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

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A 1atboat loaded with potatoes was capsiz-
ed by the waves at Norris Landing, near Me-
tropolis, Illinois, on Friday last, and six men
were drowned
During the present year 60 vessels were
lost on the lakes, of which % were steam and
SO sailing vessels. The pecuniary loss was
81 ,O16, 200. Seventy-four lives were lost.
! 1t is announced that the Roanoke Machine
| Works, at Roanoke, Va, have received a
large order for engines, which necessitates the
employment of about 1000 workmen on the
1st of January.
Francisco from Hong Kong, brought Captain
Passmore and eleven of the crew of the Brit
ish ship Albulo, wrecked in a typhoon on
! October 25th. Ten of the Albulo's crew were
lost.
1t is now believed that all the strikers in
the Monongahea Valley will be at work be-
| fore the close of this week. Nearly every
mine in the Fourth Pool is in operation, and
in the three other pools large number of
men resumed work Tuesday.
| The first Hungarian church erected in this
country was dedicated at Hazelton, Penna.,
Sunday, by Bishop o Hara, of Scranton, as
sisted by the Pastor, Rev. Ignatius Jaskovitz
and number of other clergymen. A very
large congregation was present. The building
| cost S12, 900.
Harry Harrington, of Norristown, Pa, aged
| A years. became suddenly insane Thursday,
and appeared on the street perfectly nude and
proclaimed himself "God of the world. "
| Armed with club, he went about knocking
on the doors of dwellings and remaining at
the door until the knocks were answered. He
was finally secured.
In Louisville, last Sunday night, Edward
! Harding Second Lieutenant of Police, was
shot dead by William Courtney, colored
rough. Courtney was himself shot dead mo-
ment later by Policeman Ferguson. Court
ney and another man named Polk were fight
ling in a saloon, and Harding was trying to
arrest them.
Dr. Lyons, who lived on farm in Camden
county, Missouri, for several years charitably
cared far an imbecile, named Williams, who
had been considered harmless. On Saturday
the idiot suddenly caught up an axe and kill
ed Dr. Lyons by striking him on the head.
He then attacked and killed the doctor four
teen year-old daughter. A young son of the
doctor coming up at this juncture shot Will
hams dead.
Seventeen prisoners, including some of the
most notorious criminals in the State, escaped
on Friday morning of last week from the
county jail at Beaver, Penna. They cut the
corridor and window bars and let themselves
over the walls by means OF blankets taken
from their cells. Outside they quietly scatt-
cred, and at last accounts none had been cap
tured This is the second Jail delivery at Beav-
er within a month.
A telegram from Pittsburg says that within
the last six months over 200 foreign glass
blowers who came to this country to secure
employment in American factories have been
refused recognition by President Cline, of the
Universal Federation of Window Glass Work
erS, and compelled to return to their native
country. This is one of the results of last
years international convention held in Pitts
burg at which a resolution providing against
foreigners crowding out home working men
was adopted.
1t is reported from Mansfield, Ohio, that
Joseph Hosdowitch, defaulting teller of the
Farmers National Bank, who returned from
Canada, had agreed to show the bank officials
where large quantities of the banks securi-
ties were hidden. He took them on Sunday
night to a barn, beneath the foundation of
which were found two tin boxes contain
ing upwards of 100000 worth of papers and
bonds. He then directed them to vault
behind the bank, and from that they fshed
out papers amounting in value to $4,000
Williams Stevens, arrested for the murder
of his betrothed, Bertha Duckwitz in Detroit
Michigan, has made confession, saying that
the deed was unntentional. He had the
razor and it was taken by Bertha. She play
fully drew it before her throat asking, "How
would you like to do this?" He took the
razor and made a motion with it before her
throat without any idea that it would touch
her, and was Mortified to see her fall dead.
They never quarreled. The engagement ring
had been taken as measure for wedding
ring.
A telegram from Pittsburg tells the follow
ing story: CAT Baskerville, a hamlet in a
remote corner of Venango county, Professor
W. F. Yates, of the Barkerville Academy,
and a minister of the Church of God, in |
Cured the enmity of ex-Elder C. w. Kountz |
who had been expelled from the church. !
Kountz has gathered around him a religious
sect who look upon him as Il prophet. A |
plot was arranged to break into Yates house
and carry him to their meeting, and compel
him to listen to their doctrines, but the plot |
failed because of the absence of Professor
Yates. The following evening the mob met |
him on the street and stoned him until he |
dropped insensibe He is believed to be IA
tally injured. If Yates dies his friends threat
en- to lynch his assailants.
Another disaster happened on Monday in
the new Croton aqueduct The scene was
No. 3 shaft, at Merritt's Corners, Westches-
ter county, New York. While men were de- |
scendng the shaft in bucket, a cross beam
used to steady the bucket caught in the |
shaft. 1t remained fast until the bucket had |
almost reached the bottom, when it broke |
loose and fell from height of one hundred |
feet upon the heads of the men. Four men
were killed, and another so badly injured
that his recovery is doubtful. This makes /,
eight men killed in the aqueduct within two /
weeks. Two more men were killed in the |
new Croton Aqueduct on Tuesday, one at
Merritt Corners the other a short distance |
from Croton Lake. The New York Telegram
says that since the aqueduct was begun thirty |
four men have been killed and twenty seven
injured in the work.
Owing to inadequate pipage' the supply
of natural gas at PittSburg and Allegheny !
City gave out Monday. Hundreds of fam.
lilies had to resort to laundry stoves for cook
ing purposes, several factories suspended |
work clerks wore their overcoats and the |
scholars in the public schools were dismissed |
A similar annoyance was experienced from |
one to ten o'clock p. NJ. on Sunday in the |
towns of Beaver Falls and New Brighton.
These towns were cut off from their supply of
natural gas in order that connections might
be made with the Rochester main. As the |
cold was intense, many families went to bed
W hcep vi NlSIICu Tic HOUSES Vi the |
neghbors who still use the old fashioned fuel
coal. No suppers could be cooked, and the
restaurants using coal did very large bust
ness. The hotel guests abandoned the hotels
and no evening services were held in the
churches. Factories which run all night had
to shut down, and it is thought that consid-
cradle loss will be incurred by the glass houses
and pottery from the cooling of the pots and
kilns. When the gas was turned on, at 10
O clock many persons got out of their beds
to cook supper.
The War Department recently received
such reports from Utah of the feeling among
the Mormons, growing out of the enforce
ment of the laws against polygamy, that it
was determined to send troops to Salt LAX e
as a precautionary measure. The recent
shooting of Mormon by U. S. Marshal in
tensified the excitement, and apprehension
was felt at Salt Lake that there would be an
uprising. A battery of artillery was recently
ordered from Omaho to Fort Douglass, which
is situated few miles from Salt Lake City.
This movement, however, was not particular
ly on account of any fear of a Mormon re-
belliOn, but had been in contamination Co.