The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-06-28
News Of the Week.


Cholera has broken out at Toulon, France.
Thirty nine horses persisted in conhagra-
tion in Belfast on Wednesday.
Bartholdi's statue of Liberty will be presen-
ted to United States Minister Morton in Paris
on July 8.
Forest fires are destroying large quantities
of timber in Dalton and Whiteield counties,
New Hampshire.
There are 1888 inmates in the Philadelphia
Almshouse, 700 of the number being in the
Insane Department.
The new Cunard steamer Umbria, launched
on Wednesday, has the most powerful engine
in the world, being Of II, 500-ho power.
A tornado struck Fort Madison, Iowa, on
Monday night, unroofng dozen buildings,
among them church and the postofice.
In Philadelphia, last week, John S. Prince,
the champion bieyclist, won ten mile race
IN 30 minutes and 359 seconds against the
trotting horse Scotland.
The steamer San Pablo, at San Francisco
from Shanghai, reports that the cholera has
broken out near Picking. Those attacked by
the disease die in few hours.
There were sixteen prostrations from the
heat Saturday in New York and Brooklyn,
five of which were fatal. The mercury was
SO at 80 in the afternoon.
The remainder of the miners in the Hook
ing Valley, Ohio, struck on Monday against
the reduction of ten cents. Thirty-two mines
are closed and about 5000 miners are idle.
Eleven persons have been made i'll at Coal
Bluff, Pa, by ice-cream, supposed to have
been poisoned. A man and a child have
died and several others are not expected to
live.
Part of nearly completed tunnel on the
Panhandle railroad, near Steubenville, Ohio,
caved in on Tuesday morning, burying eight
men and boy. All were injured, four it is
feared fatally.
The banking house of NJ. Morgan's Sons,
one of the eldest in New York, made an as
signment on Tuesday The house was rated
at 81 zoo, 900. They were merchant bankers
and did not deal in Wall street.
Secretary Chandler has appointed Court
of Inquiry, with Commodore James E. Jar
rett as President, to investigate the frauds in
the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and other
bureaus of the Navy Department.
The Prince of Orange, Crown Prince of the
Netherlands, is dead. A general state coun-
Gil has proclaimed Princess Wilhelmine sue
cessor under the council to the regency, with
Queen Emma as regent and the president of
the council as chancellor.
A general strike has been ordered by the
Knights of Labor in all the shoe factories in
Philadelphia where the demands of the strik-
ing welters have not been granted. They
quilted work Monday afternoon. 1t is esti-
mated that over 1900 men and women are out.
While Mr.. Tharp was engaged in making
shingles on the farm of Dr.C. E. Lippitt, Tues
day, near Berryville Va, he found deposited
in a hole bored in large tree one thousand
dollars in gold, supposed to have been put
there for safety long time ago, as the hole
was entirely healed over.
Advices from Pena Blanca, south of Fort
Davis, Texas, say that the water from above
on the Rio Grande down is filling the grand
Grande to the depth of more than 800 feet,
and spreading with great devastation on the
Mexican side, covering the plains aud sweep
ing away stock.
A severe storm of hail and lightning visited
Central City, Colorado, on Sunday afternoon.
A game of base ball was going on at the time,
and lightning killed Nicholas Newmayer and
injured Frank Osborn and James Lick, the
latter perhaps fatally. The engine house of
the Prize Mine was also demolished, and five
miners were stunned.
Four men were recently wounded in sham
battle of the Florida State Militia at Camp
Sulplcys anu all luNcoLlSdtlOu SuOHu IHdL
their injuries were caused by the point of
regular army standard blank cartridge Elk.
periments made on Saturday show that the
points of the cartridges would tear away and
penetrate an inch board at twenty feet.
Joseph w. Burnham, aged A years, of the |
firm of Hotchkss, Burnham & Co., brokers,
of New York city, committed suicide on Tues
day morning, at his house at Yonkers, by
shooting himself in the head. The firm of
which he was a member suspended during the |
recent Wall street panic, and the misfortune
is supposed to have unsettled his mind.
A violent thunder storm passed over Rich
field Springs, New York, on Tuesday after
noon. The lightning struck in four places. |
One terrific stroke tore out about half of one
end of the railroad depot, scattering the boards |
later, killed an OK in the street. The third |
entered the shoe store of Losee & Co. and |
exploded with report like that of a small |
The fourth splintered several tele-
graph poles to atoms.
A cloud burst occurred last Sunday on a |
side near Corbin, 20 miles south of |
Helena, Montana. Water eight feet deep
rushed down a gulch towards Jefferson City, |
washing away a house and drowning three
Chinese. On reaching Jefferson City the
water was too shallow to sweep away more
than few small frame houses, and the peo-
pie having been warned ofits approach no
lives were lost. A quarter of mile of rail,
road was washed out,
Chas, Hawthorne, aged % years, son of ].
Hawthorne, a farmer, residing near Wades-
vile, Clarke county, Va, attempted to CON-
nit suicide on Monday, and is now in n criti-
cal condition. Near noon he came to the
house, went up to his room, took off his coat
md boots, and took from drawer his pistol,
aid down on the bed, and deliberately shot
himself in the left s. de, the ball inst escaping
he heart. He expresses himself as suffering
With mental trouble, and does not regret the
lct; saying it was his intention to kill himself.