The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-11-21
News of the Week.

and IS injured by horse railways within a
year.
Fifteen cases of smallpox have been re-
ported in Charlottetown, Prince Edwards
Island.
A couple at Westport, Connecticut, are pre-
pairing to celebrate the seventy-fourth ami.
yersary of their wedding. The man is "a and
the woman 90 years of age.
Horace B. ClaAin, the wel-known dry
goods merchant of New York, died of apo
plexy at his residence in Fordham on Satur-
day, at the age of "A years.
Noah Cherry, a young negro who murder
ed little Alice Powell in Princess Anne
county, Virginia, last Friday, was lynched
on Sunday night. When the rope was placed
around his neck he confessed the crime.
Azari, Silvestre and Gelardi, the three
Italians convicted of the murder of their
countryman whose remains were found in
trunk in Pittsburg last May, were hanged on
Saturday in Chicago.
The officers and stockholders of the Chica-
go Exposition Company met on Saturday
and resolved in favor of the holding of great
worlds fair in Chicago in 1892. the 400th an
niversary of the landing of Columbus in Amer
ica
! Hugh Mccain, nearly 80 years of age, and
blind, was placed on trial at Newbury, New
York, Monday, for the murder of his wife,
Mary, who was about the same age, in Feb
ruary last. The couple frequently QUARREL
| ed, and, in one of their quarrels, Mccain, as
alleged, cudgelled and kicked his wife to
death.
Fresno county, CAL, is the pride of the
! Golden State, one of whose newspapers, the
Alta, thus boasts Fresno county is almost
twice as large as the State of Connecticut,
four times as large as Delaware, eight times as
Rhode Island, just the size of Massachusetts,
and exceeds the entire State of New Jersey
by an erea of 500 square miles.
In Warsaw, Belmond county, Ohio, few
| days ago, young woman, suffering from eye
affection, was chloroformed, and one of her
eyes was successfully removed. When she
recovered consciousness it was found that the
good eye had been removed, and the physi-
clan was so overcome that he fled from the
house. He will be sued for malpractice.
At Silver Cliff Colorado, last Friday even
ing, an explosion of giant powder occurred
in the boiler room of the Bull Domingo mine.
The building caught fire and the flames ex-
tended to the shaft house and the timbers at
the entrance to the mine, cutting off the es-
cape of the men in the lower levels. Ten
men lost their lives, and their bodies were
found after it became possible to descend the
mine.
At York, Pa, last Friday evening, the jury
in the case of Rosina Berg, whose body was
found in the cellar of her house, returned a
verdict that ''she came to her death by stran
gulation at the hands of Lewis, alias Joseph
Kohler and Others Warrants were issued
! for the arrest of Kohler, Charles Daniels and
Charles Treberts. The latter is in custody,
and Daniels was arrested in Baltimore, Md,
| on Wednesday.
A great fire in Galveston, Texas, last Fri
day morning, burned over 40 blocks, COM
prising sos buildings covering an area OF 100
acres Nearly all the burned buildings were
! dwellings only few being stores, and one a
public school. Many of the dwellings were
! the residences of the weather. citizens, though
all were wooden structures. About 1000
/ families are homeless. The loss is estimated
at 81, $780, 900.
1t is reported from Meriden, Mississippi,
that H. A. Roland, of Nexubee county, re-
Gently had his arm cut by gin, and had
! some skin from the arm of a Mrs. Holland
grated over the wound. Both Mr.. Roland
and Mrs Holland have since died from the
! effects of the operation, and the doctor who
performed the operation is now in critical
condition. 1t is supposed that the knife used
by the doctor had been used in dissectng.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs on
| Tuesday received from Captain Lee, acting
agent at the Cheyenne and Arapahoe agency
in the Indian Territory, the following de-
spatch: "All of the cattle of the cattle COM
panies have been removed from the reserva-
| ton Thousands of cattle have been turned
| loose in Oklahoma to Craze. One hundred
and twenty boomers have been arrested and
brought to Fort Reno within the past ten
davis and the troOnS are still out ~
A great cave-in took place on Saturd ay
morning over the old workings of the Laurel
| Hill mine, at Hazleton, Pa. The hole made
in the earth is right beside the Lehigh Valley
Railroad tracks, and is 800 feet in diameter.
Two railroad sidings and dozen coal cars,
together with large dwelling house, went
down. The occupants of the house moved
away several days ago, fearing cavern.
The damage to the railroud tracks has been
repaired and trains are running as usual.
A public baptism took place at Dorristown,
eight miles from Gallatin, Tennessee, on
Monday evening While on the way to the
scene, the wagon of DR.. A. c. Bryant ran
into the wagon of Rev. John Gillian, and both
vehicles were upset, throwing men, women
and children into the road. Seven persons.
six of the members of the Gillian family, were
severely injured The frightened horses ran
through a crowd of people, knocking several
wagons down an embankment and smashing
them.
Senator Stanford, at San Francisco, on
Saturday, formally presented to the trustees
the deed of the property with which he intends
to found and endow the Leland Stanford, Jr.,
University on the Palo Alto farm. The
deed is dated November H. and is signed by
Senator Stanford and his wife. 1t provides
that general plan for the construction of the
university building shall be adopted by the
trustees within two years. The gift consists
of the Gridley,. Vina and Palo Alto farms,
which comprise 81, 900 acres, the present value
of which is about S4,000,000
Chief Naval Constructor Wilson, in his
annual report to the Secretary of the Navy,
submits estimates for the completion of the
four double turretted monitors. The aggre-
gate is 81, 923 $3.50, of which 1855, 342 is for
the Puritan, 1927 ,298 for the Terror, $639, 584
for the Amphitrite and SOL, 442 for the Mon
adnock He also asks fer $4,000 900 for
building the hulls of new steel vessels, and
$50. 900 for extra tools required in navy
wards for building iron and steel vessels. He
recommends that the new vessels shall con-
sist of one of 1000 tons, one of 2400, one of
1900 tons, one of 5000, one of 1900 tons and
two of 800 tons displacement.
Jennie Jones is pretty young lady, resld-
ing at Highland, Ulster county, New York.
She is dressmaker, and about year ago,
while employed in New York, she befriendeG
an old lady who had lost her pocketbook by
loaning her small amount of money, and
also assisted her across the street when the
horse car, in which she had met her, came to
the place where the old lady wished to alight.
Miss Jones gave her name and place of resi-.
dence to the old lady, at her request, and
thought no more of it. A day or so ago Miss
Jones received letter from lawyer in Buff
falo which stated that by the death of an old
| lady in that city she was heiress to $4,000.
The lady who bequeathed the money was the
person whom Miss Jones had assisted year
ago.
Louis Riel, the leader of the Northwest
rebellion, was hanged Monday morning at
Regina, in the Northwest Territory. He met
his death with apparent composnre, and
made no speech upon the scaffold. The news
of his execution caused intense feeling among
the French Canadians in the Province Of
Quebec, In Montreal flags were half masted
il many parts of the city, and a procession
of about 500 students paraded the streets,
displaying the tri color, and cheering for
Riel and denouncing Sir John Macdonald.
The City Council adopted resolution to adj
iourn as "a protest against the odious viola
ton of the laws of justice and humanity in the
execution of Riel." In the city of Quebec