The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-05-10
News of the Week.

Henry w. Cannon of Minnesota has been
nominated and confirmed as comptroller of
the Treasury, but he refused to accept.
Amos Rohrbaugh, residing near Hanover,
Pa, is feet 3 inches high and weighs AIS
pounds. He is go years old and enjoys good
health.
A snow storm prevailed in London and the
southern counties of England on Monday.
Snow laid to the depth of two inches in some
localities.
Fifteen new cases of smallpox have been
night One death from the disease occurred
Wednesday.
Professor Samuel D. Gross, d. C. L., L L.
D., the eminent American physician and sur
geon, died in Philadelphia, Pa, on Tuesday
in the 10Th year of his age.
A tornado struck one end of Davenport,
Iowa, Monday afternoon. and levelled
a number of buildings. One person was
killed and many were badly injured.
The four robbers who killed the Cashier
and fatally wounded the President of the bank
at Medicine Lodge, Kansas, were taken from
the Jail last week and lynched by mob.
The Norwegian ship Alantine was wrecked
on Wednesday night Of last week, on one of
the Magdalen Islands. Nineteen lives were
lost, the second mate being the only survivor.
A reduction in wages on the Union Pacific
railroad last week resulted in general strike,
and the railroad company was forced to restore
the old rates. At Omaha alone 1900 men
quit work.
Patrick Heating was arrested on Sunday
morning in New York on the charge of beat
ing his wife to death. Just before his arrest
he was found lying in a drunken stupor across
the dead body of his wife.
A tornado struck Del Rio, Texas, demol
ishing a new Episcopal church and number
of small cabins and wrecking several new
buildings. Charles Schrack was killed, and
six others were seriously injured.
The house of John Duffy, near Indepen-
dence, Iowa, was burned on Saturday, and
his 13 year old daughter was burned to death.
The parents were badly burned, and another
child is not expected to recover.
A. Randolph Mott, resident physician at the
Riverside Hospital ON Blackwell's Island,
New York, died on Tuesday of typhus fever,
contracted from patient. He was native of
Virginia, where his father is now a practicing
physician.
During meeting in colored Methodist
Church at Mckinney, Texas, Monday night
the building tumbled down and caught fire
from coal oil lamps. A woman was burned
to death and several others were badly in
jured.
A suburban passenger train collided with
a Grand Trunk locomotive at South Engle-
wood, near Chicago, Monday morning during
a thick fog. Twenty two persons were seri
ously injured, two of whom not expected
to recover.
During Il violent storm at Little Rock, Ar
kansas, Monday afternoon, shed at the old
fair grounds fell upon number Of convcts
who were making bricks. One man was
killed and several others injured, one of them
dangerously.
Ex-Gov. n Morris Halstead was killed on
Tuesday by the cars while alighting from a
railroad train at Newark, New Jersey. He
was formerly a merchant of New York, and
founded the Astronomical Observatory at
Princeton College.
The six days walking match in New York
ended on Saturday night at twenty minutes to
9 o'clock, with Fitzgerald as the winner. The
score stood, Fitzgerald, 60; Rowell, COZ;
Panehot, $685. Noremac, 545s; Herty, 539s;
Vint, $780, Eson, 525s.
A heavy rain and thunder storm broke over
London, England, on Monday noon, and in
the southern part of The city ball of fire fell
to the street and burst with loud report,
phenomenon that terrified the residents for
miles around, and particularly those who wit
messed it.
Ham Patterson, colored, was taken from
his bed in Galloway county, Missouri, last
Saturday night, and murdered by mob. 1t
was charged that he and his brother Julius
had circulated soandalous reports about nearly
all the ladies in the neighborhood. The mob
are now looking for julius
A bill has been prepared in the House of
Representatives, appropriateing $4,000 to
nav the expenses of committee to visit vari
GUS places in Mexico and South America to
ascertain the feasibility of building railroad
about $500 miles long to the Argentine Re-
public, in order to increase the trade of this
country.
Miss Lillian Whitney. daughter of Clark j
Whitney, of Detroit. Michigan, has eloped
with her fathers cnaohman. The young lady
is represented as pretty and accomplished,
and heir to a large fortune. The coachman
is handsome, an English nohleman in dis
guise, so he says, hut rumor has it that he has
a wife and children in Detroit.
company, embracing prominent Eastern
and Western capitalists, have secured loca-
ton in Birmingham, Ala, on which large
factory for the manufacture of ar-wheels is to
be erected 1t is expected the works will be
in operation by the LIST of July. A WOODEN
mills company has been organized at Knox.
Vile, Tenn, with capital of Sl90,000 and
work on the mills will be commenced at ONCE.
John George Wepta, 30 years Of age, bought
package of Paris green in New York on
Saturday, dissolved the poison in four tnmblers
and gave one to each of his three children,
aged respectively 8. 10 and II years. They
refused to drink, whereupon he told them it
would not hurt them and himself drank the
contents of the fourth tumbler. The children
ian away and Wentg WIS soon afterwards
taken sick and died during the night, 1t is
believed he was orazed from drink.
Rev. Arthur Ritche formerly of Baltimore,
but recently rector of the Protestant Episco
pal Church of the Ascension, Chicago, has
retired from that church on account of his
differences with Bishop McLaren, who re-
fused to recognize the Church of the Ascen
sion or to administer the rite of confirmation
in it, owing to the extreme ritualistic prac-
tiees of its rector Mr.. Richie has accepted
o call from 81 Iggatips CHURCH, New York,
and preached his tirst sermon there ON Sun.
day last,
A merchant of Port-au- Prince, Hayti,
writes to Boston that the sloop Grappler,
flying the English flag and working on a Cay
island, about eighty miles west of Port-au-
Prince, has been captured and burned by the
natives. She had on board ten thousand
dollars worth of wrecked cargo from the Royal
Mail steamer Nile, which was plundered and
destroyed: The crew were either killed
or driven 10 tRe mountains by the natives,
The government has dispatched ship Of war
| in search of the crew, but it is feared they
have been murdered, as the natives who sieZed
the Grappler are savages.
The Marine National Bank of New York
city suspended on Tuesday, and soon after
wards lhe suspension of the brokers' firm of
Grant Il Ward was angoqgeed The bapk
was unable TO give security for $500, 900 to the
Clearing House, of which it was debtor to
that amount, and the brokers' firm IS said to
have been indebted to the Bank to the extent
Of $500, 900 10 $500, 0dq. The Vice President
of the Bank says its failure is only temporary.
lis papital is SiOa, 1000, and it owes about s5,
100000 to depositeFs. Among ia deposits
are 81 900, 005 Of funds Of the city of New
Yerk, and about $3.50, 900 heinnging to Long
island City. The f4ilqre of GHnt II Ward