The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-06-07
News Of the Week.

secured IN Lnat tOWH III d lew nouie last week.
The Harmony Savings Bank, at Harmony,
Penna., suspended on Thursday of last week,
its money being tied up with the Penn Bank.
Nearly four score young lawyers were
turned loose from the Columbian University
Law Department, Washington, ON Tuesday
night
The East London Aquarium was burned on
Wednesday. Lions, bears, jackals and mon
keys persisted in the flames, and many ami
mails were shot.
There was heavy snow storm last Friday
morning along the route Of the Lake Shore
Railroad. The trains arriving in Buffalo were
covered with snow.
Mrs. j. N. Anders was burned to death by
the explosion of coal oil can, at Winchester,
Va, on Wednesday evening, while she was
starting fire with coal oil.
A faction of the United Presbyterians
threaten to secede from the General Assem-
bly,, because that body did not condemn the
use of musical instruments in the churches.
The failure of Rhind & Bell, stock brokers
of Augusta, Georgia, was reported last Friday.
Rhind said that Bell used the firm s name in
stock speculations in New York without au-
thority.
A violent shock of earthquake occurred
May 10 on the Island of Kishm, near the
mouth of the Persian gulf. Twelve villages
were destroyed, 200 persons killed and many
others injured.
Mr.. John C. Emo, the absconding president
of the Second National Bank of New York,
was arrested Saturday at Quebec, on board
the steamer on which he had taken passage
for Europe.
Gen. o. E. Babcock, who obtained con-
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whiskey ring frauds and in the Harrington safe
burglary, was drowned while boating in Flor
ida on Tuesday. n
A cattle roundup camp on Frenchman's
Creek, near the Nebraska and Colorado line,
of last week, and eleven cowboys persisted.
The bodies of four have been recovered.
Two masked men entered the house of Mrs.
NJ. ]. Truax, widow of the late Senator Truax,
at Osborn, NO., about o'clock on Sunday
morning, for the purpose of robbery, but
finding no money, bound and gagged Mrs.
Truax and outraged her.
The National Line S new steamer America,
which left Queenstown at II A. NJ. May 90,
arrived off the New York bar at 10 o'clock
Wednesday night. The time of passage lin
Guiding the hours and % minutes difference
of time) was 6 days Is hours and y minutes.
In st. Louis on Wednesday John Staunton,
steamboat engineer, threw almost a goblet
full of sulphuric acid over his wife as she lay
in bed, inhioting fatal injuries. Her eyes
were eaten out by the acid, and her face, neck,
breast and shoulders were terribly burned.
Henry B. Palmer, of New Orleans, who has
swindled hundreds of victims all over the
country, is under arrest in New York for en-
deavoring to entrap young women to pay him
$50 to be employed as saleswomen for mill
tary chess game called "Grant's National
Victory"
VIM. Wallace, one of the most prominent
business men of Stroudsburg, Pa, and pres.
dent of the Stroudshurg Bank, failed on We'd
nesday with liabilities of over $4,000 tits
charged that he had used 500, 900 of the banks
money secured by paper only. The bank is
still open.
The London Telegraph says that the Lon
don dynamiters are directed by leaders in
New York whom the American government
should be asked not to harbor. The Repub-
lique Franchise of Paris severely condemns
the United States for allowing dynamiters to
plan outrages In America.
Considerable excitement has been caused
at Hammonton, N. j., by the discovery ofthe
bodies of twenty-one infants buried in a plot
of ground attached to the Mission Home, a
sanitarium for children conducted by Miss S.
s. Nivison. 1t is charged that the death of
the children resulted from improper food and
want of care.
In consequence of the dullness of the trade
and the low prices of goods, the Ettricks,
Mattoaco, Rattersea and Swift Greek Manu-
featuring Companies, of Petersburg, Va, have
decided to run their mills only on half time.
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in Petersburg. and give employment to several
hundred hands. s -
The convention of Exposition and Fair
Managers, at St. Louis, on Wednesday adopt
ed resolution for the appointment OF com.
management of worlds fair TO be held in
1892, to commemorate the four hundredth
anniversary of the discovery of America by
Columbus, st Louis was recommended rs
the place for holding the fair.
A Remarkable American Dwarf, who is
not in a show, is Abechem Sawyer, of Cedar
Key, Fla. He is 404 inches high, weighs 80
pounds, and is % years old. He is well pro-
portioned, very bright, and can make good
speech in high voice that sounds like
child's. He was once reporter on the Key
West Democrat, and is now clerk in q grocery
store. He has sister II years old, who is
just quarter of an inch taller than himself.
The mill of Wood 4 Thayer, in Montcalm
county, Michigan, was destroyed by boiler
explosion last Friday afternoon. Wesley
Ammen, augustus Newman and man named
Matthews were killed. Four men were in
jured, one of them named Charles Sauers, it
il faared fatally, II is reported that the wife
Of pGe Of the men killed, 'beiug erazed by the
shock, committed suicide on'Saturday night
by cutting her throat.
The Rev. BENJAMIN Bosworth Smith, of
Kentucky, presiding Bishop of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in this country, died of old
age Saturday morning at his home in New
York CITY Tb9ggh fAe Bshan would have
ended hfs Rletieth year in Two weeks more,
bis mental and hadlly powers retained their
normal condition until within the last month,
when be attended a special meeting of the
House of Bishops, held in New York,
Rufus Minor, a noted bank rQhher, was an
rested in New York last week for completely
in the robbery of S2700 from the Commercial
bank, of Augusta, Georgia, in March last
Minor. it is said, has been arrested number
of times for engaging in hank rnhheries, hut
has always escaped punishment He was one
of the men who robbed the Bank of Baltimore
of So, 900 on November 25th, 1882, and in
the anne year he assisted In stealing ST. 900
worm OF fhilfOdu DouuS from u saIe deposit
company in Philadelphia.
Riddle, the President, and Reider, the
Cashier of the Penn Bank, were arrested in
Pittshurg on Saturday evening, on the charge
of conspiracy. Riddle, who Is too sick to be
removed from his bed, is guarded at the hos
pital by policeman, while Reider Is in Jail.
Suit has also been brought against their bonds
men. The bond of the President is for $780,
600: that of the Cashier for $4,000 T. J.
having aided In The wrsokins 81 lie bank,
was arrested ut Jersey City ON Saturday
morning
The trial of S. d. Hall, at Christiansburg,
Virginia, for the murder of C. A. Bowyer, in
1870, resulted last Friday in a verdict of MUIR
der IN the first degree A new trial was re-
fused, and Hall was sentenced to lie hanged
on August 9th. The murder was the result
of a feud. Bowyer, who was a land owner.
sold Hall a small tract of land They quar-
relied over the transfer and Hall waylaid and
shot Bowyer in a lonely place in the woods.
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