The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-11-17
News Of the week.


The Lake Of the Woods, up in Manitoba, is
100 uiilcs long, 60 miles wide and contains
$4,000 islands.
In his annual report Gov. Ordway, of Da-
kota, saws the population of the Territory
has increased one hundred thousand during
the past year.
The Citizens Bicycle club of New York,
numbering about seyenty-hve members, has
made arrangements to build wheelmen's
club house, the first Of it's kind in this country.
The New York trade schools now entering
upon a third successful season give instruc-
tions three evenings week in brick-laying,
plumbing, frescO- painting, stone cutting, pias-
tering, wood-lurning, scroll Saving and pat
tern-making. There are about 200 students
on the roll for this winter.
L terrible explosion, caused by fire damp,
occurred on the 9th inst, in colliery at
Accrington, town in Lancashire, England,
10 miles north of Manchester. One hundred
and ten miners were at work in the colliery at
the time of the explosion, and 65 Of them
were killed and 40 more or less injured.
The humming- bird is exclusively an Amer
lean bird, but he has an extensive range
all the way from Cape Horn to Sitka-and
there Are over 400 species of him. Mr. Dury,
an ACCOMPLISHED Cincinnati ornithologist,
saws that the metropolis of the family is IN
South America, near the capital OF New Gran
ada.
A well.known female thief was properly
sscornered" the other day at Nottingham,
England She stole trunk from the railway
station. but when she opened it and found it
TO be filled with the body of a child in spirits,
a human leg and other portions of the human
anatomy. her emotions were so mixed that
she surrendered herself to the police.
The use of tobacco among the inmates OF
Moyamensing prison, Philadelphia, was
abolished by the board ofdirectors six months
ago. The prison physician watched the effect
upon the men carefully, and reports their
general health improved, with no evil effects
from the deprivation. The experiment has
proved so successful that it has been decided
not to use tobacco in the place any more.
Therefore the board has asked for an appro-
priation of 5000 for the improvement of the
library instead of the usual $500 for the
weed
Mrs. Ellen Long, widow, and L. S. White
more. of Princeton, Wisconsin, have been
arrested for the murder of Whittemore' S
eleven year-old son, who was found in the
river Nov. 9, with his throat cut. In Mrs.
Long house were found bloody clothes, a
butcher knife and two razors stained with
blood. and in her well bloodstained club. 1t
is charged that Whittemore and Mrs. Long were
too intimate and that the boy had discovered it.
Mrs. Longis said to have attempted to poison
Whittemore's wife. It is thought she killed
the boy in her cellar, and the father threw
him in the river.
The United States Supreme Court on Nov.
9Th, in the case Of the Manhattan Life Insur-
ance Company VS.. John G. Boughton, trustee,
salt on policy on the life of Israel Ferguson,
who hanged himself in Central Park, New
York, decided that self-kiling by an insane
person understanding the physical nature and
consequences of his act, but not its moral as
pect, is not death by suicide within the
meaning of condition in policy that it shall
be void if he dies by suicide The court de-
cided in the case of the United States vs.. Jos.
W. Fisher, chief justice of Wyoming. that
Congress has the right to regulate the salaries
of United States officers from year to year by
appropriation bills, regardless of previous
statutes fixing their compensation.