The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-04-05
News Of the Week.

The public debt reduction for March is es-
timated at about $l5, 100000.
Senator Malone, of Virginia, is seriously i'll
in Washington, and is forbidden to receive
visitors.
Two hundred mules are reported to have
been killed by buffalo gnats near Grenada,
Mississippi, within the last forty eight hours.
! Tn the Criminal Court at Washington, on
Saturday, Judge WyGe set the case of ex-Sen-
ator Kellogg, for conspiracy in the Star route
| frauds. for trial on April 2lst.
| It is stated that more than 1900 murders
were committed in the United States last year.
while during the same period the number OF
legal executions was only %.
Three Italians have been arrested in New
| York for selling counterfeit tickets to Italian
| emiqrants from New Y ork to Pittsburg. More
than 400 Italians have been victimized.
The sealing steamship Aurora arrived at
ST. Johns Newfoundland, last Friday from
the ice field with Is, 900 seals, valued at $780,
600. All were taken within five days.
The village of Oakville, between Muncie
| and New Castle, Indiana, is reported to have
been destroyed by tornado on Tuesday at
ternoon. Several persons are said to have
been killed.
The first through party from the City of
Mexico over the Mexican Central Railway
arrived in Chicago last Friday morning,
having made the run from the City of Mexico
in FIVE days.
| An epidemic of measles has broken out in
the Jail at Atlanta, Ga, and four United
States prisoners have died since Monday even
ing. The remainder, almost twenty in num-
Der, have been discharged on suspended SEN
fences. There are twenty-nine cases in the
hospital.
The American College of Rome, under the
dominion of the Pope, was ordered to be sold
| for taxes by the Italian government. The
College was claimed to be American property,
and a note from the United States to the Ital
| ian government has induced that government
to revoke the sale.
Prince Leopold, 1.-THE Duke of Albany the
fourth and youngest son of Queen Victoria,
died suddenly last Friday morning at Cannes,
France. He was on his way to Darmstadt to
attend the wedding of his niece, the Princess
Victoria of Hesse and stopped at Cannes to
rest, being in bad health. He died in fit.
Jacob Shelly shot and MORALLY wounded
James and Joseph Merrill, brothers, at Jones'
town, Sullivan county, Penna., last Friday
night. Shelly had Just married sister of the
Mnrrills in opposition to their wishes, and
this gave rise to fight. Shelly was shot in
the arm, and claims to have acted in self-de-
fence.
Delano E. Smith, student of the Harvard
Law School, was found on street in Cam
bridge, Massachusetts, on Sunday, suffering
| from a number of stabs inflicted by himself
while laboring under delirium tremens. 1t
was discovered, on examination, that he had
sixty-four stabs on his left breast, six of which
had entered the lung. tbs doubtful if he can
survive.
| The Mayor of Andersonville, Georgia, tel
egraphed to Savannah late on Saturday
night for 1000 rounds of ammunition, to be
used in quelling negro uprising supposed to
be imminent. A communist emissary had
| been urging the negroes to massacre the whites
and seize their property. Late Sunday night
it was believed the trouble had been averted
1t is now believed that the negro, Charles
H. Rugg, who is under indictment in Long
Island City for the murder of the Maybees and
| the assaults ON the Townsends and Spragues,
is the man who murdered Rose Amber at
Stamford, Connecticut. 1t is said that she
was killed in the same manner as the Maybee
women, and that it has been learned that
Rugg frequently visited Stamford.
| The schooner Magic. of Gloucester, Massa-
chusetts, which sailed for Georges Bank FIVE
weeks ago, has not been heard of since,
and is given up for lost She had twelve
men on board. Since the August gale, seven
months ago, eighteen vessels have heen lost
from Gloucester, with all their crews, This,
with the losses overheard and from dories,
makes total loss of 249 men, who leave 60
widows and 1874 orphans,
A peculiar malady is carrying off many
aheep in the vicinity of Newcomerstown,
Ohio. The disease is caused by worm
called the grub. An egg of the worm is de.
posted in the nostrils of the sheep in July
! or August by peculiar kind of fly, and the
grub matches out in March, and begins bur-
rowing towards the brain, and when it pene-
trates it, kills the animal at once There is
no known remedy for it.
! Executions took place last Friday as fol-
lows: At Tombstone, Arizona, o. W. Sample,
Daniel David, William Delane, Daniel Kelly
and James Howard, for the murder of the Bis
bee family. At San Bernardino, California,
William P. Mcdonald, for the murder of
Francisco Perres, for the murder of William
lima, Joseph Howard oolored, for the MUIR
der of Simon Gaskins, also colored.
Philadelphia's new postoffice is now occu-
pied, the last delivery of mails from the old
| postolhce having been made Saturday after
noon. The new building was begun on Octo-
Der IL, 1873. The ground on which it stands
cost 81 ,49l ,200.99, the largest price ever paid
by the government for postotfice site. The
building itself cost about 81 900, 600, and the
! furnishing about 50, 500, 600 more. On the up
per floors of the building are 40 rooms, which
will be used by the United States officers and
United States courts.
About so buildings were unroofed by wind
storm in Denver, Colorado, ON Wednesday of
last week. At midnight part of the rear wall
f the Linden Hotel was blown in, but the
occupants. having been warned, escaped
without injury. The damage to property in
Denver is estimated at about Sl2, 600. David
Woodhaven, a young man, was fatally injured
by falling wall. Damage was done in other
places by the wind. Near Fleming COACH
was blown from the railroad track, AND que
passenger was seriously injured. The round
house at Sterling is reported to have been de-
molished.
The nitro glycerine house at the Repaupo
Chemical works, on the New Jersey side of
the Delaware river, south of Thompson's
Point, and about ten miles from Philadelphia,
was destroyed on Saturday morning by an
explosion. 1t is thought an experiment was
being made without sufficient Hre6aution be-
ing taken The killed were l.. Dupont,
President of the Company; Walter N. Hill
General Superintendent; A. S. Ackerson,
Agent of the Company in St. Louis; George
Norton, foreman of the nitroglycerine house;
Henry L. Norton, foreman of the powder de-
partment, and Lewis Ley, an assistant in tha
nitro lyeerine house, Several persons re.
eeved slight injuries.
Representative MeCord, of Iowa, has pre-
pared joint resolution for introduction in the
House providing for the appointment by the
President, by and with the advice and consent.
of the Senate, of commission to consist of
76 persons, two from each State, of different
parties, for the purpose of considering and
proposing to the several States the propriety
of calling convention by at least two-thirds
of the States to propose amendments to the
constitution. Mr.. McCord gives as reason
for calling the proposed convention, ''the un
exampled growth of the country dnring the
past century; the development of new inter-
ests, and the important Constitutional ques-
tions that have arisen.'