The Democratic advocate., 1885-04-11
News of the Week.

tress Monroe, is reported to be suffering from
malaria
VIM. H. Lott died in Adams county, Pa,
on Monday last aged So years, months and
II days.
James Powell, assistant postmaster at Mar
| shall, Texas. has been arrested on the charge
of stealing letters.
By the burning of building in Chinatown,
San francisco, on last Friday night, three
Cinnamon lost their lives
Two notorious horse thieves, named Con-
slant and Mcdonald, were lynched near Ben
ton, Montana, last week.
A fire at Maryville, Tennessee, Monday
morning, destroyed seven stores and two
dwellings, causing loss of $4,000.
The sash and door factory of O. c. Strom-
berg, at Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, was burned
Monday morning Loss, S35, 900; insurance,
$4,000.
The twin brothers, Jonathan and David
Chase, of Fall River, Wis, on March oath
celebrated their ninetieth birthday, and are
still smart and hale.
The annual conference of the Mormon
Church began on Saturday in Logan, Utah.
There were present number of bishops and
elders from Idaho and Colorado.
During thunder storm at Waco, Texas, on
Saturday, lightning struck shed, under which
number of men were standing. One man
was killed, and four others were dangerously
injured.
The Connecticut House of Representatives
on Monday passed an anti-dynamite bill,
prohibiting the manufacture, sale and pos
session of dangerous explosives, except by
license.
While school house was being demolished
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walls fell, burying man and boy in the de-
bris. The boy was killed and the man severe
ly injured.
Reon Joyce, aged IS years, his three-year
old daughter and Mrs. Rice, aged 40, were
| burned to death in his dwelling, IA miles from
Asheville, North Carolina, on Saturday night.
Foul play is suspected.
Two cars filled with passengers were thrown
| from the railroad track about six miles north
of Milan Mich ION Wednesday. j. B. Con-
nors and H. T. Smith, employees, and nine
passengers were badly hurt.
The Grand Jury at Richmond, Virginia, on
Monday found an Indictment against Thomas
]. Cluverius for the murder of Fannie Lillian
Madison, whose body was found in the city
reservoir on the morning of March l3.
A skiff containing hunting party of four
young men capsized in the Columbia river,
20 miles from Portland, Oregon, on Sunday
evening. Three of the men were drowned,
but the fourth clung to the skiff until rescued.
Fire early on Wednesday morning in Gettys-
burg, Quilted the storeroom of A. d. Buehler
& Co., drugs and books. The building was
saved. The loss is estimated at from 81 900
to S8,000 The stock was insured for So, 500.
Richard Grant White. the well-known au-
thor, is dead. He was a Shakespeareau
scholar and critic of considerable reputation,
but was best known as a philologist by his
''Words and their Uses" and similar works.
John L. Sullivan and "Paddy'' Ryan on
Wednesday agreed to engage in contest with
small gloves at Battle City, Montana, on June
16, for the championship and the belt, purse
of 50, 500 and two-thirds of the excursion
moneys.
Charles Baber, prominent citizen of Potts
vile, Pa, died on Saturday morning aged
SO years. He was President of the Peoples
Street Railway and of the Safe Deposit Bank,
and Director of the Schuylkill Navigation
Company.
As precaution against the cholera health
inspectors commenced a house e-to-house in
spection in Philadelphia on Wednesday. Ev-
cry house in the city is to be inspected. New
York and other cities are preparing to resist
cholera.
Twelve persons charged with murder, "a
with larceny, 5 with highway robbery, with
burglary, 3 with assault with intent to kill,
and one with receiving stolen goods, were on
Monday arraigned before the courts in New
York City.
The New York Daily Commercial Bulletin
estimates the losses by fire in the United
States and Canada during March at So, 900 900,
which is one-third larger than the average of
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been gathered.
Reports from many points in Virginia, re-
ceived at Lynchburg, show that abandoned
wheat fields, which were about to be plowed
up for other crops have come out so finely
| since the warm weather as to change entirely
the crop prospect reported earlier in the sea-
! son.
A suit has been brought in the Supreme
Judicial Court for Suffolk County, Mass, by
the National Soldiers Home for Disabled
/ Volunteer Soldiers against Benjamin f. But
Ter to recover SIS 900 alleged to be due for
/ failure to account while acting treasurer of the
! home.
A telegram from San Francisco says that
last week Lillian Smith, a California GIRL
fourteen years old, broke 100 glass balls with
a Winchester rifle in two minutes and thirty
| FIVE seconds This beats all previous records,
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six seconds.
! Pleuro- pneumonia has again appeared
among the cattle in Missouri and some of the
other Western States, and it is announced
that the new Commissioner of Agriculture
will, as one of his first duties, give his atten
ton to that disease and to the best methods
of suppressing it.
In Chicago on Wednesday Edward Lam
! bert, % years of age, called at the house of
| his mother-in-law, Mrs. Ann A. Mulligan, to
see his wife, from whom he had been estrang-
ed He shot and killed Mrs. Mulligan, shot
| and dangerously wounded his wife, and then
fatally shot himself.
! The employees at Mccormick S reaper works
in Chicago 1000 in NUMBER struck on Tues
day and the works are idle in consequence.
! Some of the employees in one of the depart
ments had been on strike and the owners of
| the works attempted to till their places with
new men at lower wages.
| The elevated railroads of New York city
| carried during the first six months of the
| present fiscal year 1852, ,067 more passengers
F! than the same time last year, and the increase
in earnings was $141 ,268. The total number
of passengers carried from the opening to the
! lst inst. was SIG, ,078, ,804.
| One of the gangways of the Cuyler Colliery
on Raven Run. near Shenandoah Penna.,
caged in on Monday afternoon, entombing
! ten miners who were at work inside There
! is no hope of rescuing the men, as they were
/ in the lower 'lift," several hundred feet be-
low the surface, and the entire coliery has
become wreck.
During wind gust in Pttsburg on Sunday
afternoon a large sign on the roof of a book
store was blown, together with several hun
dred bricks, to the pavement below. Miss
| Bella Consley, who was passing along the
street, was struck on the head by the sign and
killed. Miss Agnes johnson was dangerous
| ly injured and an old man named Mccarthy
was slightly bruised.
In Newport, Kentucky, on Tuesday morn
ing, a man named Mcmillan boarded street
ear in which John L. Cummins, a clerk in
the First National Bank of Cincinnati, was
passenger, and, saying 81 have you now,''
fired three balls into his body, causing instant
death. Mcmillan Immediately gave himself
up. 1t is said he acted in revenge for the
betrayal of his daughter.
In Pittsburg on Tuesday Judge Ewing decid
ed that store ORDER given by any company
to an employe in payment of wages was illegal.
The miners who have been compelled to ac-
cept these purpose entering suit against their
employers for the recovery of their wages in
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