The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-09-06
News of the Week.

bama were burned on Sunday. Loss about
800, 900, insurance $4,000.
The Lewiston and Bates Mill, at Lewiston,
Maine, employing $500 operatives, which
shut down recently, resumed Monday.
The gallows, it is said, have caused more
deaths this year than during any correspond
ing period in the history of the United States.
Two fortresses, well known in history, are
shortly to be RACED, viz, Niggratz, in Bohe-
mia, and Sonderburg Dueppel, in Schleswig.
A girl only II years old was arrested in
Boston day or two ago for bigamy, and she
admitted that she had two husbands, both
living.
Three men have been arrested in Toronto
| for undertaking to thrash every dude they
met One of the thrashers had revolver in
his possession.
The splitting of a tree near Redding, Shasta
county, Cal, by lightning, recently, disclosed
! in the hollow trunk skeleton. Three bullet
holes were found in the skull.
Mrs Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Monday
cast her first vote at school election in Johns
town, New York. Eighteen other women
voted, and woman was elected trustee.
The planning mill and wheat elevator of
Kehlon Brothers, at Waterloo, Illinois, were
burned on Sunday with a quantity of wheat
and flour. The loss is 5000, 900; insurance
| 100000.
A contagious disease has appeared among
the swine at Monticello, Sullivan county, New
| York. The affected animals are first attacked
with blindness, and stagger about for day or
two and then die.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes last Friday
celebrated his 18th birthday, in Boston. He
received congratulations personally, by mail
and by telegraph, from friends and admirers
throughout America and Europe.
| The safe of the post. Office at Emporia, Kan
sas, was blown open about 3 o'clock on Sat
urday morning. The robbers, who were I'M
known, secured about $1,000 worth of stamps,
a small sum of money and number of regis
tered letters.
! A fire at Marshall, Texas, on Saturday
morning, destroyed the Marshall Car Wheel
Works and foundry, seven dwellings, hotel
and store, causing loss estimated at Sl20,-
600. Two hundred men were employed in
the car wheel works.
The new glass works of the Wilmington
Glass Company, of Wilmington, Delaware,
and of the Dover Glass Company, of Dover,
were set in operation Monday. The first
glass ever made in Delaware was blown out
shortly after midnight at the Wilmington fac
tory.
Martin Weinberger was hanged at Pitts
burg on Tuesday for the murder of Louis Colt
| freund, peddler, near Sewickly, on June 10,
1882. Weinberger was a Hebrew, the first
ever hanged in Allegheny county, Pa, and
he is believed to be the second in the United
| States.
! 1t is said that manager of museums in
various cities has contracted with several of
| the Grealy survivors to exhibit them, one of
/ thar nurnhar thar
| in the Arctic regions. The first exhibition is
to take place in Cincinnati, on the 10Th in
| slant.
The old Parish Church of Chiswick, the
tower of which has been familiar object
! from the river Thames for nearly 500 years,
has been rebuilt by Henry Smith, an English
brewer. at his own expense. Nothing re-
manned of the old edifice but the tower. The
cost of rebuilding was 100000.
All of the cotton factories in Petersburg,
Va, and vicinity have stopped work, throw
ing out of employment large number of men,
women and children, many of whom are &C
tually suffering from the want of necessaries
of life. An application has been made to the
city council for a special appropriation for
| the relief of the sufferers.
| One of the cars of the Orion anglo Ameri-
can Circus was burned on the railroad near
| last week and number of men persisted in
the flames or were terribly injured. The Car
was fitted with sleeping hunks in three tiers
and contained 60 men. Nine of the men are
known to be dead, and number were in
jured.
| The post-ofice at Wiliamsport, Penna.,
was robbed on Saturday of 50, 800 worth of
stamps. The postmaster was at dinner, and
the chief clerk, who was in the private office,
was called to the door ''to man in
buggy The clerk was out not more than
three minutes, but during that time four pack
ages of stamps were taken from the safe and
four packages similar in appearance left in
stead. The substitute packages contained
brown paper. There is no trace of the rob
bers.
At Madison, Indiana, on Saturday, Judge
Thornton overruled motion for u new trial
in the case of u colored man named Thorn
ton, sentenced to four years in the peniten
tiary for marrying white woman. The Judge
said that ''if he had passed his own opinion,
without reference to the authorities on the
subject, he would decide it as contrary to the
Fourteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights
bill, but as the Supreme Court had decided it
did not interfere with either, and the law was
on the statute book, it must be enforced
On Monday the secretary Of the Lynchburg
Tobacco Association reported that $50, 900
pounds of leaf tobacco were sold for the month
Of August, and 20, 900, 900 pounds for the year
to date. Reports from the surrounding coun-
ties show that, notwithstanding the late rains,
the leaves are maturing rapidly, and extraar
binary efforts are being made to out all for
ward plants Immediately. The crop is con-
sidered an average one in quality and quantity,
hut the leaves are so small as to change the
type Of Virginia tobacco entirely for this year.
The Hotel Newport, near Asbury Park, N
j., was destroyed by fire about two o clock
Monday morning. The fire started in the
kitchen. A maid servant discovered the
flames, aud aroused Adolph +. Dick, the pro-
prietor. Mr.. Dick removed his daughter and
sister from their rooms near the blazing
kitchen and then aroused the guests l25 in
number, all of whom escaped. Some of them
saved their trunks and clothing, while others
lost everything but their night clothes. Mr..
Dick was badly bruised by trunk falling
upon him. The loss on the building and fur
niture is estimated at $50, 900; insured.
The great labor parade and demonstration /
in New York took place Monday, the aumker !
of men, nearly all EHepbers of trade organza- /
tons, in the line being estimated at 10000. /
Everything of n political character was avoid /
ed. Some of the organizations carried ban /.
ners inscribed with the names of firms and /
corporations which had been boycotted by the .
Unions. The procession was followed by
picnics and games at the Empire Colosseum
and Washington Park. In the evening n
number of speeches were delivered. 1t IN, |
tended to make the first a4F IF SaFtelafer IN
zach year # W9rkilg mems holiday and eele- /
hrate It IN similar manner,
The Empire Laundry Association num-.
herring over 500 persons, on Sunday went on
. barge from New York 10 Linden Grove,
Staten Island. On the trip one of the excur-
sionsts tried to steal sandwiches from the
bar, aud the barkeeper struck him with a
club. The crowd thereupon pounced upon
the barkeeper and beat him to death with
glasses, plates, pitchers, and what ever else
they could lay their hands on. The barge
was stopped and the captain sent man ashore
to notify the Staten Island police of the muir
der. No action was taken by the police.
however, and the barge fesafned to New
Yar6.