The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-02-28
News of the Week.

P. A. & w. V. Ali, of Carlisle, Pa, made
an assignment on Tuesday.
The heaviest snow of the season fell on
Tuesday at Dayton, Ohio.
1t is estimated that the number Of men in
The skilled trades now unemployed in Cincin-
matt is 16, 700.
twenty-five car loads of fireworks for the
inauguration festivities on the night of March
.4th have arrived in Washington.
The venerable W. W. Corcoran is confned
to his bed with cold contracted at the dedi-
cation of the Washington monument.
1 Frederick Becker, treasurer of Chippewa
county, Wisconsin, has been missing for over
a week, and his accounts are about $4,000
short.
A telegram from Lewisburg, Penna., says
that about fifty ''Omish people, left there on
! Tuesday for Lyons, Kansas, where they intend
to settle.
The California Assembly on Tuesday unani-
monsly passed resolution requesting Con-
gress to pass the bill to place General Grant
on the retired list
Annie Sullivan, wife of the pugilist John
l.. Sullivan, of Boston, has sued for a divorce
on the grounds of "cruel and abusive treat
ment and gross and confirmed habits of intox-
ication.'
Great apprehension is felt in Pittsburg for
the safety of about 81, 500, 600 worth of coal
and coke lying along the Monongahela, which
will be endangered by sudden breaking up
of the ice.
President Arthur, it is stated, will remain
in Washington for several days after March
4th, as the guest of Secretary Frelinghuysen.
He will then take possession of his residence
in New York City.
While the closing hymn was being sung in
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, Sunday morning,
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher was taken sick
while sitting in her pew, and was taken home
in carriage. The attack is a slight paralysis
of the muscles of the throat, with which she
has been afflicted before.
1 Michael Murray, Charles Cassidy, Anthony
Gerhardt and William Livenbroe, all boys,
belonging to gang of burglars, organized for
''safe- blowing were arrested in Cleveland,
! Ohio, on Sunday, and have been sent to the
workhouse. Three others, whose names are
not given, have also been captured.
| Miss Mary NJ Fletcher, wellknown lady,
died on Tuesday in Burlington, Vermont,
after a short illness, of congestion of the
lungs She was founder of the Fletcher
Free Library and of the Mary Fletcher Hos
pital, ''the latter being the largest benefaction
ever given the public by single individual
in Vermont"
The Robesonia Furnace plant, in Berks
county, Penna., has been sold to William Il.
White and Mrs. Henry Borie, both of Phila-
delphia, for $50, 900. This is believed to be
the largest sum ever paid in Pennsylvania
for a similar property. The furnace has the
exclusive right to take "as much ore as it can
use forever from the Cornwall hills.
Edward Vogely, bookkeeper of the Butler
Savings Bank, at Butler, Pennsylvania, dis
appeared Sunday, after having sunk more than
lations Vogely was Sunday school teach
err, and considered "a model young man."
! 1t is said the bank, upon which a run has
commenced, will be able to meet all demands.
Silas E. Grifis, sheriff of Pottawatomie
county, Kansas, disappeared Monday with
the proceeds of a sale of $4,000 worth of
corn and cattle. He gave a check for the
amount due each creditor on the commission
firm in Kansas City to whom he represented
he would ship. The cattle were sold by
another firm and he is gone.
General Hatch left Wichita, Kansas, Mon
day to be ready for new invasion of Okla
homa, which is fixed for March 9Th. The
Camp Russell troops have returned to Fort
Reno, in the Indian Territory, Indian hostil-
tiles being threatened. The Indians, excited
by the recent raid of the Oklahoma 'boom-
ers," have recently been firing occasional
shots into the fort.
While large, partly hollow, tree was be-
ing made into frewood near Gallon, Ohio, on
! Saturday, the sawyers were Mortified to find
that they they had cut off the head from a
mans body A search revealed in the hollow
of the log the body of the man, $500 in mon
! ey, and lot of burglar tools. 1t is supposed
that the man got into the tree to hide, and,
being unable to get out, starved to death.
At a meeting on Tuesday of the General
| Ministerial Association of Portland, Oregon,
composed of all the Evangelical Ministers of
that city and East Portland, the following res
olution was adopted Resolved That we, as
an Association of Ministers, do hereby agree
that we will refuse to marry any persons who
have been divorced for other than Scriptural
reasons, and also the guilty party in rightful
! case"
A very remarkable meteor passed over
! Victoria British Columbia, at nine o'clock
Monday morning. An Associated Press des
patch says: at was of enormous size and
appeared like mass of molten iron. The
noise caused by its passage was like that OF
escaping steam. Smoke and flames were
thrown off by the meteor. 1t was seen to
descend into the sea, cloud of spray and
steam marking the spot.
General Horace Capron, ex-Commissoner
of Agriculture died in Washington on Sun
day night, at the age of about IS years. He
caught violent cold at the dedication of the
Washington monument on Saturday. Gen.
Capron was native of Maryland. He was
appointed Commissioner of Agriculture by
President Lincoln and served until 1871, when
he resigned to accept a similar position IN
JAPAN where he resided four years.
A telegram from Wheeling reports that for
some time past great Distress caused by the
ruin of the crops by last summers drought
and the unusual severity of the present win
ter, has prevailed in portions of the counties
of Lewis, Braxton, Calhoun and Gilmer, in
West Virginia Whole neighborhoods of
people are actually furnished for want of pro-
per food, and large amount OF stock OF all
kinds have died The Legislature Monday
took measures to relieve the sufferers.
Henry Jones, a farmer near Waynesboro,
Ca, plants crop of ground peas every year.
This attracts large number of crows, result
ing in great damage. Informing himself of
the use of dynamite, Mr.. Jones secured a
small quantity, picked it into lot of peas,
an scattered them around for the crows on
Tuesday They came and took the bait. One
rose several hundred feet in the air when the
dynamite exploded. Since then not crow
has been seen on the place.
James F. Adams, of Coble, and John Drum
heller, of Catawissa were on Monday arrested
at Sunbury, Pa, on the charge of counter
feiting. L. d. Yardy, of Shamokin, said to
belong to the same gang was also arrested at
that place, but, being seized with nervous
prostration, was allowed to remain at his
house under guard. Counterfeit five and ten
dollar gold pieces were found on Adams and
a quantity Of counterfeiters' tools were found
at the prisoners houses.
Dr. Cyrus Edison on Tuesday reported to
the New York Board of Health case of
arsenical poisoning by wall paper in the house
of Jay Dowd, 1T8 Lexington avenue. The
paper had gray and red flowers on gilt ground.
Mr.. and Mrs Dowd, who slept in the room,
developed catarrh, pharyngitis, migraine, con
iunetivitis, cold extremities, muscular pains
and sore joints and swelling of the salivary
glands. A seamstress, who worked in the
room displayed similar symptoms. In wet
weather all the symptoms were aggravated.
The paper cost thirty-fve cents roll.
Joseph Dick, shoemaker, residing with
his son-in law, Enos Hoxworth, died under
peculiar circumstances Wednesday night at
Norristown, Pa. About o'clock that morn
ing Mrs. Hoxworth awoke and, detecting the
odor of burning hesh descended to the kitch
en- to investigate She found her father in a
chair dead, his head resting on the top of a