The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-05-09
News of the Week.

The public debt statement loI APih sho"o
a decrease of S., 464, 500.
Fire has destroyed 80 houses in the town OF
Skanoer, Sweden, rendering homeless 100
families.
Nearly 1000 weavers of the Renfrew Cling
ham Mills, at Springfield, Massachusetts, are
on strike.
George Mack, accused of the murder of
his employer, was taken from officers at Great
Bend, Kansas, last week, and lynched by
mob.
The British war ship Bull Frog has arrived
at Halifax from Bermuda on fishing protec-
ton service. This makes four British war
ships in port at Halifax.
Brigadier General Irwin Mcdowell died in
San Francisco on Monday night, in the 9th
year of his age. General Mcdowell fought
the first battle of Bull Run.
The Massachusetts House of Representa-
tives on Tuesday, by vote of 100 to 81, re-
fused a third reading to the bill extending
to women the right of municipal suffrage.
One of the boilers of the fremont Hotel,
in Galveston, Texas, burst on Sunday morn
ing, demolishing the boiler house and killing
four persons, one of them woman. Five
persons were injured.
The Secretary of State has instructed Con-
sui General Beach to notify Ecuador that our
our Government will protect Julio K. Santos
in his rights as an American citizen, and to
demand his release or speedy trial.
A fire at Stevens Point, Wisconsin, Sunday
morning, destroyed 100000 feet of lumber
belonging to Heron & Wadleigh, and $780,
600 feet belonging to Robert Main. The
loss is over $4,000. Incendiarism is sus-
pected.
An attempt was made on Tuesday morning
the second within ter days-to burn the
Children's Home, at Covington, Kentucky.
One of the inmates awoke in time to give
the alarm, and the flames were soon extin-
guished.
Wheeling is no longer the capital Of West
Virginia. The State archives, property and
officers were on Saturday removed to Charles
ton, which, under the provisions of an act
passed in 1879, becomes the permanent seat
of government for the State.
A slight fire in the tenement house 672
First avenue, New York on Sunday morning,
shortly after midnight, caused a loss of eight
lives, the victims being suffocated by the
smoke. Fourteen persons were injured, some
of them by jumping from windows.
The Government of Mexico announces
officially that no Mormons immigrating to
Mexico from the United States will have any
concessions granted them, but are at liberty
to come as other immigrants, subject to the
laws of the Republic, which forbid polygamy.
Lucy, wife of John Gilchrist, while insane
from liquor in Newark, New Jersey, on Tues
day morning, chopped off the head of her
six-months old baby. Another of her chill
dren gave the alarm, and the neighbors
rushed in, though too late to save the infant.
A public sale of colored Migrants, under
the vagrant laws of Kentucky, took place on
Monday, in front of the Courthouse at
Richmond, in that State. One man brought
$3S for twelve months service, one $14 for
three months, and woman 25 cents for
twelve months.
A fire in a building on South Water street,
Chicago, on Sunday night, caused loss of
about $4,000. While the fire was at its
height, twenty-five fremen on the upper floor
were caught by section of the falling root,
and two of them were killed. Several others
were badly bruised.
A building on Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn,
occupied by about twenty small manufactur-
ing firms, collapsed Monday morning and
caught fire. A number of men and women
were at work in the building, and the names
of 25 are given who are missing. Twelve
were caught by falling wall.
John Tonkin was killed by a premature ex-
plosion of blast in mine near Wilkesbarre
last Friday. Two weeks ago he sent money
to his wife and four children in England to
pay their way out to this country. On Sat
urday cablegram was sent to the family
telling them not to come, as their support
was gone.
Ralph NJ. Slade and Charles Wilson, while
crossing the Usage river near Nevada, Mis-
souri,, on Friday, both being drunk, began
discussing the strength of their friendship,
each for the other Their argument at
last led to fight, which other persons in the
boat vainly tried to check. In the struggle
the two fell overheard. Wilson shook him
self loose and clambered back. Slade was
drowned
A fire in the village of Carberry, near Kan
kakee,' Illinois, early Sunday morning, de
stroyed "a stores and IA dwellings, all frame
structures. The total loss is estimated at up
wards of $4,000. Three sus picious looking
men who left the village in freight train af-
ter the alarm of fire was given, have been ar
rested at Kempton on suspicion of having
fired the place.
On Friday last posse went to Deer Ranch,
Indian Territory, to arrest a number OF cattle
thieves. As they approached the house the
bulGf0S uT6u upOl lHO pOSocs hltlluS huuJ anu
Joseph Raft, man named Matois and MEM
Der of the Indian police named Gus. The
thieves were not arrested. They live in Del
aware Bend and have often eluded arrest by
crossing into the Chickasaw Nation.
A telegram from Panama says that on Sun
day last trouble occurred between some ia
maicans and national soldiers at Culebra.
The latter were disarmed and afterward re-
tired. After procuring reinforcements they
returned and broke into the barracks where
the Jamaicans were sleeping and in the most
barbarous manner, killed twenty-five of them
and wounded twenty others. Only one Co
lombian was killed and none wounded.
While workmen were removing heavy
stone cornice from the top of the Burnet
House, in Cincinnati, on Saturday, one OF
the men, named Leffel, stepped on the edge
of one of the stones and it fell, carrying several
others with it. The stones struck the the bal
cony and broke through it into barber shop,
in which were six men. The barber, Mr..
Kreh, was injured but the others escaped.
Leffel was instantly killed.
The Secretary of the Navy on Tuesday tele.
graphed to Rear Admiral Jouett as follows
1.-THE officers for the Iroquos sailed pei
steamer of the I'd inst Change the men,
putting on board men now in the lsthmus
Send the old crew home with officers. Send
home one half the marine force if you think
it prudent. When you think it safe withdraw
all garrisons Put the remainder on board
ships at Panama and Aspinwall for the
present.
Much excitement is reported at Red Key
Indiana, on account of revocation of insur
ance policies by Milwaukee company, which
holds most of the local risk, because of threat
ening letters, coupled with one or two at
tempts to burn property, and one or two tc
blow up a saloon. There has been a bitter
contest between the Prohibitionists and saloon
keepers for some time, and it is thought that
this has given rise to the present condition O
affairs.
Oscar Meyer, convicted of the murder o
Herman Krause, attempted to commit suicide
in the jail at ST. Adams, Vermont, last week
but the overdose of poison which he took pre-
vented the accomplishment of his purpose
In his effort to make the job sure he took
63I grains of morphine pills, and some mer
curry and tin scrap from the back of looking
glass He had been saving the morphine
pills given him from time to time to induce
sleep. While very sick and expecting to di,
Meyer confessed to shooting Krause.
1t is reported from Taraton, Mexico, tina
the seven ear-old son of wealthy residen
named Lopez was kidnapped recently anC
the father was notified that the boy woulC
| be killed if a ransom of SIS 900 was not depos
tied in a certain place within Two days. b.
accident the note was not delivered until toe
late to negotiate AT the expiration of the