The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-08-15
Hog cholera is committing great ravages in

| South Essex, Ontario.
There were 35 interments of small pox vic
TINS in Montreal last week.
Ward New, which cast over 500 votes less
than ten years ago, now has total population
of about so.
A colored woman only 81 inches high,
though 81 years old, lives on Florida plan
tation. She claims never to have been sick.
A farmer without hands, and who does all
the work on his land, is one of the successful
cultivators of the soil living near Roswell,
| Ga.
Dysentery is epidemic in Bridgeport, a
mining village near Mt. Pleasant, Penna.
Thirty cases of the disease and FIVE deaths
were reported Tuesday.
James w. Marshall the discoverer of gold
in California, died on Monday at his home
in Placerville, aged IA years. He was a
poverty stricken, disappointed man.
During thunder storm, near Rock Rapids,
Iowa, on Sunday, farm house was struck
by lightning and all the inmates-John Ma
guire, his wife and three children-were
killed.
1t is reported that about 200 persons are
sick at Shamokin, Penna.. of acute dysentery
ed to impure water and lack of sufficient sew
erage.
The house of Nels Enguist, at Bradford,
Minnesota, was struck by lightning on Thurs
day night, of last week. Enguist and hired
man, named Winson, were killed, and five
others were seriously injured.
While going home from church after memo
rial services, near Carrollton, Missouri, on
Saturday night, David Markles shot and
killed his divorced wife, and then went home
A mob demanding his surrender he commit
ted suicide by shooting himself in the head
A heavy rain and thunder storm visited
Kansas City, Missouri, before daybreak Tues
day morning. Cellars and streets in all parts
of the city were flooded. Two brick stores
collapsed during the storm, their defective
foundations having been weakened by the
food.
At Findlay, Ohio, on Sunday evening,
while Mrs. Maria Struble, aged so years, was
taking bottle containing old cider from a
shelf in the pantry, the bottle hurst and a
large piece of glass struck her in the neck,
severing her juglar vein. She died in few
minutes.
Further advices received at Paris, France
Aug. il, from Tonquin says that the bishop
of Quinhon reports that over 10, 900 Christian S
have been massaered in the provinces OF
Biendinh and Phyyen. Murders and incen-
diary fires are Of daily occurrence. The vica-
rate has been annihilated.
The men on the day shift of the West
End Coal Company mine at Mocanagua, Pa,
near Wilkesbarre, entered the mine as usual
Tuesday morning, to work, although they
knew that the fan had broken. The conse-
quence was a wholesale suffocatiun, resulting
in the death of ten men, and the injury of sew
eral others.
The railway station at Wheatand, Dakota,
was broken open ON Sunday night, and mail
bags were stolen, together with valises from
the express Office department. The pouches
were found half mile west, cut open, and the
contents missing. The pouches contained a
large amount in checks and drafts, and a
small amount in money. All the other mail
matter was burned.
The Farmers Assembly of Virginia began
its first convention Tuesday in Richmond.
Forty-two counties we're represented by sew
enty-fve delegates. Fl. l.. D. Lewis, of
Clark county, was elected chairman. He
said, on taking his seat, that ''the organiza-
the farmers of the State desired representa-
ton in the next General Assembly"
Near Ennis, Texas, on Friday of last week,
a man named Rankin, being in feeble health,
sent his two daughters, aged respectively 10
and II years, to the garnet to draw some IL
quor from barrel there. Holding the candle
near the faucet of the barrel caused an explo-
sion, killing one of the girls and fatally burn
ing the other, who died on Saturday. The
house, with its contents, was burned to the
ground.
Kelley Bonnell, well-known billiard play
er, died on Sunday in Atlanta, Ga. The dis
patch reports singular incident of his last
moments. Thirty years ago, when he was an
| infant, his mother missed a needle. The
doctors said that it had entered the child's
body and would come out some day. An
hour before his death he complained of an
itching sensation in his shoulder, and few
minutes later the long missing needle forced
its way out.
| The sufferers by the fever in Plymouth,
Penna., are about to sue the Water Company
| for damages for death and sickness caused
during the epidemic At recent meeting IF
! ty persons signed u petition declaring that
| they will bring suit to recover damages for
every death that occurred in their families.
1t is contended that they can show that the
water supplied by the Water Company was
the cause of the epidemic.
A telegram from Albuquerque New Mexico,
says that Juge Vincent the newly apo inted
Democratic Chief Justice of the Territory,
has named W. G. Webb to be Clerk of the
refuses to resign or give way to Webb, claim
lug that he was appointed for life, or during
good behavior. Leading lawyers of the Ter
ritory sustain Phillips in his position. The
matter will be referred through the Attorney
General to the President.
The County Committee of the Prohibition
party of New York City held stormy meet
ing Monday night. A committee had select
ed Matthew l.. Richie for Chairman, but
the delegates from the Twenty. third and
Twenty fourth Wards objected to the choice
as arbitrary. The temporary Chairman, I. J.
Ellsworth, refused to entertain protest and
Richie was elected. The delegates from the
wards named then withdrew. The meeting
endorsed Rev. L. Dewitt Talmage as candi-
date for Governor.
A large tubular boiler used for boiling rags,
in the Ivanhoe Paper Mill, at Patterson, New
Jersey, exploded Tuesday. The head of the
boiler went through an eight-inch wall into
the picking and busting department, and
through that and then through a twelve-inch
brick wall into the street The main part of
the boiler went up through the roof and fell
down again on brick wall. Two buildings
were wrecked. Several persons in the pick
ing room were badly injured.
Three wagon Loads Of people returning
from picnic came abreast near Jefferson, a
suburb of Chicago, late ON Sunday night A
race ensued, and the horses were dashed into
q run. Suddenly drunken man in one of
the wagons arose and snatched the lines from
the driver. The wagon was overturned and
the occupants thrown out. The driver was
killed falling under one of the horses, while
baby was knocked out of its mothers arms
and mangled to death. Several others were
badly injured.
A. dispatch from Boston, Mass, August II,
says; -Ex Governor franklin D. Moses, of
South Carolina, who was recently released
from custody in Middlesex county, where he
was serving out term of imprisonment for
obtaining money under false pretenoes, Is
again in trouble, having been brought into the
Superior Criminal Court to-day on a default
warrant for obtaining money from Samuel @.
Cobb, Fr d. J.. Ames and others of this city
by false pretenoeS in representing that he was
Col, Simms, of Charleston.
A misunderstanding is reported between
the outgoing and incoming administrations of
the Sub Treasury at San Francisco regarding
the count of the money in the vaults. "Mr.
Brooks, the ewly-appointed Sub. Treasurer,
is willing to accept count by weight, but
Mr.. Spaulding, the present incumbent, insists
upon every piece being counted before the
transfer is made. There is $93, 100000 in
the vault, and to count it all over would take
from six to eight months. decision from