The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-01-12
News of the Week.

nesday. Consequently and sickness.
Over 1000 persons applied to the superin-
tendent of the outdoor poor in New Gork on
Monday for aid being the largest number in
one day for fifteen years.
Rev. G. T. Stelhng, D. D., president of the
General Synod of the English Lutheran
Church, aged &c, died at Omaha Tuesday of
congestion of the brain.
On Thursday Cardinal McCloskey, of New
York, attained his 74th year. To-day he will
celebrate his golden jubilee or the 50th ami
versary of his ordination.
An election was held in Richmond county,
Georgia, recently, TO ascertain the sense OF
the people upon retaining or abolishing fences.
The majority against fences was 600.
Small pox is rapidly spreading at Girard-
vile, Pa, and there is much alarm. The
schools are all closed. Neighboring towns
will take precautionary measures.
c. D. Gilmore, a lawyer of Washington,
has begun suit in new York, against Carl
Schurz, ex-Secretary of the Interior, for the
! recovery of damages for disbarring him from
practice.
In the recent battle at Sontay, the French
admirable says the Chinese lost 400 killed and
600 wounded. Two French batteries were
destroyed by an explosion at Hanoi, on We'd
nesday.
William and John Sherlock, of Home Is
land, Ont, were caught in snow-storm
Thursday of last week and the former was fro
zen to death, and the latter so frostbitten that
his feet and hands dropped off.
At Schaefferstown, Pa, Monday night, Mrs.
Daniel Plattenburg, bride few months,
arrayed herself in her bridal robes and swal-
lowed rat poison, which caused her death.
No cause is assigned for the suicide.
The convent known as the Institute of the
| Immaculate Conception at Belleville, llls.,
was burned Saturday night, and twenty
pupils and five sisters were burned to death
or fatally injured in attempting to escape.
William Hyers, aged 10 years, has just left
the Homeopathic Hospital, Philadelphia,
having undergone a successful operation for
the removal of the left kidney. 1t is said to
| be the first case of the kind on record in that
\ city.
/ Alice Major and Sarah Marsden, of the
town of Forty Fort, LuZerne county, Pa,
were drowned in the Susquehanna river Sun
day afternoon. They were skating, in COM
pany with young man, who also went down,
/ but managed to save himself
On Sunday evening as Abraham Schriber
/ was feeding the animals at the winter quarters
of Forepaugh's circus, Philadelphia, he was
/ seized by a tiger and before it could be beaten
/ off the flesh on his arms and body was dread
/ fully lacerated.
I The woman suffrage party State executive
committee of New York have adopted reso-
| lutious denouncing Senator Edmunds's pro-
position to disfranchise the women of Utah
as gross wrong to nonpolygamists and to
polygamists by compulsion.
Judge Beers, of Bridgeport, Conn.,, on Mon
day sentenced Capt. James Hunter, John
| Meagher, and John Stewart, of the Salvation
Army, to pay fine of 50 and costs each for
/ parading the streets in violation of the city
ordinance. In default they were sent to jail
/ for ten d avs.
I A German farm hand, who refused to give
! his name, committed suicide near Hawley,
I Pa, last week by hanging A few days pre-
( vious he had been identified by a German
/ lady as the man who had murdered and robb-
ed young shepherd in Germany five years
before.
An entire colored family-Wm. Groom and
wife and six children-were burned to death
Saturday night on the plantation of W. G.
Taylor, in Lenoir county, n. c. The weather
was very cold, and it is supposed that large
fire was made before the family retired, and
that the house caught fire from the blazing
brands rolling on the floor.
Jacob Young, Alex Askins and Charles
Farr, members of band of robbers who have
been working Western Pennsylvania success
fully for the past few weeks, were arrested at
Valley Point, Pa, last Saturday. The pris
oners have been identified as the parties con-
cerned in the postoffice robberies at kittan-
ming and Valley Point several weeks ago.
The enormous annual loss of life in India
by snake bites, amounting to nearly 10000
persons, continues in spite of the wholesale
of
! The rewards paid by the Government to snake
! destroyers show that there were killed during
! last year throughout India 322, 421, of which
| 262, 1884 were found in the Bombay Presidency
alone.
A Fredericksburg, Va, dispatch of We'd
nesday says: "a destructive freshet has oc-
cured in the Rappahannock river. Five
! thousand railroad ties and much other proper
/ ty has been swept from the wharves A ves-
sci loaded with corn was cut through by the
ice and sunk. The ice gorge at the bend, one
mile below, is backing up the water, and
floating ice is endangering the warehouse OF
the Baltimore steamers"
While two 'bobsleds'' were racing on West
ervelt avenue, New Brighton, Staten Island,
N. Y, last Friday evening, the sled steered by
Frank Sharrott ran into a team of horses at
tached to a carriage. The second sled man
aged by Caleb Van Chef, ran into the first
party. The horses were knocked off their
feet, and fell among the coasting party. Van
Chef, Sharrott and John McRoberts were
badly injured, and all the coasters were more
or less hurt.
Active preparations are in progress at Men
treal for the winter ice carnival, which will
commence on February 4. The epalace
towers and walls are already twenty feet high,
and the building will be twice the size of that
of last year. Orders are pouring in from New
1 York, Boston, Chicago, and as far South as
/ New Orleans, for rooms in hotels for the week
of the carnival A feature of the festivities
will be trotting races on ice.
An organ was recently introduced into the
Presbyterian Church at Shannonvile, Ontario.
An anti organ member went TO the church
early on Sunday last and, putting the sexton
out. locked the doors. The Rev. Prof. Now
att, of Queens College, Kingston, who was
to have preached, arrived at the church with
a large number of the congregation, but the
! anti organist obstinately refused to open the
door, The day was extremely cold, and after
waiting half an hour outside, negotiating with
the recacitrant member inside, the; exasper-
ated congregation put their shoulders to the
door and forced it.
A dispatch from Reading, Pa, on Wednes-
| day, SAYS: "a tramp this morning set fire to
I the Darn OF ELL Emorlcn, at ohartiesNiliei anu
4 the building with contents was destroyed,
causing a loss of $1,000. The tramp was ar
! rested and lodged in Jail, His life is threat
( ened by the farmers of the vicinity, who are
l greatly enraged by the act. The county Off
/ cials have decided to inflict severe punish
ment upon all tramps; five thieving members
! of which fraternity were placed in Jail here
I yesterday. No more tramps will be ad mitted
1 to the almshouse, and the diet of those already
4 there will be reduced
At about o'clock Tuesday morning James
C. Townsend and wife, living ON Oyster Bay,
I Long Island, N. Y, were found by hired
/ man lying on their kitchen floor unconscious,
\ having been assaulted with mason shammer.
1 The house had been robbed. Simon Rapal-
yea, colored, has been arrested. Mr.. Town