The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-06-02
News of the Week.

80 Erdov the steamer Pilot bursted her
IL, raar TakeyiIle California, and elght
! nersons were killed and many others were
wounded and missing.
The penitentiary investigating commute =
Of Colorado has filed report, which say
the system of treating inmates IS extremely
crnel, in some cases resulting III INSANITY
Ex-Cbief Justice George Sharswood', OF
Pennsylyania, died in Philadelphia on MON
dav. aged nearly 70 years. He was great
inrist. serving on the bench more than thlrty-
seven years.
Tho coronation of the Emperor and En-
nress of all the Russias was celebrated WIN
GREAT pomp and circumstance IN Mosco" iasC
Sunday. 1t is said the cost of the corohaCoi
was 100000 600.
| During n fierce wind and ram storm iast
Friday at Beloit, Wis, number OF live hsh'
ono II them weighing pound, dropped IN the
streets. and hailstones, the largest tour lhches
in circumference, fell.
REM. Bunker, grandson of the owner OF
Runker's Hill at the time OF the battle, re-
Gently died in Norwich, n. Y, aged 80. his
wife Hannah Breed, was descendant ct the
owner of Breeds HILL
| The Glore tobacco warehouse, said to be
the largest in the world, was formally opened
! at Cincinnati on Monday. 1t is seven stores
/ in height, and has four and three-quarter acres
! of floor space.
The bicycle is getting to be almost on even
terms with the saddle-horse in Paramount
| Park. Philadelphia. Of the 1890 mounted
persons recorded as entering the park last
month, forty per cent. rode bicycles
Four hundred and thirteen Mormon imm-
grants arrived at New York Sunday. A care
| fnl inspection showed that they were neither
paupers nor criminals. They were able to pay
about $50 apiece for transportation to the
! West.
The annual parade of New York policemen
/ took place on Monday. There were l,2SO
men in line. about one half the city's force.
They marched up Broadway from the Battery
to Union Square, where they were reviewed
by the mayor.
In Pittsburg. Sunday, Thomas Welch was
fatally stabbed by his wife with a read-hot
bayonet. Welch had been drinking and
struck his wife; she picked up bayonet used
as a poker for stirring the fire, and ran 1t
through his left lung.
Mrs Langtry was paid 800, Col by Manager
Abbey for the twenty-siX weeks she played
under his management. the gross receipts
being $3.50, 2l5. In addition, it is said Mr..
Fred. Gebhardt presented the Lily with a
diamond necklace which cost S25, 900.
The livery stable of Henry B. Derrick, at
Marianne, Ark, was burned on Saturday,
and number of valuable horses persisted in
the flames Jesse Howard, colored, was ar
rested as the ncendiary, and was subsequently
taken from the Jail and shot by a mob.
An application has been made to the Su-
preme Court of Pennsylvania, now in session
at Harrisburg, for writ of error in the case
of John Coyle, Jr., who was recently con-
victed at Gettysburg Of the murder of Miss
Emily Myers, in y ork county, some two years
ago.
During the production of ''Uncle Tom S
Cabin at Uaverlys Theatre, Brooklyn,
Monday night. the Siberian bloodhounds at
tackled each other tiercely on the stage. They
rolled over the footlights into the orchestra,
creating great excitement among the audience.
They were finally separated, and the play
proceeded.
Samuel Cook, colored living near Jersey
Shore, was taken to Williamsport, Pa, on
Sunday and lodged in jail, coroner's jury
having charged him with numbering Samuel
Haukner on Friday last. Haukner was in
Cook employ The dead man had apparent
ly committed suicide by hanging, but the
inquest revealed other injuries.
The rector, church wardens and vestrymen
of Grace Episcopal Church, New York, have
spire to the church, which will weigh about
six hundred tons, cost $50, GOO, and tower to
a distance of 2l9 feet from the street The
spire is to be of white marble, and will be
surmOunted hya copper and glass cross, which
is to be illuminated at night
A colored man named Willis Shannon and
three boys named Harry Cas-, Snodgrass and
George Talbot, We're drowned at Martin s
Ferry, Ohio, on Saturday, together with two
horses. Shannon went to the river to wash a
buggy. taking the boys with him for Il ride
When in the river the horses became unman-
ageable, and all were washed into the current
and lost.
A terrific storm passed over Fort Smith,
Ark, Tuesday morning, unrOofng houses,
blowing down shade trees and CARRYING away
fences. Tho Southern Hotel was unroofed,
but no one was injured. A tornado passed
near East Lebanon, Ohio. on Monday night.
The houses and barns of Luther Babbitt. Jos.
West and Walton Eamhart were leveled to
the ground. Several persons were injured at
Vests house.
Three colored women, who claimed that
Dan Dynes, negro man, had promised to
marry each of them, joined hands and called
On Dynes in Washington Monday night One
of then struck him in the neck with the leg of
a stove, while another gashed his forehead
with razor. 1t was thought he would die,
but at midnight he was supposed to be out of
danger. One of the women was arrested and
the other gave herself up.
A California correspondent writes May -
as follows: "Fhe rains have let up at last.
Some damage has been done to hav, but
otherwise this unreasonable excess of rain
adds largely to the estimates for wheat, for
grapes, for all fruits and for all summer
growths such as corn, sugar beets, and all
garden truck and pastures. Altogether this
is now pronounced the best agricultural year
California has ever chronicled. On July l
our harvest begins and all danger is past
AT Schuylerville, n. Y, on Monday, Mich
olas Vandenburgh, while digging we'll, no
ticed that laborer who had descended into
the opening was sufoqating irom the effects
of the gas, lis attempted to rescue the man,
but met the same fate. Mrs. Vandenburgh,
who was on the ground, urged the other
workmen to descend and rescue the men, but
they refused, She went down herself and
was also overcome. All three were then
brought to the surface, Mr.. and Mrs. Vanden-
burgh dead and the laborer alive, but uncon-
scious.
At the Cedar Hill Catholic Church, about
twenty-five miles south of ST. Louis. on Sun
day, as Martha Mcdaniel and Amel Deu-
rentz were coming from mass, they were met
by Hiram Suelleness, who carried shotgun
As he approached he shouted, "Draw your
pistol, Amiel y but without waiting an instant
he fired, killing Deurentz on the spot. He
then discharged the second barrel at the girl,
seriously, perhaps MORALLY wounding her.
The murderer then reloaded his gun, and by
means of forkea stick fired again, instantly
killing himself.
In the competitive drill at Nashville, Tenn,
on Saturday the $4,000 prize was awarded to
the Mobile Rifles, the 81 900 to the Crescent
Rifles of New Orleans and the $500 prize to
the Treadway Rifles of st. Louis Battery C.
Louisiana Field Artilley, had the highest
score, 955. Frank j. Badger, of the Crescent
Rifles. took the first prize cup for the best
drilled man. Eichhorns Band of Louisville,
Ky, took the first prize; Hotlethwaite' IS Band
of St. Louis the second prize, and the De-
corah Drum Corps of DEBORAH, Iowa, took
the gold headed drum-stic The Mobile
Rifles were given a grand recention On their