The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-04-04
News of the Week.
Gen. Grants death is hourly expected.

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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 quarreled
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 hanging
coal oil lamp falling upon her as she sat read
ing newspaper. She died of her injuries
on Saturday evening.
Two freight trains on the Indiana, Bloom
ington and Western railroad eolided at Hol-
landsburg, Ohio, on last Friday night, de-
stroying SIS, 600 worth of property and fatally
injuring two train hands.
George Rouse, a colored ex-convict, who
had criminally assaulted and murdered the
wife of farmer in Dooly county, Georgia,
was captured on Sunday morning by 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 Slate
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.
II. H. Kempton, formerly Wall street
broker in New York, and at one time reputed
to be worth 81, 000, 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 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 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 300
men, and the payroll 100000 a 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 brother of a man named
Portras who few years ago cut up 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 the city to
quit work. The strikers demand an advance
in their wages to $3.50 per day. They have
been receiving from 81. 10 to S1.25.
The bark Sontag, of Boston, from Chitta-
gong, November Oath, with 500 bales of jute
butts, arrived at Salem, Massachusetts, Mon
day. 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,
has received additional cable orders from the
British War Department for the shipment
of 100000 pounds of canned meats to Wool
wich. The same company has orders from
the Canadian Government for $4,000 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 liyeli-
hood by running timber in the winter season,
but for several months past there has been no
rise in the rivers or the mountain streams.
Mary Cooper, colored girl, II years old,
Thursday confessed the murder of her cousin,
Melvin Barrett, 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 q shovel.
The Department of Justice is informed that
United States Marshall Hughes, of Virginia.
has been arrested in Texas and taken to
Richmond for trial. His accounts show a
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, 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 a
caricature Of Simpson, and some offensive |
criticism upon him published in the Globe |
Democrat
John l.. Sullivan and Dominick Mccartney, I
who were to have pugilistic contest in Phil |
adel phia Thursday night, were arrested Thurs
day and placed under So 900 bail to answer
at the next term of court the charge of con-
spiracy to engage in prize-fght, and were
each required to furnish S., 900 additional to
keep the peace. The fight was declared off
The Secretary of the Treasury has instruct
I'd the Superintendent of the Mint at Carson
City, Nevada, to suspend coinage operations
1t that mint until the beginning of the next
fiscal year, July lst and to reduce his force
accordingly. The mint will, however, re-
main open for the receipt of bullion from de-
oositors.
A reduction was made on Tuesday in the
orce of the bureau of Engraving and Print
ng at Washington to the extent of thirty plate
printers, thirty printers assistants and thirty
wo miscellaneous hands. The reduction was
made because Congress failed to make the
necessary appropriation to increase the guam
ity of United States notes furnished the
Treasury the United States for redemptions
md exchanges.
Five children of John Fink, farmer, near
Windsor Castle, in Berks county, Penna.,
Caroline, aged 81, John, aged lG, Louisa,
ged IA, Salie, aged II, and Mile, aged =
ave, within a few days, become afflicted with
horrible malady, the symptoms being terri
lie paroxysms, spasms and Mysteries some
THAT resembling hydrophoba The super
titious neighbors think them bewitched and
witch Doctor has been sent from Reading
o treat them.
Near Winnsboro, Texas, on Tuesday night,
tx masked men went to the house of A. Ii.
Zine, quiet, peaceable planter, and took
i'm out of bed and severely whipped and
therwise abused him until he was nearly
cad. Through the pleadings of his wife
|line's life was spared, but the maskers mott
ed him that unless he left the country within
orty eight hours he would be killed. The
ause of the outrage is a mystery. Cline is
by officers.
AT Shenandoah, Penna., on Tuesday after
Don, five thousand miners assembled at Co