The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-01-26
News of the Week.


The President on Saturday signed the bill
appropriating 81 ZOO, 900 to continue the I'M
provement of the Mississippi river.
Another cold wave struck Florida on Satur-
day night On Sunday night the mercury
fell to thirty degrees, and ice formed at Jack
sonville.
BENJAMIN Boville, one of the famous ''six
hundred" who participated in the charge OF
the Light Brigade at Balaklava. died at Troy,
N. Y, Sunday.
The failure of the Patchogue, Long Island
Bank, on Friday of last week, and the attempt
of Peck, the cashier, to shoot himself, created
a great sensation there.
The Union Stock Yards Company was in
corporated in Sioux City, Iowa, on Monday,
with capital of 100000 The company in
tend to ship dressed beef.
LEROY Donovan, convicted of murder, was
hanged last Friday in Rawlins, Wyoming Ter
ritory. He was the first white man hanged in
Wyoming by due process of law.
DIR. NJ. NJ. Lewis, at one time Division
Surgeon in the Confederate Army, and latter
ly prominent physician of Alexandria, Va,
died on Saturday night, at the age of 90.
All the public schools in Syracuse, New
York, were closed Tuesday, the Common
Council having refused to make further ap-
preparations for their support this year.
William D. Ringe, aged p years, who died
in Newport, Kentuckey, Tuesday, left a for
tune of $500, 200 to six adopted children, from
to years old. He had no legal heirs.
An express train ran off trestle bridge 20
feet high near Beavertown, Ohio, Tuesday
evening and was wrecked. There were 20
persons on Board, only five of whom were in
jured.
A special from Catlettsburg, Ky, reports
the arrest of Miles Hall, charged with bigamy.
Hall is only 10 years old, but it is said he has
four wives, and was about to marry a fifth
when captured.
Seven members of the family of Henry
Kendall, in Louisville, have been poisoned by
rat poison which was put in their biscuit by
mistake. Kendall and one son, are not eX
pected to recover.
Edward Grant, y years of age, was struck
on the head with kettle and killed, while
trying to make peace between two drunken
men, at Great Falls, New Hampshire, on
Saturday night.
J. A. Rogers, prominent young citizen of
Norfolk, Va, was murdered on Sunday morn
ing, his head being split open with an axe.
Four other young men are in Jail, charged
with the crime.
Four hundred Winnebago Indians, now on
reservation in Nebraska, have petitoned
the Secretary of the Interior to allot them
lands in severalty, in order that they may ac-
quire the rights of citizens.
Two children of Legrand Strong, of Amster-
dam, New York, are sick of diphtheria, con-
tracted, the doctors say, by handling doll
which was handled by their sister, who re-
Gently died of that disease.
A number of prominent members of the In
dependent Order of Odd Fellows, represen-
ting the various lodges and encampments in
the State, have united to organize Home
for Orphans of Odd Fellows in Pennsylvania. -
The dead body of John Frazer, a cabin pas
senger of the steamship Arizona. which ar
rived on Monday, was found Tuesday morn
ing in a basement in Hudson street, New
York. 1t is supposed he was frozen to death
while drunk.
Michael Cuddihie and wife, convicted OF
murder for causing the death by cruel treat
ment of an orphan girl whom they had adopt
ed from a Home in Denver, were taken from
Jail at Ouray, Colorado, early on Saturday
morning and lynched by mob.
An explosion occurred last Friday morning
in the mixing house of the Vulcan Dynamite
Company at ,Idlewild, about two miles from
Allentown, Penn. John Drunkenbrodt, Isaac
KRONER and John Heffner were killed. and
three others were slightly injured.
The new Christian Church in Washington,
known as the Garfield Memorial Church, was
dedicated on Sunday in presence of a large
congregation, including President Arthur,
Secretary Frelinghuysen and many prominent
residents of Washington.
1t is denied at Mobile, Ala, that the cold
weather of the 8th instant was attended with
disastrous results to the crops reported.
Little damage was done to the early garden
truck, and it is claimed that the orange Or
chards were not greatly injured.
A dispatch from Las Vegas, n. NJ. says
Jacob Shafner, of New York, while on his
way to St. Louis to visit his brother George,
| learned that the latter was dead. The news
! drove him insane, and he jumped from the
| train at Springer Station, where his body was
| found frozen on Sunday.
The Consumers Powder Mills, near Scran-
ton, Penn, exploded on Thursday night OF
last week. l.. HI. Armory was killed, being
struck by flying piece of machinery half a
mile from the mill. Five buildings were de-
stroyed. The loss is between 5000 and
| $4,000.
/ A writer in the Chicago Tribune, after care
fully going over a mass of statistics, comes to
the conclusion that the medical profession in
| this country is overcrowded. There are
now," he says, 100000 physicians and sur
geons in this country, Or one to every 500 in
habitants.
Mortgage foreclosure proceedings have been
begun in Troy, New York, against the Round
Lake Camp Meeting Association by the bond
holders. The Indebtedness aggregates $780,
600. The bondholders have refused 80 cents
on the dollar, which the Association says is
all it can pay.
Shingles, an eruptive disease which encir-
cles the body like a zone, is affecting several
persons, old and young, in Philadelphia, Pa,
at present, among others a we'll known mem
Der of Select Council. There are physicians
of large experience who have not had a half
dozen cases of this complaint to treat within
their practice.
A terrific explosion of gas in two wooden
buildings in Boston last Friday night CON-
pletely demolished them, blowing the fronts
and roofs across the street, and seriously in
juring VIM. Comfy and A. H. Blake, who were
passing The explosion broke the glass in
every building for two squares.
A meeting of citizens of Cincinnati was
held Tuesday to take measures for securing
the holding of the Democratic National Con-
vention in that city. The treasurer reported
that ST., 900 had already been subscribed to
pay the expenses of the Convention, and he
expects to increase the sum to $4,000.
The steamer City of Columbus, which left
Boston for Savannah on Thursday afternoon,
of last week, struck the ledge at Gay Head
Friday morning before daylight and sank
She had on 80 passengers and crew of As.
OF the passengers only survive. and of the
officers and men only 13-1O3 being lost.
Walter Felix, twelve-year old son of the
City Jailer in Chattanooga, was killed by
singular accident on Saturday evening. His
fifteen-year old brother dropped gun in an
adjoining room d.the weapon was discharg-
ed. The load passed through closed door,
and entered Walters side, causing instant
death.