The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-08-29
News of the Week.


Five colored field hands were killed by
lightning in St. Charles parish, Louisiana,
last Friday afternoon.
Hog cholera is said to be prevailing to an
alarming extent in the stock yards at Chicago,
and many animals are dying daily.
S The wife of Rev. J. S. Willis, of Milford,
Delaware, died on Saturday from burns re-
ceiyed by the explosion of coal oil lamp
Five horses in CamilIus, New York, were
killed by lightning last Friday night, by get
ting their necks across wire fence which
was struck sixty rods away.
a heavy rain storm at Kalamazoo, Michi-
gan, on Sunday night, submerged nearly all
the celery fields in that section, causing dam
age amounting to about 100000.
A violent storm passed over CINCINNATI on
Saturday evening. The rain fell in sheets,
flooding Easements in all parts of the city and
temporarily suspended street traffic.
A love feast at Ocean Grove, New Jersey,
Sunday morning, was participated in by fully
four thousand persons. One hundred and
seventy ministers took part in the service.
The Wisconsin Central Railroad has con-
tracted for the construction of ll6 miles of
road, which will take the line to Chicago.
The work is to be completed by December
1st
The following appointments of postmasters
in Pennsylvania were announced last week
H. j. Glatfelter, Hanover Junction; VIM. j.
Metzler, New Oxford; n. Frank Rittase,
Littlestown; j. Upton Nicely, Fairfield.
A dispatch from Lock Haven, Pa, says
destructive hailstorm passed over Dunnstable,
Wayne, Pine Creek and Woodward Town
ships last Friday afternoon. The tobacco
crops in the track of the storm were totally
destroyed.
A despatch from Brace Bridge, Ontario,
says news of the passage of tornado over the
north end of the Muskoka district has been
received. Trees were blown down, and
houses and barns unroofed. Two children
were killed by falling trees.
Colonel A. s. Mariner, Postmaster at Carey
vile, Tennessee, was arrested on Saturday
for robbing the mails. He was formerly
Commandant of Cadets at the University of
Tennessee, and several years ago was Repub-
lican candidate for Mayor of Knoxville.
Secretary of State Bayard has received
from the Consul General at Montreal state
ment of the number of deaths from smallpox
in that city, since April 1st, last, as follows:
April, 6 May 10; June, 46; first two weeks
of August, 40. On August 18th 106 houses
in Montreal contained smallpox placards.
George Halverstall, an elderly farmer, liv-
ing five miles from Xenia, Ohio, shot and
killed Joseph Wolf, young neighbor, Friday
night. VOLTS dog had chased Halverstalrs
turkeys, and the latter insisted on killing the
dog, and Wolf was shot while trying to pre-
vent him. Halyerstall surrendered himself.
Mrs. Eliza Mace, of North Codorus town
ship, York county, Pa. on Monday killed one
of her children with a potato masher. The
woman is thought to be insane. Her father
committed suicide by hanging several years
ago, and a few months ago her brother
drowned himself
When the Cunard steamship Etruria passed
Sandy Hook at 3.35 o clock, Saturday after
noon, the log showed that she had made the
fastest ocean passage on record, the run from
Queenstown having been made in six days
FIVE hours and thirty-one minutes, an average
of nineteen miles an hour for the trip ofnear-
ly 5000 miles.
While crazed by liquor on Sunday, Frederick
Berkey, Jr., appeared ON the street in Salem,
Indiana, and began an indiscriminate fusilade.
He fired nine shots, aiming at whoever hap
pened to be in range. Laura Kierner VIM.
McLanahan, w. S. Percise and Jordan Payne
were wounded, the latter fatally. Berkey then
shot and killed himself.
heavy storm passed over Titusvile, Pa,
last Friday afternoon. Lightning struck the
residence of Samuel Chambers, on the out
skirts of the city, instantly killing Mrs. Cham
bers and seriously burning year-old child.
A storm at Scranton, Pa, Sunday afternoon,
blew down trees, small buildings and fences
in the western part of the city. The rain fell
in torrents.
Coal miners and other laboring men in
Pennsylvania and the West are accepting re-
auctions in wages and are yesuming work.
Capitalists have asserted they can't pay old
wages, and the men must either work or
starve. They have concluded that 80 cents to
ST. 25 per day is better than no wages at ALL
and they have tired of doing nothing and run
ming in debt, or living on scant fare.
The State Department is receiving at the
rate of fifteen or twenty day the responses
of Consuls to the circulars recently sent out
calling for information relating to various in
dustries abroad in which American importers,
merchants and manufacturers are interested
1t is the purpose of the Department to pub
lsh the reports in reference to each industry
in a form accessible to representatives of the
trade.
A farmer named Dad Huff, was arrested
at Valley Falls, Kansas, on Saturday night,
by Marshal Bales, and while being taken to
Jail resisted, drawing knife and inhicting
serious wounds in the Marshal's back. The
Marshal drew revolver and shot him dead. |
A young man named Barnes, whom the Mar
shall had called to his assistance, received a
number of cuts on the arm and was shot in |
the thigh.
Late on Saturday night, in the town of
Lake. Illinois, Sarah Snyder was shot and in !
stantly killed and Kate o. Leary fatally wound
ed. The supposed murderer is Cornelius
0'Leary. The wounded woman refuses to
say anything about the affair." but it is known I
the two were together drinking beer. O'Leary
is the son of Mrs. o Leary, whose COW kicked |
over the lamp which started the fire that
burned Chicago.
S. P. Morse & Co., who purchased the dry |
goods stock of Smith, the absconding mer- |
chant, of Omaha, Nebraska, for SIS, 900, at |
sate ordered by the United States Court, dis |
covered on Saturday in the basement of
Smiths building a lot of secret drawers and |
panel closets, in which were numerous gold |
and silver watches, lot of jewelry, silks, |
laces, &C., valued at over $4,000. These |
goods go with the sale.
On Sunday morning Leonard Gardner, who .
spent the night in Jail in Springfield, Illinois, |
for wife beating, procured bail and was re-
leased. He procured two revolvers and upon
meeting Policemen w. j. Camp and Frederick
Gall, who had arrested him, opened fire upon
them. Camp fell dead. Gall returned the
fire and killed Gardner Officer Gall then
fell, having been wounded in two places and
it is thought he will die.
While at work at the Pennsylvania Steel
Works, at Harrisburg, on Saturday evening,
Paul Suslieskie attempted to drive the pins to
close the bell which shut the furnace. He
had hardly stepped upon the bell when it
sank, and he was dropped into the molten
metal. The bell came back into its proper
shape, but before it could be opened, Suslies-
kie had been almost entirely cremated.
Three tramps on Saturday applied at the
house of Mr. Druckenmiler, in Sunbury, Pa,
for food They were offered bread and but
ter, which they refused, without meat They
then attempted to enter the house, but were
put out by Mr.. Druckenmiller, who struck one
of them. They then left but returned at night,
and finding no person in the house, threw
piece of greasy waste into the dining room,
setting fire to it. The fire was discovered
and extingqished by neighbors before doing
much damage. An alarm was raised and one
of the tramps was captured aud lodged in jail.
A fire broke out on the ship Colorado, lying
off Plum Beach, near Port Washington, Long
Island last Friday night. The flames spread
from the Colorado to the following ships, all
of which were burned to the waters edge and
sunk: Minnesota, Susquehanna, Congress,
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