The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-06-27
News of the Week.

ties Tor taking care OF the SICK.
The first comptroller of the treasury has
disallowed items amounting to So, 200 IN the
accounts of Mr.. Hallett, supervisor reflections
in Boston.
The Nettleton Block, in Newport, New
Hampshire, was destroyed by fire on Sunday
morning, with two adjoining stables, tene-
ment and the town and county buildings.
In the Hastings Court at Richmond, Vir-
ginia, last Friday morning, [. j. Cluverius,
convicted of the murder of Lillian Madison,
was sentenced to be hanged on the 10th OF
November next.
A severe storm visited Sulphur Springs,
Texas, on Monday, wrecking the Catholic
and colored Methodist Churches unroohng
three business blocks, washing away bridges
and damaging the crops.
Five new fever patients were admitted to
the hospital at Plymouth, Penna., or Satur-
day, and three deaths from the disease were
reported. Another death occurred in Ply
mouth on Sunday.
William E. Woodruff, ST., died last Friday
in Little Rock, in the 9Oth year OF his age:
In 1919 he founded the Arkansas Gazette. and
when Arkansas was admitted to the Union
was its first State Treasurer.
The barn of William A. Mcintosh, a farmer
of Florence, Michigan, was fired on Sunday
evening by the explosion of lamp. Mcln-
tosh and a hired girl we're dangerously burned
and FIVE head of cattle persisted in the barn.
There is great excitement in the Indian
Territory, an outbreak of the Cheyennes being
threatened. General Augur has ordered
troops to the scene, and has recommended
the appointment of commission to inquire
into the trouble.
lF r.
on the mountain near Bound Brook, n. j., was
assaulted on Saturday night by celored tramp
named J John Williams. Williams was caught
and, after narrowly escaping lynching, lodged
in the Somerville jail
G. w. Hinckle, soldier of Troop K, of
the Seventh Cavalry, stationed in Dakota,
passed through Chicago on Sunday evening
on his way to Washington to be placed in the
insane asylum. His insanity was caused by
the excessive use of tobacco.
Henry Howard, colored, who had feloni-
ously assaulted two young women, one OF
whom is not expected to recover, was taken
from the Jail at Coshocton, Ohio, last Friday
night by mob of one thousand men and
hanged from tree in the court yard.
The Dover (Delaware) Sentinel published
eleven and half columns of letters from
peach growers, indicating that on the whole
the yield will not be so large as the earlier
estimates foreshadowed. The June drop has
been unexpectedly heavy in most of the dis
tricts.
Later particulars of the storm of the 18th
inst. on the Banks of Newfoundland, show
that it was the worst blow known for forty
wears. About 20 vessels are known to have
been totally wrecked, and number of lives
were lost Much property was also destroyed
on shore.
At Grindstone City, Michigan, on Sunday
afternoon, Maggie Morgan, aged 20, was
alone at home when a strange man entered
the house, stopped her cries with a handker-
chief, and then slashed her horribly about
the face neck and breast, leaving her for
dead. Her condition is critical.
Thomas w. BARLEY, ex-Lieutenant Gov
ernor, Acting Governor and Chief Justice OF
Ohio, died on Saturday, in Washington. He
was a leader in the Democratic party, and
published and edited the American Register,
a weekly paper. He was brother -in-law OF
General Sherman and Senator Sherman.
cloudburst in ST. Cloud and Madison
counties, Illinois, during last Friday night,
flooded the country, sweeping away houses
and bridges and running the crops. The
damage is estimated at 5000, 600 1t is said
that Is 900 acres of corn and vegetables were
James T. Tanning, an actor, known for
merly throughout the United States as an i'm
personator, of "Uncle Tom,i was on last
Friday. at his own request, sent to the House
of Industry. in Boston, for six months on a
charge of vagrancy. The old man asked that
his dog be allowed to go with him, and this
request was granted.
Particulars have been received at Denver,
~ e Al Ind IN ia
southern part of that State, in which several
Indians were killed by cowboys and settler
named Genther was killed by the Indians.
1t is reported that 500 Indians are ready to go
on the warpath if the investigation now in
progress at the agency is not satisfactory.
Chas. A. Buddensick the builder, whose
row of buildings on West Sixty second street,
New York, fell in a heap on April IL and
caused the death of Louis Walters, Trainer,
at work on the buildings, and who was re-
Gently convicted of manslaughter in the second
degree, was Tuesday sentenced by Recorder
Smith to ten years Imprisonment and to pay
fine of $500.
Dallas, Texas, claims, with good reason, to
be the phenomenal Southern town. Accord
ing to the Herald, of that place, it was, twelve
years ago, clump of shanties and ware
houses. Now it is splendid young city with
/ 81, 900 inhabitants, a tax-roll OF S0,O00000
and business capital of the same amount.
In the past year $l,600,000 was expended IN
new buildings there.
| Ex- Minister Daggett, who arrived in San
Francisco on Monday from Honolulu, is said
to be entrusted with secret mission from
the Hawaiian King to the United States Gov
eminent. Mr.. Daggett refuses to disclose the
object of his mission, but it has been aseer-
tanned from other sources that it is believed to
be for the purpose of opening negotiations fol
| the annexation of the Sandwich Islands to the
! United States.
According to telegram from Pittsburg, by
the LIST of July every iron and steel mill IN
| that city and vicinity, with one exception,
will be using natural gas as a fuel This will
! reduce the consumption of coal $3.50, DOC
! bushels per annum, or one-seventh of the
yearly output of the region tributary to Pitts
! burg. 1t will also throw out of employment
thousands of fremen, coal beavers and ash
haulers employed in the mills.
Mary KEENAN,, a young woman in Jail in
! Chicago for attempting TO poison her sister S
family, has confessed to a reporter that she
/ is guilty not only of the attempt upon then
lives but of causing the deaths OF her mother,
! father and another sister in Dubuque, Iowa.
Her husband died in July of last year, heI
| sister Lena III August anu Her ldJher; hlCHdcli
/ in March of this year. She assigns no motives
/ for her crimes other than she was impelled to
commit them. She is supposed to be insane.
Thomas l.. Roach, wealthy farmer, who
resides Il few miles from lteWes, Del, COM
mitted suicide Tuesday evening, His thirteen
year-old daughter Annie charges him with i'm
proper conduct, and becoming terrified at the
! enormity of his alleged offense, he sought to
/ end his life He made three attempts to take
his life, the first by cutting his. throat, the
second by jumping from a third story window,
and the third and successful attempt by hang
/ ing himself from a rafter i'll his barn.
At Charleston, West Virginia, on last Fri
day, balloon ascension was to take place on
the circus grounds, just prior to the opening
performance. Hot air was used to initiate the
balloon. just as the ropes holding the bal
loon were cast off, the hot-air stove was upset
and the structure caught fire. The burning
mass shot rapidly into the air, with William
Patterson, the aeronant, i'll the basket. The
crowd shouted to him to jump, but he did not
heed their advice, and after going up several
hundred feet the balloon collapsed, and Pat
terson fell to the earth lifeless. He was y
years old, and lived at Wellsville, Ohio, where
he leaves wife and family 1t was his first
ascension.
The Ball Mall Gazette prints hitherto un-
published proclamation Of the Ameer oi
Afghangtan to his subjects, issued in 1882.
1t reviews the history of the Afghans, claim
ing that they are descended from the lost ten