The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-03-07
News of the Week.


Local elections were held Monday in Iowa.
The Republicans carried Des Moines, the
Democrats Burlington, 0ttumwa, Dyersville
and Earlville.
w. r. Lennon, aged y, a student in the
Missouri Medical College, at st. Lonis, com
mitted suicide Monday because he failed to
pass the final examination.
John BarEle, who became insane because
Blaine failed to be elected President, died in
the county asylum at Reading ON Saturday
He had refused to eat for nearly two weeks.
At Alliance, Ohio, on Monday night, drum
ken rowdies took charge Of the Salvation
Army meeting They pulled the whiskers off
the soldiers and beat them, and a general fight
ensued.
The municipal elections in Bath and An.
burn, Maine, held on Monday, were carried
by the Republicans. The Democrats carried
Lewiston Their candidate for Mayor in
Portland had plurality, but majority being
necessary, there will be another election.
The grand jury at Washington, on Saturday,
indicted Daniel Carrigan, Chief Clerk of the
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, in the Navy
Department, on ths charge of making and
using false vouchers. Also ID. w. Middleton
and s. E. Middleton, of the late firm of Mid
dleton & Co., bankers, on the charge of EN-
bezzlement.
A general court martial has been ordered
to meet in Washington on Monday next for
the trial of Medical Director Philip S. Wales.
He is charged by the Secretary of the Navy
with neglect of duty when Surgeon General
and Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Sur
gerry. By that neglect, the Secretary alleges,
the voucher frauds in the Bureau were made
possible.
George Hughes, aged 8years, from Cleve-
land, Ohio, while tramping through the In
dian Territory, stopped last Friday night at
Camp Creek, nine miles west of Fort Smith.
He was given room with man named Pugh.
During the night Hughes got up, knocked his
bedfellow in the head with billet of wood,
robbed him of $85, and returned to Fort
Smith. Pugh died of his wounds on Sunday
and the murderer was captured Monday,
The State Department has sent to the
Postmaster General proposition from the
British Government looking to the negotia-
ton of treaty by the Governments of the
United States and Great Britain providing
for the establishment of a parcels post system.
At present no articles of merchantable value
can be exchanged between this country and
England through the mails, and this restric-
ton causes serious Inconvenience to the pubs
lie.
All uuSuCCCbSluA tbbOhPb Hnho W AOD
the State Treasury at Lincoln, Nebraska, on
Saturday afternoon. One of the robbers,
James Griffin, was killed, and another, Alvin
Mcguire, was captured. The third, who is
supposed to have been in collision with de-
tectives, escaped. Three hundred dollars,
taken by the ruffians, were recovered. The
robbers entered the State Treasurer's Office,
and, presenting pistols at the head of the
deputy, commanded him ''to hand out the
money" He gave them package contain
ing the three hundred dollars, and they were
caught by the detectives as they passed out
Near Buttermilk Falls, about fifteen miles
from Scranton, Pa, on last Friday night,
murderous assault was committed by tramp
upon an old farmer named Taylor Smith and
his wife. The tramp, who had been lettering
about the place for several days, asked Farm
er Smith for some money, and that upon the
latter refusing he attacked him with heavy
poker, and after beating him savagely, thrust
out both his eyes. The tramp then attacked
Mrs. Smith, dragged her out into the snow
and beat her sayagely Her cries attracted
some Of the neighbors, who came to her res
cue just as the tramp was running away and
captured him. 1t was feared that the old
couple could not recover.