The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-05-12
News of the Week.

Another Arctic expedition has been sent
out to find former one. In SIX months hence
this last expedition will have to be hunted
up.
VIM. H. Vanderbilt has resigned the presi-
dency of the New York Central and Hudson
! River. Lake Shore and Michigan Southern;
and Michigan Central railroads.
Capt. II. L. Insley fine barns on the Big
| Stranger river, Kansas, together with large
amonnt of hav and farming implements. were
DESTROYED by fire Sunday. Loss $4,000.
A dispatch has been received from Iabrecz,
Persia, reporting that that city had been visit
/ ed by an earthquake, which destroyed great
MANY houses. and killed large number of
persons.
The Jury in the case of Ellis p. Phipps, ex-
superintendent of the Philadelphia almshouse,
charged with forgery, after being out all Fri
| day night returned a verdict of guilty on Satur
day morning
! John Blizzard, colored man who had just
died in Guernsey county, Ohio, is claimed by
his friends to have been the Oldest man in the
Union Accounts differ as to the date of. his
birth; but he claimed to be l25 years of age.
He was born in Virginia.
| A peach orchard, in Thomas county, Ca,
was sold five yeras ago for $3.50. 1t was next
| sold for 81 800, the $50 having been recouped
| from cuttings IN Une neitDllllle n mOnlH
afterwards 81, 800 was offered for it, and now
it could not be bought for $4,000.
! During a light thunder shower at Winona,
| Mimi. on Sunday, three little daughters of
Jacob Morowitz were struck by lightning.
| The two older girls, aged 9 and years, were
instantly killed. and the third, aged years,
was somewhat paralyzed, but will recover.
Work was resumed in three large rubber
manufactures at Brunswick, n. j., Monday.
! The New Brunswick Rubber Company, took
on l 900 hands, and the New Jersey Rubber
Shoe Company 800, and the Meyer Rubber
| Company 900 These mills have been idle
two months.
The steamer Alaska, Capt. Murray. from
! Liverpool and Queenstown, which arrived at
| New York on Sunday. made the trip from
Queenstown in 6 days % hours and AZ MN
utes. thus beating her former time of days
hour aud 80 minutes, which had heretofore
been the quickest time on record.
During terrible thunder storm in franklin
county, Pa, last Friday night, Shank 5 Iun-
ker Church, near Greencastle, was struck ;r by
lightning and burned to the ground. The
homestead of James NJ. Brown, at Browns
| Mills, occupied by Hiram Small was also set
on fire by the lightning and destroyed.
Workmen engaged in painting Trinity
Church, in Newport, r. l., last week, took
down the vane which was placed on the spire
in Queen Anne's reign. 1t was SIX feet four
inches across and four feet high, and sur
mounted by crown, which is believed to be
the last vestige of regal rule in America.
At a sale in New York Tuesday of Jersey
cattle belonging to Theodore A. Havemeyer,
the heifer Lady Arthur brought Sl,8T5; the
heifer Bonnie Grisette Second, Sl,6O0; the
heifer La Financiere Second, $1,000: the bull
Deldimon, 81, 900; the bull Royal Darling,
$3.50: and the other bulls and heiters brought
from 1915 to 1928.
/ The two largest glucose factories iii the
country, located at Chicago and Buffalo, have
recently suspended operations. No reasons
are given for the suspensions, and the con
lecture is that its use as an adulteratlon OF
sugar has become unpopular, and the demand
! for it has become so small that the works
cannot be run at a profit.
/ VIM. 7. DodsSn, who was arrested at Dan
VILE Va, April y, on suspicion of having
murdered negro named James Read, and
attempted to burn the house in which the
body was concealed. was on Monday indicted
/ by the grand jury of the Hastings Court for
! murder, arson, and embeZzlement OF 500
| of the funds of the warehouse in which he was
employed.
| The strikers at the Western Cooperative
Mine in West Belleville, ILL.,, set fire to
mine there on Sunday night, and the fire
ragged all day Monday. There was consider
able trouble on Monday, and the men who at
/ tempted to work were inundated by the
strikers The burned mine is one of the
| largest in the Bcllville district, and the loss
bv the fire will amount to nearly 100000.
Six men under Indictment for various
crimes. confined in the county jail at st.
/ Paul Minn escaped on Saturday evening.
! They sawed off the lock on one cell and then
called to the night Waterman that one of the
/ men was hanging himself No sooner bad the
Waterman entered the cell than he was knock
/ ed down and his keys taken from him. He
was then gagged and the other cells were I'M
locked.
A dispatch from jacksonville, Ky, May
8, says "A young negro employed by VIM.
B. HAYWOOD, near Hanson, attempted to out
rage Mrs Haywood last Saturday during the
absence of her husband. The negro, fearing
discovery, fled, but was arrested on Sunday,
and, while his captors were waiting for train
/ to Firing him hither, Il body of masked men
took him from them and hanged him to tree.
He confessed his crime.
The Okeechobee Company will launch on
Monday next at kissmimee, Fla, the dredge
boat President Arthur. 1t is the largest
dredge in America, and will eXcavate 10000
cubic yards per day. 1t is designed to cut a
canal sixty five feet wide and ten feet deep,
and will commence operations at the lower end
of Lake kissmimee and 90 direct to Lake
Okeechobee. The completion of this canal
will reclaim 4 200, 900 acres of sugar lands.
The Cincinnati dramatic festival closed
Saturday night with repetition of "Othello,
with the same caste as on Thursday night In
the afternoon Romeo and Juliet was pre-
AID Iu1iof !
renee Barrett as Romeo. Eight perform ances
have been given to audiences averaging 5000.
The financial success is certain and the asso-
citation has on hand scenery and property
which cost from 100000 to $4,000.
The State Board of Health at Wheeling, W.
Va, has quarantined Mercer county, the
small -pox having broke ont at Princeton with
great violence. Over forty cases have devel
oped and twelve deaths have already resulted.
1t originated from tramp stopping at the
house of Mr.. Blankinshp. The latter was
taken with an eruptive disease and the doctor
pronouncing it to be chcken-pox, no precau
tons were taken. Bankinship died, and his
funeral being largely attended, spread the
disease in every direction. The doctoris HIM
self sick and reported to be dying.
little twelve year old girl in Knoxville,
Iowa, was frightened to death by severe
thunderstorm rev nights ago. one Hau
been quite well the day before, but aweke
during the storm and besought her mother to
take her to her bed, ''tor she was afraid of
thunder Her applications were unheeded,
and soon the mother was aroused by the
ehild's difficult breathing. Approaching the
bed with light, she found her in dying
condition, and in few moments she breathed
her last.
George F. Kyle, aged II, and Lizzie May
Hollingshead, aged ID, both of Kenton eouIty,
KY, were married at South Covington recent
ly. The bride is an orphan, and in order to
get license to marry, the father of the bride
groom qualified as her guardian and then
gave his written consent to her marriage.
Her wedding dress was the first long dress she
ever wore. and the pair had more the APP
pearance of couple of rather small children
dressed for fancy ball than principals at a
Wedding.