The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-07-18
News Of the Week.


numerous icebergs, especially around the
Straits of Belle Isle.
Six new cases of smallpox were reported
in Montreal on Monday. Fifteen deaths oc-
cured last week from the disease.
Immense clouds of grasshoppels, of the
Kansas variety, have appeared in the Mexican
State of Coahuila, flying northward.
Secretary Whitney and a party of guests,
including President Cleveland, spent Monday
in bass fishing, at Woodmount, near Harper S
Ferry.
Arthur Brannigan, being drunk, lay down
on the railroad track at Steubenville, Ohio,
on Sunday night, to sleep. He was run over
and killed by tram
A shortage Of $500 discovered in the ac-
counts of the postmaster at Ord, Nebraska,
has been made good, but his suretles recon-
mend that he be removed.
Sixty persons are reported to have been
poisoned near Kankakee, illinois, by eating
dried beef brought from Chicago. Twenty OF
the victims are dangerously sick.
A rich deposit of mica, said to be worth
from SO to 50 per pound, has been discovered
on the South Mountain, three miles from
| Sheridan, in Lebanon county, Penna.
The Hessian fly has been devastating the
wheat fields of Wayne county, New York
The loss in Arcadia is estimated at $4,000,
and in the vicinity of Lyons at $4,000.
The Worlds Exposition plant, buildings
and machinery, at New Orleans, were sold at
auction on Monday for $175,000, and were
bid in for the new Exposition Company.
At Erie, Penna., on Thursday of last week.
two young ruffians put bunch of firecrackers
under the dress of Miss Elizabeth Waggoner.
Her clothes caught fire and she was burned
to death.
A heavy wind and rain storm passed over
| Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota, Sunday after
noon. The small steam yacht Minnie Cook,
with eight persons on board, was capsized and
every one drowned.
The War Department has received de-
spatches from the Indian Territory reporting
that the disafected Indians are becoming
quiet and there is favorable outlook for
the settlement of the Indian difficulties.
r. NJ Peacock and Charles Thompson
quarreled at Chauncey, Georgia, on Sunday
evening, and blazed away at each other with
revolvers. Both were killed, but not before
a stray bullet had killed negro standing
near
In Philadelphia, Friday night, Charlie. the
Swede, a sailor boarding house owner, stabb-
ed Joseph Mcguire, barkeeper, In the back
and attempted to escape by swimming across
the Delaware to Camden. His strength gave
out and he was drowned.
Inspector Armstrong telegraphed on Mon
day morning to Secretary Lamar that all diff
erences between the drovers and ranchmen
have been settled, and that cattle from Texas
are now moving northward through the lndi-
an Territory without obstruction.
At Rich Fork, Ohio. on Sunday night,
David Cogan quarreled with his wife. After
knocking her dowE with coffee pot, he pro-
cured an axe and severed her right arm. He
then turned the axe and beat her brains out.
The murder occurred in the presence of their
three young children. Cogan is in Jail at
| Woodsfeld.
An unknown tramp entered the house of
/ William Jones, at Now, Michigan, on Sun
day night, and demanded lodging. 1t was
refused, whereupon he began to break the
/ furniture and drive the family from the house.
Jones returned with a gun and shot the in
truder dead The authorities refuse to pros
! ecute Jones.
At noon last Friday, while the cashier was
at lunch, young man entered the Fourth
National Bank of Pittsburg, Pa, and told the
/ clerk in charge that a gentleman wished to
see him at the door. The Clerk was out for a
/ moment speaking to man in a buggy, and
when he returned IS, 600 in cash was missing
and the stranger had disappeared.
The preliminary examination of the Poles
charged with completely in the murders com
mitted during the church riot of June 28th
at Toledo, Ohio, was concluded in the Police
! Court on Saturday. Seventeen were bound
over on the charge of murder in the first de-
gree, thirteen on the charge of assault with
intent to kill and six were discharged.
In Chicago, a year ago, Mervis Raffsky con
/ spired with the father of young man accus
ed of burglary to fix the Grand Jury, so that
no Indictment would be found, and received
$40 for his work. He was arrested, tried and
convicted of conspiracy, and was on Saturday
sentenced by Judge Halves to pay fine of
$3.50 and costs, to be worked out at the rate
of 81 so per day
Last week the Bradford House at Waverly,
New York, was burned. A large quantity of
goods were saved from the burning building
and stored in the hotel barn. On Sunday
night the barn with its contents was destroy
ed by fire. When the fremen undertook to
use their hose they found the MOBILES stuffed
full of gravel. The people are looking for the
supposed incendiary.
A telegram from Pittsburg says the Allie
gheny Valley was visited on Monday by one
of the most disastrous storms eyer known
there. For an hour the rain fell in torrents,
the wind blew hurricane and the lightning
was incessant. The loss in property of all
kinds between Pittsburg and Ttusville is very
large At Freeport a inches of rain fell
in an hour. At Harmarsville the telegraph
Office was struck by lightning and a boy killed.
A fire in Albany. New York, early Sunday
morning, destroyed A. W. Burch's stables,
james A. Gray's piano factory and several
frame buildings By the fall of wall of the
factory several fremen were buried, one of
whom, Daniel Wheeler, was taken out dead.
John A. Lqby was so badly injured when ex-
trioated that he died in an hour Two others
Frederick w, Allen and Rufus II. Townsend,
were in a critical condition at last accounts,
Twenty-eight horses persisted in the stable.
On Thursday evening of last week people
were killed and buildings destroyed by light
ming in various sections. At Rantoal, Hi
nois, Henry Kennear's house was struck, his
two children killed, and himself and wife Sc
verely injured. The house of Ephraim Nor
ris, at Fort Popham, Maine, was struck and
Mrs. Morris fatally injured. Robert Marley,
farmer, was killed by lightning while walk
ing home from work at LqGan, Ontario. He
was carrying a hay fork on his shoulder at
the time,
The remains of Mrs. G. l.. Stone, Jr., who
was buried last week at MartinsVille, Virginia
were eXhumed, owing to suspicious of foul
play and the Coroner began an investigation.
On Saturday the jury found that Mrs. Stone
came to her death from cruel and brutal
treatment at the hands of her husband and
his father G. l.. Stone, Sr. Both men have
| been committed to await the action of the
Grand Jury The evidence showed that the
woman was tortured to death by most shame
/ fnl and unnatural treatment.
Gen. hrinkerhaff, leading Chic Hepqbli-
can, has recently returned from tour of the
South. OF Alabama he saysi Northern
Alabama Ia the most wonderful iron district
I in the world, and Pennsylvania must hereaf-
ter take back seat. In the production Of
iron Birmingham already rivals Pittsburg,
and it is only a question of a few years of
time when it will be ahead of Pittsburg.
Middle Alabama is fine agricultural region
and is moving forward. Montgomery, the
capital of the State, is a thriving city, and is
increasing rapidly in wealth and population.
/ A FIRE in Belfast. Maine, Sunday morning,
destroyed the Belfast Livery Gompany's sta
bles; Howe's block, occupied by several
business firms; the American House, the
/ leading hotel in Belfast; the carriage house
of the Livery Company, and wooden oarrI-
age shop. Twenty horses persisted in the
stable, and two men who were in the second
story Of that building, lost their lives, A
companion, named MpCahe, escaped from
the building with hands and face badly burn