The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-01-17
News of the Week.


day, at the alleged age of 10S years.
Smallpox has appeared in Pulaski, Illinois,
and the local authorities being unable to
check the spread of the disease, action has
been taken by the State Board of Health.
Capt. Isaiah Rynders, for nearly so years
prominent in New Y ork politics, and formerly
known as the s'War Horse of the Democracy, y
died suddenly Tuesday night, aged so years.
A bullion train, loaded with 100000 in
silver bars, was attacked by highwaymen near
Pinos Altos, Mexico, few days ago. The
robbers were repulsed and several of them
killed.
Three of the largest colleries of the Lehigh
Valley Coal Company at Pittston, Pa, shut
down on Monday. Six hundred men and
two hundred boys are thrown out of employ
ment.
General B. F. Butler has brought suit for
libel against the Boston Herald for an article
published in November, 1888, rejecting upon
his conduct during the war. He CLAIMS $685.
900 damages.
One of the largest whales ever captured on
the Long Island coast was harpooned We'd
nesdayby the life-saving crew of Bridgehamp-
ton, L. |. The whale will yield from IS to
100 barrels of oil.
At the Inauguration of President Cleveland
the National Guard of Pennsylvania will pa
rade in full uniform-great coats, blanket
bags, haversacks and canteens, and will carry
three days cooked rations.
1t is reported from Sand Creek, Wyoming
Territory, that on Saturday night a gang of
cowboys visited the store and ranch of James
/ Davis and attempted to run the place. Davis
fired at them, killing three.
There have been great floods in the Red
River and its tributaries in Louisiana. The
Calcasieu river has been three feet higher
than ever before known. 1t is said that at
least 5000 head of cattle have persisted.
Four large tobacco factories in Lynchburg,
Va, commenced work on Wednesday, and a
number of others are preparing to start up.
These factories employ over 1000 eolored
laborers, most of whom have been unemployed
for several months.
The steam tug Mike Dougherty was demol
shed by the bursting of her boiler near Eliza
beth, Penna., Monday morning. Two men
were killed-William Holler and William
Matthews, both of Allegheny-and four others
were injured. The boat was valued at $751;
900.
A charivari party was fired into Tuesday
night by some one in the house of Joseph A.
Dibble, a farmer living at Oceola, Mich. Ed.
Mann was killed and three others injured.
Bibble is nearly sixty years old, and was re-
Gently married, nine weeks after the death of
his first wife.
Fire destroyed three buildings at Spring
Grove, York county, Pa, on Wednesday
night. 1t originated in Gontner's drug store.
An appeal for assistance was sent to York,
but the fire was under control before the train
with engines left the depot. The origin of
the fire is unknown The loss is S., 1000.
A telegram from Rochester, New York,
says that q large patent medicine house OF
that city has Just made a contract with some
glass works in Philadelphia for 100000
pounds of glass bottles, or I 1000 bottles,
over 500 car loads-the biggest contract ever
made The bottles would stretch over 1900
miles in line.
The Democrat, of Davenport, Iowa, pub
fishes reports from the Mayor of eighteen
cities in that State in regard to the working
of the Prohibitory law. Fifteen pronounced
the law "a failure, and the remaining three
consider it doubtful In the cities reported
the total number of saloons had increased 80
in six months, and there was an increase of
drunkenness.
At the Solway Process Soda Ash Works,
near Syracuse, New York, large distilling
vessel, weighing four tons, exploded early on
five feet into the air. 1t fell back into the
main building, carrying down the roof and
damaging the machinery, causing loss esti-
mated at 100000. Seven workmen were
scalded and injured by flying missiles, one of
them dangerously.
The Governor of Delaware on Tuesday
issued proclamation stating that contagious
pleuro- pneumonia exists among the cattle in
that State, and ordering that all diseased ami
mails be quarantined. The proclamation fur
Their directs sheriffs and deputy sherifs to see
| that all the provisions of the Act of 1881 are
fully obeyed, and warns all persons that DISC
| bedience of the orders of these officers is pun
ishable by fine and Imprisonment.
About 200 of the employees of the Oliver
| Chilled Plough Works. at South Bend Indi-
ana, struck on Monday for higher wages
On Tuesday morning the strikers marched to
the works in body and compelled all the
rest of the employees to quit. riot ensued,
, in which several men were badly wounded
! The militia were called out and fifteen of the
strikers were arrested and lodged in Jail under
guard Most of the strikers are Poles.
Judge Mcguire, in the Superior Court at
| San Francisco, on last Friday decided the
case of ten-year old Chinese girl against the
principal of public school in that city. He
! held that, under the Fourteenth Amendment
| of the Federal Constitution, and also the State
| law, which provides that all children shall
have equal faculties in the common schools,
children born in this country of Chinese par
ents are entitled to admission to the public
| schools.
George NJ. Gait, aged II years, a pupil of
the military school at Chester, Penn, who
was home for the holidays, committed suicide
at Sterling, Illinois, a few days ago, by taking
rat poison, because he had been reprimanded
by his parents. He swallowed the poison at
a livery stable where a friend of his named
Jacob Rheinhardt, aged q, was employed.
Rheinhardt was so affected by the death of
Gait that he, too, committed suicide by taking
some of the poison which the other had left.
At Plymouth, Penna., on Sunday, there was
an exciting contest between the authorities
and the Salvation Army. The Council had
forbidden the playing of music in the streets
on Sunday, and in defiance of this Captain
Sarth, a woman, appeared with tambourine-
/ The Chief of Police, with several officers, ar
rested her, and a riot ensued, the populace
siding with the Salvation Army. The officers
finally got their prisoner to the lookup, but
Burgess Denniss, fearing trouble, released
her. The Council held meeting and decided
to enforce order in the future.
Prof Benjamin Silliman, of Yale College,
died Wednesday night from heart disease,
which induced dropsy and uraemic poisoning
He had been i'll since the 9th of last October.
! he Hdu UCCuplcu plOIlihCue paw "iiiNti@
the faculty of Yale since he assumed the
chair vacated by his distinguished father in
1854 He was one of the best known of
American physicists. Not alone from his col
lege work, but as associate editor of the Amer
lean Journal of Science, he was ranked high
among scientific men in this country. He
was author of several ext,books on physics
and chemistry, and popular lecturer
The Somerset Chemical Works, two miles
east of Somerset, Pa, where nitro-glycerine
and all grades of high explosives are manu-
factured was the scene of terrible explosion
Wednesday afternoon. Five men were at
work in the packing house when the dyna-
mite was ignited from redhot poker, with
which one of the men was boring hole in
the door, In a second the building was in
flames, and the men, with their clothing all
on fire, started to run, and were but a short
distance from the building when five hundred
pounds of dynamite lying outside of the build
! ing exploded. Two of the men were found
about sixty rods away burned to crisp. The
other men were not seriously injured. The
shock was so great that people of Somerset
ran into the street thinking their houses were
falling down.
Captain Thomas Phelan, Superintendent of
the Workhouse in Kansas City, Missouri, was
the victim of a murderous assault in the Office
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