The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-02-23
News of the Week

Sarah Burr, of New York, bequeathed her
estate of SO, 000, 900 to charitable purposes,
and an attempt to set aside the will by relatives
has failed
A fire in GoodwaLcr, Alabama, on Tuesday
night, destroyed twenty four buildings includ-
ing stores, dwellings, hotels, and the depot
and telegraph Office.
Part of the cargo of the British ship Nu-
indian, which arrived at Philadelphia on
Saturday from London, consisted OF 200 hogs
heads of sour-crout.
Girardyille, Pa, was afflicted with smallpox
| for some weeks, but the disease has been
stamped out. There were ls cases, one half
of which proved fatal.
Gertie Lechner and John Spering, each
about nine years of age, died in Danville, Pa,
last Friday, from eating wild parsnips, which
they had gathered ON their way home from
school.
1t is announced that the Mexican Central
Railroad will be completed by March 18th,
| when there will be an international railroad
route from the Missouri river to the City OF
Mexico.
Scarlet fever has broken out in the vir-
ginia State Agricultural and Mechanical Col
| lege in Montgomery county. One student has
died, four are i'll, and others are leaving for
their homes.
Charles H. Rugg, colored, awaiting trial for
the murder of the Maybee family and the as
salt upon the Townsends, escaped from the
Queens county, New York, Jail Sunday night.
He was captured on Wednesday.
A special dispatch from Westchester, Pa,
saws that pleuro- pneumonia has again made
its appearance in Chester county, and it is
thought that the entire herds of cattle belong
ing to Homer Eachus and Jesse Garrett will
have to be killed.
During Monday night three robbers tried to
break into j. NJ. Jacobs cigar shop at East
Greenville, Montgomery county, Pa. Jacobs
fred six times upon the intruders, when they
| fed One of them found in Stelnsburg
Wednesday, badly wounded.
| The Iowa Senate has passed the prohibition
bill by vote of 35 to 10. The bill defines
Intoxicating liquors to mean alcohol, ale,
wine, beer, or any liquor spirituous, vinous or
malt. No person shall manufacture or keep
for sale as beverage any of the above liquors.
Thaddeus Avery cut his wife's throat
and then cut his own, in their house near
Kingston, New York, last Friday. The wife
| is dead, but Avery is expected to recover.
| jealousy was the cause. The couple were
only 20 wears of age and had been married a
year.
A quantity of gunpowder in the upper story
of hardware store in London, Ontario, ex-
ploded Monday, wrecking the top of the build
| ing. killing Percy Ince and fatally injuring
Francis Shaw and Donald Smith. The men
were smoking in the room where the powder
was stored
The wire bridge spanning the Kiskiminitas
river at Apollo, Pa, parted the wire cables
Tuesday and went down with a crash. VIM.
Henderson and Harry Yonkins were crossing
with a load of sheet-iron and were thrown In
to the river. Henderson escaped, but Yon-
kins and the horses were drowned.
The "Cannon Ball. train on the Wabash
Railroad was wrecked near Glenwood, Mis-
souri,. on Tuesday. The rear coach was
thrown from the track by broken rail,
overturned, hurled distance of 100 feet and
completely demolished. The passengers
were more or less bruised. Six were badly
injured.
The contract for the erection of the Horti-
cultural Hall of the Worlds Exposition at
| New Orleans has been awarded to Arthur e..
Rumble, of New York. The building will be
permanent and will be the largest conserva-
tory in the world 1t will be 600 feet long,
/ l9l feet wide. and have tower 80 feet high.
The shape will be cruciform, and the walls OF
glass.
John T. Bethune, manager Of Blind Tom,
was killed while trying to get on a moving
train at Wilmington, Delaware, on Sunday
NIGHT. He was in his 54th year. He was a
son of General Bethune, of Warrenton, Vir-
ginia. the author of book in reply to lGger-
soil. The Bethune family are natives OF
Georgia, but removed to Virginia after the
war.
Reiley was found in haystack, near Adrian,
Minnesota, a year ago, but no trace of the
murderer was discovered. Riley's l5-yea old
daughter has now confessed that William, her
16.year old brother, committed the crime, IN
retaliation for punishment inflicted by his
father. The parricide has fled.
A prize. fight between Jim Murray, of New
YORK, and Tom Henry, Of England, took place
on Wednesday on the share pf Long Island
sound, about mile and a-haf west of New
Rochelle, Westchester county. There were
FIVE desperately fought rounds, which ended
in victory for Henry. After the fight both
the principals we're arrested.
Admiral Fonte Post, Grand Army of Re-
public, New Haven, Conn, has unanimously
resolved to give an entertainment February %
for the henHt Of the II, j.. Lee Camp, Confed-
crate Veterans, Richmond, Va. The enter
tainment will be given in the New Haven
Opera House, the manager Of which, who was
neeticut during the war, has given 500 toward
the proposed benefit.
A despatch from Freeport, Illinois, says Eli
Madlong, formerly resident of that place,
was hanged by mob near Denver, Colorado,
ON Tuesday 1t seems that Madlong pretended
to be a physician, although he had no medi-
cal education. He prescribed for one of his
patients and death ensHed, Tbs patients
friends organized vigilance committee and
hanged the doctor.
A Young Scotchman named William Ander'
sen, who has been roaming about the United
States, arrived in Philadelphia few days age
penniless. CHANGING over a list Of advertised
letters he discovered his own name, and Sc
curing the letter, it was found to be from a
firm Of attorneys at Inverness, which told An
dersen Of the death Of his sister oyep q year
ago and the decease of his father in Deeem-
Der, leaving him the sole heirto the property,
amounting TO 10000.
James Stanley, aged 20 years, was arrested
in hotel in New York on Saturday, and biz
room was found full Of stolen goods. lie con-
; fessed that he had robbed 100 private dwell
ings and boarding houses within six months,
and gave information which will lead to the
RECOVERY of most of the stolen goods. His
thefts were always committed the day time,
and were confined to the Easements and first
floors of houses visited by him.
Miss Anna Noel, daughter of Matthias Noel
of Mountpleasant township, Adams county,
Pa, died on the 1lth inst. aged about &c
years. She was buried at Conowago Chapel
on the 18th. There were 10 pail bearers, and
il was Us much as they could do TO convey hel
to the grave and deposit her remains In thelr
last resting place. 'Handspikes were peeces
sary beneath the coffin to carry it. 1t is said
that she weighed short time before hel
death 45G pounds. In the same family is 9
9-year- old girl weighing 165 pounds
A despatch from Uniontown, Penna., says
the people living in the mountainous regions
of Fayeite county have, long been terrorized hy
band of highway robbers, who made theii
headquarters in the mountains. On Wednes
) day morning the robbers were surrounded
while attempting to rob house, and in the
fight which ensued Sheridan Monteith, one o
the band, was fatally shot The others es