The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-04-04
News of the Week.

Simon Strong, convicted of the murder of
his wife, hanged himself in the Jail at Reno,
Nevada, on Wednesday morning.
Hon. Samuel Randall is quite i'll in Wash
ington. He is suffering from nervous exhaus
ton and boils are breaking out all over him.
An explosion, caused by powder, occurred
on last Friday evening in a mine at McAllis-
ter, in the Indian Territory, killed twelve
miners who had not yet left the mine.
Prince Bismarck's SEVENTEEN birthday was
celebrated with enthusiasm throughout the
German empire on Wednesday, and many
presents were bestowed upon the chancellor.
John Carver and Walter Johnson quarrelled
in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Sunday
night, and johnson was killed by having his
neck broken by stone thrown by his antago-
mist.
1t is reported from Waynesburg, Pa, that
it is estimated that about 10000 sheep have
died in Greene county during the last three
months from scarcity of food and the severity
of the weather.
Mrs. Jennie Sanford was fatally burned in
Chicago on last Friday evening by "a hanging
coal oil lamp falling upon her as she sat read
ing a newspaper. She died of her injuries
on Saturday evening.
Two freight trains on the Indiana, Bloom
ington and Western railroad collided at Hol-
landsburg, Ohio, on last Friday night, de-
stroying $75, 900 worth of property and fatally
injuring two train hands.
George Rouse, colored ex-convict, who
had criminally assaulted and murdered the
wife of farmer in Dooly county, Georgia,
was captured on Sunday morning by a mob
and mutilated and lynched.
The Wheeling Intelligencer publishes let
tiers from various counties of West Virginia
showing that the accounts of widespread des-
titution in numerous sections of that State
have been greatly exaggerated.
Nothing has been heard of the British ship
Allahabad, which sailed from Hong Kong for
Portland, Oregon, on November 18th, and
she is given up for lost She had a full cargo
and number of Chinese passengers.
H. H. Kempton, formerly Wall street
broker in New York, and at one time reputed
to be worth 1000, 900 was on Tuesday com
mitted for an examination as to his sanity.
He had beggared himself by intemperence.
A mob of 1000 women, wives of the Turk
ish soldiers, to whom the government is IN
arrears for pay, drove the finance minister
out of a back window of his office on Wednes-
day by the ardor of their demands for money.
Another case of Oriental leprosy has been
discovered in a large Chinese fishing camp
near Portland, Oregon. The inhabitants of
the camp will all be isolated by the authori-
ties. 1t is believed that a number of lepers
are kept concealed.
O. w. Potter, president of the North Chi
cago Rolling Mill Company, announces that
the mill at South Chicago will be put in full
blast next Monday. Thirteen hundred men
will begin work, making the total force l,oOt
men, and the payroll 100000 month.
A man named Portras is reported to have
murdered his wife near Riwonski, Quebec, by
literally tearing her body to pieces with his
teeth and nails. He has escaped to the
woods He is a brother of Il man named
Portras who a few years ago cutup two of his
children to bait fox traps.
Three hundred striking quarrymen paraded
the streets of Joliet, Illinois, on Wednesday
armed with clubs, and compelled the work
men in all the quarries adjacent to-tha city tC
quit work. The strikers demand an advance
in their wages. to $40 per day. They have
been receiving from $1.l0 to S1.25.
The bark Sontag, of Boston, from Chitta.
gong, November oath, with 800 bales of jute
butts. arrived at Salem, Massachusetts,, Mon
dav. On December I'd the ships carpenter
died of cholera, after five days illness; and
on December 26th seaman died of the same
disease, after fourteen hours illness.
The third week of the coal miners strike
in the Pittsburg, Pa, district closed on Satur.
day without any material change in the situa,
ton. 1t is reported that there is great suffer
ing among the strikers from hunger and
cold. Many families have had nothing to eat
but dry bread and corn meal for weeks.
The Armour Packing Company, of Chicago
a no
British War Department for the shipment
of 400, 900 pounds of canned meats to Wool
wich. The same company has orders from
the Canadian Government for %, 900 pounds
of canned meat for shipment to Winnipeg.
The suffering in the mountain districts Of
West Virginia continues, the people asking
for bread. Animals are dying of starvation,
Many persons have heretofore gained liveli
hood by running timber in the winter season,
but for several months past there has been nc
rise in the rivers or the mountain streams.
Mary Cooper, a colored girl. IL years old
Thursday confessed the murder of her cousin
Melvin Barret, aged years, whose dead body
was found on the farm Of r. P. Blensoe, near
Scottsville, Va, last February. Mary said
that Melvin ate her egg and she killed him by
striking him on the head with a shovel.
The Department of Justice is informed that
United States Marshall Hughes, of Virginia
has been arrested in Texas and taken tC
Richmond for trial. His accounts show u
deficiency of $4,000, which he will be required
to make good. The resignation is in the
Presidents hands, but has not yet been ac
cepted.
Tobias Mitchell, Il correspondent OF the St
Louis Globe Democrat, was dangerously
stabbed by Mr.. Alexander Simpson, Calendar
Clerk of the Senate of Texas, in Austin, last
Friday night. The trouble grew out of q
caricature of Simpson, and some offensive
criticism upon him published in the Globe
Democrat.
John L. Sullivan and Dominick Mccartney
who were to have pugilistic contest in Phil
adel pha Thursday night, were arrested Thurs
day and placed under S., 900 bail to answer
at the next term of court the charge of con
spiracy to engage in prizefght, and were
each required to furnish $4,000 additional to
keep the peace. The fight was declared of.
The Secretary of the Treasury has instruct
ed the Superintendent of the Mint at Carson
City, Nevada, to suspend coinage operations
at that mint until the beginning of the mex
fiscal year, July 1st, and to reduce his force
accordingly The mint will, however, re-
main open for the receipt of bullion from de-
positors.
A reduction was made on Tuesday in the
force of the bureau of Engraving and Print
ing at Washington to the extent of thirty plate
printers, thirty printers assistants and thirty
two miscellaneous hands. The reduction was
made because Congress failed to make the
necessary appropriation to increase the guam
tity of United States notes furnished the
Treasury ofthe United States for redemptions
and exchanges.
Five children of John Fink, farmer, near
Windsor Castle, in Berks county, Penna.,
Caroline, aged 81, John, aged 1G, Louisa,
aged IA, Sallie, aged IL, and Mile, aged =
have, within few days, become afflicted with
horrible malady, the symptoms being terri
BILE paroxysms, spasms and Mysteries, some
what resembling hydrophobia. The super
stitious neighbors think them bewitched, and
witch doctor" has been sent from Reading
to treat them.
Near Wimsboro, Texas, on Tuesday night
six masked men went to the house of A. III.
Cline, quiet, peaceable planter, and tool
him out of bed and severely whipped and
otherwise abused him until he was nearly
dead. Through the pleadings of his wife
Cline's life was spared, but the maskers mott
fed him that unless he left the country within
forty eight hours he would be killed. The
cause of the outrage is a mystery. Cline il
protected by officers.
At Shenandoah, Penna., on Tuesday after
noon, five thousand miners assembled at Co
lumbia Park to hear President Harris, of the
Miners and Taborers' Association portray thu