The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-06-30
News of the Week.
The cholera is prevalent in Egypt.

| Henry Ward Beecner was seNeH'y J
age on Sunday last, the oath inst.
Forty-seven lives have been lost by the
burning of an amusement hall IN DerVlo'
Lake Como, Italy.
Eighteen Cinnamon were killed ana twenty
five wounded by railroad accident on oaIur-
day in Montana.
Petroleum, equal to the best Pennsylvania,
has been discovered near Rock hill, Mlssou-
RI Refneries are to be erected.
Capt. S. L. Phelps, of the District OF Co
lumbia, has been appointed minister TO Feru,
and Richard Gibbs, of New York, mlnlstert 10
Bolivia.
A cold wave struck Chicago on Sunday
NIGHT and the temperature on Monday was
about so degrees. Fires were built and over
coats were worn.
A violent thunder storm prevailed through
various sections of England Monday. -Four
soldiers are reported to have been killed by
| lightning at Chatham.
| An ARRAY between North Mayo and Dublin
militiamen, at Curragh, Ireland, Sunday
night, over gambling quarrel, resulted III
the wounding of seventeen men.
! On Monday evening, as the sheriff was
passing into the jail at Madison, Ill, to lock
the prisoners into their cells, six of them
overpowered him and made their escape
package of $4,000 expressed by the
New York Marine Bank via the Erie Road to
the Susquehanna, Pa, Valley Bank was found
on arrival at the bank to contain only blank
paper.
While Sam Gatlin, colored, was being taken
to iail at Lancaster, Pa, on Tuesday for as
saulting young white girl, he was shot IN the
back by some unknown person and fatally
wounded.
The British passenger vessels Hurunnla ana
Waitara, of the New Zealand Shipping Com
pany, colided on Friday night off Portland,
Eng, and the Waitara sank. twenty-five
lives were lost
Mr.. Henry Welsh, of York, Pa, died
Saturday in that city in the SD year OF his
age. He had been identified with the bust
ness and politics of York county for more
than half century.
The sea has cut so far into the bank of the
inlet at Barnegat, N. j., that six or eight
feet of the foundation of the government light
house is exposed, and large hotel is in dan
ger of being washed into the inlet.
Stephen Alexander, LII. D., emeritus pro-
fessor of astronomy at Princeton College,
died on Monday, aftera lingering illness, aged
7G years. He had been connected with the
college for nearly half a century.
Joseph l.. Striker, wealthy New Yorker,
aged "a years, was drowned while bathing IN
Saratoga Lake Monday morning. He was
married but a few months ago, and had taken
his bride to Saratoga Lake to spend the sum-
mer
During 1882 there were consumed as foods
in the department of the Seine, which includes
Paris, 10, 1866 horses, 81 mules and $40 asses,
forming total of 1872, $40 kilogrammes, OF
which two-thirds were conveyed into sau-
sages.
Prof. N. H. Ensley, colored, of Howard
University, Washington, ID. c., graduate of
Newton Theological Seminary, and learned
Greek scholar was elected from public
restaurant at Chicago on Tuesday on account
of his color
Three hundred and seventy feet is now the |
height of the monumunt in Washington city
a rise of thirty feet this season. But the work |
is now at standstill by reason of the failure !
of the Massa chusetts quarries to furnish the |!
requisite marble.
A Compulsory Education Bill was passed
by the Illinois Legislature and has been |
signed by the Governor 1t provides that |
every child in the State between the ages of 8 |
and IA years shall attend school not less than
II weeks in each year.
There were fifty deaths from yellow fever
at Havana last week. Private advices from
Vera Cruz state that yellow fever is making
fearful ravages among Europeans and Amer
leans. The heat at Vera Cruz is said to be
almost unprecedented
Duke. the colored man who entered the
sleeping apartments of the Misses Cooper, in
Lincoln parish, La, two weeks ago, it is sup
posed with criminal intentions, was found on
Saturday by body Of men who We're pursu
ing him and shot to death.
At Newark, n j., on Saturday, John
d. Ill do elN ,,,,A Ill Cd J
wife, age twenty years, while she was sitting
by a window in her mothers house. CHS
holm had been serving term in Jail for II OF
supporting his wife and was released on June
IL.
Lord Sudeley, near Cheltenham, England,
who planted 167 900 currant bushes, 49, 900
gooseberry bushes, %, 600 raspberry bushes,
fifty-two acres Of Strawberries, and numerous
other small fruits two years ago, is now build
ing a mammoth jam factory on his estate.
For the first time since November Whining
ton, Del, is officially reported absolutely
clear of smallpox. During its prevalence
there were 800 cases reported, of which II
proved fatal. Nearly all the fatal cases were
among patients who either had never been
or had not been vaccinated since
childhood.
Near Hurtsboro, Ala, on Monday, Joseph
Broom, white man, was expostulating with
a colored woman named Rena Polite for in
suting his wife, when she stabbed him with
butcher knife. He wrenched the knife from !
her hand stabbed her to the heart, killing her
Broom is seriously if not MORALLY ,
wounded. !
A terrific explosion occurred last Friday at S
blast furnace No. 5, in the North Chicago |
Rolling Mills. Thirtyfive tons of molten 6
iron were scattered in every direction. Two !
L. l. L., Il l.,l
men we're more or less severely burned. The 7
accident is believed to have been caused bya =
defective fue in the steam blast.
A six-year old daughter of Lawrence John 4
ston, of Mecklenburg county, n. C., was
found dead in her fathers barn on Wednes- h
day hanging by halter. She was alone h
playing in the barn with the halter, one end Fl
Of which was tied to door hinge, and it is Il
supposed that her foot slipped and she fell, Il
he moose closing under her chm and break
ing her neck.
A dispatch from Chicago says that the SEN
ence of the court martial in defaulting Pay
master Wasson's case is "to be discharged ~
from the service, to be confined !!
1t hard labor in the penitentiary for eighteen !,
months, and to have the facts respecting lis ~
crime and its punishment published in the n
newspapers of Iowa, the State from which he a
vas appointed to the army
DIR. Isaac J. Hathaway, in the cellar of r,
whose residence in Philadelphia the remains ii
If number of infants were recently found Il
hurled, was on Wednesday convicted of hav- a.
ng performed criminal surgical operation C,
lpon servant girl named Mary Butler in in
April, 1881, and was sentenced to pay fine il
If $500 and undergo an Imprisonment of seven OF
ears-the fullest extent of the law. al
While John Ivers, an expressman, of al
springfield, Mass, was watering his horse on
Saturday evening at a trough, two men drove al
p and roughly ordered him to unhitch the W
herk-rein of their horse. Ivers refused OF
7hereupon they jumped from the wagon and al
tabled him in the back, and then rapidly nj
rove off. 1t was too dark TO identify them, W
yers's wound will probably prove fatal, la
The steamer Furnissia arrived at New York =.
n Sunday last with FIVE hundred steerage III
~ senGers three hundred of whom, ,uaro. re