The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-03-08
News of the week.

News OF the week.
A fire at Utica, New York, on Sunday, de-
stroyed $500, 200 worth of property.
Marshall 7. Polk, ex-State Treasurer of
Tennessee, died suddenly last Friday of heart
disease.
During February SO mine accidents, II of
which were fatal, were reported to the Mine
Inspector of the Wilkesbarre district.
Henry He'll was killed and Charles Horn
slightly injured by runaway accident while
sleighing in Northampton county, Pa, last
Saturday.
NJ. o. Vanheet, county treasurer Of Huron
county, Ohio, disappeared from Norwalk,
Ohio, on last Saturday. His cash account is
short over $4,000.
A Convention of stockmen at Sweetwater,
Texas, on Saturday, passed a resolution favor
| ing a division of the State, with Fort Worth
as the capital of the new State.
Six hundred workmen were discharged
from the Navy Yard at Norfolk, Virginia,
Friday night, by order of the Secretary Of the
Navy, until Congress shall have passed deh-
cheney bill.
Fifteen pounds of dynamite exploded in a
| small shanty in the lower part OF Harrisburg,
Pa, on Saturday morning. Sixteen buildings
on Eleventh street were damaged, four OF
them being shaken apart.
The New York Historical Society has de-
termined to hold in April, 1889, grand CEN
tennial anniversary celebration of the inaugu-
ration of George Washington as the first Pres
ident of the United States.
The white cigar manufacturers of San
Francisco on Monday locked out $500 Chi
nese cigar makers, proposing to substitute
$500 whites from New York. The lock out
resulted in strike of the Chinese packers.
A furious wind and snow storm prevailed
in central and northern New York on Thur
day night, of last week, and the mercury was
down to zero and below. The Snow drifted
badly, and roads and railroads were blockaded.
| The Massachusetts Reform Club, at its Feb
ruary meeting in Boston, authorized its Sec
rotary to correspond with liberal reformers
throughout the United States in regard to the
ACCESSIBILITY of holding National Conference
in New York City in May next.
Ward Selkirk has resigned the rectorship
of the Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church of
Albany, N. Y, after 40 years continuous
service. The church has accepted the resig-
nation with regret, and has made him rector
emeritus of the parish, with his residence in
| the rectory.
1t is announced that 700 persons in .Scran-
ton, Pa, voted at the last municipal election
on fraudulent tax certificates. Richard Cal
den, brother-in-law of Mayor elect Frank
Beamish, was arrested on Tuesday for utter
ing such tax receipts. This is the first of
forty similar cases.
Tn. new saw mill of Albert Lewis & Co..
at California, about twelve miles from Wilkes
barre, Pa, was demolished by boiler explo-
sion Monday morning Whitney Whitehead,
Rudolph Sipler and Jesse Knecht were killed,
and William Hendrich and Joseph Steiner
seriously injured.
Henry C. Kelsey, Secretary of State of New
Jersey, was blown from a railway train, be-
tween Trenton and Pennington, about s
O'Clock last Friday morning. He was cross
ing from one car to another when gust of
wind blew him from the platform. The train
was stopped and he was picked up severely
but not dangerously bruised.
London is alarmed by the recent dynamite
outrages, and the authorities have offered "a,
600 reward for the arrest of the perpetrators
Two Irish Americans are suspected ofthe out
RACES, and are being searched for. In the
House of Lords Baron Waveney urged that
a communication on the subject be addressed
to the authorities at Washington.
The worst blizzard of the season was on
Sunday reported from Dakota and Northen
Minnesota. Wind velocities of 40 to so miles
an hour, snow blockades on all the railroads,
and temperature of 10 to Is degrees below
zero, prevailed. A great snow storm, with
drifts ~ feet deep, was reported in Eastern
Canada.
In Chester, Pa, Monday afternoon, Joseph
Wheeler, an old man who keeps a candy
store, shot into a crowd of boys who had been
throwing stones and snow balls at him. One
80 bo Iosanh Tavlnr auad IA
years, was fatally wounded. Wheeler was
arrested and locked up to await the result of
the boys injuries.
Suits at Uniontown, Pa, for criminal libel
have been entered against the editors of the
Republican Standard by II. II. Acklin and
Laurence Knatts members of the jury which
acquitted Dukes, who killed Captain Mutt.
The alleged libel appeared in issue of that paper
in March last, and consisted in great part of
head line articles written on the subject of
Dukes acquittal. Damage suits will also be
brought by the same parties.
The students of Princeton College have
passed resolutions denouncing the faculty for
setting spy system over them. The students
charge that servants are employed to keep
close scrutiny on the students who come I'M
der their observation and to report them to
headquarters. President McCosh stated to
to the spy system, and promised that the com
plant OF the students should be heard.
The gang of outlaws in West Virginia
known as ''Red Men," after remaining quiet
for nearly year, has recommended opera
tons near Kingwood. On Thursday night of
last week two well known citizens were notified
to leave the county within three days, bun
dies of hickory withes being left the
door-steps as reminders of what could be ex-
pected should the notice be disregarded.
They have not left, but have provided them
selves with firearms to fight it out,
The Senate of Virginia, on Tuesday, by
party vote passed a bill in relation to FEEDER
al into rference in elections. The bill pro-
vides that Whenever judges of election shall
be arrested and taken into custody by officials
of the L. S, Government they shall either
close the polls, canvass the vote and make
their returns, or shall have power or author
ity to swear in as judges of election so many
as may be arrested or summoned as witnesses
from the bystanders, who shall discharge the
duties imposed on judges of election by the
bill.
At Lafayette, Indiana, a young man named
Geary committed suicide some time ago. In
accordance with rule of the church and by
direction of Bishop Devenger he was refused
interment in the consecrated portion OF the
Roman Catholic cemetery. His father APP
pealed to the courts, who decided against the
church, and the body was inferred in the
cemetery. On Sunday the elder Geary was
exoommunioated, and the ground where his
son is buried was declared desecrated so long
as the body remains in it. A strong guard is
patrolling the cemetery, threats having been
made to remove the body by force.
Generals A. B. Pleasanton, w. H. Averill
and Thomas L. Rosser three of the most dis
tinguished cavalry officers of the late war,
dined together at St. Louis hotel few days
ago. All graduated at West Point, and Peasan-
ton and Averil became major generals in the
Union armies, whilst Rosser rose to the rank
of acknowledgement in the Confederate SER
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