The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-12-20
News of the Week.

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| Dispatches published yesterday contradict
the report of Kossuth's death.
Six inches of snow fell ON Monday at Que
bee. A day or two previous there was fall
of about 20 inches.
| Had the Butler men in Massachusetts all
voted for Cleveland, the latter would have
carried the state by just ten votes.
VIM. Kleuzing, baker, aged 20 years, of
Chambersburg, Pa, committed suicide in
Philadelphia, Monday, by shooting himself.
| A man named Buergen has begun nineteen
suits in Cicero, New York, against persons
who rode him on rail on the night of the
4th instant.
| Sir Henry Bessemer now holds ia patents
on his many inventions. 1t Is said that his
steel-process patents brought him $500, 900
a year for 81 years.
| Mr.. Hendricks kissed forty-six young
women of St. Mary's, Ohio, the other day.
They were members of a Cleveland and Hen
bricks broom brigade.
A second party of colored emigrants from
South Carolina, about $50 in number, arrived
at Petersburg, Va, on Monday night, on the
way to Arkansas. More are to follow.
| George f. Seitz, of Glen Rock, York coun-
tilizers, has made an assignment. His liabil-
tiles are $4,000; nominal assets, 100000.
| London and all England are exercised over
a mysterious explosion under London Bridge
few nights ago. No damage was done, and
no clue has been found to discoverthe authors
or their design.
| Benjamin T. Brooks, of Brooklyn, N. Y,
was found Tuesday night at Cypress Hills
hanging lifeless from a high picket fence,
upon which he was caught while attempting
| to cross it.
Hog cholera is increasing so much in the
Naugatuck Valley, Connecticut, that the State
Agent of the Humane Society has been sum-
moned to the scene. One farmer has lost so
animals from the disease.
| Joseph Cough, farmer of Waterbury,
Connecticut, has lost 55 out of 100 hogs from
cholera. On Tuesday II more were ordered
to be killed by the state authorities, and the
rest will be quarantined.
Five buildings in Newport, Arkansas, in
Guiding the News office and several stores,
were burned on Tuesday morning. Loss
10000. Two men, two women and child
persisted in one of the buildings.
An aerolite, one foot in diameter, fell on
farm at Chateau Richer, near Quebec, about
o'clock on Saturday morning. 1t made
such a light that the people were awakened,
and many rushed out of their houses.
A desperate fight occurred in Hall county,
| Ca, Tuesday night, between deputy marshals
and two moonshiners, Anderson Grant and a
man named Prater, both of whom were killed.
Two of the revenue party were badly hurt
Six prisoners in the convict camp at Coal
Creek, Tennessee, attempted to escape on
| last Friday and were fired at by the guards
N..t4l L. 1
tally wounded. The other two surrendered.
The recount of the votes in the fourth AL
dermanic district of Boston changes the re-
suit, giving Leighton, Democrat, three ma
jority in total vote of 3043. The first return
gave Freeman, Republican, majority of two.
The Republican conferees of the Nineteenth
Congressional District of Pennsylvania met las
/ Friday in Gettysburg and nominated DR..
Charles II. Bressler, of York, for the I'M
expired term of the late Congressman Dun
! can.
The Wilkesbarre, Pa, Record publishes an
account of the discovery of series of subter-
ranean caverns in mountain two miles from
Wilkesbarre. The caverns are of human
construction, antedating the earliest settle
ment by whites.
In New York Wednesday night Robert
Morris, LII. D., formerly of Kentucky, was
crowned ''poet laureate of the Freemasons, ~
at Masonic Temple. This distinction has
not been conferred since Robert Burns was
crowned in 1887.
President-el elect Cleveland, according to an
Albany special, has been invited to visit the
New Orleans Exposition, and has informed
the committee who asked him that he may
attend on the 18th of January. That is about
the date President Arthur expects to visit the
exposition.
The arrest of three boys, aged from to II
years, in Reading, has led to the discovery
'of gang of thirteen boys, who Systematically
robbed stores, factories and dwellings. Theii
plumber was taken from them and they were
released on promise to disband.
Theodore S. Vaniderstine, of Camden, New
Jersey, has imported thirteen camels for breed
ing purposes, and has placed them on his
sandy. He believes the camel should be the
beast of burdan, and thinks they will be il
general use after few years.
DIR. James WeodrQw, Professor of Natura
Sciences in the Presbyterian Theological
Seminary at Columbia, South Carolina, ha.
been expelled because of his views on evolu
ton. Two other Professors, DIR. L. W. Boggs
and Charles r. Hemphill have resigned il
consequence of his expulsion.
John Mason, an insane convict in tn,
asylum attached to the penitentiary at Jeffer
son City, Missouri, arose on last Friday night
took possession of heavy poker, went into
an adjoining room where four fellow patient.
were sleeping, and beat three of them in thu
head with the poker, nAicting fatal injuries
upon two. Mason is As years of age, and wa
considered harmless.
The fire ut Johnstown, Ohio, on Saturday
which destroyed seven buildings and caused
the death of William Trout, a saloon keeper
is now attributed to incendiarism. 1t is be
ieved that Trout, who had several thousand
dollars in his possession, was robbed anC
murdered, and the body was locked in tn,
saloon, which was fired to conceal the crime
Buffalo was visited on Monday morning b,
violent storm of wind and rain, the WING
velocity reaching q maximum of Ga mile!
per hour. Cellars in the lower part of tht
city were flooded lumber piles were scat
tered about, small dwellings on the island
were blown down, and about fifty feet o
the sea wall was damaged to an extent
which it will probably take $4,000 to repair
Neal McGaehn, from the Hooking Valley
is in Chicago, soliciting aid for the strikers
On Sunday he addressed body of Interna
tipIalists, and although his remarks were of
very moderate character, at their conclusion
the body passed resolutions as the sense Of
meeting that working people should arm
themselves in order to successfully resist the
capitalists, and that the employment of al
means to that end is not only justiiable bu
necessary.
The Salvation Army opened campaign