The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-06-16
News of the Week.


John Brimmer and Geo. Gerlitzki escaped
from the Lancaster, Pa, Jail Saturday.
Granville Rohr, farmer, of York county;
Pa, was thrown from his buggy Saturday and
fatally injured.
A tornado swept over Clarendon, Pa, Tues
day night, demolishing eighty-six large oil-rigs
and five buildings.
The Massachusetts Medical Society Tues
day night, by a vote of G2 to So declined to
admit women to membership.
Timothy Kelly. the fifth and last of the
men convicted of the Phoenix Park murders,
was hanged in Dublin on Saturday.
A terrible cyclone prevailed west of Nc
Kensie, Texas, on Saturday. The dock hill
place was completely destroyed by lightning.
| A company has been organized in New
York to lay two new cables between this
country and Europe. 1t is stated the enter
prise will be carried out.
The Porte has notified Gen. Wallace, the
representative of the United States at Con-
stantinople, of the termination of the CON-
mercial treaty between America and Turkey.
| During fire at the Codorus paper mill at
York, Pa, on Monday, Charles Shaeffer,
| aged 20 years, was run over by the Rescue en-
| CINE and so badly injured that he died the
same evening.
Intelligence has been received of the exis-
tence of famine in the Kurdish districts
of Asia Minor. Many persons have died
from starvation. Grain is selling at six times
! its usual price.
Prof Hugh Newell has severed his connec-
ton with the Schools of Art and Design of
the Maryland Institute Baltimore, of which
he has proved himself, for several years past,
a most efficient principal.
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James Mutt, son of Capt A. C. Mutt, shot
and killed n L. Dukes, who on December
9th last, shot and killed his father. The at
tack was unprovoked, Mutt shooting Dukes
five times.
A heavy wind storm, accompanied by rain,
struck Springfield, ILL.,, Saturday night, doing
considerable damage. Special dispatches
from Bluffs, Chaplin. jacksonville, Berlin and
other points report the heaviest rain storm
that has fallen for years.
! A maniac named Wilson, in the jail at Fort
Worth, Texas, on Sunday attacked another
man, named Hayes, with stool. Hayes
struck Wilson in the neck with small peck
et-knife, severing the jugular vein. The
wounded man died in two minutes.
The joint special committee of the Massa-
chusetts Legislature on propagation, despite
the Governors statement that he would coun-
no request Oh the subject, uleI Oh
Tuesday and decided to ask the Governor to
prorogue the Legislature until August q.
A dispatch from Dallas, Texas, says the
cattle drive so far this season exceeds all ex-
pectations. Over 200, 600 head of cattle have
already passed over the trail that leads through
| Albany, and this does not include more than
half the number that will be driven from the
State.
At Terre Haute, Ind, on Monday, Saul c.
Davis attempted to shoot Congressman John
E. Lamb. The difficulty grew out of libel
suit in which Davis and Lamb are opposing
counsel. The ball struck the driver of
passing wagon in the foot, inflicting painful
wound.
Very heavy rain fell in the vicinity of Port
Jervis, N Y, Sunday night. During the
storm 60 feet of the towpath of the Delaware
and Hudson canal, near Huguenot, was wash
ed away to depth of 10 feet below the bot
tom of the canal. This will stop navigation
for at least a week
The high license bill is almost certain to
become a law in Illinois. There are about
1000 saloons in Chicago paying $50 each per
year, or about 5000, 000in all. 1t is estimated
that the number will be reduced to 5000 I'M
der the new law, yielding revenue to the
city of 81, 500, 900.
; August Hechler, who lived near Reading,
Pa, disappeared about three weeks ago. His
wife was haunted by a fear that he had fallen
into neighboring ore mine. Tuesday the
mine was searched, and Hechler's body was
found at the bottom with a twenty pound
stone round his neck.
Admiral John Randolph Tucker dropped
dead at his residence in Petersburg, Va, on
Tuesday night. He resigned from the L. S.
navy when the war broke out and was in the
Confederate navy till the close of the struggle,
when he entered the Peruvian navy, from
which he resigned five years ago. He was Y
years of age.
Alexander Wyatt, who was awaiting trial
for killing John Bird, committed suicide III
his cell in the Steubenville, Ohio jail on Sun
day night. Bird ran away with Myatt's wife;
Wyatt followed the fugitives to Steubenville,
where he fatally shot Bird. He left note to
his wife assuring her that he forgave her, and
imploring her not to forsake her children.
On Tuesday at Rockford, in Coosa county,
Ala, a colored man named Jordan Corbin
entered the house of Benjamin Garden and
shot him and his wife while in bed. Garden
son started to give the alarm, when the color
ed man shot him. All three were killed.
Gardens daughter, IA years of age, escaped.
1t is thought the colored man intended to as
sault the girl.
The Chicago Farmers Rerieu, in it's sum-
mary of crop reports, based on reports from
California, Tennessee, Kentucky and North
western States, says there is little or no change
in winter wheat; if any, for the worse Spring
wheat looks well and grows finely. Oats are
improving, and promise a fine crop. The
first planting of corn is poor, but the second
is coming on better.
A tornado passed over Chllicothe, No., on
Tuesday, unroofng and overturning a num-
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his house, containing his family, was carried
500 feet through the air At Summer City
the Baptist Church and eleven other buildings
were destroyed. At Carrolton, Mo-, the
people took refuge in their cellars from the
storm, but no very serious damage was done.
The Monongahela Association of the Bap-
fist Church met at Connellsville, Pa, on Mon
day evening, and after hearing the charges
against Rev. r. c. Morgan, alleging email
cious and general lying; rending the church
into two parties by unjust and unscri plural
rulings and indecorous and grossly immoral
conduct" unanimously sustained the charges
and excluded Mr. Morgan from the Baptist
Church.
A terrific explosion occurred at College
Point, L. l., last Friday night A cast-iron
vulcanizer weighing nearly % tons, burst.
The damage done will exceed $4,000 Jacob
Jocken, an engineer, was shockingly scalded.
Andrew Hoppe had both arms broken, his
eyes put out, and the flesh upon his body lit
orally cooked. VIM. Kelly was struck by a
piece of the iron and had his skull crushed.
Two other workmen were fatally hurt.
Henry Hudnall, president of Mahone's
school board in Richmond, Va, recently APP
pointed by the Cameron State board, was
Kissed Wednesday night, by persons in the
1 audience while he was attempting to make a
speech in delivering diplomas to graduates
of the high school. His speech was omitted
and the diplomas were presented without
Formally. One of the two colored members
of the school board, with his wife and daugh-
ter, occupied a private box in the building
during the exercises.
A courier arrived at Tombstone Monday
night from Crooks headquarters at Silver
creek, Arizona, bringing official information
of Crooks expedition. 1t left American soil
| - Nov 2 marching 300 miles Southaa ct from