The Democratic advocate., 1884-05-31
News of the Week.


The French brig Senorine sank on the east
ern ledge of the Great Banks of Newfound-
land, and her crew of 9 and SO passengers
perished.
George Anderson, farmer, rs years of
age, was beaten to death at Bowling Green,
Kentucky, Sunday morning, by his insane
wife, aged 65.
Five thousand two hundred and twenty six
immigrants arrived at Castle Garden, New
York, on Saturday. The great majority were
Germans.
Tilden G. Abbott, the defaulting cashier of
the Union Market National Bank, of Water
town, Massachusetts,, was on Monday indicted
for forgery and embezzlement.
Last Saturday s statement of the New York
banks showed decrease of $21, ,625, 400 in
the aggregate deposits and $9,734, $50 in the
reserve, during the week.
One of the bleachers at Moore Wilson's
straw board mill in Waterford, New York,
exploded on Monday night, demolishing the
building and killing five men.
The oil tanks of the Atlantic Refining Com
pany, at Philadelphia, were struck by lighting
and set on fire last Friday night, and the oil
destroyed is estimated to have been worth
| 100000.
! During thunder storm in the Grand Lake
district of Maine on Saturday evening ten
men on a raft were knocked senseless and
five children were injured, one fatally, by being
struck by lightning.
During the progress of holiday games at
Chatham, Ontario, on Monday the grand
stand fell and $50 persons were injured, sew
eral seriously. The injuries consisted mainly
of broken legs, arms and ribs.
Two hundred and seventy Mormon immi-
| re in oh nf fvval lua
rived at New York Sunday on the steamship
Aurania and left for Utah Wednesday evening.
The immigrants are principally from Ger
many.
Hanley, one of the principals in a recent
prize fight arranged in Omaha, Nebraska, but
fought in a neighboring county of that State,
was convicted in Omaha on Saturday and SEN
fenced to three years at hard labor in the PEN
itentiary.
Henry Ware, aged 40 years, on Monday af
ter noon attempted to drive boar into pen at
Moyamensing and Snyder avenues, Philadel-
phia. He was attacked by the animal, and so
badly cut in the abdomen by its tusks that he
died shortly afterwards.
DIR. Samuel Enterine died Saturday at his
home at Round Hill, near New Oxford, Ad-
ans county, Pa, in the 74th year of his age.
He practiced medicine as homeopathist in
Baltimore some years ago, and he was also a
minister of the United Brethren Church.
At Zennbrota, Minnesota, on Saturday,
Torbjorn Kittleson chopped his wife to death
with hatchet and then committed suicide.
The couple, who were over so years of age,
had been in the habit of quarrelling. They
were quite wealthy, and leave several children.
Last week three icebergs were observed off
the Newfoundland coast, one over 0 miles
| lon0 drifting olonU at the month of White
Bay; one estimated to be miles long, pass
ing south, 30 miles east of st. Johns, and a
third, several miles in circumference, in st.
Johns Bay, aground on Georges Rock and
almost alongside the harbor of St. Johns.
James D. Fish, ex-President of the Marine
Bank of New York, was arrested soon after
midnight Sunday night. The warrant on
which he was arrested was issued by United
States Commissioner Shields, on an affidavit
by Bank Examiner Serbia. 1t charges be-
tween March 1st and May 9th of this year
Fish misappropriated funds of the bank to the
amount of 81, 100000.
The individual schedules in the assignments
of Frederick ID. Grant and Jesse R. Grant
were filed on Tuesday in New York. The
schedule of Frederick d. Grant shows liabili-
ties amounting to S2.3l5,066 and assets NOM
inally 81, 1896, ,O13, but of which the actual value
is unknown. The schedule of Jesse r. Grant
shows liabilities of S95, ,429, and assets of the
nominal value of Sl31,95
A despatch on Monday says The heav-
lest rains recorded there have fallen at Cou-
shatta, Louisiana, within the last ten days.
/ The total rainfall since the LIST inst. has been
nearly IL inches. The river and all the
streams and bayous are higher than they have
been for several years; the crops are suffering,
! plantations are overhowed and the stock has
been driven back to the hills.
The West Side Bank in New York closed
its doors early on Saturday afternoon, in con-
sequence of run made by its depositors fol-
lowing the announcement of a s'defalcation''
by It's paying teller Charles A. Hinckley. 1t
is said that the bank is solvent and will re-
sumo. Hinckley's stealings are stated at $97,-
600. The bank is reported to have surplus
of 100000 over the amount stolen.
The directors of the broken Penn Bank, at
Pittsburg, on Tuesday discovered oyerdrafts
to the total amount of 1887 900, or $1,000 in
excess of the entire capital and surplus of the
bank OF the overdr;.fts S240, 900 are on the
account of"D. Wilson & Co., firm unknown
in Pittsburg but supposed to represent the
accounts Of "a number of persons lately oper-
ating on the wrong side OF the oil market
In st. Louis early Sunday morning the wife
of Alexander Edmont rose from her bed and
cut the throats of her three months old baby
and her four and six year old daughters.
The latter not being fatally wounded screamed
out and woke the father, whereupon the wife
went into her own room, lay down by her dead
children and cut her own throat. She is now
ut the hospital in critical condition. She is
insane.
Timothy Low, aged so years, on Saturday
morning went to the house of Timothy Sulli-
van, in North Andover, Massachusetts, and
found Sulivan's two daughters, aged l3 and
years, in the house. He attempted to assault
the elder girl, and, she resisting, strangled her
to death. The younger girl then screamed
for help, whereupon Low choked her until she
became insensible, and her recovery is doubt
ful. The william is in Jail.
An associated Press despatch from Erie,
Pa, received early Monday morning, says:
Adam Brabender, President of the defunct
Erie County Savings Bank, has returned to
Erie. He admits that he and Cashier Petit
lost 100000 in grain and oil speculations
Brabender also admits that he took money
belonging to the bank, paid it to his friends
and left, and exonerates the cashier. He is
now in Jail. The feeling against Brabender
proved worthless Brabepder has made an
assignment of his private property, valued at
Sl0g, 900, to his creditors; but this amount
will nat cover his indebtedness, and the stock.
holders will probably lose from 100000 to
$3.50, 900.
A dispatch from Wheeling, W. Va, says:
"John Adams, prominent and wealthy far
mer, and sheriff of Webster county, became
infatuated with dissolute character. To
free himself from his wife Adams brought
suit for divorce on the ground of unfaithful-
ness and secured witnesses to sustain the
charge. After the granting of the divorce
Mrs Adams disappeared from the neighbor-
hood, and it was supposed that she had left
the county. Saturday evening one of her
children, aged 10, who was visiting few miles
from home, in climbing Mount Hero, noun
tain thickly wooded, came across rain pen.
Looking In, he saw a woman. He ran to the
pearest house for friends. Returning they
found tho mother Of the child nearly dead
from exposnEe, chained 3 !, Fqek iR the pen