The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-05-03

The total loss by the fire in Arbuckle's
coffee factory in Brooklyn, on Monday night,
was $83, 600 $50 persons were thrown out
of work. .s---a-,z---.sa---s---
Seventeen priests were ordained and eight
candidates admitted to minor orders on Sun.
day in the Passionist Monastery, at West Ho-
boken, New Jersey,
It is reported from Western Texas that
large numbers of cattle are dying for want OF
water and grass. Myriads of caterpillars are
destroying vegetation in the same section.
The work of laying stone on the Washing
ton Monument, in Washington, was resumed
Monday at height of 4l0 feet, the point
reached at the suspension of work last fall
Two-thirds of the village of jamestown, in
Greene county, Ohio, was destroyed on Sun
day afternoon by tornado. Six persons
were killed and several others badly injured.
Peter Smith, of Mount Pleasant township,
Adams county, Pa, died on the 9th of April,
aged 80 years. Mr.. Smith was member of
Capt. Adams company in the war OF 1917 and
probably its latest survivor.
While ferry boat, drawn by horse, was
crossing the river at st. Albert, Quebec, Tues
day morning, the bottom of the boat broke
through and a man and his wife and four
children were drowned.
A tornado near jamestown, New York, on
Saturday morning, struck the wagon of Eph-
rain King, farmer 81 years of age and threw
him into the air. He was so badly injured
that his recovery is doubtful.
The butchers of New York city held meet
ing last week to protest against the introduce
ton of Chicago dressed beef into that city.
They say that if the introduction is continued
so, 900 butchers will be idle. e..s.
J,sooeo bliu1 r,laurn-
pneumonia, has appeared among the cattly
in Washington county, Penna. Veterinare
surgeons have recommended Governor Patti
son to quarantine the district.
An appeal for help is made for jamestown.
Ohio, which suffered by the recent cyclone,
The village lost 100 dwellings by the cyclone,
together with household goods amounting to
nearly $500, 900. Many families are homeless
and destitute. H-t
Tanning alligator hides, which at one time
is said to have been done as a novelty, has
now become a necessity, and it is estimated
that four hundred thousand alligators were
killed during 1883 in order to supply the de-
mand for leather.
The Railroad Gazette reports the construc-
ton of SO miles ofnew railroad. making to-
tai of 543 miles thus far this year, against 973
miles at the corresponding period of 1888, 1876
miles in 1882, 906 miles in 1881, 1896 miles
in 1880, and 391 miles in 1879.
The dramatic festival in Cincinnati closed
on Saturday night. The receipts for the
weeks performances eight in number-are
estimated at So 900; the expenses exceeded
SAC, 600. The guarantors of the festival will
be called upon to make up the deficiency.
The trial of ex-S Senator William p. Kellogg,
charged with having received money while a
| u. s. Senator for services in relation to a
contract in the Star Route case in violation
of law, was begun Tuesday in the Criminal
Court at Washington. A jury was secured
and the testimony for the prosecution begun.
| Frederick Wagner went into an clubhouse in
Wilkesbarre, on Saturday, and lighted a pipe,
when an explosion took place which demol-
rible manner. The gas which exploded came
from crack in the earth which communi'
Gated with the mine below.
Rev. c. H. Harrison, of Allegany county
New York, was recently expelled from the
Methodist Episcopal Conference of his dis
trict for preaching sermon against the doc
trine of immediate specification. He has
since become violently insane, and his friends
began suit against the Conference for DANA.
ges on Saturday.
A house at stone quarry near Elettsville,
Indiana, was burned Tuesday morning. A
castiron pot containing dynamite, in an ada
cent outbuilding, was exploded by the jar Of
the falling walls. William Williams was
fatally injured and died in half an hour.
Eleven others were injured, three or -four
dangerously.
The New York Assembly has passed bill
providing that 1.-THE suicide of person whose
( life had been insured shall not be defence
to an action upon any policy hereafter issued
in this State where the person whose life had
been insured was insane when the act was com
mitted, anything contained in the policy tc
the contrary Notwithstanding,
We learn that the case between the old
and new order, or old and new school Dunk
ers, so far as the possession of the Falling
Spring church property, Franklin county, Pa,
| is concerned, has been amicably settled. The
case has been under consideration before an
Auditor for the last year or two. The basis
of settlement has not been made public.
A dispatch from Dallas, Texas, April %,
says A waterspout burst over Hutchins
Station on the Texas Central Railroad, and
the water is represented as being ten feet deep
on level ground. No lives have been lost.
| The destruction of property reaches thousands
of dollars. The water caused the Trinity
River to run up stream all day yesterday.
During March there arrived in the Customs
districts of Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, Huron,
New Orleans, New York, Passamoquoddy,
Philadelphia and San Francisco, 38, 597 immi
grants. During the nine months ending March
81, 1884, the Immigrants at these ports num-
! bereA 304, 1875, and in the corresponding Pc
4 Eipd of 1888 they numbered 339,2l4.
For the SECOND time in the historyof the
Departments of Washington, female clerk
has reached the $500 grade. Miss Van
/ Vranken, of Geneva, N. Y, having been pro-
NOTED by Secretary Folger to clerkship with
that salary in the Internal Revenue Bureau.
Her average in examination fer promotion
was nearly 100 per pent,
A prize fight, between ''Bilson Jack and
slack Clifford was fought in ball room in
Pittsbqrg on Thursday night of last week.
The contest was preceded by a ball, and among
| the spectators around the ring were thirty
young girls and several mothers with infants
in arms. A number of policemen were also
present, hut did not interfere. One hundred
and twenty Quo rounds were fought and both
men were severely punished.
The market house and two blocks of build
ings in Panama, Central America, were de-
stroyed by fire on Sunday night. Most ofthe
buildings were wooden, but the total loss is
estimated at nearly $500,OOO The burned
stores contained quantities of petroleum and
spirits and gunpowder, and several buildings
had to be demolished to check the flames
One man was burned to death.
Henry NJ. Matthews, Ex-Governor of West
Virginia, died in Lewisburg, on Monday night.
He was about A years OF age. He was an
officer of the Confederate army, and after the
war became a member of the convention
which framed the present constitution of that
State. He then became its Attorney General.
and at the close Of his term, in 1876. was
elected Governor.
Robert Williams made q disturbance in
Fred. ReindePs, hotel at York, Pa, Satur-
day afternoon, and was elected by police
nan, A constable took the prisoner from the
latter, and afterwards returned and engaged
in fight with the policeman, during which
Williams re-entered with Ratchet and was
shot in the face with shotgun by Reindel.