The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-03-22
News of the Week.

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IS years old on March s.
Five miners were killed by snow slide,
at Carey, in Conundrum Gulch, Colorado, a
few days ago.
The hog cholera prevails at Arlington and
neighboring points in Massachusetts. One
farmer has lost nearly $50 hogs out of less
than 600.
There were two deaths from smallpox at
| Ashland, Penna., last Friday. There are q
number of cases. The public schools have
been closed.
Sarah Jane Geary, 80 years of age, hanged
herself in Shenandoah, Penna., on Saturday,
because her husband, who is a miner, could
not earn enough money for their support.
The latest reports of the mine disaster at
Pocahontas, Virginia, indicate n loss of l54
lives. The mines are on fire, and will have
to be ''sealed up for at least two weeks.
Four children of G. D. Alsop, living near
| Louisville, Ky, were given opium on Wednes-
day by their mother in mistake for powdered
rhubarb. Two have died and the others are
not expected to recover.
1t was reported in Chicago that the foot
and mouth disease had broken out near Wa
pella, in Louisa county, Iowa. The disease
has also appeared in Adair county, Mis-
souri,. Ea#k
Michael Cushing was killed Tuesday after
noon at Bayonne, New Jersey, by falling into
a coal shute. His wife, who is an invalid, on
being informed of his death, sank into
unconsciousness, and is not expected to re-
cover.
At Quebec on Wednesday women named
Verrel was walking along the street, when two
huge dogs attacked her, tearing her clothing,
but not injuring her. She tainted and was
carried to her home, where she Immediately ex-
pired.
1t was rumored in Ottawa Sunday night that
the Government had received an intimation
''to use every precaution, as dynamiters were
supposed to be meditating an attack on the
Parliament buildings" The guards at the
buildings have been increased.
Frederick W. Godow and his wife, who ar
rived from Germany a month ago, committed
4 suicide by hanging themselves in their sleep
ing room, in Chicago, on Sunday night.
| They could not speak English, and were I'M
able to find work.
At Hecksherville, Penna., on Sunday, a
youn man named O'Neill playfully pointed a
shotgun at companion named McAniny,
saying he was going to shoot him. McAniny
said "Shoot away" whereupon O'Neill fired,
killing the other on the spot.
Benjamin Graft, the last survivor of fam
lily once prominent in Philadelphia, died in
Lexington, Kentucky, on Monday night,
aged 80 years. He was brother of Miss
Rebecca Gratz, the model of the Jewish he
roine of SCOTS 'Ivanhoe."
A family named Shutters, consisting of hus-
band and wife and two brothers, were attacked
with trichinosis near Lataobe, Penna., a few
days ago, in consequence of having eaten raw
pork. Mrs. Schulters has died, and the others
are not expected to recover.
Mrs George Wilcox, of Albany, N. Y, a
sister or the late United States Treasurer
Spinner, was committed to the insane asylum
Monday. She imagined that she had bought
Speaker Sheard's residence, and attempted
with club to take forcible possession.
The potato spectators of New York have
been caught in a blizzard. There is glut in
the market and thousands of float loads shipp-
ed the past few months, in expectation of a
rise in price, remain unsold. The loss to the
spectators this season will reach quarter of
"a million.
Reports from q railways and "a counties
between Pittsburg and Cairo, obtained by
the Iron Trade RerieD, show that the total
number of bridges destroyed in the Ohio
Valley by the recent floods was 55: that their
aggregate length was 7447 feet. The estimated
cost of replacing them is $4,000.
was walking near city stone quarry charge
ofpowder exploded, throwing an iron drill
against Drum and hurting him twelve feet
in the air into an adjacent field. The drill
penetrated his side, crashing through sew
eral ribs. He died while being taken to a
hospital.
The Presbyterian Hospital of Philadelphia,
which some time ago refused check for
$500, its share of the fund raised by ''The
Charity Ball. in that city, has received a
check for $1,000 from resident of Bucks
county, Pa. The writer explains that 81, 500
is in lieu of the money which the hospital did
not receive and the remaining $500 is pre-
MUM for adhering to principle.
Henry Crown, a colored man. died on
! Monday in Niagara. Ontario, at the alleged
age of 12l years, He was born near James
town, Virginia, and is said to have escaped to
Canada at the age of So. 1t is needless to
say that he remembered General Washington,
but it is further stated that on one occasion
he drove the General from his master plan
tation to Washington.
The Legislature of Ontario, in committee
on Saturday passed a bill extending the
franchise in municipal elections to widows
and unmarried women holding the neces-
sary property qualification 10 farmers
daughters upon the same grounds on which
farmers sons are given votes, and to all
women possessing property of sufficient
value in their own right.
At Walnut Station, Ind. on Saturday night,
Geo. Harris and Daniel Harding, both boys,
undertook while drunk to clean out the saloon
of man named Chesman. One of them
knocked down Chesman with chair, while
the other kicked him. Chesman regaining
his feet, snot Harris dead and sent bullet
through Hardings lungs. Harding died on
Sunday evening and Chesman is in Jail.
W. NJ. Dane, 20 years old, of Bentonville.
Ind, became enamored of a 13-year-old girl
named Ada Swift. Her parents objected to
his attentions. On Saturday night Dane pur-
chased two ounces of laudanum, giving Ada
one half and swallowing the other himself.
The poison failed to have fatal effect.
Tuesday the father of the girl had Dane ar
rested on charge of attempting to poison
his child. Dane procured pistol and shot
himself fatally.
Christina Kett, Is years of age. was muir
dered at her home in Dayton, Ohio, on the
18th of January, 1867. Several persons were
suspected of the crime, among them a lover
of the girl, but there was no real clue to the
murderer until Saturday last, when the girls
brother made a terrible revelation. He said
that his own mother three weeks ago, when
diving, confessed that she had murdered her
daughter in a fit of passion, an axe being the
weapon used.
Two prisoners, named Kennedy and 0'Cal-
laghan, confined in the Jail at Sandwich,
Ontario. for post-office robbery, Sunday
morning, shot and killed the jailor, Leech,
fatally wounded the turnkey, Davis, and then
escaped. Kennedy was subsequently captur-
ed on a ferry boat as it was about to cross to
Detroit. O'Callaghan is yet at large. Ken
needy reported that o. Callaghan had been shot
by the iailor and probably died from loss of
blood after escaping from Jail.
The bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter
and reinstating and retiring him passed the
Senate on Thursday of last week by large
majority. On Friday major generals salute
passage of the Fitz John Porter bill. At the
same time the following despatch was sent
to General Porter: 'The members of the
Fifth Corps that loved you, and that you loved