The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-05-24
News of the Week.

lightning and her mother was stunned.
Joseph Frazier, accused of the murder OF
Wesley Hupp, hanged himself in the Jail at
Anderson, Indiana, on Monday night.
The first sunstroke of the season was re-
ported in New York on Wednesday, the
victim being Solomon Good, aged So.
Two brothers named Polk and man named
Kuykendall were lynched in Howard county,
Arkansas, last week, for the murder of a
young man named Ward.
The suspension bridge across the Scioto
river at Portsmouth, Ohio, fell on Wednesday
while Mrs Fulweller and four children were
crossing. The children were drowned.
telegram from Winnipeg says that yell
low Calf and Piapot, with 1000 followers,
moved on Monday from Indian Head to Qu'
Appellee. They refuse to go back to their
reserves.
A tramp robbing farm house at Turner's,
New York, last Friday night, was resisted and
fired at the farmer, but killed his wife. The
rufian then dubbed the farmer, and got off
with $500.
Five prisoners were publicly whipped at
New Castle, Delaware, on Saturday. Four
of them, convicted of larceny, received ten
lashes each, the fifth, convicted of burglary,
received twenty.
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| Wednesday, and stock closed weak and irreg
ular. The failure of j. l.. Brownell & Co.,
stock brokers, was announced. The I'M
easiness was added to by the suspension of
the Penn Bank of Pittsburg.
Two men named Trindall and Kirby quar-
relied about some trihe at Glenmary, Ten
nessee, on Saturday night, and killed each
other. Trindall cut Kirby's throat, and the
latter, in his dying throes, shot, and MORALLY
wounded his antagonist.
There was received in Philadelphia on Tues
day mortgage conveying from U. S. Grant
to W. III. Vanderbilt the property in that city,
No. 2009 Chestnut street This is the house
given by citizens of Philadelphia to General
Grant, and is valued at $4,000
Three tramps broke into the house of
Michael Shaeffer, near Annville, Pa, Sunday
night, and bound and gagged Mr.. Shaeffer
After robbing the place they set it on fire and
fled. The house was burned down. Mr.
Schaeffer escaped with some difficulty.
George H. Lewis, broker of Washington
who has been specializing largely in petro.
leum, disappeared on Monday last. 1t is said
a large number of government clerks were
among his customers, and that he has more
than $780, 900 of his customers money.
The 55th anniversary ofthe Sunday School
Union of Brooklyn was celebrated Wednesday
in that city by a street parade of $4,000
children. Israel Barker and Colonel John r.
Sutton were the marshals. The parade was
preceded by services in the different churches
The dwelling of Geo. Peters, at Sharbot
Lake, near Kingston, Ontario, was burned
early Monday morning. Peters, his eight.
year-old daughter, and a young woman, named
Brigdon, were burned to death. Miss Peters,
aged twenty, is believed to be fatally burned.
The will of Cyrus H. Mccormick was pro-
bated on Monday in Chicago. The estate
amounts to $35,000,000, and is devised in
trust to his widow for five years. At the end
of said time she is to receive one-ffth and his
three sons and two daughters the remainder.
Frank McGinness, weighmaster of the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railroad at st. Louis, has been
arrested on the charge of defrauding the com
pany in weighing cars. 1t is said he shared
with the shippers the profits from the false
weights. One lumber firm is said to have
saved $4,000 by his aid.
A committee of the Louisiana Legislature
which has been investigating alleged election
frauds in St. Martins and Iberia parishes,
recommend the impeachment of Theodore
Fontelien, Republican Judge of the Twenty.
first District, "for unlawful acts and oppres.
sion in Office at the last election"
Bel Bazaar, small city in the province o.
Angora, Asia Minor. Nearly the entire town
was consumed. Nine hundred and fifty
dwellings, 544 warehouses and shops, IL mos.
ques, Is schools, nine khans and LAG Other
buildings were burned. Eleven persons per
ished in the flames,
S. ii. Keller, postmaster at Medford, Wis
oonsin, shot at his wife on Monday after
reading an intercepted letter sent to her by
I DIR. S. B. Hubbell. President of the Exchange
Bank and County Treasurer. The same even.
ing Hubbell, made frantic by the discovery
of his scoundrelism. committed suicide by
shooting himself in the head.
Daniel Bloom, an insane young man, while
out walking with his father on Monday in
Clearfeld county, Pa, suddenly threw him
self into the center of a burning heap of logs.
His father dragged him out, but the unfortu-
nate maniac was nearly roasted alive, and
died a few minutes afterwards. He had twice
before attempted suicide by drowning.
John Biggs and Ellen Farrier eloped from
Greenbrier, West Virginia, on Thursday even
ing of last week. They were pursued by the
father and brother of the girl. As they were
crossing the river in boats struggle ensued,
Pfsplting in Riggs boat capsizng. The
brother swan ashore with his sister, but the
father and Bggs were drowned, Biggs' body
has been recovered.
Monroe Grey, finding his wife and William
Deitch together, near Columbia, Illinois, last
Friday morning, shot both of them dead, and
then gave himself up to the authorities.
Deitch was wealthy farmer, Mahrpe poor
man who rented q taf@ from him. Deitch' s
reputation was bad, he being charged with
practices similar to those which caused the
assassination of Lord Leitrim in the north Of
Ireland few years ago.
Twenty locomotives now in progress at the
Baldwin works in Philadelphia will close up
the foreign orders on hand. One bark has
just sailed with eleven locomotives for the
Argentine Republic, and a steamship and two
other harkG are loading with thirty three To-
camotiYes for Brazil are being shipped from
the Baldwin works. Owing to the scarcity of
orders, the force employedis being reduced
from a,010 to about half that number,
Early Sunday morning Boxey Bray and
William Hendershott, notorious characters of
Lawrenceville, Pa, were shot and MORALLY
wounded by policeman named McAleese.
The two rufans were trying to abduct Ger
man girl. Policemen English and McAleese
/ interfered and were set upon by the rutfians
and their friends, when McAleese fired in
selfdefenee It is feared tho palieemen are
1 injured inlernallY.
4 waterspopt on Saturday washed away
the track of the Missouri Pacific and Union
7 Pacific Railroads south and west of Leaven-
WORTH Kansas. On the former road l50 feet
I were washed away, and seven cars loaded
with cattle, and an engine tender went into
the river. Seventy cattle were killed In
some plaeeg ths wafer .Fas .ilsW IWo ta Eve
| feet deep. On the Union Pacific hail fell to
i the depth Of two inches. Three-quarters of
/ nile Of track and bridge were Carried away.
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