The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-05-30
News of the Week.

New York. 1t was first noticed last year.
The Marine Hospital Bureau is informed
that during the two weeks which ended April
4th there were 1873 deaths from cholera IN
Calcutta.
Col. A. Loudon Snowden, superintendent
of the Philadelphia mint, has forwarded his
resignation to President Cleveland, to take
effect June 80.
A number of persons are reported to have
been poisoned, and some are said to be dan
gerously sick, from eating canned beef at
Blanton, Berks county, Penna.
The payroll of the New York Custom
House for the present month amounts to
1927, 900, or ST., 800 less than in April. and
S29, 900 less than in October last.
The smallpox prevails at Shenandoah,
Iowa, and the Mayor and President OF the
Health Board both have the disease. Nine
teen houses have been placed in quarantine.
The loss by the fire in Somerset, Quebec,
last week. is now estimated at 100000.
IA buildings were destroyed in three hours.
There is great restitution among the sufferers.
A fire in Lansing, Iowa, on Saturday, de-
stroyed forty buildings, among them the
Lansing Bank building the Post office, the
Mirror and Journal offices, a hotel an several
stores.
The murdered body of az unknown young
man has been found in the woods near
Coopersville' Sussex county, Virginia. The
head was cut off, and lying several feet from
the trunk.
It's reported that two cases of cholera have
appeared on a vessel bound for Canadian
port and that the patients have been landed
at Crosse Isle quarantine station, IN the st.
Lawrence.
John L. Schoch, Assistant Naval Construc-
tor. committed suicide on Sunday, at Green
witch, England. He was about "a years of
age, and one of the most promising young
men that ever left Annapolis.
Victor Marie Hugo, the distinguished states
man, scholar, novelist and poet, died in Paris
on Friday afternoon of last week, in his 84th
year. He was born at Besancon February
26, 1902, and the son of Col. Hugo of the
French army.
John Pinnax, of Stony Creek, North Caro-
lima, knocked his two little children, boy
and girl, on the head with an axe one night
last week, then ran to creek and drowned
himself It's thought money endorsements
made Pinnax crazy.
John E. W. Thompson, the new Minister
to Hayti, expects to sail for his post on the
9th proximo. He has been instructed to in
vestigate the case of Van Bokkelin, imprison-
ed by the Haytien Government, and report to
the State Department.
The genuine Hessian fly, heretofore con-
fined to the wheat belts east of the Rocky
Mountains, has appeared on the PACING
coast. A specimen of the insect has been
sent to the Agricultural Department at Wash
ington.
At Franklin, Kentucky, on Monday night,
a mob of one hundred took from the jail
Wesley Hicks and John Taylor, charged with
burning house, and, placing them on horses,
started for the country. The bodies of the
prisoners were subsequently found hanging
from tree.
The Yosemite stage which left MADEIRA,
California, on Friday morning of last week,
was robbed by highwaymen near Clark s Sta
ton. Among the passengers were several ex-
cursionists, who lost all their money and
jewelry. The Wells, Fargo & Co.'s treasure
box was also taken.
While Thomas Gapwall and Thomas Man
mon were on the river in skiff, at Henry,
Illinois, Tuesday their boat went over the dam
and Mannion was drowned. Charles A
Marsh, who stood on the lock wall looking at
the disaster, was seized with fit, and falling
into the water was also drowned.
The Worlds Exposition at New Orleans
will be closed May 81. The friends of the ex-
position have raised Ss5, 900 by subscription to
meet the expenses of carrying it over until
next November, when it will be reopened.
The railroads reaching New Orleans will sub
scribe 500, 900 towards reopeEing the expo
sition.
The ffty-sixth anniversary of the Brooklyn
Sunday School Union was celebrated in that
city on Wednesday. The children met in
their schools, and after anniversary exercises
in various churches formed in line-about
co. 600 children-and with banners and flags
flying marched through designated streets of
the city.
A large barn on the farm of Eli X. Mylin,
in Pequa township, Lancaster county, Pa,
was burned on Thursday night of last week
with twelve cattle, two colts, a large amount
of grain and farming implements. The body
of Mrs Martin, wife of the tenant farmer.
who is beloved to have set the structure on
fire, while insane, was found in the ruins.
The Mexican Government has permitted
the garrison of Vera Cruz to be inoeulated
with yellow fever virus. Experiments were
first made on prisoners who volunteered for
the purpose. Persons vaccinated with the
virus have all the premonitory symptoms of
the fever. 1t is thought that the incubation
will serve as a complete protection for four or
FIVE years.
A bottle has been found in Fish Creek,
which empties into Lake Superior, contain
ing a piece of paper on which was written ::
son board Manistee. Terrible storm to night;
may not live to see morning. Yours to the
world, John Mckay" Captain Mckay was
commander of the steamer Manistee, which
was foundered eighteen months ago, and none
of her crew were ever found.
L. Rosenzweg some time ago got on a
limited express train on the Lake Shore rail
road, to go from Cleveland to Erie. The
conductor refused to accept a regular ticket
or money, and put Rosenzweig off. Rosenz
weig fell into a pile of stones, from which
paralysis resulted, and jury at Cleveland
last week awarded him S48, 700 damages
against the railroad.
The Secretary of war ON Monday telegraph
ed to the commanding Generals of the Divis-
ions of the Pacific and the Missouri as follows ::
|'Use every exertion possible, and call for all
the assistance of Federal troops you may re-
duire to suppress Indian outbreaks in Arizona
and New Mexico. These outrages must be
stopped in the shortest time possible, and
every precaution taken to prevent their occur
renee in the future"
The steamship City of Berlin, from Liver
pool for New York, with 400 passengers, ran
into a large iceberg on the Newfoundland
banks in thick fog early on the morning of the
10Th instant. The vessels bowsprit, figure
head and forward gear were carried away,
and huge masses of ice fell on the forecastle
deck, staving it in. Fortunately the ship
was going at half speed only, or she would
have been sunk. She arrived at New York
on Saturday.
Early Tuesday morning Mr. John Parry,
Jr., of Delta, York county, Pa, got up to
make the kitchen fire, leaving his wife asleep
in bed, rs he supposed. Returning to wake
her he found her dead DIR. N. B. Bryan
was sent for and decided that she had died
from suffocation. Upon examining the body
carefully he found that Mrs. Parry's artificial
teeth had become displaced and were lodged
in her throat in such a way as to completely
close the wind pipe.
Four masked men went to the house of
Theodore Vandever, a farmer, in Butler coun
ty, Mo-, last Sunday night, and tied his hands
and seized his two hired men and compelled
Vandever to give up $4,000 in currency that
was concealed in the house. They then fore
ed him to reveal the hiding place of $4,000 in
silver coin buried on the premises, after which
the robbers escaped with their booty. This
is the third time that Vandever has been
robbed, losing in all about $4,000
Professor Riley, the entomologist of the
Department of Agriculture, says the seven
teen year locusts, or ccadas, are harmless to
growing crops and do no injury, except to the
the twigs of forest and fruit trees. Wherever
,oupu orchards have haan nlantad on land