The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-06-09
News of the Week.

! lrishmen are using poison as well as dyna-
mite to get rid of objectional persons.
Miss Mary Crowell won the literary essay
prize at the Vanderbilt University over 121
males.
One hundred and forty-three soldiers at
| Posen, Prussia, have been accidentally pol
soncd.
Ten years ago Bell, of the telephone, could
not have raised $500 in cash. To-day he Is
worth over S5,000,000.
At s., 600 a night it is calculated that Patti
/ in Lucia will be paid over $50 u minute,
! 81 IL Il word, and S1.75 note.
/ A large tank of the Tidewater Pipe Line
/ Company at Muncy, Pa, containing 5000
barrels of oil was struck by lightning Wednes-
/ day and consumed.
! Another American horse has gone to the
! front on English soil. On Wednesday }. K.
keenes Blue Grass won the Ascot biennial
stakes at Ascot Heath.
1t is said that $3.50, 900 have been subscribed
to build a furnace at Luray, Va, by party OF
| Northern capitalists, and that arrangements
are being made for site and construction.
Mrs. Martin Douglass, in a fit of insanity, on
Friday last cut the Threats of her three little
children with razor and then cut her own
throat, at her home near Huntsville, Pa.
A marble statue of Gen. Zachary Taylor is
to be unveiled next month at his grave, eight
miles from Louisville All the survivors of
the Mexican war are to be invited to attend
/ the ceremonies.
Frank Brown and John Anderson, of the
/ Crooked Greek gang, terrorized Vista, Iowa,
Sunday, for three hours. An armed body of
citizens then shot Anderson dead and fatally
wounded Brown.
The Sunday trains on the Housatonic Rail
/ road were stopped this week by the Massa-
chusetts authorities. The clergymen in Berk-
shire county presented petitions against the
running of Sunday trains
A special from San Antonio, Texas, says
Major WATSON, the defaulting army paymaS-
ter, will plead guilty to the embeZZlement OF
/ s., 400, but will deny the charge of embezzllng
! S18, 900, which he claims to have lost.
The Pennsylvania Legislature adjourned on
Wednesday. The Governor issued amessage
calling for an extra session Thursday at noon
for the consideration Of the appOrtionment
bills, congressional, legislative and Judicial.
A cyclone swept through Butler county,
Ala, Sunday, damaging property. A colored
man was killed and several persons injured.
Greenvlle, Texas, was struck by tornado
Sunday evening, wrecking number of houses.
The grand Jury at Austin, Texas, has in
ulclcu lIOul lOIly W my IlCHlDCIo VI
isIature for gambling Many of them will
plead guilty and pay the fine. Some one en-
tered the county clerks office on Saturday
night and stole the indictments.
During circus performance at Suspension
Bridge, n. Y, Tuesday night, the tents were
struck by terrific rain squall and utterly de-
molished. About 800 persons were IN the
tents and a terrible panic ensued. A great
many people were injured, but none fatally.
Adelaide S Smith brought suit under the
civil-damages act in Brooklyn, n. Y, against
Patrick Dempsey and Cornelius Clarke,
liquor dealers, for $4,000, for selling her
| husband liquor and causing him to become a
drunkard. On Tuesday the jury gave her a
verdict for $500.
Mr.. B. j. McGrann, of Mannheim township,
near Lancaster, Pa, has just sold % head OF
fat cattle which weighed when he got them
y, 200 Michl Ullman, the well known
droyer, bought them and they weighed 81,
$50 pounds, Il gain of $3.50 pounds, or an
average of 574 Ill pounds, per head.
Captain Deany, of the Ninth Massachusetts
militia, says no company in the State can com
pare in drill with the crack companies of the
South, and he regards the trip to Nashville
worth all it cost, because ''every member has
received Il vast amount of instruction IN points
which 90 to make up superior military com
pany.
The Weld of the mines Of the United States
for 1882 was $50, 800, 600 in gold and &C, $780,
600 in silver This shows Il decline of 81
/ 200, 900 in gold and al increase of 81, 500, 600
in silver as compared with the previous year.
/ The comparative decline in the production OF
gold was greatest in California, the yield being
! 81, 400, 600 less than in 1881.
Fenians from the United States crossed
into Canada from Buffalo, New York, last
/ Sunday, with the purpose OF blowing up the
/ Welland Canal. The Canadian authorities
had been previously apprized of the plot, and
I when the Fenians crossed over there were too
many government officers along the bank for
the health Of dynamite tiends.
Whitney. the murderer of young Burchard,
was taken from the Jail by mob at Herman,
Mo-, Tuesday morning and lynched. He
told the crowd his real name was Fisher, and
that his parents lived in Virginia. He was a
desperate of the Jesse James stripe. He and
his associate, Collier, were robbing Burchard
& Luke's store and shot Burchard.
Twenty five young women, English and
Swedish immigrants arrived at Saratoga from
New York on Monday. They were sent out
bv firm in New York to accept situations in
hotels and boarding houses. They found
that no places had been secured, and that
they were dupes of swindlers. Each girl had
paid man purporting to be a member of the
firm $3.50
A fire broke out in Barnums circus in
Chicago at , clock Tuesday morning, con,
Stunning the main tents, dresses and parapher-
MALTA. The fire caught from one of the lamps,
and the canvas was consumed like flash
There was no loss of life. The animals were
in separate tent and were not injured. The
loss is about $4,000. The management
have duplicate tent. The canvas destroyed
covered six acres of ground.
A heavy rain fell at Council Bluffs, Iowa
last Friday evening, flooding all that part Of
the city lying between the bluffs and Broad
way Seven iron bridges and two stone cul-
verts were swept away. Indian creek, which
runs through the city, swelled to the proper
tons of a river in few minutes, and many
houses were invaded by the water so suddenly
that the inmates barely escaped drowning
As far as known, no lives were lost. The
damage to property is estimated at $780,