The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-11-07
News of the Week.

Ferdinand Ward, convicted of grand LARGE.
ny, was sentenced in New York, on Saturday,
to ten years Imprisonment at hard labor.
He was taken to Sing Sing.
The meteor which recently fell near Owa-
tonna, Mimi, has been blasted with dyna'
mite, and the fragments are being sent to
various parts of the country.
A clock that will run for 400 days (if it
should not get out of order) on a single wind
ing is said by the Nail and Express to be in
the store of New York jeweler.
The Eliza, vessel loading at Quebec, is
declared by the Toronto Globe to have seen a
century and half of active service, and to be
yet staunch and handsome craft.
A large flow of petroleum has been struck
at depth of $40 feet in Cahuenga Valley,
California The oil is of fine quality, and ex-
perts say the supply promises to be inexhaus-
tible.
Loring l.. Lord, aged 10 years, committed
suicide by shooting himself in the head, al
Westbrook, Maine, Friday. He had been
wrongfully accused of breaking a window at a
school which he attended
An anti-election fight at Busstamente, in
Nueca Leon, Mexico, on Saturday, resulted
in the killing of six men and the wounding OF
fifteen others. The opposing factions shot at
each other for several hours.
Philip Carroll, our Consul at Palermo, re-
ports under date of October 18th, that there
have been 1887 cases of cholera in that CITY
of which 2093 proved fatal. Over 10000 peo-
pie succeeded in leaving the city.
The boiler of the tug Frank Moffat burst on
Sunday morning opposite Marine City,
Michigan John Ward, William Miller and
James Wylie were killed. The captain and
four others were injured, but not MORALLY.
The Kanawha river, in West Virginia, be-
gun rising rapidly on Saturday morning. A
number of barges, containing half million
bushels of coal, were swept down the river at
Charleston. The lossis estimated at $l50,000,
The Civil Service Commissioners, Messrs.
Eaton, Gregory and Thoman, held their final
meeting as a Board on Saturday evening,
and Messrs. Eaton and Thoman then retired
from office, in accordance with their resigna-
tons.
P. W. Steele, principal of a college at
Lynchburg, Virginia, while on trip East
was enticed from the train at Plttsburg by a
we'll dressed stranger Friday night, taken to
dive, dragged and robbed of $500 in cash
and jewelry.
From three to six inches of snow fell last
Friday in the Canadian provinces of Ontario
and Quebec. A severe snow storm also pre-
vailed at Whitehall, New York, and other
points in the valley of Lake Champlain.
Snow fell during the morning at Syracuse,
New York.
Navigation ceased on Sunday morning in
SECTION g of Champlain Canal, at Whitehall,
New York The Joe was fully an INCH thick,
and an ice breaker had to be run for a dis
lance of five miles to release imprisoned boats.
This is unprecedented for the beginning OF
November.
While being taken to the prison hospital at
Auburn, New York Tuesday, David Augsber-
ny, q convict aged II years, dislodged his
false teeth and was ohoked to death. Augs-
berry, was serving a seven years sentence
for an attempt to kill.
The hog cholera continues in Champaign
county, Illinois, and is worse than it has been
there for several years. Within a few weeks
more than 1000 animals have died in the
southern part of Crittenden township alone,
and the disease is rapidly spreading,
A great storm ragged on Monday along the
New England coast. Much damage was done
to vessels in Boston and other harbors by
dragging of anchors and collisions, and the
bark Addie Camden was wrecked in Boston
Bay. A tremendous sea was running outside,
and serious disasters are feared.
The funeral of General Mcclellan took
place. Ou Int oClNlCSo hClO hOl1 ~
Madison Square Presbyterian Church, New
York. There was a large attendance, the
church being crowded. but the entire cere-
mony was remarkably simple, there being
nothing to INDICATE the eminenoe of the de.
ceased, except the presence of distinguished
persons and of delegations from military and
civic societies. A throng of people gathered
on the street, and heads were reverently bar
ed as the coffin was taken from the church
The remains were taken to Trenton, New
Jersey, where, after further services, they
were inferred in the family vault in the ceme-
terry in the lower part of the city.