The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-11-24
News of the Week.


Slade dropped dead III the Ettricks Methodist
Church while about to engage in prayer.
According TO the reports from Cairo the
Egyptian army of Hicks Pasha has been an
affiliated by the forces of FL Mahdi, the False
Prophet.
John Wapfen, German of Cleveland, Ohio,
last week drank fifteen drinks of whisky in
fifteen minutes, on wager, and died from the
effects of it.
The Council of Washington Territory have,
stricken the word male from the election
laws, and hereafter women viii have the priv
ilege of voting.
At Danville, Ind, on Tuesday, unknown
parties inserted dynamite cartridges under the
Dew Drop Inn. The explosion shook the
whole town and blew the building nearly to
pieces.
James Cook and wife, living near Springfield,
ILL.,, had a quarrel, after which she left him.
Cook caught his wife and held her head be-
tween his knees while he cut her throat with
penknife.
David Van Arsdale, the oldest official of
the New York custom house, died last week,
aged 81 years. He was appointed by Gen.
jackson in 1897, and had been at the custom
house ever since.
The Bessemer Steel Works at Homestead,
Pa, closed down their rail department on
Saturday night, for an indefinite period.
When the present orders are worked off there
will be a general suspension.
The body of Fred. Harper, who disappeared
from his home in Jermyn, Pa, ten days since,
was found in the woods near that place Sun
day with bullet hole in his head. 1t is sup
posed that he was murdered.
1t is reported from Rome that the Vatican
has consented to the appointment of a Papal
nuncio to the United States. The subject of
a representative of the United States accredi-
ted to the Vatican is being discussed.
A party of masked men broke into the Jail
at Fowler, Ind, Sunday night, and took out
Jacob Melting, the murderer of Ada Atkin-
| son, and hanged him near the scene of his
crime. He remained firm and defiant to the
last.
A prize fight took place on Tuesday in
Bucks county, Pa, between James Golden,
of Philadelphia, and Patrick Scullian, of
Trenton, n. j. Sixty-fve rounds were fought
and both men were badly punishsd. The
| fight was awarded to Sculian on foul
Last Friday night band of masked citizens
went to the drug store of c. G. Sutton, at
Romney, Ind, bound him, and then destroy
ed his stock and totally destroyed the building.
Sutton sold whisky, and the destruction of
his property was effected on that account.
The state house at Boston, Mass, is in
danger of destruction from white ants, and
Prof Hagen, of the Agassiz Museum, Cam
bridge, is investigating means of destroying
the ants and preserving the building from
further attacks. The ants get in the timbers
and honeycomb them.
At indianapolis, Ind, Thursday evening,
the prisoners in the county jail attempted to
escape by the use of dynamite. They sue
ceeded in blowing a hole through the walls
large enough to crawl through, but were con-
fronted by the sheriff with a cooked revolver
and ordered to their cells.
A special from Batesville, Ark, says "a
cyclone struck Melbourne at o clock Wednes-
day morning. Ex-Sheriff John Hinkle and
his wife and two children were killed and
Mrs. Henry S. Hinke was crippled. The
courthouse, two churches and several stores
and houses were blown down."
Owing to the depression in the iron trade
iron mills in Pittsburg, Johnstown and Read
ing, Pa, have shut down, and it is reported
that over $4,000 men altogether are thus
thrown out of work at the beginning of winter.
The Bessemer steel works at Homestead, Pa,
have also decided to suspend work.
disturbance occurred Sunday night in
hall occupied by Salvationists at livingstone,
Ont. An ex-member of the army, who was
intoxicated, entered the hall and had COLI
sion with several individuals. The police at
tempted to quell the disturbance, but were
forced to retire without making any arrests.
Near Charlottesville, Va, Saturday night
Joe Barbour, colored, cut the throat of Rey
mold jackson, also colored, from ear to ear,
because jackson asked a friend of his not to
drink any more. The colored people en-
daax fc. mfr fha iaIl nd lxnr Rar
bour, but were repulsed by IA local military
company.
A cyclone swept through Oregon county in
Southern Missouri Tuesday evening, uproot-
ing large trees. No particulars can be learned
as the country is beyond the reach of tele-
graphic communication. An excursion train
from Kansas City was delayed two hours
from fallen trees upon the tracks over which
the cyclone passed
Elder Morgan, of the Mormon Church,
passed through Kansas City Saturday en- route
Tor Salt Lake City, with seventy eight recruits
from the Southern States. The proselytes
are of the most ignorant class, and appear to
have no idea of Mormonism. They say they
have been promised homes with no restriction
to choice of religion.
The new gas well of Haymaker Bros, in
Westmoreland county, Pa, which was opened
on Friday last, was lighted on Saturday.
The flame shoots upward $50 feet, and illum-
ines the country for miles. Its roar is terrific,
and can be heard for three miles, BY its
intense action houses are shaken within the
radius of mile. The well is pronounced by
experts to be the largest ever developed.
Ground was broken November II at Crystal
Park, COL, for railway, which is intended
to run to the summit of Pixies Peak, an ele-
Of IA foo HI hf fho foh-
est line of railway .on the North American
Continent, and is expected to be completed
by the first of next July. The calculation for
the first years business embraces the carry
ing of 81, 900 people to the summit of Pixies
Peak, 5000 to Seven Lakes, and 10000 to
Crystal Park.
The quickest divorce time on record was
made in Chicago one morning this week.
Lulu Scannell, by Storrs 4 Elliott, her attor-
neys, filed petition for divorce from Burt
h. Scannell at 9.45 a. IN. At the same time
the defendant put in appearance, waving all
service, summons, notice and other formula.
At ~ O clock the case was taken before Judge
Smith, and the evidence heard, and at 1925
the decree of diverse was ordered. The en-
tire transaction occupied forty minutes.
Julia Morrison, respectable colored wo-
man, living near Huntingdon, Pa, has under
d
and is now lndistinguishable from the tairest
Caucasian. About two years ago white spots
began to present themselves on her face and
arms and increasing in number and size until
they covered her whole person. Mrs. Nor
rison is the mother of six children, and the
singular physical phenomenon to which she
has been subjected puzzles all physicians who
have examined the case.
A list of the rich women of New York, re-
Gently published, shows that there are eighty
seven possessed of something like 81 ,00O,O 900.
The richest are: Mrs. A. 4. Stewart, S10,-
200, 900; Mrs. Edin A. Stevens, widow of the
Commodore, S7,OO0,OO0; Mrs. Moses Taylor,
S6,OOO,0OO; Mrs. Marshall q. Roberts, Mrs.
Z. d. Morgan and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt,
So, 900, 900 each; Mrs. Sarah Burr, 81, 900, 900;
Mrs. James Brown, 50, 100000. These ladies
are all widows. Miss Catherine Wolfe, worth
81, 900, 900, is the richest spinster
Patrick William O'Bren, the Irish giant,
and Christiana ID. Dunz, the German giantess,
were married in Pittsburg, Pa, on Tuesday.
The ceremony was performed in the German
Evangelical Church by the Rev. Frederick
Ruoff. and was witnessed by an immense as
sembage of people. The wedding cake
measured nine feet in circumference and three
feet in thickness. The combined height of
the bridal pair is - feet inches, and they
tip the beam at $40 pounds The wedding
ring WEIGHED II pennyweights, and was FIVE