The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-01-10
News of the Week.

Fourteen cases of typhus fever were discov-
cred on Monday in an oyercrowded tenement
house IN West Thirty second street, New I ork.
Rev. Father Fitzpatrick, the priest who at
tended Mrs. Mcnamara, one of the typhus
fever victims in New Y ork, was also stricken
down with the disease and died on Monday.
Two colored roughs, one of whom was ac-
cused of robbery and murderous assault
upon q woman, were shot dead by band of
citizens near Beauregard, Mississippi, on Sun
day night.
1t is asserted that there are 1000 armed So
cialists in Chicago There are said to be
three organizations: The "Lehr and Wehr
Verein," 1.-THE Bohemian Sharpshooters, y
and the Jaeger Verein."
Col. w. Fl. Hogeman, of Charleston, w.
Va, chief counsel in that State of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Railroad, died Tuesday night
He was power in politics and legislation,
| though only So years old, and less than feet
| tall.
Diphtheria in very malignant form pre-
walls to an alarming extent in Bedford co.,
Va, death in many instances following the
attack in 10 hours. The mortality among
children is great, as many as five dying in a
single family.
On Monday last great floods were reported
in the Wabash and White rivers, Indiana, and
ice gorge and floods in the Grand river, Mich
igan. The rivers were still rising, and it was
feared some destruction to property would
result.
In reply to inquiries the census bureau
states that in 1850 there were 16 church or
CARNATIONS and 10, $50 sitting in the Mormon
Church, and in 1880, there were 267 organiza
tons and 1862 sittings, with a membership
of 70, 1886.
Cephas NJ. Woodruff was killed in the Par
ker's Creek disaster on the New Jersey Cen
trail Railroad two years ago. On trial his
administrator got verdict of 5000 dam
ages. The New jersey Court of Appeals on
Monday affirmed that verdict.
The New York Tribune publishes some in
teresting figures illustrating the remarkable
growth of Minneapolis, MINI. Thirty-five
years ago the city was not; today it has a pop
ulation of 1850 souls. Forty years ago its
site could have been bought for $50; now
land is worth in certain streets 81, 500 front
foot.
The divorce courts of Philadelphia were
kept busy during 1884. Nearly 40G applica-
tons were filed by unhappy husbands and
wives, praying to be relieved from their mar
riage VOWS. The greater portion of these are
still in course of consideration, and of the 241
DEGREES issued during the yeas very many had
been pending for two and three years.
George Scott, arrested at Fort Wayne, In
diana, on Saturday, for stealing wheat, con-
fessed on Monday to the sheriff that he with
| others conspired to wreck the fast East bound
train on the Wabash road, at Prairie Switch,
near there, on Friday. They intended to rob
the wounded passengers. The train was saved
by automatic brakes.
1t is reported that Methodist Episcopal
University is to be established in Western
Missouri or Eastern Kansas, Topeka being
the locality most favored at present. The
! local church offers site, and rich Kansan,
it is said, is willing to give 100000 to the
University if it shall be named after him.
The whole matter will come before the Church
Conference in March next.
The cold weather has caused great suffering
among the colored people in Kansas who re-
Gently emigrated there from the South. In
Topeka, out of 700 persons receiving aid, at
least 600 are colored. 1t is believed that if
the cold continues much longer, about 5000
persons, white and colored, will have to ask
public aid in Shawnee county alone.
The imposing ceremonies connected with
the investing of the Most Reverend Archbishop
of Philadelphia, P. j. Ryan, D. D. LII. D.,
with the Pallium took place last Sunday, in
the Cathedral Philadelphia. Solemn Ponti
| fcal Mass was celebrated by Bishop o. Hara,
| of Scranton, and the sermon was delivered by
Archbishop Corrigan, of New York. Arch
bishop Gibbons, of Baltimore, performed the
/ investture.
The gift of Mr.. John r. Mclean, of the
! Cincinnati Enquirer, to his bride ON the eve
! of his departure from Cincinnati for the East
was necklace of diamonds that cost $50, 900.
| The diamonds are forty-one in number. The
centre stone weighs five carats and cost So
4 000 The twenty gems on either side grad
ually decrease in size to the clasp, which is
composed of six small diamonds of rare
brlliancy.
The city council of Keokuk, Iowa, on Mon
day night adopted resolution declaring the
prohibitory liquor law failure. The resolu-
! ton says that ''moral suasion, with a rigid
license law, is the only remedy The city
clerk was instructed to forward the resolution
to Governor Sherman, asking that special
session of the Legislature be called and repeal
the prohibtory law
/ At Reading, Penna., on Tuesday, Adam
/ Miller, Jacob and Edward Finkbone, Elias
Heck and Nathaniel Heck were lodged in Jail
4 ON the charge of being members of regu-
4 larly organized gang of thieves, who have
robbed railroad stations, stores, shops, DC,
of various articles of value The gang made
desperate resistance, drew daggers and re-
volvers and threatened to kill their oaptors,
The British bark Isabel, which has arrived
at St. Johns, New Foundland, from Cadiz,
/ reports that on December 18th, in latitude
! SO. 81 north, longitude 1856 west, she exper-
! fenced terrible earthquake shocks, lasting hit
teen minutes. The thunderous submarine
roaring was appalling. The ship was shaken
! in every fibre, and the crew, panic stricken,
broke through all discipline and cut the boats
loose. The cessation of the shocks restored
tranquility on board
At the regular Sunday meeting of the
"Working Peoples International Associa-
tion,'' in Chicago, on Sunday, speeches of
violent Socialistic and anarchist tenor were
made by C. S. Griffin, A. r. Parsons and
others. August Spires advocated murder,
because by it murder could be prevented. y
A Miss Lee declared herself ready to Shout
der musket to kill mean, dirty awful
capitalist" and Mrs. Parsons expressed
wish ''that the ministers would in the fu
ture tell their starving Pensioners to trust
in dynamite instead of to trust in God ~
Mrs. Hopkins, of PittsGeld, Massachusetts,
widow of the late California railroad million
aire, Mark Hopkins, has made changes in
her plans for a residence She is to build in
Great Darlington, and the cost of the house
and grounds will be 100000. She intends
/ to have the most expensive house in the
United States. 1t will be built of bluestone
from quarry which she owns, and work will
begin as soon as spring opens. The work at
the quarry will be carried on day and night.
The electric light will be used for the night
operations One thousand men will be en-
ployed on the job for three years,
The temperature in the Northwest on Thurs
day night and Friday morning of last week,
was the lowest of the season. At st, Paul
the thermometer in the Signal Office register.
ed SO below zero, while others showed a tenn
perature of SO below, and the common class
of thermometers retired entirely from bust
ness. Reports received from the following
points all indicate the following temperature
beowze Saltwater, so; coolest ever known;
Lacrosse, 21 Bismarck 45; Minnedosa, SO,
wind blowing 40 miles an hour; Winnipeg, 50,
and regular blizzard; prevailing; ST. Vincent,
40; Moorhead, AZ; Helena, Is; Huron, A;
Duluth, 40 At midnight on Friday night the
temperature in st. Paul had risen fraction
above zero, The temperature at Dubuque,
Iowa, ranged on Friday from Is to 20 degrees
! below zero.
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