The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-09-12
News of the Week.

News of the Week.
Heavy frosts two nights in succession hive
caused considerable damage to crops in Michi-
gan.
Twelve deaths from small pox were report
ed IN Montreal on Saturday, and fourteen on
Sunday.
Lincoln Smith and James Sinister, boys,
were fatally shot while stealing fruit on Sun
day, by Joseph Linder, near Goldendale,
Wyoming Territory.
A wagon load of dynamite exploded near
Lakefeld, Ontario, last Friday, blowing to
atoms team of horses and two men named
Morton and Simons.
Two deaths from yellow fever and five
cases OF the disease are reported at Guaymas,
Mexico. Mild cases of the fever are report
ed at Mazatlan and San Bias.
The Changers picnic, at Williams Grove,
Pa, ended Saturday, when the disposition of
machinery was made. 1t is estimated that
machinery to the amount of $500, 900 was
sold.
Mayor Pringe, City Attorney Peck and
dozen other city officials and wealthy men
were captured during police raid on a
gambling saloon in jackson, Mich, Saturday
night.
Rev. Charles w. P. Price, Presbyterian
minister of Cherokee, Kansas, hanged himself
on Sunday morning. 1t is supposed his mind
was unsettled by the death of brother and
sister.
! Rowland Reed, colored, boy of Is years,
was committed to Jail in Winchester, Virginia,
/ Wednesday, for the murder of his ten year
old brother whom he shot dead in childish
quarrel.
An insane man perfectly nude, who had
been living on leaves and berries on Bald
Mountain, Pa, and who said his name was
John Connors, was caught and taken to
| Wilkesbarre Saturday.
Large numbers of hogs are reported to be
dying OF disease presenting pulmonary symp-
toms in the country around Rockford, Illinois.
The disease also prevails at Rockton and
along the Wisconsin line.
DIR. Charles G. Am Ende, the Hoboken
druggist, whose blunder in compounding
morphine for quinine resulted in the death of
! Gretchen and Ella Holtz, was arrested Satur
day, and gave bail in $4,000.
Major Aaron Stafford, the last surviving
officer of the war of 1872, died at his residence
! in Waterville, Oneida county, N. T., last
Sunday,in the 99th year of his age, having re-
tanned his mental faculties to the last.
During the past week the health inspector
at Chicago has condemned ITO cholera strick-
en- hogs In a slaughter-house at the stock
yards he condemned 80 that had been
: killed and dressed and were all ready for
market.
A storm which passed over a portion of
Stafford county, Va, last Saturday afternoon,
did considerable damage. Outhouses, fenc--
ing and trees were blown down, and corn and
tobacco as.cut down by the hail which accom-
panied the wind.
The new bureau of the Naval Department
to be known as the Naval War College, was
formally opened at Newport, Rhode Island,
last Friday morning. The College is to be
for the study of the higher branches of the
naval profession.
Jim and Pink Lee, two noted desperadoes,
who have been the terror of Delaware, Bend
and Cook counties, Texas, and who have sto
len numerous cattle and committed forty
cold blooded murders, were killed recently
while resisting arrest.
Eleven cases of typhoid fever were report
ed at sanitary headquarters in New York on
Wednesday. In the week ended July Is there
were nine cases and one death, and the cases
and deaths increased each week until the
week ended September 5, when there were
thirty-seven cases and ten deaths.
There were 2132 new cases of cholera and
GIG deaths from the disease reported on Mon
day throughout Spain. The returns, as COM
pared with those of the Both ult., show that
the epidemic has increased in Barcelona,
Cadiz, Santander and Tarragona, and has de-
creased about so per cent. in the remaining
provinces.
A telegram from Deadwood Dakota, says
that the unpleasant weather of the two weeks
previous eliminated on Saturday morning in
a snow storm. The outlook for grain is gloo
my. Four-fifths of all the crops are cut, and
the bulk is lying on the ground heating and
growing. Much that is stacked is being de-
stroyed, even for feed.
/ Rev. Father James Clark, S. j., died on
Wednesday at the Georgetown College, near
Washington, aged 76 years. He was Penn
/ sylvanian by birth, a graduate of West Point,
and served in the United States army for
some time before he became priest. He
was at one time President of the College of
the Holy Cross at Worcester, Massachusetts,.
! A heavy rain storm set in at Parsons Kan
sas, on Sunday night, and continued until
/ late on Monday afternoon. The city was sur
rounded by water, in some places several
miles wide and many people were forced to
leave their houses. Some stock was lost, the
crops on the bottom lands were destroyed,
and there were two washouts on the Kansas
/ City, Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad.
The sheriff of Sweetwater county, Wyom-
/ ing, has arrested twenty-five of the supposed
ringleaders in the Rock Springs massacre,
/ among them Isaiah Whitehouse, member
/ elect of the Legislature. The charges against
them are murder, arson, rioting and robbery.
/ The number of Cinnamon who lost their lives,
/ Guiding those who have died in the hills from
their wounds, is still estimated at fifty.
/ Two prisoners, named Polk, confined for
murder, were roasted to death in the Jail at
| Murfreesboro, Arkansas, on Sunday night, by
u mob of lynchers. The lynchers, being I'M
able to get at their victims in any other way.
/ hauled a load of wood to the Jail, piled it
around the iron cell, saturated the wood with
coal oil, and literally roasted both prisoners
| alive, nothing standing but the brick wall of
/ the Jail.
Clayton Klink, aged 10 years, resident of
/ Union towship, Lebanon county, Penna.,
while hunting on mountain last week fell
/ into deserted mine $50 feet deep. Both his
feet were crushed, and he was otherwise Sc
verely injured. He was not found until Mon
day night, when, after lying seven days in the
cold, damp mine, he was raised to the surface
in an unconscious condition. If his life can
be saved, it is probable that his legs will have
to be amputated.
Washington, Fayettc county Ohio, was al
most obliterated by a cyclone on Tuesday
night. On Tuesday it was prosperous town
of 1000 inhabitants, and when daylight APP
peared on Wednesday morning it was a mass
Of ruins. The streets were crossed by trees
and lumber and bricks and debris generally
made them impossible. Five persons were
killed, three fatally wounded, and many
Others were cut and bruised more or less Sc
verely, and 81 900, 900 worth of buildings was
destroyed,
Thieves forced an entrance into the Ocean
View House, Nantasket Beach, Mass, Sun
day night, took the safe to the beach and
blew it open, They obtained 81, 200 in cash
and quantity of jewlery. Some papers and
500 were found on the beach Monday near
where the safe was blown open. The bur
glars also entered the Hotel Standish, broke
into the wine collar and helped themselves.
The Vine Cafe was also entered and liquors
and cigars were carried away,
Miss Anne Upshur Jones, the daughter of
the Rev. Clave Jones, died on Saturday at
her residence, in New York, in the ninetieth
year of her age. Her father had been rector
of Trinity Church many years ago, and after