The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-05-26
News Of the Week.

Six nersons in the Lancaster, Pa, Jail have
the smallpox.
Two inches Of snow fell Sunday forty miles
north of Escanbia, Mich.
lydia Pinkham, the well known patent
medicine proprietor, died at Lynn, MASS,
last Friday week.
Walter Evans, of Louisville, KY, has been
Amounted Commissioner Of Revenue, IN the
place of Green b. Raum.
The New Jersey prohibitionists had State
convention at Trenton on Monday. ana nom
mated DIR. Isaac n. Quimby, OF Jersey CITY,
for Governor.
Twcnty-four persons were poisoned at u
church festival at Chattanooga, Tenn, one
night last week, by something in the food.
They all recovered.
DR.. John Siller, of Mount Joy, Pa, has
been arrested on the charge OF having caused
the death of Mrs. Annie Rode, married
woman, by malpractice.
Mrs. R. B. Ridley, daughter of the late
Senator Hill, died at Atlanta on Monday from
injuries received on Friday in jumping from
buggy while the horse was running away.
The Roebling bridge, uniting New York
and Brooklyn, was formally opened on
Thursday. 1t is one of the grandest struc-
tues of the kind in the world. The ceremo-
MES were imposing.
The Gar of Russia made his entry into
Moscow on Tuesday. 1t was the grandest
procession witnessed in Europe for many
wears. The people were enthusiastic and the
crowd was immense.
The village of Nuenkirschen, Germany,
was destroyed by fire on Monday. Even the
fruit trees and the wooden crosses IN the
churchyard were burned. The entire popula-
ton, numbering 1900, is homeless.
The ffty-fourth anniversary of the Brook
lvn, n. Y, Sunday School Union was cele-
DRAFTED on Wednesday by the annual parade
of Sunday School children. The children IN
the line numbered 52,00G
Samuel Brenise, a well-known citizen of
York county. Pa, died Sunday morning OF
apoplexy. at his home at Shrewsbury Station,
aged about IS years. He retired on Saturday
night in apparent good health.
At York, Pa, Saturday, the nine year-od
son of Rev. Mr.. Meredith, pastor of the I.
B. church, fell under train and was fatally
injured. Daniel Harkins, Is years of age,
was also badly hurt by train at \ DIRK Satur-
day.
Two driver boys entered an abandoned por-
ton of the Mineral Spring mine, of the Le-
high Valley Coal Company, in the Wilkes
barre district, Monday, with naked lamps on
their heads. An explosion took place and
! both were killed
A boy named Alphonso Linden committed
suicide at the Reform School, ,Jamesburg, n.
j., on Sunday. He had been put into Il cell
as a punishment, and when an officer went to
/ the cell to look after him his body was found
suspended from the ceiling.
Mrs. r. j. McMillie, of Lindenville, Ash
tabula county, Ohio, while suffering from IL
fit Of temporary insanity, drowned her two
children, aged and q years, in a well 10 feet
deep and then took poison herself. There Is
no hopes of her recovery.
/ Three prisoners who escaped from the Jail
at Abingdon, Va, last week, have been re
captured. G.. ". Krantz, the counterfeiter,
and another of the prisoners were retaken
without difficulty, but Smith Nelson, the col
ored desperate, was shot and seriOusl Y wound
ed by his pursuers
/ 1t is said that the Mexican Congress now in
session contemplates an extensive revision OF
( the tariff. Among the financial suggestions
under consideration is the refunding of the
/ legitimate Mexican debt (which amounts to
! about $3.50, 000, O00) into bonds which can be
made the basis of Il national banking system.
/ Mrs Polly Phillips Williams, of Botetourt
/ county, Va, died recently, aged 80 years.
/ and Williams families who came to this coun-
/ try in the Mayhower. She left her oldest son
/ a Bible which was brought over in that ia
nous ship in 1920, and was then quite an old
| book
! The striking bricklayers at Chicago sur
rounded building on Tuesday on which Il
number of men were working and tried to in
timidate them. A fight ensued, in which
several pistol shots were fired. John Sulli-
van, president Of the Bricklayers Union, is
charged with firing the pistol, and is now un-
| der arrest.
! Miss Mary Jones, talented and highly con-
nected young lady, of Poplar Bluff, Mo-, mys-
teriously disappeared three weeks ago, and
after persistent search the st. Louis police
confess themselves baffied as to her wherea-
boats. She is cousin of the wife of Judge
/ Sherwood, of the Supreme Court of Missouri,
and niece Of ex-senator Ware.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, in an
I opinion filed on Wednesday. affirmed the de-
/ cree of the Common Pleas Court, ousting
| David H. Lane from the Office Of recorder Of
| Philadelphia. This opinion settles the ques-
ton as to whether the Governor has the right
to summarily remove county officer before
the expiration of his term in favor of the Gov
ernOr.
! Highwaymen, housebreakers and profess
| sional thieves of all kinds are holding high
carnival in the Lehigh Valley, Pa, this spring.
! Within a circle of twenty miles around Easton
| last week four persons were stopped by road
/ agents and eleven stores and dwelling houses
were broken open by burglars. A number of
/ arrests have been made, but burglaries con-
/ tinue nightly.
/ Forest fires in the vicinity of Groton Pond
Vt, on Saturday, destroyed the depot build
! ings of the Montpelier and Wells River Rail-
road, a large steam mill, a number of tene
ment houses and vast quantity of wood and
lumber The people ofthe town took refuge
| in boats and RATS on the lake. A broad strip
of territory on both sides of the railroad was
! laid waste for six miles.
The Long Island Sound steamboat Granite
State was burned last Friday while approach
/ ing Hartford. The passengers were much
! frightened and in the confusion of getting
ashore at least two lives were lOst-Mrs. Cliff
ford D. Maine, aged 26 years, and bride of
but two days, and a young colored man named
Johnson, employed on the boat Two or
! three others are missing.
/ George johnson, son of Bradish Johnson,
of New York, died at the Arlington House,
| Hot Springs, Ark, on Monday. He awoke
during the night before and got up to get a
drink from the pitcher, the mouth of which
was broken. The pitcher fell and severed the
femoral artery. He was found pulseless and
speechless in his blood, and although surgical
aid was rendered, he died during the day
The annual examination of the pupils of
the Indian School. at Carlisle, Pa, took place
on Wednesday. Secretary Teller, Commits
sioner Price and number of distinguished
gentlemen interested in the civilization of the
Indians were present. All were surprised at
! the proficiency shown by the Indian pupils in
their studies and in the mechanical arts. The
school now contains $40 boys and 127 girls.
A large building, No. 100 Greene street,
New York, in which Richard j. Snedar car
ries on the manufacture of artificial leaves
and fruit, took "wednesday morning. The
men and women employed in the two upper
stories rushed to the roof, and by perilous
climbing escaped to the roofs of adjoining
buildings Mrs. Guldan was suffocated by
the smoke and died while being taken to the
hospital.