The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-02-21
News of the Week.

Equine small pox'' is reported to prevail
among the horses at Montreal.
DIR. Leopold Damrosch, the distinguished
musician, died on Sunday in New York, at
the age of So.
The strike in the Hooking Valley (Ohio)
coal fields, which began last April, has end
ed. The miners were almost starving and
aid from outside was exhausted.
Elizabeth Bony, 90 years of age, on Mon
day barred the doors and windows Of her
house, near Falmouth, Kentucky, set fire to
the building and persisted in the flames.
Mrs. Elizabeth Holmes, wealthy lady of
Cold Spring, Long Island, died on Friday
night of blood poisoning. She cut her hand
while peeling an orange few days previous.
The wife of John Young, living near Eliza
bethton, Tennessee, locked her two children
in the house last Monday and went on visit.
When she returned the house and children
were burned.
Francis A. Drexel, one of the two brothers
at the head of the famous banking houses in
Philadelphia New York and Paris, died sud
denly in Philadelphia Sunday afternoon. He
was born in Philadelphia in 1924.
A railroad train was thrown from the track
near Rensselaer,, Indiana, on Saturday morn
ing, by broken rail. The baggage and smok-
ing cars were wrecked and an other car was
overturned. Twelve passengers were injured,
none fatally.
A freight train on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road was thrown from the track by broken
hange near Spruce Creek, Penna., on Satur-
day night. Sixteen cars were demolished,
and 200 sheep, 80 hogs and several horses
were killed.
The people of Arcata, California, have
compelled the Chinese to leave that place,
and have since held meeting and adopted
a resolution ''pledging themselves to use all
legal means to prevent the settlement OF Chi
nese in Arcata."
Alexander Mouton, ex- Governor of Louis
lana, died on Saturday, at his plantation, in
Lafayette parish, aged 81 years. In early life
he filled several important positions besides
governor, and was greatly beloved by the peo-
pie of his state until the day of his death.
The greater portion of the mining village
of Alta, in Utah, was destroyed by a snow
slide on Friday night. Twenty eight persons
Were buried by the avalanche. Twelve of
these were dug out alive on Saturday morn
ing; the remainder are believed to be dead.
A mysterious looking package was on Tues
day morning picked up on street bridge in
Dover, New Hampshire, near the Cocheco
4hllI Nv. u IL Was Idhtu W IuC pOllCG sud
ton and found to contain dynamite, with a
fuse attached. The package was thrown into
the river.
A telegram from Wilmington, Illinois, re-
ports the death there of Mrs Nancy Cass
Wilmore, a widow of local celebrity, at the
alleged age of 116 years. The despatch adds:
She was undoubtedly the Oldest person in this
State, if not in the United States She was a
native of North Carolina.
In Hawkins county, Tenn, few days ago,
James Reynold put kerosene oil on the head
OF his three children, aged 2, 4 and 6 years,
respectively, for the purpose of killing YER
min. Two of the children died within two
hours, and but for the arrival of physician
the other would have died also.
The Government of New Mexico has offered
a reward of $1,000 for the capture of ruffian
named "Dick' Rogers, who has been terror
izing the town of Ration for several weeks.
He lately took possession of dance hail. and
with the assistance of four comrades compell-
ed the inmates to dance at the muzzle of PTS
tolls all night.
Butler Malone, son of the Virginia Senator,
was held in $1,000 bail in Washington on
Saturday, for attempting to shoot an employee
in Vicker's Hotel. Malone was drunk at the
time, and was out raising the town, habit of
HIS. liz anu HIS ldjuGE WCTG W leave
their quarters at the hotel by the proprietor,
and are now at the Ebbitt House.
Owing to the danger threatening the Penn
sylvania Railroad bridge at Columbia, Pa, in
the event of an ice break up in the Susque-
hanna river, the railroad officials decided to
blast the ice in the immediate vicinity of the
bridge. 1t was then discovered that the river
in many places is frozen to the bottom, thus
rendering the plan impracticable.
Two men boarded passenger train on the
Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Rail-
road at Luling, Texas, on Sunday night.
After the train had gone some distance from
the station the two men stood up, and, with
drawn revolvers in their hands, compelled the
passengers in the first-class coach to give up
$3.50 in money. The robbers then jumped
from the train and escaped.
A train dashed through Reading, Pa, on
Wednesday at a high rate of speed, and the
fireman did not discover the cause until he
had crawled down from the tender and enter
ed the cab, when he discovered the engineer,
j. d. James, lying unconscious at his post.
He had been struck on the head by an obstruc-
ton at water tank and fatally injured
On Thursday of last week John and Abra-
ham Johnson left East Tawas, Michigan, for
a umberman's camp. On Sunday morning
John was found near the camp unable to move,
his hands and the lower parts of both legs
frozen. He died during the night. His
brother was found dead about one mile farther
on and partly covered with snow. The men
were out two nights, with the temperature 26
degrees below zero.
There was much excitement in Minneapolis
and St. Paul last week over threatning letters
received by milers and other leading bust
tbo, b,y0 ofur6 tbair
places would be blown up by dynamite. The
principal mill threatened was the Pillsbury,
in Minneapolis. and guard was quietly plac-
ed there in anticipation of an attempt to car
ry out the threats. The British Consul at
St. Paul was also threatened.
. Three ballots for United States Senator ill
the joint session of the Illinois Legislature on
Thursday resulted, John A. Logan, rep, 100;
VIM. r. Morrison, dem., "a; K. NJ. Haines,
DEM, 4; scattering 6. The House then took
a ballot, in the course of which Representa-
tive O'shea, dem, said he could not vote for
Morrison on account of his free-t trade princ-
pies, and Representative Sittig said he could
not vote for Logan under existing circumstan-
ceS.
In the Superior Criminal Court at East
Cambridge, Mass, Tuesday, the case OF ex-
Governor Moses, Carpet bagger,) of South
carolina, charged Will oolaiulhS Sof uHuol
false pretenses, came up for sentence, the
plaintiff having pleaded guilty. Moses made
an eloquent appeal for mercy, reviewing his
past career, and stating that his mind had
given way under his troubles. He was SEN
fenced to six months in the House of Correc-
ton.
A bill has been introduced in the Legisla-
ture of Missouri making an attempt to COM
nit suicide penal offence, punishable by
from six months Imprisonment in the county
Jail to five years in the penitentlary. Any
one aiding another to take his life shall be
considered guilty of manslaughter and pun
ished accordingly. A bill has passed the
same body providing for the teaching in pub
lie schools the effects of alcohol and narcotics
on the human system.
"A well-dressed woman, intelligent and
plausible, arrived at Cameron, W. Va, about
q week ago, and stopped at the best hotel,
where she represented herself as Mrs. Sco-
Vile, sister of Guiteau. She said she was
hooking for timber land and, it is said, sue
ceeded in victimizing merchants and others
there to the extent of quite large sum. She
suddenly disappeared, and it is charged that
She has been ''doing' the towns in the inte-
rior of the State for some time past
The British Parliament opened on Thurs,