The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-09-13
News of the Week.

There were six deaths and many prostra
tons from heat in Philadelphia on Tuesday.
Diphtheria is prevailing to an alarming ex
tent in North Carolina and Tennessee, ant
will probably spread over a large area o
country.
One hundred and ffty-three deaths were
reported on Sunday in New York, the ma
jority of which were directly the result of the
intense heat.
The hog cholera has been prevalent Al
PhilIipsburg, New Jersey. Within the last
four weeks nearly sixty animals have died
there of the disease.
Assistant Postmaster Hargas, at Alvin,
Illinois, has been arrested for riling registered
letters. 1t is said that some decoy money,
sent for the purpose of entrapping him, was
found in his possession.
Slight frosts are reported at various points
on the Canadian Pacific Railway in Manitoba.
The lowest temperature was reached on Sun
day morning, when the thermometers regis
tered 81 degrees at daylight.
The cholera is on the increase in Italy,
Spain and other European countries. In
Naples on Tuesday there were $50 deaths
There is great suffering among the poor, and
it is with difficulty the dead can be buried.
Sioux City, Iowa, and its vicinity were
visited by terrific storm on Monday. The
rain fell in torrent, and barns were unroofed
and other buildings demolished. At Ullinet,
in O'Brien county, several buildings were
demolished.
A great fire occurred Sunday night at
Cleveland, Ohio, burning over forty pcres,
and causing loss of about 2,000,00 The
burned district was occupied by mills, shops,
&C., and II, 900 men are out of employment
The cotton mill of James Riddle, Son a.
Co., near Wilmington, Delaware, has been
closed indefinitely because of Il strike of the
weavers against a reduction of ten per cent.
in their wages. About 300 hands are thrown
out of employment
In Cleveland, Ohio, on Saturday night,
August Guerner, Valentine Hector, Adam
Seldemagle, Wilhelm Rau and Fritz Rau
quarrelled with Jonas Hunkin, in saloon.
Hunkin left the place, but was followed and
one of the men cut his throat.
The Republican Senatorial Conference of
Union, Snyder and Northumberland counties,
Pennsylvania, met on Monday in Sunbury.
Each county voted for its respective candi-
date, and the Conference adjourned until the
Dist, without selecting candidate.
The principal business block in Arkansas
City, Arkansas, was burned on Monday.
The tltal loss is estimated at $50, 300; insur-
ance 81, 200. A man named Matthew Orlan
has been arrested on suspicion of having
caused the fire. He was lynched by mob
Thursday morning.
The Chicago Live Stock Exchange decided
on Monday to purchase ten head of healthy
cattle, TO be presented to the Live Stock
Commission, for the purpose of being placed
in herd affected with pleuro- pneumonia,
until such time as will prove whether the sus-
pected disease does or does not exist.
A train on the Memphis and Charleston
Railroad ran into COW near Corinth, Missis-
sippi, on Monday night, and three of its pas
senger cars were thrown from the track.
There were about 20 passengers in the three
coaches, all of whom were injured, but none
severely except a colored man and a colored
girl.
AT MONDAY of August L, says the London
Standard, Dundee and the surrounding dis
trict were enveloped in darkness that was
part of the time as great as that of midnight,
a phenomenon that caused great CONSERVATION
among the people. The darkness was sue
ceeded by a violent storm of lightning and
rain.
Warrants have been issued for the arrest of
David Tintsnan, Presiden of the defunct
Pa, on the charge of embezzling 81 200 from
three orphan children of whom he was guar
dian. j. Maxwell, agent of tie banking
firm, was arrested on Tuesday on the charge
of collision with Tintsman against the cred
itors of the bank.
Nearly one hundred acres of ground above
the Enterprise Mine at Port Bonkley, near
Wilkesbarre, caved in last Friday, to a depth
of from four to six feet. The ground is COW
cred with seams and cracks for several hundred
feet, and five houses, belonging to miners in
the employ of the company are wrecked. A
second cave in took place in the evening,
making the sunken area $50 acres. The loss
is roughly estimated at $500, 600
Mr.. Peixotto, our Consul at Lyons, has
made a report to the State Department in re-
gard to the crops in France. He says The |
wheat crop will amount to about 3l6, 600, 900 |
bushels, which will surpass the harvest of
1888 by over 30, 900. 900 bushels. The quality |
The rye crop will equal 100000 bushels;
quality very superior. The Indian corn crop |
will amount to 33,000,000 bushels, and the I
potato crop to 4l2, 100000 bushels. Reports |
from England and Continental countries also |
show fine wheat crops.
A sensation was created in New Brunswick, /
N. j., on Monday, by the suicide of Mahlon
Runyon, President of the National Bank of |
New Jersey, of which the suicide Hill was
Cashier, and by the discovery that the loss 20
The bank through Hills dishonesty will reach
about 81 100000. Acting Cashier Campbell,
Of the bank, told a reporter, in the afternoon,
hat he anticipated the crash for six months,
out 'kept his mouth closed, because he feared
expulsion by the Directors He also said
hat ''Hill was too much beset by politicians.
He evidently ruined himself by ftering out
lid to the Republican party, as well as in
Wall street and the races
The announcement that officials of the
Association of Miners and
L4aborers have ordered the members Of the
organization employed in the bituminous dis
riots of Clearfield county, Pa, out on a
trike, has created excitement in trade circles.
This movement will place between fifteen and
wenty thousand operatives in idleness. John
Britt, District President of the Amalgamated
Association Of Miners and Laborers, says that
he strike will not only be naugurated for
wages, but strong move will be made to
bate or entirely abolish the company store
ystem. 1t is probable that the strike will
'ecome general and include all the collieries
working in western, central and northwestern