The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-03-01
News of the Week.

Minister Hunt died at st. Petersburg,
Russia, Wednesday, of dropsy.
Mrs. Catharine Rohr, of Charlestown, West
Va, died last week, aged % years
The post-ofice at Rich Hill Missouri, was
robbed on Sunday night of SlOOOin cash and
quantity of postage stamps.
An agent of the Chautauqua Assembly has
selected Lake Dufuniah, in Florida, as the
site for the Southern Chautauqua."
More than 100 children of the Zuni Indians
in Colorado have died ofthe measles withina
month, and the disease is still raging.
Mrs. Margaret Lincoln MacVeagh, the
mother of Hon. Wayne MacVeagh, died in
Philadelphia Monday, aged 81 years. -
The Pennsylvania Annual Conference of
the United Brethren Church commenced in
the First U. B. Church at York, Pa, on
Wednesday.
Four boys, while hunting south of Omaha,
Neb., on Wednesday, exploded a powder
house containing over SIX tons of powder.
All four were blown to atoms.
Charles l.. Watson, Il clerk in the New
York Post-oflice. was arrested Sunday for
robbing the mails and held in S2500 bail to
await the action Of the Grand Jury.
Two lodging houses for railroad laborers
in Denver, Colorado, were burned Wednes-
day morning. Three men named Whalen,
Mcguire and Sullivan, and fourth unknown,
persisted in the flames.
A false alarm of fire caused panic in the
Royal Theatre at Montreal during matinee
performance on Tuesday afternoon. Several
women tainted and were trampled on; others
were badly bruised in the rush.
John Heith was sentenced at Tombstone,
Arizona, on Thursday of last week, to i'm
prisonment for life for completely in the Bris-
bee murders. The next morning he was
taken from the Jail by 100 men and lynched.
The damage by the floods in California is
estimated at $3.50, 900 in Los Angeles county
alone. 1t is believed, however, that the loss
will be more then compensated by the good
done to the wheat and fruit crops by the
rain.
The jewelry store of E. Marks & Sons, in
Troy, New York, was robbed early Sunday
morning, of diamonds, gold watches, jewelry,
cash, etc, valued at about $4,000. The
burglars gained entrance from an insurance
Office next door.
In a fight between constable's posse and
gang of horse thieves near Greenwood,
Texas, Sunday morning, Dr. W. T. Smith
one Of the posse, was killed, and several
others were wounded. One of the thieves
was shot, but escaped.
A gang of railroad laborers on Saturday
night attached hand car to a freight train
near Sterling, Ill. When the train reached a
high speed the car became unmanageable and
the men were thrown off. Vim. Pearson was
killed and Geo. Portenius fatally injured.
While men were attempting to turn a barn
that had been toppled over by the flood back
upon its foundation, at Powhatan, Ohio, on
Tuesday, the ropes parted and the structure
fell back, injuring four men. James Bum.
gardner, while turning his house up, received
injuries from which he died.
At the Whitecomb House in Rochester,
New York, on Tuesday, Mrs. +. II. Bussey,
of Troy, shot at and attempted to kill another
woman, who, she alleged, was too intimate
with her husband. The bullet took effect in
the woman's forehead, but the wound is not
fatal.
Great excitement prevails at Erin, Tenn,
over the discovery of gold mine there by
A. H. Bernathy, who, while hunting, found a
cave ard evidences of gold. Over $4,000
worth of nuggets are on exhibition, and miners
are focking to the>spot. Erinis small place
ON the Louisville and Nashville Railroad,
near the Tennessee river.
The steamer Sirius, which arrived at New
York ON Monday from Rio Janeiro, reports
that on February 9th she picked up two boats
with twelve men, comprising the crew of the
bark George, of Windsor, Nova Scotia, from
Cardiff for Hong Kong, which had been a.
bandoned early on the same day i'll sinking
condition.
A passenger train OH the Hannibal and st.
Joseph Railroad was thrown from the track
by broken rail while crossing a bridge at
New Cambria, Missouri, on Saturday morn
ing. The smoking car went into the river,
and the sleeper and coaches were wrecked.
A boy named Baldwin was killed. and thirty
other passengers were injured, four or five of
whom have since died.
The Judges of the Court of Appeals of New
York, in compliance with resolutions OF the
Bar Association of the City of New York and
the State Bar association, put on flowing robes
of black silk on Monday for the first time
Thrown open at the neck, they disclosed the
white shirt fronts, and to Il person not closely
observing looked much the same as black
coats. The sleeves, however, are puffy but
graceful in drapery.
In San Francisco on Wednesday two women
horsewhipped d. l.. Regenberger, proml-
nent attorney As Regenberger was walking
along the street the women sprang from II
carriage, applied the lash, and, re-entering
the carriage, drove away. The cause OF the
assault is said to be expressions OF the attor'
ney resenting the intrusion of women into ms
society at the Mardi Gras ball Tuesday night.
A mass meeting in favor of, the Roosevelt
high license bill, now before the New York
Legislature, was held i'll Chickering Hall, New
York, Tuesday night. II. +. Cutting presi-
dent, and addresses were made by Robert
Graham, secretary of the Church Temperance
Society; Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Judge
n n. InNvard (,rpSby
Resolutions we're adopted urging the passage
of the bill. L
In an ARRAY at Winston. Estill county. Ky,
Tuesday, Preston White was killed and Harry
Witt and his son Tillman MORALLY wounded.
White and a companion named Prichcll were
drunk and young Witt, attempting to quell
the fuss, was shot bv White. Witt senior
came to his assistance and was shot by Prich-
ell During the scuffie between young WITT
and White, Prichell attempted to shoot young
Witt, but shot and killed White.
On Friday night of last week house
in Avondale, Ohio, in which lived Beverly
Taylor, his wife and Eliza Crawford, an
adopted girl all colored, was burned down,
but no trace of the inmates was discovered III
the ruins. On Thursday night their bodies
were found in the Ohio Medical College, in
Cincinnati, and were taken to the City Under
takers. There were marks of violence on all the
bodies, the skulls of Taylor and his wife being
fractured. Four colored men, Allen and hich'
ard Ingalls,, Jefferson Lout and Benjamin J Ohm
son, residents in the vicinity OF the murder,
have been arrested on suspicion.
A tragedy took place in Marion county
KY, in which Green Clayton and Wash
Burke were killed, Lawrence Clayton fatally
wounded and Floyd Burke shot. The tragedy
originated in Lawrence Clayton making some
improper remark to Miss Burke. The father
and sons heard of the insult and tried to make
Clayton apologize, but failed. The two fam
lies armed themselves with pistols and guns
and met, with the result stated. The parties
killed are the most respected citizens of the
county, and are heads of large families. The
tragedy was participated in by four members
of the Burke family and two of the Claytons.
A largely attended meeting of members Of
the Grand Army of the Republic was held
Saturday night IN BROOKLYN, N. y. to take