The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-12-19
News of the Week.

of this country $6,000,000 year.
Additional murders by Indians arc report
ed in the neighborhood of Silver City, New
Mexico.
Fourteen men were injured, one fatally, by
n falling cage in the Sangamon Coal Shaft at
Springfield, Illinois, on Monday.
Nine to fourteen inches of snow fell on Sat
urday and Sunday in Central and Northern
Illinois and Southern Wisconsin and Michi-
gan.
Two deaths from trichinosis have occurred
in the Hansmeyer family at Tarentum, Penna.,
and six other patients are reported sinking
rapidly.
The Arlington Cotton Mill, in Wilmington,
Delaware, were destroyed by fire on Tuesday
morning. The loss is estimated at more than
$4,000.
More than one hundred dogs have been
killed in Newark, New Jersey, in consequence
Of the hydrophobia scare, and the slaughter
is still going on.
At Cambridge, Ohio, on Tuesday, Miss
Lucy Veith was killed by the accidental dis
charge of a shotgun in the hands OF Frank
Albright, neighbor sixteen year-old son.
Artificial eggs, with real albuminous whites,
and yolks made of ground carrot and saffron,
are said to be manutacturable at a half cent
apiece by an alleged inventor IN New DIRK.
A tenement house at Plymouth, England,
caught fire and was burned on Sunday, togeth-
err with twelve Of the inmates, while many
others were severely injured by jumping from
windows.
Hon John Bigelow has been appointed assls-
tant treasurer, and Gen Franz Slgel pension
agent at New York city. Ernest 7. BALDWIN
has been made deputy first auditor of the
treasury.
A telegram from the Indian Territory to
the New Orleans Times Democrat reports
that trouble is imminent with the Cheyennes
and Araphoes, owing to the loss Of the money
derived from the cattle leases.
A thief snatched a pocket book from the
hand of Mrs. Peters, in Jersey City, on
Sunday. She promptly snatchcd HIM and
held him despite his struggle until police
officer was met and then handed the cuIprlt
over.
The Hendricks Monument Association
was organized in Indianapolis on Saturday,
and cash subscriptions to the amount OF $1,000
were made. A committee of over 5000 cltl-
zens, representing every county and town IN
Indiana, was appointed to begin canvass at
once.
Malignant scarlet fever has broken out
among the pupils of the public school at
Marion, a western suburb OF Jersey City, New
Jersey. Five children of Joseph Hanley died
of the disease during last week. The outbreak
is attributed to the filthy condition OF the
school.
The epizooty has appeared among the
horses in Chicago. Fifty horses of one street
railway are reported sick, and six have died.
\ number of transfers have also suffered
through sickness among their horses. The
animals have been improving since the
weather became cold.
The funeral of William II. Vanderbilt took
place on Friday of last week, in New York.
Services were held in st. Bartholomew s Pro
testant Episcopal Church, and the interment
took place in the Moravian Cemetery at New
Dorp, Staten Island. Everything was simple
and unostentatlOus.
The dry goods store of d. W. Lewis at st.
Clair, Penn, was blown up with dynamite at
three O clock on Saturday morning. The out
rage is ascribed to liquor agitation, Lewis be-
ing prominent member of the Law and Or
der Society of ST. Clair.
The pleuro- pneumonia has developed
among a number of cattle near West Willow,
in Lancaster county, Peuna., and several an
imals have died Of the disease. State Neteri-
marian Bridge, who visited the herd on Mon
dav. ordered four to be killed, and the rest
quarantined.
The sheriff of Monroe, Ga, last week at
tached the animals in q circus for debt OF
$4,000. An elephant, monkeys, a sea lion,
&C., were quietly turned over to him, and he
has since been in a quandary. He cannot
handle or do anything with the animals and
the circus men simply stand off and enjoy his
discontinue.
At Haddocks, Georgia, last Saturday night
John Thomas, aged II years, heard Il noise
outside the house. and supposing it made
by COWS he fired twice in the direction Of the
sound. On Sunday morning the dead body
of the boys father was found in the place
with the top Of the head shot off. The other
shot had killed a mule.
A separation trial was progressing smooth
" in a Brooklyn Court on Friday, when sud
denly the plaintiff the Wife, who was under
examination as a witness, jumped out of the
chair on which she had been sitting, threw
her arms around her husbands neck and
kissed him. The lawyers gathered up their
papers, and the reunited family paid the fees
and left for home.
The fourth annual session of the National
Guard Association was held on Tuesday in
Washington. 4 committee, appointed to
draft bill for presentation to Congress for
the benefit of the State Militia, submitted u
measure proposing an appropriation OF al,-
0O0,O annually for the purpose of providing
ordnance stores, NC, for issue to the militia.
Boswell Hotaling, who resides near Mar
garetvile, Delaware county, New DIRK, dis
appeared about three weeks ago. His family
have been absent on Il visit since about that
time \ search was made, and on Sunday
his dead body was found wrapped in quilts in
Il bed in his house. Decomposition had
made great progress, and it is supposed that
he died two weeks ago.
While a mixed train on the Georgia Pacific
Railroad was stopping to take wa,er near
Austcll fifteen miles from Atlanta, on Mon
day night it was struck by fast passenger
train. which crashed neraly half way through
the sleeping car and engine. Ten persons
were killed and nine others injured. One of
the injured died Tuesday afternoon and two
others were sinking rapidly.
All skating Kinks in Madison, Wis, are to
close indefinitely, under an ordinance of
Councils passed under popular pressure
that resulted from Il succession of scandals
and domestic troubles traceabe directly to
the Kinks. Doubling and quadrupling license
fees did not accomplish the purpose, and the
crusade against the Kinks became so great
that their determination was determined
upon.
A man named Drum was sent to the Iowa
penitentiary SIX years ago and has since been
prisoner there, under conviction of having
robbed IL lightning rod agent in the woods Of
Bedford, in the same State. Recently
I one Lpthurs, who was shot and mortally
wounded in Colorado, confessed that he had
arranged the robbery, and, by collision with
the agent, tied the latter to tree after getting
$500 Of his firm money from him.
/ In the U. S. District Court, at Chicago on
Monday, Benjamin T. 0. Hubbard, ex Cash
Ter of the First National Bank of Monmouth,
/ Illinois, who is charged with embezzling
! $780, of the banks funds, testified in his
own behalf. He said he had not taken any
of the banks funds, but, on the contrary,
THE president and others of the directors had
all overdrawn their accounts, and that they
were at all times privy to the condition of at-
| fairs.
b. Gratz Brown died at St. Louis, Missouri,
rather suddenly, on Sunday, aged SO years.
He filled important positions in his life time,
and played an important part in the politics
of the country. He was once United S, ates
Senator from Missouri, and atterward led an
independent movement in the Republican
party in his state in 1870, being elected gov