adopted daughter Oliver Bristow, at Cam
den, S. c., for the murder of f. N. Nc
Dowell, farmer of Kershaw county, S. c.,
and Charles W. Beaner, colored, in Lees
burg, Va, for assaulting a little white girl.
On Tuesday afternoon four convicts at
tempted to escape from the penitentlary at
Chester, H. William Mccormick, who is
serving a five years sentence for violation of
the postal laws, James Rogers, imprisoned
for the same offense, and another convict,
were shot and wounded. All were captured.
In a prize-fght at Dubois, Pa, Monday
evening between Mike Mclaughlin and Mar
tin Lnksy, miners, six rounds were fought.
In the last round the men clinched and fell,
Linksy breaking his neck in the fall and dying
instantly Mclaughlin gave himself up to the
authorities. The men were not over Is years
of age.
The steamers Proteus and Ranger arrived
at St. Johns, N. F., from the seal fishery, on
Sunday, the former with 16, 200 old seals and
the latter with q, 600 young seals. They re-
port the steamers Greenland, Neptune, Res
dilute, Newhall, Wolf, Bear, Commodore and
Iceland loaded. An unusually good fishery
is anticipated.
The Missouri Legislature has passed bill
providing that no railroad company in that
state shall advance its freight rates without
first giving twenty days notice of the pro-
posed change by posting the new schedule in
three conspicuous places on each of its freight
and passenger depots. The penalty for
violating the law is $500.
AT the discussions of the Lutheran minis
tiers of the Easton Conference, at Easton, Pa,
last week, there was unanimous expression
in favor Of the episcopate for the American
Church. A committee for each conference
of the old Pennsylvania Synod was appointed
to bring the matter before the conferences
and see that the questions were discussed.
1t was said by physician in this country
at the time of the Queens recent accident on
the stairway that it was probably not mere
slip of the foot, but an indication of something
more serious. The suspicion seems to be
confirmed by the statement that her health is
in such a condition as to render necessary the
abandonment ofall her engagements for April
Rev. George Allen, Congregational min
lister, died at Worcester, Mass, on Saturday
aged 81 years. He graduated from Yale in
1913, and was author of the resolution i'll
favor of ''free soil, free men, free speech and
a free land" offered at the convention of the
free soil party in 1S48. He was brother of
the late Chief Justice Allen, of the Massa-
chusetts Supreme Court.
California experienced an earthquake on
Thursday of last week. San Francisco was
slightly frightened. At Watsonville, Santa
Cruz county, nine shocks were felt, with the
breaking Of crockeryware, plastering, &c
At Hollister, San Benito county, plate glass
windows were smashed and brick buildings
cracked In the temporary panic the streets
were filled with the inhabitants, many OF
them in undress.
A broken rail near Mason, KY, on the
Cincinnati Southern r. r., last Friday, threw
the northbound passenger train from the
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