The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-08-22
News of the Week.

tario, are losing heavily by the hog cholera.
The Waltham Watch Tool Company, of
Waltham, Massachusetts,, employing sixty
men, has closed its shop.
A light frost, the first of the season, was
observed at East Tanas, Michigan, last Fri
day night There was frost also at Quebec
the same night.
The schedules of assets and liabilities of
John Roach show his liabilities to be 81, 222,
81 his nominal assets s., lO0,09S, and his
actual assets 1881, 47S.
A cattle disease, alleged to be Spanish or
Texan fever has developed at Bloomington,
Illinois, and is creating considerable excite
ment among the stockmen.
Orders will be sent from the Navy Depart
ment in few days directing that work shall
be resumed at all the navy yards. Work has
already been begun at Mare Island and Brock
Ign.
In sham battle at veterans reunion at
Troy. Alabama, on Saturday, w. j. Blan,
publisher of the Messenger, had both hands
blown off and one arm broken above the elbow
while loading a cannon.
Addison Coleman, Il notorious colored des-
perado, was shot dead in Washington, ID. c.,
last Sunday afternoon, by the accidental dis.
charge of revolver of policeman from
whom he was struggling to get away.
There were 40 cases of small-pox in the
hospital at Montreal on Saturday, and more
than 100 houses were placarded for the dis
ease. There have been 120 deaths from the
small pox since its appearance in April.
Maxwell, the supposed murderer of C. Ar
thur Preler, in St. Louis, arrived in that city
last Sunday from San Francisco, in charge of
detectives 1t is positively denied by the Of
fcers having him in charge that Maxwell
ever spoke in relation to the crime with
which he is charged.
The outlook of the iron trade at Pittsburr
is said to be more favorable than for many
wears. Orders are rapidly increasing and
many mills are running on double time. The
only drawback is the strike among the nailefs,
which does not appear to be near an amicable
settlement
Two young colored men got into an empty
box car on freight train at Edgefeld juno
ton, Tennessee, Sunday afternoon, for the
purpose of stealing ride. The brakemen
elected the intruders, and chased them into
a cornfeld, where one of the pursuers was
shot dead by one of the negroes.
The famous rope-waking horse belonging
to Coles circus fell from the rope at Greens
burg, Pa, and received such injuries that he
died two days afterwards at Hollidaysburg.
He was about thirty years old, and had spent
twenty-six years in active service in the ring.
Mr.. Cole valued him at $4,000.
Andrew Undra, miner at Nanticoke, Pa,
on Monday went to the house of Joseph To-
mask, where he had been boarding, and
asked Mrs. Tomaski to leave her husband and
live with him. She refused, when undra
drew revolver and fired, the ball grazing her
neck He then shot and killed himself.
At meeting of anarchists on the lake
front in Chicago, on Sunday. a little Irish
man said there was no cause for all the trou-
BILE between capital and labor, and that a
man could live on dollar day if he did
not spend his money for beer and whisky.
He was jeered and knocked down several
times, and was finally rescued by the police.
John X. Fairman and wife were poisoned
in Chicago few days ago by eating toad
stools in mistake for mushrooms. Fairman
is dead, but his wife is expected to recover
Seven or eight other persons are dangerously
ill in Hyde Park, suburb of Chicago, from
a similar cause, and half Of them are not ex-
pected to recover.
First Comptroller Durham is quoted as
saving that he is not exactly satisfied with
Mr.. Loring's explanation of his accounts as
Commissioner of Agriculture, and that unless
he can offer better reasons for the eXpendl-
lures for seed, &C., than have yet been sub
mitted, he 1.-THE Comptroller) will have to re-
fer the case to the Solicitor of the Treasury
for the institution of legal proceedings.
The house of Susan Ashley, colored, at
Graham, Georgia, was burned on Saturday,
and the charred bodies of her four children
were found covered with a mattress on the
middle of the floor. The fire broke out dur
ing the temporary absence of the mother, and
as the house was open and she left the child
rem playing outside, it is suspected that they
were murdered and the house set on fire.
At Shawnee, Ohio, between one and two
O clock Sunday morning, an attempt was
made to assassinate the family of Hugh Kin
ney by throwing a bomb into the house. The
windows were shattered, the walls wrecked,
and large holes were torn In. the hoor-4 Nm
ney and his wife were severely wounded by
the explosion. There was bad feeling
against Kinney among the miners, who con-
sidered him an informer. .
p. L. Spooner, Jr., Insurance Commission
er of Wisconsin, has, it is reported, discovered
evidence which, it is claimed, tends to show
that about seyenty-live insurance companies
are doing surreptitiOus and illegal business,
and he estimates their collections during the
past year at S700,0 Insurance companies
doing business without a license in Wisconsin
escape tax of = per cent. on their gross
earnings and other expenses, but they are
liable to Il fine.
Four hundred Socialists, including many
of the striking Bohemians and Poles, held a
meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, on Saturday,
night, and INDUCED in much wild talk. Cor:
nfiVr1Cn or
the men to arm themselves with Winchester
rifles and 90 around to the warehouses and
help themselves, and shoot down any man
who opposes them
At Anderson, near Huntingdon, Pa, last
Friday night, Thomas Crepps, while walking
on the railway track, was assaulted by two
tramps and knocked down and gagged After
stealing his watch and u check for his month !
salary, which he had Just received, they TIED
him to the track and left him to his fate
By frantic efforts he worked himself partially
free, but passing freight train cut off one o
the fingers of his left hand, which he was un
able to release from the rail.
A telegram from Billings, Montana, say
that Ed. Gouldipg, with two ASSOCIATE gattl'
men on the MIssolshell, on Thursday OF las
week, met marauding band of Piegan In
dams between Lne IGdLdF anu lldli-DiNN
creeks. The Piegans numbered twenty, and
had with them 70 stolen horses. Gouldlns
and his companions fired, killing one Indian
but, being greatly outnumbered, were com
PEELED to retreat. Obtaining reinforcements
and overtaking the Piegans, they killed TIL
entire party and recovered the stolen horses
The Signal Bureau in Washington has IN
structed its agents in the Northwest, in vie'
of the ravages of grasshoppers in Montana, tt
telegraph at once observations of injury. o
movements, instead of sending them month";
as heretofore Professor Riley also seRt a
agent to the field, whose reports confirm pre-
yious statements. Not only are there larg
numbers of this destructive Rocky Mountain
species at work, but the common native an
non migrating species are also much NOR
numerous than usual. AT Fort Butord an
| Poplar Pine Agency the locusts are yer
abundant, and are damaging the crops.
Two women and two children died in Co
lumbia county, Florida, on Saturday after
noon, from eating poisoned watermelon.
appears that two planters of that county hav
a watermelon patch, which has been raide
almost every night. Exasperated at bein
robbed repeatedly, one of the planters o
Friday plugged number Of the MELONS an
put in each some poison. He forgot 10 tie
his partner, and on Saturday one of tn
poisoned melons was pulled and eaten by til
iatter's family. His wife, two children an
a sister-in-law died in few hours. Whe
first attacked they thought it was cholera mo