The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-03-21
News of the Week.

An earthquake shock was felt at Contoo-
cook, New Hampshire, few minutes past
noon Wednesday.
A suspicious celestial object believed to be
Temples comet of 1867, has been discovered
by DR.. Gautier, of Geneva.
A disease resembling hog cholera prevails
in the counties around Petersburg, Virginia,
and many hogs have died of it.
General Simon Cameron celebrated the
seth anniversary of his birth at his residence
in Harrisburg on the 9Th inst.
Mrs. Malinda Evans died in Sullivan eoun-
ty, Indiana, last week, aged 106 years. She
was born in Tennessee in 1779.
Four stores in Pulaski, Tennessee, were
burned on Saturday morning. Loss, $4O,-
600. Three men persisted in the flames.
The Prohibitionists of Chicago held con-
vention on Monday and nominated a full city
ticket, headed by w. II. Bush for Mayor.
On Thursday night of last week cold wave
spread over the New England States, and the
mercury registered from one to twenty degrees
below zero.
Two steerage passengers of the steamer
Suevia, which arrived at New York on the
10 inst, have been sent to the hospital sick
of typhus fever.
The Holstein heifer Constance ST. be-
longing to VIM. NJ. Singerly, of Philadelphia,
beat the world on Monday as two year-old,
giving 81 pounds of milk in one day.
In Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, on Tues
day. the Democrats elected their candidate
for Mayor by 1876 majority. This is the first
Democratic Mayor there since 1877.
1t is reported that consumption in an cpl
demic form is decimating the Usage Indians
in the Indian Territory. Many prominent
Indians have died during the past week.
A prominent military officer of King
ston, Ontario, has been informed by letter
that there are $500 Fenians at Buffalo drill
ing with view to making raid on Canada.
The Board of Health of New York City
has directed that house to house inspec-
ton be made forthwith, in view OF the
probable advent of the cholera this summer.
Old Dan Tucker, colored, who claimed to
be the veritable Dan about whom the song
was written, died recently on Chincoteague
Island, Va, his native place, at an advanced
age.
It is reported from the principal wheat
growing counties of Virginia that the crop,
which was comparatively small, has to large
extent been frozen out of the ground and IS
greatly damaged.
Frank Bonham, young farmer, charged
with the murder of his mother, brother and
sister, was taken from the Jail at lndepen,,
dence, Kansas, on last Friday night, and
lynched by mob.
J. D. Chickering, Clerk of the Circuit Court
of LIE Flore county, Mississippi, while out
hunting on the 18th inst, was caught in a
hail storm and so badly injured that he died
before reaching home.
| A disease pronounced to be the genuine
| ,.aJo-,oaof Nv q ronutahla veterinary gur0pOn
has appeared in herd of cattle near Pana.
Illinois Out of thirty animals five have died;
the rest are declared out OF danger.
A freight train on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road was Monday evening derailed near Car
penters Station, near Greensburg, Pa.
| Twenty cars were demolished and brakeman
and three tramps were killed.
The Chicago Farmers ReUieO publishes
crop reports from 1900 correspondents at diff
ferent points in the West and Northwest,
showing that the indications are not favorable
| for an average crop of winter wheat.
Two centenarians died in Washington last
week-Michael Callan, native of Ireland,
aged 103 years, months and days, and
Mrs. Jane Tilghman, native of Virginia,
who had just passed her hundredth birth day.
Leoni, known as "King of the Air. tight
rope walker, while going through perform
ance in Stockton, California, on Saturday
night; on q cable stretched across a street,
fell and broke his neck causing death in an
hours time.
The great grain sections of California are
suffering from want of rain. A four hours
shower on Wednesday has improved the pros
poets in the coast counties, but no rain has
fallen in the interior, where the crops are in
a critical condition.
The Secretary of the Navy Tuesday in
structed Commander Wiles, of the Yantic,
then at New Orleans to go to Livingstone,
Guatemala, communicate with the American
officials at that place, and use every exertion
to protect American interests.
VIM. Mulcahey, patient in the Essex IN.
j. Lunatic Asylum, was murdered Tuesday
by Herman Fuchs, fellow patient, who beat
his brains out with heavy spittoon. Fuchs,
who is religious maniac, said he killed Mul
cahey because he wanted him to go to Heaven
Hundreds of the inhabitants of the south
western counties of Virginia are emigratng
to the Western States. The emigrants leave
a fertile region, embracing blue grass grazing
lands, but they have suffered from last year,
drought and from lack of railroad communi
cation.
The next semi annual Conference of the
Mormon Church will be held at Logan, in
stead of Salt Lake. 1t will meet on Apr
4th. The Conference is expected to be an i'm
portant one, as it will probably consider the
recent convictions of polygamy in the Fedora
Courts.
The stores of Burchett & Co., dry goods
James RYAN, hardware S. 0. McKenna
druggist, and three other smaller places, il
New Holland, Ill.,, were burned on Saturday
night This is the second fire within week
and every business house in the town is nov
in ruins.
1t takes S380,0O0 per annum to pay the sal
aries of U. S. Senators, and over 81, 600, 00(
for salaries of Representatives, exclusive o
mileage for both, amounting to Sl5O,OO0, anC
salaries for clerks, messengers and other
connected with the national legislation-S6l7
600 more.
Four freight ocean steamships-the Stand
ard, from Boston for London the Claudon
from New York for Leith the Fernwood
from New York for Avonmouth, and tn
Preston, also from New York for Avonmoutl
have been long overdue and are given VI
for lost.
Two hundred and seventeen miners wer
imprisoned in colliery in Rhensh Prussi;
by fire damp explosion on Wednesda
morning, and many of them were undoubtedl
suffocated. There have been recovered 81
bodies, and l02 men and boys are mac
counted for.
The total number of deaths from pneumo
MIA in New York last week was 149-th
highest number of deaths from that disease il
. any one week on record. The total numbe
| of deaths from pneumonia during the last si'
weeks was ISL, against $50 during the CORES
ponding period last year.
In a cut on the Fort Worth and Denve
Railway, near Wichita Falls, Texas, on las
Friday evening, an explosion occurred which
caused the instant death of Daniel Downey
Patrick Swan and Thomas Mccoy. The
were blasting rock in the cut. The heads c
: Mccoy and Swan we're blown off,
William Hayes, alias Farrell, formerly
wholesale liquor dealer of Peabody, Massa
ehusetts, where he was convicted of haFin
attempted to blow up dwelling with dynamit
and jumped SIS, 200 bail, has been arrested i
,, New Orleans. He opened a saloon and res
! taurant near the Exposition grounds.
: A telegram from Winnipeg says the North
! western Indians are dying in large number
from singular disease, the first symptoms o
which are stiffening of the knees and all joints
after which death soon follows. Chieke
pox and diphtheria have taken off many NOR
and they are generally in starving condition
James O'Malley, aged 16 years, while q
work on q new building in New York, o
Saturday. fell through an air shaft from