The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-02-07
News of the Week.

footing up S101, 900, the largest made in the
state for any quarter since the war.
DR.. John Baptist Marchisi died on Sunday
IN Utica, New York, at the age of 96. He
was native of Italy, and when young man
served in the army of Napoleon /.
Seven woodchoppers on Bots d Arc Island,
near Dallas, Texas, were poisoned Tuesday,
four fatally, it is supposed, by a centipede
which was found in the coffee they drank.
The Mayor of Boston has appointed COM
mlttee OF physicians to act in conjunction
with the Board of Health, in taking measures
to prevent the spread of cholera next sum-
mer.
An explosion of gas occurred on Monday
IN coal mine at Saranna, in the Indian Ter
rltory, by which 3 men were killed and $50
others burned or otherwise injured, 80 of
them dangerously.
Chambers prevail among the horses in differ
ent sections of Illinois. The State Veterina-
rian last Friday ordered six diseased horses
| to be killed near Decatur, and he will inspect
several animals at Taylorville
Jones, alias Jimmy Carroll, notorious
American burglar, was last week released
from the penitentiary at Kingstown, Canada,
where he had served term of several years.
Before he left he exhibited American bonds
to the value of 100000.
At boarding house in Omaha on Monday,
twenty three persons were poisoned by trough
on rats, which unaccountably got into the
sugar used in the pastry. At last accounts
all were out of danger except a Miss Ogden,
who was dangerously sick.
Dynamite was the theme of denunciation
from three pulpits in Chicago on Sunday
nightly Prof. David Swing, at the Central
Church; Rev. DR.. Thomas, in the Peoples
Church, and the Rev. L. E. Green, in the
Eighth Presbyterian Church.
The Rev. John Parker, of the Methodist
| Church at Jamaica, L. l., has issued an edict
against roller skating, and has threatened to
/ expel from his church any member visiting
a rink. The younger members of his church
denounce Mr.. Parker conduct, and threaten
to leave the church.
Resolutions were introduced in the Ohio
House of Representatives on Saturday for
the appointment of a joint committee of three
Senators and five Representatives to inyesti-
gate the charges of jobbery and corruption
made in connection with the election in Octo-
Der last.
1t is said the Republican majority in the
Senate of Illinois have decided to prevent
| joint session of the Legislature, and thus
prevent the election of U. S. Senator. This
would place the appointment in the hands
OF Governor Oglesby, and satisfy Logan's
friends.
w. f. Brandt, of Reading, Pa, the hercu-
lean fireman, died of asthma on Tuesday, aged
80 years. He was six feet three inches tall
and weighed $50 pounds; was of herculean
| strength, and took the prize at the recent
State tiremen's tournament, being the heaviest
active fireman in the state.
! A dispatch on Wednesday from George
| town, Colorado, says: ''During a severe
wind this afternoon a train from Denver
on the Colorado Central Railroad was blown
! from the track about mile below this place.
Of the twenty passengers on board eighteen
were more or less injured. The stomr did
much damage in the town"
| A reporter of the Chicago Tribune says
there are 100000 head of cattle on the
Cherokee strip of land in the Indian Territory.
More than 100000 have already persisted
| from the cold, and another week of Indictment
weather will, it is feared, cause 200, 600 more
to perish. Nearly all the Indian Territory
is covered with five inches of snow.
Temperatures below zero were reported in
New England Tuesday morning as follows
Mortified, Vermont, 40 below; Middlesex,
Vermont, 40 below; Marchfeld, Vermont, AZ
| below; Moretown, Vermont, As below; Han
over, New Hampshire, 81 below; Norwich,
New Hampshire, 40 below; Bridgeton, Maine,
45 below.
| Some of the colored residents of Belle
| flower, Ills, have received letters warning
them to move away. Coored children have
been badly treated at the public schools and
forced to leave, and similar treatment of col
ored people is reported in other central Hill
nois precincts, especially IN the towns of Say
brook, Gilman and Sibley.
At Newark, New Jersey, on Monday, Mary
| McGee, convicted of throwing yitriol upon
VIM Clark a few weeks ago, was sentenced
to ten years Imprisonment. The Judge, in
passing sentence, said that 'persons who
threw vitriol were as dangerous as those who
threw dynamite, and must expect to be pun
iShed to the full extent of the law
In the Grand Army of the Republic, of
! Massachusetts, IN session at Boston, resolu
/ ton instructing delegates to the National
] Encampment to favor the Lowering bill
granting general pension of IS per
month to all soldiers who served in the army
and navy for period of sixty days Or more
was defeated-yeas ia, nays 253.
All the telephone wires on Staten Island
were cut during Saturday night The cutting
was done in several places, and the ends OF
the wires tied together. The perpetrators
are unknown. A few days ago large reduc-
ton was made in the salaries of the company's
employees, and the superintendent and some
OF the other employees resigned.
William Garlck, late cashier of the Island
| Savings Bank, died in Galveston, Texas,
Sunday afternoon. After returning from a
years sojourn in the North, on account of his
/ health, he discovered from the books of the
bank that it had been wrecked during his alb
seLce. He said it would kill him and that he
would be dead in two months. His prophecy
was fulfilled to the very day,
/ The Cbrop;ola Fala1raDh IF p;tteburn
/ Pa, says it has come to the knowledge Of
some secret agents there that Socialists have
stored arms and dynamite in the city and are
ready for an outbreak on capitalists. Men
! from the Hooking Valley and elsewhere are
said to be here ready for business. Gov. Pat
tison announces that if there should be an
outbreak of Socialists at Pittsburg it will be
put down promptly by any force necessary.
A sleighing party was struck by a train at
a railroad crossing near Port Clinton, Ohio,
early on Saturday morning, and two of the
party-S. S. Hall, of Detroit, and Miss Jen
ME Whipple, of Wauscon, Ohio-were killed.
Two others were injured, one of whom-Mrs.
John Vogel-died later in the day. Mrs.
| Abel d. Thiernechter and Mrs. Charles
4 Vogel of Oak Harbor, were not expected to
recover.
Gen. John W. Phelps was found dead in
bed at Guilford, New Hampshire, Monday
morning. He was u Yeas of age, served in
the Florida and Mexican wars, and was an
officer of the war for the Union. For his
services in the latter cause he was brevetted
Brigadier General, but resigned before the
close of the struggle, in consequence of an
unpleasautness resulting from the issuance by
him of an emancipation proclamation while
he was commandant at Ship Island
In April, 1884, Hiram Jefferson, an old man
and cripple, of Audubon, Iowa, was taken
from his bed in the night and hanged His
son, Cicero, and his son. in. law, Jno. A Smyth,
and Joel j. Wilson were arrested, and Cicero
confess L. duplicating the others, and they
were ali indicted. Judge Loot borrow Mon
| day granted change of venue when the case
was called for trial. The citizens, fearing the
prisoners would escape punishment, on We'd
nesday morning shot Smyth and Wilson dead
| in their cells after desperate fight, and
hanged Cicero Jefferson in the public park.
An explosion of dynamite took place at
Garry Brothers. dry goods store, on Grand
street, New York, late on Saturday night.
That store and the adjoining one of Ridley
Brothers suffered damage estimated at S250O.
No person was injured Four men, William
Britton, James DAILY, Joseph Lamb and
Charles Henry were arrested soon after the
explosion. They were standing in the shadow
/ Of an elevated railway station near by, and