The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-10-17
News of the Week.

Strychnine is being employed by Oregon
stockmen for wagng war on coyotes and mag
pies.
A police officer of Buffalo has just fallen
heir to SIS. 900 by the decease of an uncle in
Dublin, Ireland.
Lumber made of straw, and pottery made
of iron Stag, will be among the exhibits in the
American Institute fair this year.
Surgeon General Hamilton said on Monday
that the danger of cholera invasion of this
country has passed for the present.
The boiler of cotton gin at Tuscumbia,
Alabama, exploded on Monday night, blow
ing the building to atoms and killing two
men.
Thomas Roswell. farmer of Dinwiddie
county, Virginia. was gored to death by a
vicious bull while feeding stock on Sunday
morning.
Prairie fires are raging west of Winnipeg,
Manitoba. 4 number of horses and cattle
and two unknown men were burned to death
on Monday.
A special session of the Legislature of Ore
gon will meet on the 9th pruxino. Its prin-
cipal work will be the election of IL United
States Senator.
Not only thousands, perhaps millions OF
fish were killed by the shock of the explosion
at He'll Gate, but many birds were killed by
the conclusion in the air.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe says that the
recent book published by Rose Elizabeth
Cleveland, is one of which all American
women may well be proud
A fire at Fredericton, New Brunswick, on
Tuesday, destroyed Morrison's saw mill,
twelve dwellings and 2,000,000 feet of lumber
causing loss estimated at 100000.
Sylvester johnson, distller of New Ha-
ven, Kentucky, has just given S42,0 900 to
Catholic institutions in that State. He had
previously given large sums to the same char
tiles. -t5-ft
A telegram from Dallas, Texas, says. that
on Saturday Indians drove off 125 horses be-
longing to the San Simon Cattle Company,
and killed four men and q number of cattle
in the valley.
A terrific wind storm ragged on Tuesday at
Wilkesbarre, Pa. Much damage was done to
buildings in the surrounding country, and in
the city the Welsh Baptist Church, just COM
pleted, was blown down.
The Marine Hospital Bureau has received
reports showing that the yellow fever is cpl
demic in Caracas, and has appeared in Aca-
pulco, and that the smallpox is raging in
Buenos Ayres with alarming fatality.
George Romney and William Rossiter,
convicted of unlawful cohabtation at Salt
Lake City, were sentenced on Saturday to
six months Imprisonment and payment of
$500 fine each. They refused to promise ODE
dience to the law in future.
The Prohibitionists Conferrees of Adams
and Cumberland counties, Pennsylvania, met
on Monday in Gettysburg, and nominated
George Bowman, of Carlisle, for Congress
man from the Nineteenth District. York
county was not represented.
Archbishop Ryan last Sunday confirmed
over 100 persons in the Catholic Church at
Newton, Bucks county, Penna. About fifteen
hundred persons attended the services. The
Archbishop was escorted from the cars by
fifty horsemen, headed by brass band.
The First Hebrew Christian Church in
America was dedicated in New York last
Sunday. The services were conducted by
Bishops Harris and Nicholson and Rev. Jacob
Freshmen, Rev. Drs. Crosby, Sabine, Vim
cent and Day. A large congregation at
tended.
A camp of elven counterfeiters, in Clarion
county, Penna., was raided on Monday, and
six of the gang were captured, the others es-
Gaping to the woods. The prisoners were
have been putting counterfeit silver dollars in
circulation.
The large dry sheds and storehouses con-
nected with the fruit box mill of Eaton &
Crangle, at Forest Station, near Bangor,
Maine, were burned on Monday. Forty
thousand fruit boxes and the wood for 200, 900
more, all ready for shipment to Sicily, were
consumed
A young son of jeremiah Sandt, of South
Easton, Penna., cut his tongue on a tooth by
falling, about six weeks ago, and bled for
nearly a week from an apparently insignif-
cant wound. Friday morning of last week the
scar reopened and continued to bleed until
the boy died.
The First Auditor of the Treasury said on
Saturday that he had not finished the coRsid-
Grafton Of the accounts of the Civil Service
Commissioners, but he had already made up
his mind not to allow such items as ginger
ale,' lemonade and newspapers under the
head of necessary expenses"
Most Reverend John McCloskey, D. d.,
died last Friday night, at 1880 o'clock, in
New York, in his 10Th year. He was the
fifth Bishop, and second Archbishop of New
York, and first American Cardinal. He was
a native of Brooklyn, New York, and pursu-
ed his theological studies at Mount st. Mary's
college, at Emmitsburg, Md.
ga very distinct shock of earthquake of
three quarters of a minutes duration is re-
ported to have been felt at 11.35 last Friday
night at Louisa Court House, sixty miles
from Richmond, on the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad. A slighter shock was felt at Lynch
burg. Staunton had a similar experience.
The shock was very slightly felt in Richmond.
The State Committee of the Prohibition
Party of New York has written to the chair
men of the Democratic and Republican Com
mittees declaring the liquor traffic the issue
before the people of that State, and inviting
them to arrange for a triangular discussion,
at five meetings, in as many different parts of
the State.
Thomas Bingham went home drunk, in
Penna., on Monday night. His
wife refusing to give him money for more
liquor, he knocked their six month old infant
out of her arms, beat her until she fell sense
less to the floor, and then jumped repeatedly
upon her PROSTATE body. She is not expect
ed to recover, and the baby is also in dan
gerous condition.
In Hampstead, Texas, on Monday night, a
mob burned the slaughter houses and pens,
with their contents, belonging to George Ben
ton and j. Ness. The mob en~eTdered
Benton and Ness to leave the,{0wn within
five days, and the county within fifteen, telling
them tea.t that there had been too many stolen
beeves butchered at their pens, and the inten-
ton was to put stop to it.
W. Fl. Hindmarch, butcher of Geneva:
New York, visited Buffalo on Friday OF last
week with large sum of money in his peck
cts. He started out at night to see the
town. and made the acquaintance of an un,
known man, whom he invited to the hotel
where he was stopping. They retired togeth;,
err, but during the night the butchers friend
arose and decamped with $1608 of the butch
ers money. The thief is supposed to have
gone to Canada.
The State Veterinarian of Illinois says he
has ordered the killing of % glandered horses
in various parts of the State within week.
He is informed that CHAMBERS exist extensive
ly in Montana, Dakota, the Indian Territory
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the State Board of Live Stock Commission
ers suggesting that prompt action be taken to
prevent the shipment of horses, mules and
asses from those localities into Illinois.
It is stated that of the 600 changes made in
postmasters since the adjourn
ment of the Senate, 249 were caused by re-
movals of incumbents. By December 1st
there will be nearly one hundred vacancies
in Presidential offices, caused by expiration
of commissions and designations, and it is the
intention of the Postmaster General to give