The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-12-26
News of the Week.

Hiland Hall, Ex-Governor of Vermont, died
in Springfield, Massachusetts, at the age OF
80 years, on Sunday.
VIM. C. Pierrepont, LII. D., of Pierrepont,
Manor, New York, died on Sunday morning,
in the Sad year of his age.
John Lee, accused of murder, was taken
from the Jail at Rockingham, North Carolina,
at three o'clock last Saturday morning, and
lynched by mob.
The jail at Gauleysville, Alabama, was set
on fire early Sunday morning and destroyed.
A man named Phillips, locked up for drunk
enness, was burned to death.
The latest reports from Arlee, Montana,
are to the effect that the Indians are gathering
there in large numbers Three companies of
troops have arrived at the scene.
The L. S. steamer Dolphin has sailed from
New York on her trial cruise. which will last
two months. She will stop at Newport to
have her compass set, and then go South.
Advices from Pendleton county, W. Va,
say that an epidemic of diphtheria IN that
sparsely settled district along the Virginia
line has caused sixty deaths. The disease is
still raging.
C. A. Mcfarland, colored, and I, j, Wade,
white, quarrelled in a saloon at st. Paul, Min
nesota, on Sunday. Mcfarland drew razor
and slashed it across Wade's throat, killing
him instantly.
The typhoon which swept over the Philip.
pine Islands on the 7th ult., destroyed over
1000 buildings, including Is churches. Eigh-
teen persons were killed. The report covers
only 10 of the "a districts of the islands.
Window breaking is the freak that some un-
discovered crank or rascal has been INDUCING
in by wholesale in Brooklyn for some time
past. A 800 French plate in store window
was the latest piece of destruction reported.
Rev. E. Greenwald, D. D., for eighteen
years pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, in
Lancaster, Pa, died Monday aged IS years.
He had been Lutheran preacher for forty
years and was voluminous writer on religious
topics.
Patrick Conley died in st. Louis on Sunday
night from the effects of blow received the
night before in quarrel with Henry Peters,
bartender. Conley refused to pay for some
drinks and Peters struck him on the head with
bung starter.
James Startling, ofChattanooga eonaty, Ca,
fell into half buried hogshead OF boiling
water while scalding hogs, on Monday, and
before he could be gotten out was literally
boiled, the flesh dropping from his body in
large flakes.
Aunt Lydia, colored woman, aged Ito
years, died on Tuesday at the residence OF
| sharps Winters, Philipsburg, n J. Sixty
| years ago, when slavery existed in New Jer-
sey, she was bought by Henry Winters, father
of ShaFps, for one dollar,
Philip Brady while out driving with his wife
and sister-in-law at Goshen, New York, on
Monday, attempted to cross the Erie Railroad
track. An engine struck and demolished the
vehicle, killing Brady and his wife, and in.
juring his sister-in-law.
/ The Camden Consolidated Oil Company, Of
Parkersburg, West Virginia, is reported to
have suffered loss of over $4,000 by three
| forged drafts, It is not known who the forg-
ere are. The drafts were In the hands of a
Santa Barbara (Cal.) bank,
Two deputy marshas arrived at Fort Smith,
/ Arkansas, on Saturday, with Gix prisoners
from the Indian Territory, four of whom are
charged with murder. This makes 81 prison
ers brought in within three days, and swells
| the number in the Jail to l13.
| Mabel kniokerhacker, lG years of age
suddenly became blind while studying in
school at Evansville, Indiana, ON Saturday.
She had been nearsighted from birth and
always wore glasses. Her total loss of sight
is attributed to nervousness and over study.
Memorial services 10 honor of General
MeClellen we're held on Sunday In the Grand
Opera House In Chicago. There was crowd
! ed attendance. The stage was draped in
mourning. and decorated with flowers. Rey.
DR.. Wilbqr Edwards and Bishop Fallows
spoke.
State Veterinarian Bridges on Tuesday in
spected the diseased herd of cattle at West,
willow, Lancaster county. Penna. Two more
pneumonia, making nix in all, which viii
probably have to be killed. The doctor also
inspected herd at Marietta, and found them
! suffering from tuberculosisA