The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-02-02
News of the Week.

Three shocks of earthquake were felt at
Rothesay, New Brunswick, on Sunday night.
Fifty-seven bodies have been recovered
from the mine in which the explosion occur
red at Crested Butte, Col.
ssThe New England Cremation Society,"
was organized in Boston on Monday evening
by number of persons of both sexes.
Typhoid fever is epidemic in st. Hyacinthe,
| Canada, and the colleges, schools and con-
vents there have been closed for an indefinite
period.
Fifty-fve of the children of the Apache In
dams at the San Carlos agency in Arizona
started on Sunday for the Training School at
1 Carlisle, Pa:
! John c. New resigned on Monday as As
sistant Secretary of the Treasury. He and
Secretary Folger couldn't agree and Folger
virtually crowded him ont.
By the falling of an engine house in course
of erection at Eagle Hill colliery, Pottsville,
Pa, on Wednesday, Joseph Rausch was in
stantly killed and several others seriously
injured.
Congressman Mackey, of South Carolina,
Republican, died in Washington on Monday.
He figured largely in the days of scalawags
and carpet baggers, and took part in the
presidential steal of 1876.
Francis Williams and John Gray, who
killed Orion Kurtz in q saloon quarrel at
Rosita, Colorado, on Sunday morning, were
taken from the jail at o'clock on Monday
morning and lynched by masked mob.
News has been received in San Francisco
from Canton, China, that the American Pres
byterian and Roman Catholic Missionary es-
adjustments in that city have been wrecked
by native mob. No persons were killed.
Martin Seller, of Kendallville, Indiana, was
recently summoned to testify against c. c.
Cain, on trial for the murder at Albion. Sell
Ter said he would kill himself rather than tes-
tify, and going into room he shot himself
dead.
The fog was so dense in New York and
vicinity on Wednesday as to almost suspend
ferry and other navigation in East and North
rivers and in the harbor. Several trains on
the elevated railways ran together, but no
lives were lost.
Mr.. John D. Foltz, for several years Adams
Express agent in Waynesboro', Pa, died
Wednesday evening at his mothers residence
with consumption, after an illness of nearly
year. Deceased was in the twenty fourth
year of his age.
The manufacturing interests of Nashville,
Tenn, show a remarkable increase, carefully
prepared statistics showing the increase in
the number of employees and the outfits of the
establishments for 1888 to be at least 30 per
cent. over the previous year.
John Riley, soldier of the war of 1912,
died Tuesday evening, at his residence, near
Brucetown, Frederick county, Va, aged l07
years and days. He was the oldest man in
the Valley of Virginia, and until recently
enjoyed remarkable health.
The State Penitentiary at Saltwater, Min,
was burned last Friday night. All the con
victs, more than 800 in number, were rescued,
chained together, and taken to places of Sc
curity. The loss on the buildings will not, it
is thought, exceed $50, 900.
The iron miners at Port Henry. New York,
were notified on last Saturday that their wages
would be reduced ten per cent. The miners
| thereupon decided to ask of the Company
reduction in the price of the wood furnished
to them and also a reduction in the rent of
their houses.
Twenty seven citizens of Greensburg, Pa,
met on Monday night and formed secret
oath bound brotherhood, to be known as the
Great American Protective Brotherhood.
They decided not to buy French goods, and
to boycott all dealers in such goods until the
embargo on the American hog in France is
removed.
The Hungarian patriot, Kossuth, is now 81
years of age, and lives quietly in Milan. He
neither believes in the alliance of the Latin
races nor in that of the Teutonic. He fancies
that Austria and Russia will ere long be at
daggers drawn, and fancies that as he has no
infrmities save those of old age, he may live
to see it.
At Cleveland, Ohio, on Monday, Andrew
Mango, aged four years, while poking shavings
into stove, set fire to his clothing and ex
pired after horrible suffering. He was the
last of five children, the others dying within
short time of diphtheria. The mother be-
came raying maniac upon the death of her
last child,
A special despatch from Springfield, Hi
nois, says fire in the Springfield Watch Fac
tory just before stopping on Monday; created
panic among the female operatives, several
of whom jumped from the second and third
story windows. Three young women had
their legs broken and one an arm broken.
The fire was quickly extinguished.
On the night of November 18th, 1882, Mrs.
Thomas Groves, while walking home in Roches-
ter, New York, fell into a sewer excavation
and suffered injuries to her spine which me-
cessitated medical treatment of the most he
roic and agonizing character. She sued the
city for damages and on Saturday night the
jury in her case gave verdict in her behalf
for $4,000.
Mrs. Mary n. Forester, of Brooklyn, died
on Wednesday of malignant pustule. She
was seized with violent pains on Tuesday
night, apd shortly afterward the pustule made
its appearance, 1t quickly spread over her
face and neck, and she died In ten hours after
its appearance, Twelve hours after death her
body was completely deoomposed and an
autopsy was impossible.
j, NJ. Riford, merchant of Moriah, in Els.
sex county, New York, accompanied by his
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sleigh for his fathers home In Warren, on the
18th instant. He expected to reach Warren
the same day, but nothing has since been
heard of the party, and it is feared that they
are at the bottom of Lake Champlain, or fro
zen to death under the snow in the Green
Mountains.
The Cincinnati Price Current estimates tho
total supply of wheat in tha country TO be
It's, 900 600 bushels, besides So, O00 000bushels
| in Qour in the hands of dealers, making total
| Of 80, 100000 bushels for the remaining half
of the crop year. The estimated requirements
| for that time are, for domestic food, 12G. 600,
600 bushels; for export, including -four, l7,-
600, 200 bushels, leaving surplus of af,a00,'
400 bsshels.
/ An alarming epidemic of black measles,
type of the disease which is so malignant as
to be often mistaken for smallpox, has swept
through the hospital department of the Phila-
delphia almshouse during the past week.
! Thirty-two cases developed altogether, and of
these ten proved fatal, eight deaths Occurring
in the ChilareH's Asylum and two in the Rqr:
/ sert: The disease has been got well under
control and is fast diminishing.
The Ice crop on the Hudson this year will
be the largest ever harvested, and the pros
peet is that it will all be securely housed with
in ten days. The crop of 1881 was $500, 900
tons; in 1882, 100000 tons, and in 1854,
1900, 900 tpns, This winter the crop will
reach a,h00, 0a0 tons on the account Of the
different companies, and private parties will
house all of 100000 tons additional, making
grand total ofa, 100000 tons.
Elk. Gov. John l4etcher, of Virginia, died on
Saturday at his residence in Lexington, Va.
Gov Ietcher was the son of a carnenter and |