The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-01-03
News of the Week.

John Baldwin, founder of the Baldwin
University, at Berea, Ohio, died on Sunday,
aged 95 years.
Typhoid fever is reported to be prevalent in
Toronto. There are more than 100 cases of
the disease in the hospital alone.
Six suicides we're reported last Saturday-two
in Pennsylvania, two in New York, one in
Rhode Island, and one in Massachusetts.
James Parker TreadwelI, lawyer and
capitalist Of San Francisco, died on Saturday
night His estate is valued at $5,00O,0OO
Seven hundred and twenty-one National
bank charters expire during 1885, rep
resenting an aggregate capital Of $50, 000,-
600.
Captain David Nye, General Superintendent
of the North Pacific Coast Railroad, dropped
dead in San Francisco on Monday of heart
disease.
Ezekiah Morrison, President of the First
organization, died on Sunday morning, aged
SO years.
Joseph P. Evans, colored, who was defeat
ed for Congress in the Fourth Virginia District
by Colonel j. d. Brady, has given notice that
he will contest Brady's seat.
A telegram from Toronto says that Paquet,
denying the doctrine of eternal punishment,
died in the hospital on Saturday.
George Westinghouse, founder of the Wes-
tinghouse Agricultural Works, at Schenectady,
and father of the inventor of the Westinghouse
air brake, died on Monday in Pittsburg, Pa,
aged rs.
Ezekiel Young, freight agent of the Provi
dence and Springfield Railroad, locked him
self in the engine house at Paseoag, Rhode
Island, on Sunday, and blew out his brains
with a revolver.
Near Dahlgren, Illinois, on Friday last,
Mrs. Williams, in fit of insanity, threw one
of her children into WE'LL and, tying another
one to her dress, jumped in herself. All
three were drowned.
Louisiana planters claim that the sugar
cane this year contains richer juice than has
ever before been known, owing to improved
methods of fertilizing and perhaps some Pc
cuharity of the season.
A man supposed to be James Greenwood,
of Chippewa, while crossing the Niagara river
from Chippewa to Port Day, about mile
above the Falls on Monday, was drawn into
the rapids and swept over the Falls.
An annual expenditure of 100000 is now
made for intoxicating liquors at Middletown,
N. Y, it is said, in population where 5000
people signed the temperance pledge three
years ago, through the influence Of Elder Win
chester. as
| George Clark, notorious burglar, COM
mitted suicide in the Office of the Chief of Po-
lice in Rochester, New York, on Monday
afternoon, just after his arrest on the charge
of safe breaking at Brockport, on Saturday
night
Abram R. Rearick, young man who at
tended horses suffering from the CHAMBERS, in
Peoria county, Illinois, is said to be suffering
from that disease which he contracted in Oc-
tober. He and his family have been quaran-
tined.
Rains and mild weather, causing the snow
to melt, caused disastrous floods at Hillsboro,
Illinois. Thou sands of acres of bottom lands
were inundated fences and bridges swept away,
and considerable loss of live stock.
Joseph Stump, aged So years, was killed on
Monday while operating portable sawmill
on farm in Tulpehocken township, Berks
county, Pa. The balance wheel of the engine
burst into pieces, and an iron fragment weigh
ing three pounds was hurled into his left side,
causing instant death.