The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-08-30
News of the Week.

Prince William county, Va, over one hun
dred hogs having recently died in one neigh
| borhood
Serious forest fires are reported in Michi-
| gan. The small town of Harmon City, in
Arenac County, has been destroyed by one of
these fires.
Thirteen Italian laborers engaged in riot
near Dixon, Illinois, ON Sunday. Knives,
clubs and shovels were used, and three men
were dangerously, if not fatally wounded.
Rev. Frederick Wage, welI-known
Lutheran clergyman, died near Norristown,
Pa, on Monday, aged SO years. He was
highly educated and master of six languages.
John P. Sloan, wife murderer, was pur-
sued by>a posse in Laurens county, South
| Carolina, Tuesday morning. He took refuge
in u cabin, shut the door and shot himself
dead.
Among the attractions to visitors at the
Louisville Exhibition will be competitive
military drill, for which prizes aggregating
SS00O will be offered to competing infantry
companies.
The Cunard steamer Oregon arrived at
New York on Saturday evening, having made
the passage from Queenstown in days, 9
hours and % minutes. This is the quickest
time on record.
The finest specimen of a counterfeit dollar
made since 1881 has Just made its appearance
in New England. The only perceptible diff
ference between it and the genuine coin is
that it weighs less.
A train stopped Monday morning on the
drawbridge at Pensacola, Florida, and seeing
no signals the conductor went forward. He
found the Waterman dead on the track, with
% bullets in his body.
The Marine Hospital Bureau is advised
that yellow fever prevails with great fatality
on the island of Porto Rico. The disease is
not confined to recent immigrants from Spain,
but attacks the creoles.
A train on the Southbridge Railroad ran
of the track near Quinnebaug, Massachusetts,
on Saturday morning. A passenger car and
the smoker rolled down an embankment and
! about 80 persons were injured.
In view of the prevalence of pleuro-pneu-
monia, the State Veterinarian of Illinois has
notified all owners of infected herds to main
tain strict quarantine until notified to the
contrary by the State authorities.
Two freight trains on the Pennsylvania
Railroad collided last Friday in the west yard
at Columbia, Pa. An engine, caboose and
five cars were smashed; the wreck caught fire,
and about 800 sheep and hogs were consumed.
Peruvian advces of the 9Th instant report
matters fearfully mixed up in Peru. The
thieving bands of Montaneros. The CHILEAN
troops in Arequipa were to be reinforced.
The bark Atlanta, from New Orleans for
Gibraltar, signalled for tug off Pensacola on
Monday She was towed to the quarantine
station and examined. One of her crew was
found to be dead and two others were sick
with what was pronounced yellow fever.
The first attempt ever made to photograph
the interior of a coal mine was successfully
carried out on Thursday at Kohinoor colliery,
of the Philadelphia and Reading company, at
Shenandoah, Pa, under the direction of Jas.
Temple Brown, agent of the Smithsonian In
stitution, Washington.
A terrible cyclone passed over Winnipeg,
Man, Wednesday night, blowing down many
buildings and stripping roofs from entire
blocks Provincial towns also suffered Sc
verely. The damage to the crops was heavy.
At Portage Ia Prairie the Canadian Pacific
| Railroad sheds were RACED to the ground and
telegraph lines were Frustrated.
The large barn, tobacco shed and corn crib
belonging to Jos. Stoner, of Hellam township,
York county, Pa, with large quantity of
hay, grain, new tobacco and farming imple-
ments, were destroyed by fire Tuesday night.
Two hundred cases of old tobacco, valued at
81 200, were also burned. Mr.. Stoners loss
is very heavy and but partly insured.
The Peoples Bank, in St. Paul. Minnesota,
was robbed of $4,000 some time between
Saturday night and Monday morning The
robber was some person who had possession
of the combination, as the vaults and locks
were found intact. The bank officials suspect
a sixteen year old bookkeeper named Edward
Mason, who disappeared when the robbery
| was discovered.
In addition to the property lost by the de-
struction of the Abdallah Park Stables, at
| Cynthana, Kentucky, on Sunday morning,
James Koran, employed in the stables, was
burned to death. Among the animals burned
were Jersey Lily, two-year-old mare valued
at 900, and Triumvir, a ive-year-old stall
\ lion, valued at $4,000.
( There were heavy frosts on Sunday night
/ in the New England States, New York and
portions of New Jersey. The corn and buck
wheat crops are damaged in many places. and
potatoes and cabbage have suffered to con-
siderable extent. At Canaan, New Hamp-
shire, Monday morning. the thermometer
marked % degrees Ice formed in the neigh
borhood of Middlesex, Vermont.
While suffering from delirium tremens,
Fennimore Clayton, of Cooperstown, New
York, on Monday, took his son, aged years,
into the yard and shot him through the head,
killing him instantly. He then went into the
house and tried to shoot his wife and mother,
Dut tney nlC MIN Ill Lne nedu Will IL Cluu
took the pistol from him. Clayton is Il far
mer, about 30 years old. He was placed in
jail, and is suffering from the effects Of the
blows on the head.
The U. S. Steamer Tallapoosa, on her way
to Newport to take Secretary Chandler on
board, was sunk by collision with schooner
off Cottage City, Massachusetts, on Thursday
night of last week. The officers and men of
the Tallapoosa, about 140 in number, were
rescued by passing steamer, with the excep-
ton of the surgeon and three others, who
were drowned. The Tallapoosa had her side
crushed in by the collision, and sank in a few
minutes. The collision appears to have been
caused by carelessness on the part of the
officers of the Tallapoosa.
In Chicago, on Saturday, Henry Mohler,
Oscar Radcliffe. Mrs. Pease, Mrs. Parker and
Mrs Slater, the ostensible managers of the
''Home for Gods Orphans" were all bound
over for ill-treatment of young children leitin
their charge. The testimony of four young
inmates of the Home tended to show that
large number of babies died in the asylum,
apparently through want of care, and, accord
ing to stories related by the young children
in court, they were subjected at all times to
rigorous treatment by being locked up alone
in dark rooms and given very little food.
1t is reported from Mount Holly that the
noS cnoleril mas preNalleu III burlington CO.;
New Jersey, particularly near Pemberton,
since winter, and that a number of animals
have died. 1t first appeared on the farm OF
NJ. S. Butterworth, who lost 81 out of a pen
of ~ hogs Washington Decamp has lost his
entire stock of 20 hogs. George w. Budd,
John Forsythe and W. Emery Taylor has also
lost a number of pigs The disease is report
ed on the farm of Henry B. Lippincott, and
is said to prevail in Vincentown in a milder
form. The malady reported in Atlantic
county last week.
A negro named Clark, convicted of Grim
iilal assault upon an elderly white woman,
was hanged Tuesday at Dawson, Georgia, in /
the presence of large crowd. His colored |
friends having declared that he should not be
hanged, two companies of militia were sent
from Albany to the scene. When a mile and
a half from Albany three cars were thrown
from the track nv obstrnctions nlaced unon