The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-09-26
News of the Week.

Five men were drowned in the Kentucky
river, near Frankfort, on Monday evening, by
the upsetting of a canoe.
Five Cinnamon, implicated in a murder
and robbery, were lynched by mob at Lew
iston, Idaho, ON Monday night.
A negro in jackson county, Ga, is said to
have butted a steer to death, so that he could
have the carcass, which the owner offered him
on that condition.
Six hundred men went to work on Tuesday
at the rolling mill in the Eighteenth Ward, of
Cleveland Ohio. 1t is thought the mill will
be in full operation within ten days.
An outbreak similar to the Plymouth fever
is reported at Nanticoke, Pa 1t has pre-
vailed for several days in what has been con-
sidered the healthiest part of the town.
The corner stone of the Union Foundry in
San Francisco was laid on Saturday. When
completed the foundry, it is said, will be the
largest iron foundry in the United States. 1t
will cost $500, 600.
The hog cholera in the southern portion of
Essex county, Ontario, has assumed such
proportions that it is expected to spread to
the adjoining counties unless the Government
takes steps to stamp it out.
A telegram from Dickinson, Dakota, re-
ports prairie fires raging in that neighborhood
HGuD6Sudy. MILES Vi COuuITJ udu Dt6H DuII-
ed over, and there was great destruction of
grain and hay in stacks. Several buildings
were also consumed.
number of cattle near Duquoin, Illinois,
have been sick for some days with mysterious
malady, which was diagnosed on Monday as
Texas fever. The fever seems to have been
contracted from the excrementitious dump
ings of stock cars. Many of the animals have
died.
The State Veterinarian of Kansas says
thirty counties in that State are infected by
the hog cholera, and he estimates the losses
at 100000 Hog cholera of a very malig-
nant type is raging in Taylor county, Iowa.
The affected animals die within twenty four
hours.
Christine Nilsson sang at a concert at
Stockholm Denmark, on Wednesday. After
the concert she sang from the balcony of the
Grand Hotel and a crowd of 10000 people
pressed so eagerly to get within hearing dis
lance that seventeen persons were crushed to
death and many injured.
At Silver Creek, near Pottsvile, on Sunday
night, Sarah O'Neal murdered her husband S
aunt, Elizabeth Keefe, by cutting off her head
with an axe. Mrs 0'Neal was drunk at the
time She and her husband were continually
quarrelling, and she blamed the aunt, who
lived with them, for causing the disagree
ments.
U. S. Consul Tzschuck, at Vera Cruz, re-
ports that the yellow fever epidemic at that
place has been very malignant, about so per
cent. of the cases proving fatal. There have
been 129 cases of yellow fever and twenty
nine deaths in Guaymas, Mexico, since the
LIST instant The disease has appeared at
Hermosillo and Mazatlan.
O.
Peters Catholic Church, in Washington, was
consecrated Bishop of Mobile, Alabama last
Sunday. The ceremony, the first of the
kind which ever took place in Washington.
was performed in st. Peters Church, small
structure on Capitol Hill. Archbishop Glib
bons was the consecrator.
At Edgefeld Court House, S. c., c. T.
Culbreath, charged with homicide, was taken
on Tuesday from his lawyers office, where he
was waiting to have a bail bond arranged,
and was carried out of town, shot several
times, and left for dead. He revived, walked
into town, made statement duplicating sew
eral lynchers and died. He denied his gull
to the last.
Adam Bartender, the convicted President
of the Erie County Savings Bank, left Erie,
Penna., for the Allegheny Penitentiary Oh
Saturday morning. 1t is said that he made q
statement at the depot to the depositors i'm
picating the stockholders and directors of the
broken bank, and that the statement will lead
to the prosecution of all the stockholders of the
defunct institution.
At session of the Cigar Makers Union Of
Cincinnati on Tuesday, the President repor
ted that during the past two years it has cost
the Union over $4,000 to support members
during strikes and lockouts, of which there
have been 152, SO of these strikes have
| been successful, SO unsuccessful, 8 have been
compromised and others are still in progress.
These strikes affected 1852 men.
The Governor of Georgia has signed the
State Local Option bill. Under it any county
can have an election on the question on pc
tition of nine tenths of the voters. 1t is said
there are 100 Prohibition counties in Georgia
but none of them includes any of the five
large cities, Atlanta, Macon, Savannah, Au
gusta and Columbus. The Prohibitionists
say they will carry all these and procure the
enactment of State Prohibition law by the
next Legislature.
The Ohio River Commission will meet in
Pittsburg on the Doth instant. 1t will heal
! the report of a special committee appointed
to investigate the improvements of the vari
| GUS tributaries of the Ohio river now in the
hands of corporations, and will consider the
propriety of memorializing Congress to further
extend the Chanoine system of dams. The
cost of placing such dams at the necessary
points between Pittsburg and Louisville il
estimated at $50, 100000.
A telegram from Muncie, Indiana, says
'sMrs. Woodwork, the evangelist, closed &
| two-weeks meeting in a grove twelve miles
northwest of this city on Tuesday, preaching
to $4,000 people. Such religious excitement
was never known. The woods rang with the
shouts of the new converts, while here anC
there lay men and women by scores in trance!
apparently dead. Hundreds of people from
this city attended her meetings, and are un
able to account for what they saw"
During June and July last there was a con
slant succession of incendiary fires in Potts
vile, Penna. Rewards were offered, specia
patrolmen employed, and a number of sus
nected persons were arrested but discharged
Finally Charles Wiederbold young shoe
maker who had always borne a good reputa
ton, was arrested on the charge of firing {
stable on the night of July Goth. His tria
ended last week in a verdict of guilty, bu
sentence was deferred, pending a motion fol-
a new trial. 1t is believed in Pottsville tina
Wiederbold had "a mania for witnessing con
fagrations."
Francis B. O'Donnell, aged 80 years, one o
the proprietors of the Roxbury, Mass, Ga
zette, committed suicide on Sunday. He haC
been suffering from acute mania, and hi
brothers, Edward and George, co-proprietor
of the Gazette, induced him to go to doc
tors Office When he reached the Office hi
Jumped from window, carrying the sash witt
him, but was prevented from falling to tn
pavement. Upon being again placed in the
room he seized cup from the table, brok
it, cut his throat with one of the fragment
and tore out the exposed arteries with hi
fingers. He died while being carried to thu
hospital.
A party of New England Veterans of thu
late war paid visit to points of war interes
| in the Shenandoah Valley last week. The.
were heartily welcomed everywhere, the ma
tive citizens doing their utmost in the line o
hospitality. On Saturday night, at Winches
ter, the veterans set off fire works, in tn,
presence of a crowd of six or eight THOUSAND
people, one piece particularly being loudl
cheered. 1t was life-size, Yank and Johnnie
Reb shaking hands, with the word ''Frater
nal'' above their heads, cannon balls on on
side, arms stacked on the other, one in blue
the other in gray, the colors coming GU
finely,
| An attempt was made on Sunday night t.
wreck West Shore train which left Buffalo
for Saratoga. Between Akron and Alabama
/, about q miles from Buffalo, tie was wedges
!. across the track. The cow catcher passet
over it, and the engineer stopped the trail
Il. :,,ct -, t;,na 70 prevent II heinp derailed. 4