The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-01-31
News of the Week.

All the public schools in Hazel Green,
Wisconsin, have been closed on account of an
epidemic of diphtheria.
State Veterinarian Rowland, of Delaware,
is about to resort to incubation for the pleu-
among cattle.
PIesident-elect Cleveland will leave Albany
on Monday night for New York, where he
will remain until Saturday.
The election of ex-Gov Stanford to the
United States Senate was confirmed Wednes
day on joint ballot in the California Legisla-
ture.
The San Francisco market is glutted with
California oranges. Street vendors are crying
them at ten cents dozen, or six dozen for
fifty cents.
Heavy rains in Texas have caused addition
al floods, making washouts on many of the
railroads, and drowning thousands of sheep
on different ranches.
Detectives returned to Boston from Detroit,
Mich, on Wednesday, with exGov. Moses,
of South Carolina, who is wanted in Cam
bridge for obtaining S34 by false pretenses.
1t is reported that France has decided to
officially declared war against China. The
British authorities at Hong Kong have refused
to allow a French war vessel to reft there.
A sharp shock of earthquake occurred at
San Francisco Tuesday morning, at 35
minutes past one O'Clock. No damage was
done. Another shock was felt in the even
ing.
Roswell Grant, an uncle of General Grant,
died on Friday at St. Adams, West Vir-
ginia, at the age of S. He was a farmer.
During the war he sympathized with the
South.
1t is said that the sudden and violent
changes in temperature this winter have de-
stroyed all the peach buds in the Hudson val
ley and that no crop will be gathered there
next summer
Ex-Governor Stanford, says the Alta Cali
fornia, has Holstein COW ON his Vina ranch
that in thirty-one days gave 1857 lbs. of
milk, several pounds more than the gross
weight of the cow.
Active preparations are being made by the
inhabitants of st. Augustine, Fla, for the
celebration of the three hundred and twentieth
anniversary of its foundation, which will take
place ON March 81 and %.
Christian Krall and family of seven persons,
of Bunker Hill, Lebanon county, Pa, were
poisoned by sour wine. Mrs. Krall and one
child have died. Krall and the remaining
children are not yet out of danger.
A package with lighted fuse attached, and
containing some blue powder, supposed by
some to be dynamite, was found Tuesday in
the second story hallway of building in New
York, near the Office of the British Consul
General.
The coroner's inquest in Philadelphia on
Wednesday, in the case of Annie M. Kaupp,
aged "a years, who committed suicide, dis
closed the fact that she hanged herself because
her mother tried to force her to marry man
she did not love.
A inguist is doing service as policeman in
a railroad station at Macon, Ga. He can con-
verse in seven different languages, has two
more imperfectly in his head, and before six
months have passed hopes to add three more
to his repertoire.
The steamer Chesapeake, of the Virginia
oyster navy, on Monday morning captured,
off Gwynns Island, seven schooners engaged
in illegally dredging for oysters. Sixty eight
prisoners were turned over to the Sheriff of
Matthews county.
A well in the yard of Macon (Ga. citizen
which formerly supplied the household with
water, was discovered few days ago to have
started producing kerosene oil. A trial of
the oil for illuminating purposes was made,
and the result was very satisfactory.
1t is stated that the elevated railways of
New York City have carried since their COM
mencement to December 31st, 1884, 500, 844,-
POI passengers, and only one person lost his
life after being on board the cars, and even
that was due to his own carelessness.
The probably fatal illness Ex-senator Bridges
has made very uncertain the date when vote
can be taken upon the United States senator
ship in the Illinois Legislature. Senator
Bridges district is overwhelmingly Democrat
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not take place for three or four weeks.
In Newport, Kentucky, on Sunday, Mrs.
Carrie L. Winslow choked her seven year old
son to death, fatally beat her ten year old
daughter with base ball club, and then COM
mitted suicide by cutting her own throat
with razor. The unfortunate woman was
rated from her husband for several years,
and had recently been under treatment for
insanity.
The Special Grand Jury, at Chicago, on
Saturday made its final report in the Crimi-
nal Court Indictments were presented
against 249 judges of election. The jury re-
considered its action regarding the Indictment
of the County Canvassing Board, and con-
cluded not to indict the members. The prop
osition to indict the Canvassing Board was
lost by one vote.
Yellow fever exists in malignant form at
Panama and Colon. In single cemetery at
Panama, according to a report to the Surgeon
General of our Marine Hospital Service, there
has been more than one thousand interments
between the lst day of July and the 31st of
December, and it is estimated that about
2400 people were buried in that city during
the year 1884.
-Four unknown robbers broke into the Post
office at Huntington, Indiana, Tuesday morn.
ing, and were confronted by Max Baumgart-
ner, a night Waterman, who shot one of them
dead One of the burglars shot Baumgartner
inflicting dangerous wound Leaving their
dead comrade, the rufians then took posses
sion of sleigh and escaped.
On the 18th aud 10Th inst. the British forces
had two engagements with the Arabs on the
Nile, and achieved success in each battle
Gen. Stewart was wounded in the thigh in
the second battle and Sir Charles Wilson is
in command. The British lost 104 killed and
the loss of the rebels is put at 5000. Gen.
Gordon and Gen. Stewart are now in close
communication and quick work is expected
to be made of the rebels.
DIR. Levi George, of San Francisco, recent
ly visited the Moqui tribe of Indians, and
found an old chief who had reached the aged
of Us years. In one of the cabins squaw
was found who was 182 years old. The
record of the age ofthese old people has been
kept according to the custom of the tribe by
punching small round holes in a piece of
smoothly polished horn at the end of each
twelve months. In this Moqui village of
sixty or seventy inhabitants DIR. George
counted fifteen persons who were over 100
years old,
During the past six weeks heavy storms
have prevailed throughout Eastern Oregon
and Washington territory, and the loss of live
stock is reported very heavy. A number of
persons during the continuance of the storm
are known to have wandered off and persisted.
Most of the bodies of such persons have been
recovered since the snow disappeared. Very
recent inquiries among relatives and friends
disclose the fact that many persons are still
and their whereabouts are unknown.
There can be no doubt az to the fate of these
missing persons. The precise number of per-
sons perishing will probably never be known,
but it is large.
A telegram from Cleveland says the iron
trade is already beginning to show some of
the promised activity. The Union Rolling
Mill which has been idle nearly three months,
will start at its full capacity February 1st, and
employ between 300 and 400 men. Presi-
dent Chisholm, of the Cleveland Rolling Mill
Company, says that, in addition to the five
mills already running about half the full ca
pacity, the rest will start in less than four
weeks. This means work for 1900 men.
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