The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-05-17
News of the Week.

Twelve stores in Sharon, Wisconsin, were
burned on Sunday.
French Canadians to the number of 1900
left Montreal on Monday tosettle in the United
States.
! The Empress of China wants peace with
France, but says that the prestige of China
must be maintained.
Tully R. Wise, a prominent attorney of
San Francisco, and brother of Geo. ID. Wise,
| Congressman from Virginia, died on Monday
night. ~
Tramps are growing bold in York county,.
They stop people on the highway and demand
their money with threats ofyiolenee. Half a
dozen of them have recently been arrested.
Confederate memorial services at the Stone
wall Cemetery, Winchester, will take place
June 6. A shaft will be raised in the Georgia
lot at that time, and an address delivered.
During game of base ball in Chllicothe,
Ohio, last Friday, between the Chillicothe and
Portsmouth Clubs, the grand stand, contain
ing about 200 people, fell, injuring about 20
persons. l,...-.-
\ Lightning struck the mill of McDufie & Son.
at Keyser, North Carolina, last Friday morns
ing, killing three men and injuring another.
A mule was knocked down, but apparently
uninjured.
The Secretaries of War and the Navy have
appointed, under a resolution of the House,
Board to consider the expediency of con-
structing a line of waterways for the protec
ton of the seaboard of the Atlantic and Gulf
States.
One hundred and fifty pounds of nitrogly-
cerine exploded on Monday in q magazine
near Port Colborne, Ontario. The shock was
felt for miles around, but no person was in
jured, the men having quilted work about an
hour before.
The first prize, $1,000, in the interstate
drill at Houston, Texas, was awarded to the
! Houston Guards, of Houston; the second,
81 800, to the Treadway Rifles, of St. Louis,
and the third, $780, to the Columbus Guards,
of Columbus, Ga. -.-.a-
Mrs. Belinda Galloway of Dayton, Ohio,
after years of litigation, has obtained decree
confirming her title in fee simple to the Cooper
Female Academy property in that city. The
property originally cost her 81, 700. tits now
valued at $4,000.
A party of Dutch emigrants, men, women
and children-thirty in number-just on from
Holland, Preached Tallahassee, Fla, a few days
since with view of settlement. They are
mostly agriculturists, and desire to secure
small homes near that city.
Moses G. Peterman, of Pittsburg, has dis
covered way in which whisky can be solidi-
fed and made into plugs that may be carried
in the pocket as tobacco now is and nibbled
in the same surreptitious way in which some
men now help themselves to ''chew."
/ Joseph A. Heintzelman, druggist, of
Philadelphia, was on Monday indicted for in
voluntary mansaughter. A Mrs. Anderson
was in February last given liniment which had
been prepared for another person. She ad-
ministered the liniment internally to her child,
which died.
The destruction of cattle in Franklin parish,
La, by the gnats has been terrible. In two
wards, where partial census has been taken,
over 5000 horses, cattle and hogs have been
found to have persisted The gnats have also
attacked human beings, causing blood poison
ing.
The number of men suspended from the
machine and car shops of the Reading Rail
road Company in Reading, last Saturday, was
1877. There have also been reductions in the
working force Of the Company at Pottsville,
Tamaqua, Palo Alto and other points, the
total number of men suspended being esti-
mated at 1900.
A lunatic named Lamer created great ex-
citement in Decatur, ILL.,, Sunday, by taking
possession of temporarily vacant house.
He defended it successfully for some time
with pistol and knives, wounding the owner
Blenz, seriously, and keeping the sheriff s
posse at bay. He was finally knocked down
with a club and captured.
! AT the sale of Jersey cattle in New York
Saturday, among the animals sold were
Charity of ST. Lambert, COW, dropped 1877,
for 81, $50; Primrose Sheldon, heifer, dropped
! in 1882, for 81 $50; Sprite of St. Lambert,
heifer, dropped in 1883, for $1,000; Lily of
St Lambert, COW, for S575, and Tug Wilson.
a bull, dropped in 1882, for s., 400.
! The returns of the Department of Agricul-
ture for May make the wheat prospect nearly
as favorable as in April Then the general
average was within per cent of the standard
of full condition. The Nav AVERAGE il %
! 1t was S3J in 1883. Barring the changes of
the future, a winter wheat product of about
35O, OOO, 600 bushels is indicated.
Tn Nav York Mondav ,;obt Isaac n
Eth; eo ,,nors &c 60 ~ III go e.
som,. t;me I;y;no, Se,arata froy, H. ,r;sa -
coS oaod AZ lied pnon barand asi'aJ har
10 hack and live with him She rafnseJ
when he drew revolver and shot her in the
back. inaictiug a fatal wound He then shot
and killed his fiye-year old bow. who was in
the room, and then ran into the street. After
going a short distance he placed the nistoI
against his right temple and Shot himself Jf
dead
A dispatch from GAINESVILLE, Ohio, saws that
town was in an excited state on Sunday over
supposed earthquake near Blandy avenue,
in the fourth ward At ten O'Clock that
morning terrific report was heard and about
three acres of ground sank several feet. car.
rying with it number Of houses, all of which
were badly damaged The inhabitants in the
vicinity were pane stricken A insure was
opened to the depth OF about 100 feet, and the
only plausible theory is that several deserted
coal mines caVed III.
Application has been made to the Commiss
toner's of the Illinois and Michigan Canal for
the right of way along the canal for pneu-
matte tube to run from Chicago to Lasalle,
distance of 100 miles. 1t is to be Is inches in
diameter, and is to be used for shipping wheat,
packages, &C., by means of compressed mir,
There are to be stations at Joliet, Lookport
and intermediate noints The nroieotor claims