The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-10-24
News of the Week.

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Eight inches of snow fell Tuesday at Ish-
pening, Michigan, and mail train was block
AIDED at Summit.
OF the $50 divorces granted in Massachu-
sets last year 81 per cent. were granted on
the petition of the wife.
Malcolm Hay, ex-First Assistant Postmas-
ter General, died Tuesday at his residence in
Allegheny City, Penna., aged As years.
An earthquake, lasting about ten seconds,
occurred at Sandersvile, Georgia, at % min
utes past 5 o'clock on Saturday afternoon.
The vibration was accompanied by a rumbling
sound.
A foot of snow is reported from nearly all
parts of the northern peninsula of Michigan,
! blocking the railroads. There was light
fall at Galena and Monmouth, His, on We'd
nesday.
Benjamin c. Squires, convicted two years
ago of defrauding the city of Railway, New
! Jersey, out of $4,000 in bonds, while chairman
of its Finance Committee, has just been sem
fenced to three years in the penitentiary.
At Hazelton, Penna., on Friday afternoon
of last week, an overloaded gun exploded in
the hands of Edward Burnley, killing Robert
FIGHTER, blowing off Burtley's right arm and
dangerously, if not fatally, wounding Thomas
Scott.
| While W. H. Clark and his son were filling
and lighting gasoline street lamps from q
wagon in St. Paul on Thursday night of last
week, one of the cans exploded, burning up
the horse and wagon, and dangerously burning
the two Clarks.
A Western express train ON the Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad ran into an immigrant train,
near the Hackensack river bridge, near Jer-
sey City, Sunday night. Eight persons were
killed and number injured. All the killed
were on the immigrant train.
The tenth annual Church Congress of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in the United
States, began on Tuesday in New Haven.
Bishop Williams delivered an address of well
come Archdeacon Farrar will take part in
the discussions of the Congress.
Mr.. Mason, our Consul at Marseilles, re-
ports to the State Department that the wheat
crop Of France this year is 5, 100000 bushels
above the average of the last ten years. There
still remains, however, deficit of 1885, 900
bushels to be supplied by importation.
At Salt Lake City, on Saturday, Aurelius
Miner, ex-Assistant U. S. Attorney General,
was sentenced to six months Imprisonment
and $500 fine for unlawful cohabitation. w.
D. Newsom, convicted of polygamy, was sem
fenced to three years Imprisonment and $500
fine.
During the week ending last Friday night,
293 deaths from smallpox were reported by
the authorities of the Catholic Cemetery at
Montreal. 100 deaths were reported in the
suburban villages. Sixty nine new cases of
the disease were reported in Montreal on Sat
urday.
Three persons were killed and five injured
by collision between trains on the Northern
Railroad, at Andover Plains, New Hampshire,
Sunday morning The killed were Lucius
Graves and John P. Emerson, engineers, and
William Harvey, freight brakeman. Only
one of the injured is believed to be in dan
gerous condition.
Five cars loaded with wheat, on the North
ern Pacific Railroad, ran into q ditch near
Aitken, Minnesota, on the 18th instant.
Two men, stealing a ride, were found suffo :
Gated in the wheat. From letters found on
them they are believed to have been John R.
Cochrane, of Volante, Penna., and Louis
Dust, OF Champaign, Illinois
The U. S. Grand Jury at Blackfoot, Idaho,
was discharged on Saturday, after session
of six days, during which it found 20 true
bills for unlawful cohabitation. The new
Chief Justice, Moves, thanked the jury and
said: If the trial jurors perform their duty
equally well, the day is not far distant when
the laws of our country will be rigidly en-
forced.
About $50 excursionists from Connecticut,
including Governor Robinson and the mem
beers of his staff, the New Haven Grays and
the New Haven Grays Uniform Veteran As
ISOLATION, with survivors of the Twenty
seventh Connecticut Volunteers, and their
friends, reached Gettysburg Tuesday evening.
They visited the battlefield, and dedicat-
ed the Twenty seventh Regiment monument
on "Wheatfeld."
At Seybertsville, near Hazleton, Penna.,
on Thursday night of last week, four tramps
entered small house occupied by two bach
elor brothers, John and William Kester, aged
respectively so and 81 years, and demanded
a large sum of money which was known to be
concealed in the house. The Kesters refused
to tell where the money was hidden, where
upon the tramps bound them hand and foot
and beat out their brains with club. The
murderers escaped.
The Eastern Flint Glass Manufacturers
Association met in New York on Saturday
afternoon, and unanimously resolved ''to
draw off the fires in all their factories rather
than accede to the demands of the workers
for higher wages This action will throw
out of employment between four and five
thousand men, girls and boys. The lockout
is the result of a strike, begun on the LIST inst.
by the glass blowers for higher wages
At Hoydentown, Fayette county, Penna.,
on Saturday night, two brothers named Tas-
ker, while drunk, attacked the house of Ira
Tate and threw a club at Mrs. Tate, seriously
iniuring her. Tate fired at the ruffians and
killed one of them. On the outskirts of the
same town, the same night, four negroes broke
open the door of house occupied by Michael
Borilla, and on the latter resisting, he was
shot and killed by one of the ruffians named
Scott.
Two passenger trains on the Philadelphia
and Erie Railroad collided Tuesday evening
about two miles south of Wiliamsport, Penna.
Arthur NJ. Middlekauf, express messenger,
and Eugene Thorn, fireman, were killed,
and two train hands were severely injured.
A passenger was slightly injured. The COLI
sion was caused by the failure of the engineer
of the east bound train to observe the red
danger light displayed in the signal tower.
He was confused by binding rain-storm
which prevailed at the time,
About twenty thousand persons, including
many roughs, gathered on the wharf at Pitts
burg Sunday morning to join an excursion to
Davis Island Dam, where Paul Boyton was
advertised to give an exhibition. The crowd
rushed on the steamers and loaded them to
the water edge, whereupon, fearing disaster,
the officers of the boats announced that the ex-
bition would be given before the wharf This
led to q riot, during which the roughS, with
axes and other implements, nearly cut up two
steam barges and compelled the officers to
Jump into the river to save their lives, because
they refused to refund the money taken for
tickets Order was finally restored and the
ringleaders arrested. Only one man was in
jured and he but slightly.
William S. Warner, notorious for his con-
nection with Ferdinand Ward, was arrested
in New York on Saturday, and held in $40,
600 bail, on an affidavit sworn by District
Attorney Dorsheimer The latter charges
that by certain check operations, including
the deposit of check for $150,00O drawn by
Mr.. William H. Vanderbilt in favor of the
late General Grant, and afterward honored
by the Lincoln National Bank, Ward pro-
duced an apparent balance of 800, 66325 to
his credit in the Marine Bank on May s. 1884.
Against this apparent balance Ward, it is al,
legged, drew a check for $81 900 in favor OF
Warner, on which check Warner obtained
payment. Mr.. Dorsheimer finally AYERS that
the several operations of Ward, by which the
balance was made to appear to his credit,
were fraudulent; and adds that ''William 5.
Warner, at all the times mentioned, was pres.
ent aiding, abettng, melting, counselling and
procuring Mr.. Ward ito commit the often
ses aforesaid" he (Warner) intending to
injure and defraud the said Ulysses S. Grant,
and then and there intending to injure and