The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-09-19
News of the Week.

lwelve glassware factories at Pittsburg,
which closed last June, resumed on Monday,
giving employment to 1000 men.
The American yacht Puritan has defeated
! the British yacht Genesta in the international
boat race, and the cup won some years ago
will remain on this side of the water
Emory A. Storrs, the we'll known lawyer
and politician, of Chicago, was found dead in
bed at hotel in Ottawa, Illinois, on Satur-
day. be was in the SD year of his age.
A fire in Nashville, Tennessee, early Fri
day morning of last week DESTROYED Lester
Brothers livery stable, with 10 horses and
mules and 100 carriages, and also an adion-
ing saloon.
A contagious disease, the nature of which
is not reported, has been raging for six weeks
at Sycamore Creek, Clay county, West Vir-
| glnla. Thus far there have been 100 cases
and % deaths.
| Diphtheria has been epidemic during the
summer IN the parish of st. Polycarpe, Sou
langes county, Quebec. 160 children have
died OF the disease. In one family alone eight
children died
Thirteen deaths from smallpox were re-
ported in Montreal on Saturday and forty
eight on Sunday. The number of deaths from
smallpox during the week which ended on
Sunday night was 12S.
A violent thunder storm visited Canton
Mississippi and the surrounding country on
Saturday. Trees and fences were leveled
and crops damaged. A gin house was struck
by lightning and one man was killed.
Our exports of beef and pork products DUR
ing the ten months which ended August 31st,
1885, amounted in value to $73, 761 ,451, an
increase of S2,024, GAL compared with the
exports of the corresponding period of 1884
A fve-story tenement house in Eighty first
street, New York, was damaged by fire early
Monday morning. Mrs. Ruetlinger and her
baby, while trying to escape by the roof, were
killed by falling down an air shaft sixty feet
deep.
Rudolph Denicke, for fifteen years route
agent on the Central Railroad of Georgia,
was arrested in his postal car at GAINESVILLE
on Saturday night. He had broken open 100
letters in the short run between Macon and
that place.
a large building occupied by Chinese la
borers at the Coal Creek Mines, near Seattle,
Washington Territory, was attacked by a
masked mob about one o'clock on Saturday
morning. The Cinnamon escaped to the
woods, but the building was burned.
A freight train separated on a steep grade
near Guilford, Indiana, last Saturday night,
and the rear section afterwards telescoped
that attached to the engine. Nine tramps
were imprisoned in a car loaded with oats,
and three of them persisted of suffocation.
A telegram from Shamokin, Penna., re-
repots a revival of Mollie Maguireism in the
Luzerne districts of Pennsylvania. Mines are
frequently fired and nine murders have re-
Gently occurred. "Coflin notices" have been
sent out and a general outbreak is expected
before November.
In Toronto on Wednesday the wife of Jos.
Airey, bricklayer, cut the Threats of her
three boys, aged from to years. Their
wounds are dangerous. The woman was ar
rested. Her maiden name was Hartley, and
her father was a prominent temperance lee
turer in Leeds, England, but she had been
addicted to drink for years.
Miguel Zetz, peanut seller, was annoyed
Sunday morning, in New York, by Charles
Bradley and some drunken companions.
Zetz finally plunged knife in Bradley's
heart, killing him on the spot. The murderer
was arrested and arraigned in Court, but
Bradley's companions were still too drunk to
give any coherent account of the affair.
The wife of E. A. Garfield, the artist, was
accidentally shot and MORALLY wounded at
their residence, in Hastings, New York, on
Friday night. Mr.. and Mrs. Garfield were
going to bed. There was pistol under his
pillow, and when he pulled off the coverlid
the weapon fell to the floor and was discharg-
ed and the shot struck Mrs. Garfield i'll the
neck. She died in few hours from internal
hemorrhage.
An unknown Mexican, who had been ar
rested in a fight in gambling house, in Bis
bee, Arizona, on Thursday night of last week,
reappeared at the place on Friday morning,
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peating rifle into crowd in the saloon. He
shot five men, one of them it is thought
fatally and then fed On Saturday morning
posse of citizens captured him in canyon
near the town and hanged him to u tree.
In the Free Thinkers Convention at Alba
ny, New York. on Sunday, Courtlandt Pal
mer read resolutions, which were adopted,
''calling for the repeal Of all laws exempting
Church and ecclesiastical property from tax
alton; the prohibition by law of the appropri-
alton Of public money for the support of or
use by institutions under the management and
influence of sectarian denominations, and the
repeal of all laws compelling the observance
of any day as a Sabbath or holy day, or en-
forcing the payment of legislative chaplaincies
or Of establishing special religious days to be
observed by public authority"
At Chester, Nebraska, on Saturday night,
a mob determined to lynch Warren Coon.
who had repeatedly beaten his wife and threat
ened to burn the town. The mob captured
Coon, and were about to lynch him, when his
wife pleaded for him on her knees, and pray
ed to heaven and to the mob to spare him
and to give him one more chance to be
man. Coon followed his wife's example,
prayed on his Bonded knees, and promised on
oath over Bible never again to mistreat his
wife and to stop drinking. Upon the under
standing that violation of his oath would
result in his hanging, the mob concluded to
let him have another chance and thereupon
dispersed