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, ~
S77 his nominal assets s., ,09o, and his
actual assets S4,4S1 ,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 a few days directing that work shall
be resumed at all the navy yards. Work has
already been begun ct Mare Island and Brook,
Iyn.
In sham battle at a veterans reunion at
Troy, Alabama on Saturday, W. }. Blan,
publisher Of the Messenger, had both hands
blown off and one arm broken above the elbow
while loading Il cannon.
Addison Coleman, a notorious colored des
perddo. was shot dead in Washington, d. 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 smallpox 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-p ox since its appearance in April.
Maxwell, the supposed murderer of G. Ar
thur Preller, 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 Pittsburg
is said to be more favorable than for many
years. Orders are rapidly increasing and
many mills are running on double time. The
only drawback is the strike among the nailers,
which does not appear to be near an amieable
settlement.
Two young colored men got into an empty
box car on a 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 walking horse belonging
to Coles circus fell from the rope at Green's
burg, Pa, and received such injuries that he
died two days afterwards at Hollidaysburg.
He was about thirty years old, and had spent
twenty years in active service in the ring.
Mr.. Cole valued him at $4,000.
Andrew Undra, a miner at Nanticoke, Pa,
on Monday went to the house of Joseph 10
mask, where he had been boarding, and
asked Mrs Tomaski to leave her husband and
live with him. She refused, when Undra
drew a revolver and fired, the ball grazing her
neck. He then shot and killed himself
At a meeting of anarchists on the lake
front in Chicago, on Sunday. little Irish
man said there was no cause for all the trou-
bic between capital and labor, and that
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. Eairman
is dead, but his wife is expected to recover.
Seven or eight other persons are dangerously
i'll 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
of Agriculture, and that unless
he can offer better reasons for the eXpendI-
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 bomb into the house. The
windows were shattered, the walls wrecked,
and large holes were torn in the floor. Kin
ney and his wife were severely wounded by
the explosion. There was a bad feeling
against Kinney among the miners, who con-
sdered 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 seventy-fve insurance companies
are doing a surreptitious and illegal business,
and he estimates their collections during the
past year at 100000. Insurance companies
doing business without license in Wisconsin
escape a tax of 2 per cent. on their gross
earnings and other expenses, but they are
liable to fine.
Four hundred Socialists, including many
of the striking Bohemians and Poles, held
meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, on Saturday,
night, and INDUCED in much wild talk. Cor
such, who was one of the speakers, advised
the men to arm themselves with Winchester
rifles and go 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 check for his month 5
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 of
the fingers of his left hand which he was nm
able to release from the rail.
A telegram from Billings, Montana, says
that Ed. Goqldipg, with two associate cattle
men on the Musspshel, on Thursday of last
week, met q marauding band of Piegan In
dams between the Razar and Half breed
creeks, The Piegans numbered twenty, and
had with them IS stolen horses. Goulding
and his companions fired, killing one Indian,
but, being greatly outnumbered, were COM
PEELED to retreat. Obtaining reinforcements,
and overtaking the Piegans, they killed the
entire party and recovered the stolen horses.
The Signal Bureau in Washington has in
structed its agents in the Northwest, in view
of the ravages of grasshoppers in Montana, to
at once observations of injury or
instead of sending them monthly
as heretofore. Professor Riley also sent an
agent to the field, whose reports confirm pre-
yio4s statements, Not only are there large
Plumbers of this destructive Rocky Mountain
species at work, but the common native and
non migrating species are also much more
numerous than usual. AT Fort Buford and
Poplar Pine Agency the locusts are very
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. 1t
appears that two planters of that county have
a watermelon patch, which has been raided
almost every night. Exasperated at being
robbed repeatedly, one of the planters on
Friday plugged a number Of the melons and
put in each some poison. He forgot to tell
his partner, and on Saturday one of the
poisoned melons was pulled and eaten by the
latter family. His wife, two children and
a sister-in-iaw died III few hGgrs: When
first attacked they thought it was cholera NOR