The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-06-14
News of the Week.


Great floods continue in Texas, dong much
damage.
Henry G.. Vennor, the weather prophet,
died on Sunday in Montreal, aged 40 years.
General James Watson Webb, the veteran
journalist, died on Saturday at MS nome III
New York, aged 50 years.
A barrel of beer burst on Monday IN brew
cry at Newburg, New York, killing James
QuiIlan. When his invalid wife heard tne sau
| news she became insane.
Noah Fl. Swayne, lately Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court of the United States,
died on Sunday in New York. he was
native of Virginia and 80 years OF age.
Charles Fenno Hoffman, poet and novelist,
died on Sunday at Harrisburg, aged 70 years.
His literary career was cut short In lo49 by
mental disorder, from which he never recov-
cred.
Terrific cloud bursts are reported in the
Humboldt Mountain district of Nevada. All
the valleys were deluged, and the track of the
Central Pacific Railroad near Rye Patch has
been washed away.
Henry C. Work, a noted song writer and
composer, died in Hartford, Connecticut, on
Sunday evening. Marching Through Geor-
gia'' and ''Grandfather's Clock were among
his productions.
A serious "cave in'' occurred on Tuesday
morning in No. 4colilery of the Delaware and
Hudson Company, near Plymouth, Pa. Five
acres of the ground sank four inches, and
seventeen frame houses were damaged.
General Brisbin, commanding a battalion
of troops marching from Montreal to Idaho,
crossed the main range of the Rocky Noun
tains on the Sd inst. He found the snow sew
eral feet deep and the weather very cold.
A fishing schooner, owned by William
Shawner, of Crate Cove, Newfoundland, and
commanded by his brother, Neil Shawner,
with a crew of 13 men on board is reported
to have been lost, in Trinity bay, with all
hands. She has been seen floating bottom
upwards near Hart point
Three brothers, named O'Neill, aged re-
spectively four, eleven and thirteen years,
were playing burglars and policemen on Mon
day at their home, in Kingston, New York,
and the eleven year old boy shot the youngest
through the head with a revolver, killing him
instantly.
John and Charles Kennedy, two laborers
of Louisville, KY, have received word that
they have fallen heirs to about 81, 600, 900 by
the recent death of an uncle in Australia.
The uncle formerly lived in Louisville, but he
suddenly left the city one day and for about
thirty years was not heard from.
A heavy storm passed over Dinwiddie coun-
ty, Virginia, on Sunday afternoon, during
which a woman named Phillis Patterson,
living near Poplar Grove, was struck and in
stantly killed by lightning. Another woman
was stunned. The Baptist church in the same
vicinity was blown down, and other damage
done.
Attorney General Brewster has written to
Congressman Springer that criminal proceed.
ings are about to be brought against John
Hall, ex-U. S. Marshal for Western Pennsyl-
vania. Witnesses testified before Mr.. Sprin-
gers Committee at this session of Congress
that Hall failed to account for from $500, 900
to 100000
There was another disastrous flood at
Springfield, Vermont, on Tuesday, washing
out the streets and depositing tons of mud on
bridges and in the fields Several families
were driven from their homes before daylight,
and compelled to spend hours in a torrent of
rain on the hillsides. 1t is estimated that Is
inches of rain have fallen since Monday noon.
John Hall, ex- United States Marshal, was
arrested at his home, in Washington, Penna.,
Monday afternoon, charged with making
false returns to the Government Examiner
Balm, of the Department of Justice, reports
that during his term of office, the amount
returned by Hall was S32, 203, while the re-
ceipts were SlS6,961.
While a ferry-bo was crossing the river at
| Thompson's Falls, Montana, on Sunday after
noon, the cable broke and the boat went over
the falls, 800 yards below. There were 10
men on the boat; eleven of them jumped
overheard and were drowned in trying to
reach the shore: the other two remained in
| the boat and were saved.
The Giant Powder Company's magazine,
containing 1000 pounds of powder, situated
three and half miles east of Denver. Cello
/ ra1n hlatu III, IN ruacdov D,orninr A NOM
farm house three hundred yards distant from
the magazine was demolished, but the occu-
pants escaped injury. A number of plate
glass fronts in the city of Denver were sm:: III
! ed - -
During severe thunderstorm in Harris
burg, Pa, on Tuesday afternoon, Frank
! Dively and his wife were struck by lightning
and killed, at their doorway. Several other
persons received shocks and n number of
buildings were struck. Altogether FIVE thun-
der storms prevailed within circuit of several
miles The rain fall was the heaviest known
in many years.
The steamship Plover, sent to rescue the
crew of the sealing brig Confederate, has re-
turned to ST. Johns, Newfoundland. Capt.
/ Manuel, of the Plover, reports Notre Dame
Bay heavily packed with foe ice and the Con-
federate lying helpless in the ice sixteen miles
north of Fogo. He succeeded in getting
within twelve miles of the unfortunate vessel
and saving As of her crew, after they had suf.
tered terrible hardships. The Plover was
then compelled to retreat, leaving 80 men
behind, in the neighborhood of the wreck
| General ''Abe'' Buford, of Kentucky, COM
united suicide at the house of his nephew in
Danville, Indiana, Monday morning by shoot
ing himself in the head. General Buford ar
rived in Danville last week to visit rela-
tives and attend races He seemed greatly
depressed, and his depression was increased
by reading newspaper article telling of the
decadence of the Buford family. Buford left
a note stating that Financial misfortunes the
death Of his family and the troubles of his
brother, Tom Buford, who killed Judge FL
lott, were causes of the act