The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-10-03
News of the Week.


case their wives elope.
leans shot $40, 500 worth of mules on Monday
on account of CHAMBERS.
1t is estimated that the public debt state
ment for September will show decrease of
about S12, 100000.
A fire in Iquique. Peru, on Tuesday night,
destroyed most of the business portion of the
town, causing a loss estimated at 81, 00O,0 900.
A colored man arrested for killing a sheriff
who attempted to arrest him was taken from
Jail and lynched by a mob at Orange, Texas,
last Friday night.
At Sprinfeld, Massachusetts, on Monday,
Richard Howell, the champion bicycEst,
made a half mile in 1.13 3-5, beating the
record by l % seconds.
By an unexpected explosion of dynamite
in rock blast, at York Haven, near York
Penna., last Friday afternoon, John Morris
sey was killed and three other men were badly
injured.
The Attorney General of Pennsylvania has
begun proceedings against lot of mutual in
surance companies of that state, to show
cause why their business should not be sus-
pended.
jeremiah Finch, his wife, Lee Tyson, and
triple murder, were taken from the jail at
Pittsboro, North Carolina, on Monday night,
and lynched by mob.
The four ear-old daughter of Mrs. Par
sons was killed by a bull dog near Xenia,
Ohio, last Friday evening. When the mother
searched for the missing child she found the
dog devouring its dead body
Forty eight deaths from smallpox were re-
norfad -, MonEraol an Sunday apd oinhf in
in the suburbs A member of the Citizens
Committee of Montreal said on Monday that
there were at least 1000 cases of small pox in
the city.
Joseph H. Dodson, an important witness
for the prosecution in the case of Thomas j..
Cluverius, now under sentence of death at
Richmond, Va, for the murder of Miss Mad
ison, and who is seeking new trial, died
Monday.
John Clinch was shot and perhaps MORALLY
wounded by Thomas Sponsler, in York,
Penna, on Monday morning. Sponsler has
been separted from his wife for year, and
asserts that Clinch was the cause of the
trouble.
The U. S. Consul at Marseilles reports to
the State Department that while the number
of deaths from cholera has steadily decreased
at Marseilles and Toulon since August &c last,
it has been increasing in the district around
those cities.
The Hartford Sunday Globe having pull
lished a charge that Jumbo was purposely put
in the way of the train that killed him by
Barnum's direction, Mr.. Barnum has begun
suit for libel against the paper, claiming $780,
600 damages.
A stage coach was robbed near Cisco, Tex
as, on Monday, by a nineteen-year-old boy.
He rihed the mail bag of registered letters,
and exchanged horses with the driver, re-
marking that he thought the horse would car
ry him to the Indian nation.
Mrs. Olive Cleveland Clarke, of Sprinfeld,
Mass, celebrated the Tooth anniversary of
her birthday on Saturday. Her mother lived
to be 104 years and months old, and her
father to be over 80. Mrs. Clarke is distant
cousin of President Cleveland
DIR. Brakely, President of the New Jersey
Cranberry Association, reports the crop of
ed. One bog of six acres, alone, in Burling
ton county, has yielded 1904 bushels. The
berries have escaped injury by frost.
1t is reported that Captain Hatfeld's com
mand, in the Cananca Mountains, Sonora,
has had fight with 60 hostile Indians, and
captured 43 of them, after killing several
Others The captives will be turned over to
the civil authorities at Tucson, Arizona.
In Lake township, near Traverse, Dakota,
on Sunday, man set fire to some straw. A
high wind carried the flames northward with
frightful rapidty, and they consumed houses,
barns, hay grain and farm machinery. 1t is
estimated that thousand tons of hay were
destroyed.
In Chicago, Sunday morning, Charles Nc
Carly, a young rowdy, went home drunk,
auarrelled with his brother Dennis, and drew
a revolver on him. Just as Charles fired,
the father rushed between his sons, and receiv
ed the bullet in his abdomen. The parricide
was arrested.
Two men started on deer-hunting expedi-
ton at Gander Bay, Newfoundland, a few
days ago. During the night one of them
hearing a rustling in the bushes and thinking
it was caused by deer, fired at the spot. He
found that he had killed one man and mortal
ly wounded another.
Goldsmith Maid, once queen of the trotting
course died on Thursday of last week, aged
% years. She was on the course twelve con-
secutive years, and retired four years ago. at
the age of "a. Her best time, PA, was
made when she was II years old, and was
afterwards equaled when she was 10.
A negro ex-convict named King, last Fri
day feloniously assaulted a young white
woman, near New London, Missouri. He
then went to the house of j. B. Harris, few
miles distant and finding no one at home ex-
cept Mrs. Harris, robbed the house and as
saulted her. The people turned out to hunt
for the ruffian.
The State Veterinarian of Illinois has re-
turned from Vandalia, where he has been in
vestigatingan outbreak of CHAMBERS. Hefound
the disease existing in Virulent form, had
six horses killed, and took other measures to
stamp out the infection. Two farmers were
ordered to be prosecuted for selling horses
which they knew to be infected.
The corn crop of the United States having
passed the critical stage and being no longer
subject to injury from frost, the Farmers Re-
view, of Chicago, from returns received from
400 correspondents, gives an estimate of the
total yield of the present year. The aggre-
gate yield in the ten principal corn growing
States is estimated at ], 436, 236, 900 bushels,
an increase of 1874, 640, 900 on last year crop.
The other States and Territories are expected
to swell the total of this year crop to 1,979,-
CSC. 900 bushels.
On Sunday morning a number of printed
circulars were distributed in differnt parts of
Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, and posted
ON doors of all houses occupied by Chinese,
reading as follows: ga Fair Warning-All
Cinnamon found in the city of Cheyenne after
October l will be subjected to a coat of tar
and feathers and ridden from the city on a
rail. Working men, the Chinese must go!'
The source of the circular is unknown. The
proprietor of steam laundry published a
card in Mondays papers saying that Sin de-
ference to public opinion, he had discharged
all his Chinese help.
A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa, on Septem
Der %, says: The explosions Saturday after
noon, which at first were thought to have
been caused by a shock of earthquake, are
now supposed to have been due to the explo-
sion of a meteor. Inquiries have been sent
to the city from points 80 and 40 miles dis
tant, asking the cause of the explosions.
There were five or six detonations in rapid
succession, and the course of the sound was
from northwest to southeast. At Mansfield
the greatest CONSERVATION prevailed, partcu-
larly among the miners at work in the coal
pits. The aerolite which caused so much
CONSERVATION on Saturday was discovered to-
night buried deep in the ground near Canons-
burg, Pa. 1t is very large.
At Charlestown, W. Va, on Saturday, at
the fair grounds, Tom Montgomery's wild cat
"West Viginia'' was pitted in a cage eight by
ten feet with three vicious dogs, one at a time.
The cat whipped all three in from one to two
rounds each. Finally, a thirty pound bull
dog, owned by policeman Foley, of Charles
ton. was put in the cage with the cat Sew