The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-04-26
News of the Week.

were Germans, landed IN New ork on Sat
urday.
Emperor William of Germany shows con-
tinued signs of somnolences and other grave
symptoms, which are causing serious alarm.
A despatch from Vienna, April %, says
Hugo Schenck and Karl Schlossarek, who
murdered twenty servant girls, were hanged
here to-day.
Tuesday night two coaches of train on the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway, near
Kenney, Texas, were ditehed. Twenty pas
sengers were more or less injured.
San Antonio, Texas, was visited on Satur-
day evening by violent storm OF wind and
rain. Dwellings were damaged, fences level
led and trees torn up by the roots.
The Grand Jury of the o. s. Court at Yank-
ton, Dakota, has found two indictments against
Governor Ordway, charging him with cor
ruption in county organization.
The ground above Kinks coal mine at Sal
mervile, Ohio, cracked and sunk on Satur-
day and Sunday, and it is feared much damage
to dwellings and other buildings will result.
Greenville, S. c., is progressing. The
county contains cotton mills, 9S grlst mills,
"a lumber mills, &c. The products of the
manufacturing establishments are nearly three
millions.
The bark Henry Warner, at Boston from
Buenos Ayres, reported that on the 9th inst. :,
she was swept by heavy sea, which did con-
siderable damage and swept two men over
board.
Members of six different families in Louis
vile, KY, have been poisoned by eating cake
purchased from a confectioner, which con-
tanned arsenic. One child has died. How
the arsenic got in the cake is mystery.
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Central Pacific Railroad, near Summit, fell on
a working train and a number of Chinese Ia
borers on Saturday. Six Cinnamon have been
taken out dead and five others dangerously
injured.
A terrible thunder storm accompanied by
heavy wind, visited Dallas, Texas, last Friday
morning, doing great damage to property. A
colored church, occupied as a school, was
demolished, and eleven children were injured,
one fatally. a
Twenty-one Mormon missionaries and 400
Mormon immigrants arrived in New York
Saturday night from Europe and left on Mon
day for Utah. Since Saturday sixteen ships
with more than 10000 immigrants have arriv.
ed at New York.
Joseph Flynn and William Hale. roughs,
engaged in shooting ARRAY near Irving, Vir-
ginia, last Saturday. Flynn shot Hale through
the heart, but before the latter fell he shot
Flynn twice, inficting wounds from which he
died in few hours.
A freight train on the Kansas City, Fort
Scott and Gulf Railway ran into washout
about forty miles west of Springfield, Missouri,
last Friday night. The engine and nine cars
were demolished, and tramp who was steal
ing ride was killed, another tramp being
mortally wounded.
Elsa Steiber, a peddler, called at the house
of Anton Zimmerman in East Bridgewater,
Conn, on Saturday evening, to collect debt.
While there he picked up revolver from a
table, and in examining it raised the hammer,
when it was discharged, and the bullet entered
Zimmerman's abdomen, making mortal
wound.
The six-day horse versus bicycle tourna-
ment, riding twelve hours day, terminated
at l O clock Sunday morning at San Francisco.
Anderson had a change of Is horses, and Jno
S. Price and Miss Armaindo alternated on a
bicycle. The two latter made l ,073 miles, the
best on record, beating horses by mile and Il
quarter.
The Guion steamship Oregon arrived at New
York on Saturday evening, having run from
Queenstown to Sandy Hook in days, 10
hours and minutes. This is the quickest
passage yet made across the Atlantic, beating
the best previous record, that of the Alaska,
of the same line, which was days, 81 hours
and minutes.
Twenty more bodies, nine of which were
identified, were brought out of the Pocahon-
tas, Va, mine on Saturday. 1t is thought
that only three or four bodies remain in the
farthest entry. This would make the total
number of victims ITO, which is much less
than at first reported. All but three of the
recovered bodies have been buried in hill
near the village.
Though the main building of the coming
worlds exposition at New Orleans is the lar
gest ever erected in the country, being thir-
Teen hundred and seventy-five feet by nine
hundred, it is now thought necessary to con.
struct another imANp fe building one thousand
feet by four hundreu, for the reception of gov
erment State and agricultural exhibits.
Charles Fike, an aged resident of Wauke-
gan, Illinois, murdered his second wife on
Sunday night by knocking out her brains with
a club. The crime was not known until Tues
day morning, when Fike called in a neighbor
and confessed it, saying he had quarrelled
with his wife about the disposition of some
property. He is so feeble that it is doubtful
if he can live to be tried.
The annual report of the State Board of
Agriculture of Massachusetts,, according to a
telegram from Boston, reveals the fact that
a very small part of the milk sold in Boston is
genuine. 1t is for the most part skinned,
extended with water, recolored with caromel,
and it is often treated with boracic acid, that
it may be kept in the dealers possession
longer than it would be possible if it was i'll
its natural condition.
While the performance was going on at the
Sidoli Circus at Bucharest, Turkey, Monday
evening, the roof of the structure fell in upon
the spectators. The lights were extinguished
by the crash and terrible panic ensued,
which was increased by an outbreak of fire.
Five dead bodies and one hundred wounded
have been carried from the spot. A large
number of persons are missing.
The "Queen and Crescent Railroad line"
started a Knights of Pythias excursion train
from Cincinnati for New Orleans at 10 clock
on Sunday morning. The train, notwithstand-
ing a delay of two hours and half, reached
New Orleans at ten minutes past eight o'clock
Monday morning. The actual running time,
excluding stoppages, in distance of S26
miles, was - hours and 40 seconds. Many
of the miles were made in As seconds.
Secretary Lincoln has written letter to
the President requesting the appointment of
q court-martial to investigate the charges
brought against Judge Advocate General
Swain. The President has appointed as
members of the Court: Major General John
Pope, Brigadier General Christopher c. Au-
CUR, Brigadier General Delos b. Sachett and
Major Robert N. Scott, of the Third Artillery.
The latter will act as Judge Advocate. The
Court will meet in Washington on the 9Th Of
May.
telegram from Danville, Pa, says hat
the return of several protested drafts to the
banks there show that some person giving the
name of David Loeb, and claiming to be the
son of Jacob Loeb, of that place, has been
swindling the merchants of New York and
other cities. ''His plan seems to be to buy
goods and have them shipped here. authorizing
the victims to draw on him, and then to bor
row a sum of money, which he asks to have
included in the draft
A dispatch from Cairo, Egypt, gives the
fpllaYing details of the recent Shendy massa-
ores Three hundred Egyptian troops and