The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-06-13
News Of the Week.


Saturday by hay carriage falling on her.
The cholera has broken out in various
places in Spain, and the government will in
augurate strict measures to check the disease.
The South Tredegar Nail Works, at Chat
tanooga, Monday, began the manufacture OF
steel nails, and will turn out 1000 kegs per
day.
One of the capstones of the Washington
Monument, in Washington, was badly cracked
by lightning during storm on last Friday
afternoon.
Large numbers of canker worms have APP
peared in the neighborhood of Midway, Mas
sachusetts, and are threatening serious dam
age to fruit.
A water spout burst on Sunday about eight
leagues east of Lagos, Mexico. One hundred
lives are reported lost. A great many houses
were swept away.
Mr.. Peter Stenger, of Franklin county, Pa,
father of Hon. w. S. Stenger, secretary OF
State of Pennsylvania, died Saturday in the
9lst year of his age.
A hurricane unroofed the Methodist church
at Woodstock, Va, last Sunday evening, and
blew down trees and fences in that locality,
causing loss of $4,000,
Mrs. Mary Beneman, a sister of the famous
Com modore Perry, is still living in Ames,
Iowa, at the age of liz. Her health is still
good and her mind vigorous and bright.
In the conhagration at Aux Cages, Haiti,
on May 18th, 800 buildings were destroyed
and 1000 families were rendered homeless.
The loss is estimated at over $4,000
A State Convention of the Greenback La
Dor party of Ohio was held last Friday in Co.
lumbus, and full ticket was nominated,
headed by ]. w. Northrop for Governor.
A terrible thunder storm passed over Paris,
Illinois, on June A, unroofng half the Me-
tropolitan Block, and almost totally demol-
ishing the Presbyterian Church and number
of other buildings.
f. Reynard, notary public of Montreal,
was sentenced by the Supreme Court in that
city, on Saturday, to make good the damage
caused to widow by an illegal clause which
he inserted in will.
Fin and Maus Rainsberger were taken from
the Jail at Eldora, Iowa, last Friday morning
and shot dead by masked mob The victims
had been arrested for an attack upon a wit
ness in a murder case.
On June 1st Chief Justice Orsamus Cole, OF
Wisconsin, had been member of the Su-
preme Court of that State for thirty years.
For five years he has been chief justice. He
is now sixty-six years of age.
The latest official reports concerning the
hostile Apaches indicate that the main body
are south of the Southern Pacific Railroad,
pushing for Mexico. There are reports of
several other murders by the savages.
Myriads of young grass hoppers have sud
denly appeared on the south side of the Ar
kansas river, opposite Canyon City, Colorado.
Their appearance causes little apprehension
as they are not likely to do much damage.
The house of j. Wonch, at Barrie, Ontario,
was burned on last Friday night, and Mrs,
Wonch and their four children persisted.
Wonch escaped by jumping from a window
after vainly attempting to rescue the others.
The application for new trial in the case
of Cluverius, convicted Of the murder of
Lillian Madison, in Richmond, Va, was re-
fused Tuesday morning. A motion was then
entered in arrest of Judgment until the 10th
instant.
The assessor of the Second Ward of Mil
waukee, found that Peter Bast, an aged black
smith, had concealed 900 for many years
to avoid being taxed. The discovery so wor-
ried the old man that he beat out his brains
with hammer.
A telegram from Lebanon, Pa, relates
that Monday afternoon Mrs. Maria Splitter
was stung on the neck by a seventeen-year
locust, causing great pain and swelling, and
necessitating the services of physicians, who
have pronounced her out of danger.
The number of immigrants who arrived
in the United States during May was 66,971.
The total number of immigrants who arrived
during the eleven months which ended May
3Oth 1885, was 343, 439, against 454, 2O6 dur
ing the corresponding period of the previous
year.
General Crook telegraphs that citizens have
been killed by the hostile Indians as follows:
Seven in the Blue and around Olivia, 5 near
Silver City, near old Camp Vincent and 3
near Grafton total of II. There may have
been Others killed, but there is no reliable
data to be obtained.
a telegram from San Simon, New Mexico,
saws that on Thursday night of last week,
twenty six cattlemen had fight with Indians
at the mouth of Doubtful Canyon. Two of
the indians were killed, and an Indian baby
Whose mother IS supposed to have also been
killed in the fight and eighteen head of
stock were captured.
The monument to the Ninth (Lrish) Massa-
chusetts Volunteers, on Round Top, Gettys
burg, was unveiled on Tuesday. The monu-
ment is Hallowel granite, 122 feet in height,
without the base, or Is feet in all. 1t bears
full inscriptions, on one face being the figure
''9'' in circle of shamrock.
Sixty-five whites and $50 negroes have been
indicted at Dallas, Texas, the former for play
ing poker the latter for ''crap- shooting "a
game played with dice. The indictment of
the colored players was procured by deacons
of their churches, and panic has been the
result Seventeen walters have suddenly dis
appeared and the menial service is generally
paralyzed.
A wind storm passed over Richmond Va,
last Friday afternoon. Several houses were
unroofed, trees were stripped of their limbs,
awnings were torn from their fastenings, and
windows were broken. An old two-story
cooper shop was blown down, seriously in
iuring w. j. Penton, the proprietor, his nine
year-old son. and an old man named John
Harlow.
The female wing of the Eastern Lunatic
Asylum, at Williamsburg, Virginia, was de-
stroyed by fire on Sunday night. All the in
mates were got out safely, but one of them
wandered away, and was found on Monday
morning drowned in a neighboring creek.
The loss on property is estimated at $1,000
on which there is an insurance of only $780,
600
A fire in Suffolk, Va, on Sunday night,
swept both sides OF Washington Square, the
main business street of the town, leaving only
three houses standing. It also extended for
some distance on both sides of Kilby street
and down the west side of Main street. Nearly
half of the town is destroyed, and the total
loss is estimated at $3.50, 900; the insurance
at $3.50, 900. The origin of the fire is UNI
known.
At Erie, Pa, last week, Denman Orion was
driving spirited team, which ran away and
colided with telegraph post, breaking Or
toms skull. A boy named Kuhn was knock
ed down and trampled by the horses feet.
A buggy containing Andrew Hinton and an
old lady named Mrs. Warden was run down;
Hinton's ribs were broken and Mrs. Warden
was MORALLY injured. A man named William
Auner had his back broken.
The State Board of Agriculture of Ohio,
from official and private dispatches from the
principal wheat States of the Union, estimates
a probable shortage of $50, 900 bushels as
compared with the five years average. Of
this shortage 100000 is found in the six
great winter wheat States Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and California
which, on five year average, yield 20S, 000,
900 bushels As compared with last year the
shortage is more than 1000, 900 bushels.
The Corpus Christi procession in Montreal
on Sunday was the largest ever seen in that
city, 10000 persons taking part. While the
procession was passing along st. Peters
street, Salvation Army parade turned into
the street to reach Mechanics Hall. The