The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-01-20
News of the Week.


burg, Pa. attempted to commit suicide sun
day night while under temporary aDerfatioh
of mind.
Researches as to the origin of draw-poker
convince the Macon Telegraph that the game
was invented about 1876 by John Kirkman,
Tennessee turfman.
London is at present paying for fire insur-
ance over Sc, 600, 900 a year-40 per cent:
more than the cost of maintaining 1000
metropolitan police.
Emma Stillwell the Illinois woman who
confessed to the murder of so many of her
relatives, has died. Up to the last she main
tanned the truth of her confessions.
During the year Just closed in England there
were reported % mining explosions Is of
which were fatal, the number of deaths reach
ing 241, exactly the average for the past 81
years.
John Scheller, bar keeper at the Newhall
House, Milwaukee, that was burned last week,
together with some thirty or forty persons,
has been arrested on the charge of setting fire
to the hotel.
GRAY SQUIRRELS are so troublesome in Con-
necticut that the farmers wish to exterminate
them, and they are being killed in great
numbers. A party of three recently bagged
1O5 squirrels in a day.
Rev. DIR. VIM. N. Pendleton, rector of
Grace Episcopal Church, Lexington, Va,
and chief of artillery of the Confederate army
of Northern Virginia, died Monday night, in
the I'D year of his age.
Rev. A. J. Ryan, the poet-priest, has ac
cepted an invitation from the literary societies
of the University of Virginia to deliver the
Grafton before the joint societies at the annual
commencement in June next.
Prince Napoleon issued q manifesto in
Paris on Tuesday, and has been arrested by
the government. 1t said he will be ordered
to quit France, and if he does not do it, he
will be escorted to the border by guard.
Justice Jim Smith sent Margaret Gregory
to Jail for drunkenness, at Washington, Ind,
as a matter of official duty. Then he went to
the prison with a clergyman and welded the
woman in her cell as a matter of personal
choice.
During the performance on Sunday at a
circus in Berditscheff in Russian Poland,
fire broke out in the building, and before the
spectators could escape the whole structure
was ablaze One hundred and fifty persons lost
their lives.
A number of cotton manufacturers met at
Atlanta on Wednesday and organized the
Southern Cotton Manufacturers Association
bv the election of j. F. Hanson, of Macon,
president, and L. B. Dallas, of Nashville,
secretary and treasurer.
A mass meeting was held at Camden,
Me-, on Saturday night to express indignation
at the appointment of W. B. Rich as post
master over the incumbent, Alden Miller, Jr.,
a wounded soldier, who did not pay the as
sessment on his salary.
Edward Tay cut his throat in New York
last Friday, stabbed himself about twenty
times in the breast and side, then jumped
from the fourth story window. He landed in
a snow pile and the fall didn't hurt him. He
died on Saturday, however.
Ruder Moore, of Waterford, who killed
himself few days ago at Erie. Pa, confessed
before his death that his false testimony con-
victed Charles Stafford eight years ago of an
offense for which he is now serving twenty
years term of imprisonment.
A severe electric storm, accompanied by
a high wind, which reached the velocity of 60
miles an hour, prevailed at Denver, Col, last
Friday. An electric-light tower 1856 feet high
was blown over, wrecking small frame house
near by. The inmates escaped.
A snow slide occurred on Friday on Mus
quito mountain, fifteen miles from Leadville,
Col. Two miners were caught in the ava
lanche and hurled down a distance of hun
found, their recovery is doubtful.
S. Cast, travelling ''cancer DOCTOR treated
two citizens at Chester, Pa, and on Wednes-
day night one of them, woman, died, as 1T
is supposed, from the effects of his treatment.
The other, minister, is in a critical condi-
ton. Cast left town to escape arrest.
While VIM. Clegg, an employee of the Sus-
quehanna Rolling Mills, at Columbia, Pa,
was working at the rolls cast last week
bar of red hot iron became coiled about his
body. His associates quickly released him,
but he sustained in uries which will probably
prove fatal.
A dispatch from Brownsville, Texas, says
that serious Indian troubles prevail in Chi
huahua. At Puerto del Rocolate the Indians
attacked and killed a herder, and also at
tackled six soldiers who were guarding four
prisoners. Two guards and the prisoners
were killed.
In digging a tunnel under the hill of Posili-
DO, Naples, the workmen came across another
tunnel, of unknown antiquity and in perfect
preservation, six feet three inches in height
and two and half feet in width. A laborer
walked some distance along it without finding
an outlet Explorations have been ordered
by the municipal Government
Joseph Sailer, for many years financial ed
itor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, died
Monday morning from a complication of dis
esase. He was in his seventy fourth year.
From 1910 to 1877 Mr.. Sailer continued as
siduously at his editorial labors without inter
ruption. In 1877 he reluctantly took his first
holiday week at Saratoga.
Nicholas Felix, an inmate of the Allegheny,
Pa, City Home, died on Tuesday from star
walton. Last July he resolved that he would
not eat anv more. since which time he has
lived on nothing but small quantity of milk
and a still smaller amount of whisky, which
was forced down his throat. No motive is
known for his strange method of committing
suicide.
Clark Mills, the sculptor, died in Washing
ton last Friday, in his 75rd year. He was a
native of Onondaga county, New York, learn
ed the trade of plasterer, and worked at his
trade in Charleston, South Carolina, some
years before his talents became known and
appreciated. The equestrian statue of Jackson,
Lafayette Square, Washington, is one of his
best works.
For some time the water in the Philadel-
phia reservoirs has been impure and offensive
to the taste. On Saturday report was pre-
scented to the park commission, attrihuting
the bad condition of the water of the Schuyl-
kill river to the gas works at Manayunk Nor
ristown and Reading, to the paper mills at
various points, and to the sewage that flows
into the river from all the towns on its banks.
A man named Sewers, of Clarke county,
Va, entered the National Bank ofCommerce
in Philadelphia, on Saturday, to cash
draft for 81, 700. While he was counting the
money stranger called his attention to
note lying on the floor, and, as Mr.. Sewers
stopped to pick it up, another man appeared
at his other elbow, grabbed a pile of bills
amounting to 1898, and disappeared around
the corner.
The grand jury returned into the Washing
ton Criminal Court Tuesday morning indict-
ments against Arthur Payne and Thos. r.
Foote, the former for unlawfully and corrupt
ly endeavoring to influence the action of VIM.
K. Brown on the first star-route trial by pre-
senting Brown for signature an agreement to
sell his vote as juror for 50, 500, and the lat
ter for procuring Payne to present to Brown
the said agreement.
The Dauphin County Court, at Harrisburg,