The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-04-25
News of the Week.

A volcanic eruption has occurred at Passa-
roean, on the Island of Java, and 100 persons
are believed to have been killed.
Edward Sumner, aged 20 years, promi-
nent and wealthy resident of West Dedham,
Massachusetts, hanged himself in his barn on
Saturday morning.
Diphtheria is prevalent in the Bermuda
Hundred district of Chesterfield county, Viz
eiuia In some instances two or three deaths
have occurred in single families
The trial of VIM. Dickson, foreman Of the
first Star Route jury, on the charge of cor
| ruptly endeavoring to influence jurors, was
begun on Monday in Washington.
Four men, for whose arrest for horse steal
ing warrants had been issued by the Z. $.
Commissioner, were all shot dead by cattle
men in the Indian Territory on Sunday.
A raid was made upon tramps near Leban-
on, Pa, on Saturday, and seventeen were
sentenced to work for thirty days in the aims
house stone quarry, with ball and chain.
1t is reported that natives of the Hermit
Islands in the Pacific ocean have eaten the
crews of two German merchant vessels. The
gunboat Hyaena has been sent to punish the
cannibals.
At Greenwich, Connecticut on Tuesday
afternoon, Barclay johnson, the insane son of
a prominent lawyer, while walking with his
mother and sister, shot and killed them both:
and then committed suicide.
William Haynes was killed by lightning
while sitting in his store at Alton Hill, Ten
nessee, on Saturday. The lightning entered
the house over wire connected with a rude
box telephone of his own construction.
The United States Consul at Madrid tele-
graphs that he is informed by the Director
General of Health that there is no cholera IN
Spain, and that the cases recently reported in
the Province of Valencia are not cholera.
An old woman, named Galloway, and her
two grandchildren, girls about and 10 years
of age, were found dead in their house, near
Point Pleasant, West Virginia, on last week.
They had evidently starved and frozen to
death.
Hog cholera is reported to prevail on three
farms near Pittsfeld, Massachusetts, about
80 animals having died. A veterinarian says
there are fully 300 cases on farms between
Pittsfeld and North Adams, distance of
twenty miles.
Rev. DIR. Oliver S. Taylor, whose centen-
NAL birthday was celebrated on the 18th of
December last, died in Auburn, N. Y, on
Sunday. He was at first a physician, but
afterwards became a minister in the Presby-
terrain Church.
The Secretary of the Treasury on Wednes-
day, on behalf of the President, accepted the
resignation of Hon. A. Z. Wyman as treas
urer of the United States, to take effect May
l, and appointed Mr.. C. N. Jordan, of New
York, to the vacancy thus created.
Francis Taylor, Tubal Taylor and Elijah
Sublet, who had attempted to murder j. G.
Dickerson and his wife, were taken from the
jail at Forsythe, Missouri, last Friday night,
by masked mob. 1t is considered certain
that the three men were lynched, but their
bodies have not been found.
In the suburbs of Glendale, Ohio, early
Sunday morning, d. w. Charles shot and
killed man who had ordered him to throw
up his hands. The corpse was taken charge
of by two men who were driving an express
wagon. Nothing has since been heard of the
dead man or the two strangers.
McVetey, the wife murderer, was sentenced
at Jersey City on Monday to 20 years impris-
onment at hard labor in the penitentiary. He
is so years of age. In October last he poured
coal oil on his wife and set it on fire, causing
her death in "a hours. The jury found
verdict of murder in the second degree.
During heavy rain storm on Tuesday
morning a cyclone struck Sterling, Kansas.
1t demolished portion of the Kansas Sugar
Company's works, and unroofed and par
TALLY wrecked number of houses and barns.
So far as known no one was hurt. The
rainfall was the heaviest known for eight
years.
The Rev. John H. Munsell, pastor of the
Evangelical Congregational Church, large
and influential society, at Schenectady, N.
Y, has engaged the Mozart Brass Band to
church. A liturgy will also be introduced.
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is approved by the congregation.
The 63rd birthday of Gen. Grant, which
will occur next Monday, will be celebrated
in Louisville, Kentucky, by public meeting
of representatives of all parties. Those hav-
ing the matter in charge, owing to the pecu-
liar circumstances under which the celebra
ton is to occur, Louisville being Southern
city. will ask all cities in the country to fol-
low her example.
The annual Convention of the National
Reform Association" began on Tuesday in
Pittsburg, Pa. About 100 delegates were
present. The object of the Association is
''the recognition of Divine authority as over
human authority in national affairs; opposi-
ton to the carrying of mails on Sunday,
polygamy and the easy divorces now so com
mon, and licenses for liquor traffic under any
form"
While construction train on the South
Park Railroad, in Colorado, was passing
through deep snow cut near Wheeler, on
Thursday, of last week, the fireman leaned
out of the engine window and his shoulder
came in contact with the snow-bank with such
force as to dislocate his shoulder. The snow
was dislodged and fell over on the fiat cars,
killing Charles Klouse and severely iniuring
several Others
Mr. Burchard, the Director of the Mint, in
his special annual report on the production
of gold and silver in the United States for
the calender year 1884, estimates the produc-
ton of the country to have been, gold, $780,,
800,0 silver, computed at the silver dollar
coming rate, $48, 300, 900; total, $40, 600 900.
| This shows an increase over the yield of the
previous year of about $500, 900 gold and ST.,
400, 600 silver.
John Fisher was arrested at Williamsport,
Pa, last week for swindling accident insurance
companies. Fishers plan, it is said, was to
take out three policies, for himself and two
friends, on the Accident Insurance Company
of New York, and then contrive to get slightly
injured while leaving a train. After procur-
ing certificates of injury from their physicians,
under different names, he would claim $50 per
week on each policy, and live in sumptuous
style until his recovery, when the same swindle
would be repeated
John Madden and Patrick O'Malley went
from New York to Brooklyn on Sunday, to
visit their friend William Smith They all
got drunk and went down stairs to ''cean
out the Rylander family. They broke in
the door and knocked Mr.. Rylander down.
Mrs. Rylander seized carving knife and
drove the crowd out. She followed them and
plunged the knife into Smith back, stabbed
O'Malley in the head and cut Madden in the
wrists Then she had them all arrested, and
they were taken to the hospital in the custody
of officers.
Near Oak Hill, in Little Britain township,
Pa, Saturday, Samuel Fite, a farmer, hearing
a noise in his stable, went in and found that
one of the horses had broken loose and was
kicking and biting mare. He tied the horse
and turned to quiet the mare, when she kicked
him, breaking his leg, and as he fell kicked
him again in the side. In response to his
cries Samuel Fite, Jr., ran to his assistance,
when the enraged brute kicked the young
man in the head fracturing his skull. He
remained in an unconscious condition until
Sunday, when he died. He leaves wife and
six children.
The Russian war slip Strylax, Capt n
Skagdloff, $50 men and 10 guns, followed
about an hour later by the British war ship
Garnet, Capt. Henry Hand, $50 men and y
guns, arrived in the Norfolk, Va, harbor
Monday afternoon, the former from Havana
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