The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-05-02
News of the Week

Elghteen buildings were burned IN the
village OF Randolph, New York, on Saturday
night.
| The Marine Hospital Bureau is advised that
cholera prevails in Calcutta, India, to an
alarming extent.
Gold quartz in paying quantities is reported
to have been taken from farm at Friztown,
Berks county, Penna.
Since January LIST 100 cases of measles and
| 20 deaths from the disease have been reported
in Brooklyn, New York.
A fight is reported to have occurred near
Trenton, Nebraska, between cowboys and
settlers, which resulted in the dea1h of four
of the latter.
An election held in Princeton, New Jersey
on Monday, to get the sense of the voters on
the license question, resulted in the triumph
OF the license party.
by the collapse Of building in Pittsburg
during a fire Monday night two men were
killed, four seriously injured and number
of others slightly hurt
A fire in Grundy, the county seat of Bu-
chanan county, Virginia, has destroyed the
court house, with its records, and the greater
portion of the village.
1t is reported from Sonora that in a recent
battle between the Zaqui Indians and the
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of.ninety killed and wounded.
Isaac w. England, publisher of the New
York San, died on Saturday at his home,
near Ridgewood, New Jersey, of dropsy of
the heart. He was So years of age.
The grand jury of Brunswick county, Va,
has indicted forty one citizens for gambling.
Their trial will take place at the May term of
court. Some of those indicted are leading
residents.
The Bay of Toronto was free from ice on
| Saturday. 1t was closed this year for the
longest period recorded since 1928, except
| 1886, when the ice broke up one day later
than this year.
! The Goth anniversary of the founding of
| American Odd Fellowship was celebrated in
various parts of the country last Sunday. At
| Elgin, Illinois, three thousand Odd Fellows
assembled to celebrate the day.
DIR. N. W. Day, dentist of Chicago, in
whose chair Mrs. Ella Shay died on Monday
afternoon, while under the influence of chic
reform, has been committed on a charge of
manslaughter in default of 5000 bail.
A fire broke out on Wednesday night of last
week at Vicksburg, Mississippi, which was
particularly destructive. Many people were
killed by falling walls, and up to Saturday
night thirty-two bodies had been recovered.
E. C. Hibbard convicted of the murder of
William Knowles, was hanged last week at
Trinidad, Colorado, in presence of large
number of people. This was the first legal
execution in that county, six previous execu-
tioons having been lynchings.
Two meetings of Germans and Poles were
held in Detroit on Sunday to organize So
cialist "groups." One such group already
exists in Detroit Incendiary handbills are
published calling for bloodshed, if necessary,
to enforce their communistic ideas.
1t was discovered on Friday morning that
two cabins, occupied by eleven miners, in
Tennessee Pass, between Leadville and Red
Cliff, Colorado, had been buried by snow
slide Nothing had been heard Of the men
for two weeks, and it is feared that all have
persisted.
Milton Weston, Chicago millionaire, con-
victed of completely in the Murraysville gas
well riots, in which man named Haymaker
was killed. was refused new trial in Pitts
burg, Pa, on Saturday and sentenced to five
years imprisonment at hard labor in the Wes
tern Penitentiary.
Samuel G. Abbott and Julius A. Penniman
have been arrested in Boston on the charge
of having attempted to set fire to the Hoffman
House in that city. At intervals since July,
1888, five attempts have been made to burn
the hotel. Abbott and Penniman were en-
ployed in the house.
There had been bad feeling between John
A. Tennis and George H. Moore, well-known
citizens of Mount Vernon, Missouri. They
met in the street on Saturday night, and
both drew revolvers and commenced firing.
tennis was shot through the head and Moore
through the heart, and both died in five min
utes.
Chas. Gibson, horse thief, and Jos. Croft,
burglar, who escaped from the county prison
at Lancaster, Pa, were captured on Monday
night on the Welsh Mountain, near Blue Rock,
and lodged in prison. They had been in
company with Abe Buzzard, and many of the
recent robberies in that section of the country
are attributed to them.
Crop reports from all parts of California
show that the grain yield in all the counties
except one will be only from one-quarter to
three-quarters of that of last year. This is
largely due to the decreased acreage. The
fruit districts report largely increased acreage
and promising crops. What is lost in grain
will be made up in fruit and wine.
1t is understood in Washington that there
is difference of opinion between Lieutenant
General Sheridan and the Secretary of War
in regard to the authority of the former, aud
that the conflict is to be settled by an order
authority of the Lieutenant General OF the
Army 1t is thought the order will be issued
this week.
A freshet in the st. Johns river, New
Brunswick, the first of the week is reported
to have been more disastrous than any that
has taken place within the memory of the
oldest inhabitants. A number of bridges
were washed away, and washouts are reported
all along the railroad from Woodstock to
Pressure Isles. Four inches of snow fell dur
ing Saturday night, which added greatly to
the volume of the freshet.
A disease resembling typhoid fever is cpl
demic in Plymouth, near Wilkesbarre, Penn.
Upwards of GOO cases are reported, with 13
deaths on Friday and Is on Saturday. The
disease is attributed to the fact that there are
no cutters or sewers to carry away the refuse
of the town. 1t is also ascribed to the use by
a large portion of the inhabitants of polluted
well water. Six deaths from the disease took
place on Sunday, and there were nine tuner
ais.
General Henry J. Hunt, retired, was ON
Saturday appointed Governor of the Sol
diers' Home at Washington, in place of
Colonel Samuel D. Sturgis, of the Seventh
Cavalry; and Captain Robert Cattin, retired,
was appointed Deputy Governor in place of
Captain W. Lyman, of the Fifth Infantry.
Army officials are pleased with this action of
the President, as it was originally intended
that the Homie should be a retreat for aged
or disabled soldiers commanded by retired
officers.
In Chicago on Monday Mayor Harrison en-
tered three heavy suits for damages, one for
$500, 900 against the Inter Ocean Publishing
Company, one for $500, 900 against Edwin Lee
Brown, and one for $500, 900 against the Inter
Ocean and Edwin Lee Brown Jointly. Coun-
sci for Mayor Harrison said that the suit
against the Inter Ocean was based on fourteen
libelous charges, in which Mayor Harrison
private character was attacked during and
prior to the late campaign. The other suits
were based upon speech by Mr.. Brown,
published in the lnter-O Ocean, in which the
speaker said that Mayor Harrison was con-
sort of thieves and ballotbox suffers, or
words to that effect.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Peak the senior
members of the famous Peak family of Swiss
bell ringers left Syracuse, N. Y, Sunday
night for Wiliamsburgh, l.. l., having been
offered a home by relative there They
babe farewell to the poorhouse in Cortland
county previously. They had been inmates
of the institution since Jan. 1. When the
fact that the aged musicians had been forced
into dependence became generally known,
various schemes of relief were suggested by
persons whose sympathies were aroused.
The offer of home from their WILLIAMSBURG