The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-12-05
News of the Week,


at Frog Lake, in the Northwest Territory
were hanged last Friday at Battleford.
Four cases of small pox, one of them fatal
have been discovered in an immigrants board
ing house in Morris street, New York.
Col. John D. Van Buren,, relative O
President Van Buren,, died on Tuesday il
Newburgh, New York He was "A years o
age.
Jennie Lind will sing in public next sum
mer for the first time in twenty-five years
Her appearance will be for charitable pur
pose.
The dwelling of H. A. Grayson, near Gal
weston, Texas, was burned on Monday night
and his wife and daughter persisted in tn,
! flames
Henry F. French, ex.Second Assistant
! Secretary of the Treasury, died in Concord
| New Hampshire, on Sunday evening, aged
y years.
George II. Keach one of a gang of horse
thieves, was taken from officers and lynched
by ylgilantes, near Adams, Oregon, on Mon
day morning.
John S. Amoss an old soldier Of the wal
OF 1872, died in Albemarle county, Va, last
week, at the age of sc, leaving a wife but six
years his junior.
DIR. J. NJ. Biles, 81 years of age, and one
of the first settlers of Pittsburg, Texas, com
mltted suicide on Monday night. Domestic
| trouble was the cause.
Judge Mccoy, of the L. S. District Court
at Atlanta, on Monday night issued an order
restraining the declaration of the recent Pro-
hlbltlon election in that city.
Rev. John Butler, of the American Pres
byteran Mission at Ningpo, Japan, died of
cholera on October 18th. His eldest son
died of the same disease the same day.
BY premature blast at the Iron Ore Mines,
near Olympia, Kentucky, on Tuesday, eight
men were injured, three of them fatally. One
of the victims had both eyes blown out
4 fourteen.year- old boy named Snyder was
killed and eaten by hogs while sleeping on a
straw stack on his fathers premises near
Carberry, Illinois, one day last week.
Myriads of grasshoppers are reported to be
devastating twelve States in Southern Mexico,
and to be slowly moving northward. They
have already reached the State of Mexico.
Henry Mason, colored, who killed J. R.
Hammersley, near Campbell Court House,
Virginia, q week ago, was taken from the
Jail on Monday morning and lynched by a
mob.
A freight train colided with a tea train on
the Northern Pacific Railroad, near Missoula,
on Friday, smashing ten tea cars. Three
persons were killed and a number badly in
jured.
While a young man named Belanger, was
visiting his sweetheart, Miss Daigle, at St.
Jean Port Joli, Quebec, last Monday evening,
her brother accidentally shot him dead. The
girl became Il maniac.
Donald Stuart, aged II years, son of ply
stefan of Schenectady, New York, committed
suicide on Tuesday morning by swallowing
hydrocianic acid, because he had been ad-
monished for some fault.
A fire in Savannah, Wayne county, New
FORK, early Monday morning, destroyed six
stores, a saloon, a harness shop, a public
hall, bakery and two barns causing Il loss
of $4,000. Seven families were burned out.
derrick, sixty feet high, at the works of
the Wheeling Steel Company, at Berwood,
West Virginia, gave way on Tuesday, letting
heavy iron girder fall. John B. jackson, of
Wheeling, was killed and four others were
injured
Thomas Sutcliffe, Il special student at Har-
ward College, was arrested yesterday for steal
ing books from the college library. Thirty
or forty volumes were found in his room, and
others were recovered from second hand
book store.
William Butler, one of the Oldest residents
of Wilkesbarre, died there on Sunday, of
paralysis of the brain. He was grandson of
Colonel Zebulon Butler, who commanded the
patriot forces at the battle of Wyoming, on
July Sd, 1778.
There were IA deaths from small pox in
Montreal and the surrounding municipalities
during November Of the deaths 578 occurr-
ed in Montreal, and all but Is of them were
of French Canadians. Since the beginning
Of the epidemic there have been 35l3 deaths
John c. Turner, Frank Hurst, Hugh Ryan,
Alonzo NJ. Wells and James Dorman, five of
the seventeen men recently indicted at Oma-
ha for land frauds in Nebraska, have been
taken from Denver to Omaha by Deputy
U. S. Marshal. All are prominent citizens.
In Providence, Rhode Island, on Monday
morning, during the temporary absence of
Mrs. Fitzgerald, her children set fire to
mattress in a crib in which the youngest was
sleeping, and three little ones, aged respec-
lively one, four and eight years, persisted
from Suffocatlon.
Last week, while Thomas Stanton was
cooking his supper over a fire in the outskirts
of San Bernardina, Cal, he was approached
by four Indians, who demanded whisky.
Having none to give them, they beat him
unmerclIully anu IIlGil HGlu llln over the HTe
His legs were burned to a crisp, and he can
not live.
1t is reported that the Chiricahua Indians
killed wagon driver sixteen miles from the
San Carlos agency, in Arizona, last Sunday
night They have also killed two American
herders, named Harrison and Waldo, nine
White Mountain Squaws and number of
children. They have raided sixty miles Of
the San Carlos agency.
On Friday morning of last week six work
men entered a vacant building near Slingtown,
Texas, used by section men as a rain-hou
1t was built of ties, with an earthen roof
The men made a fire and went to sleep.
The post supporting the structure caught fire,
and the building tumbled in, killing three of
the men and severely injuring the remaining
three.
At the late fair at Waynesborough, Ga,
about twenty thieves and sharpers were
arrested. The citizens took the law into their
own hands, and, after stripping off all the
clothes from the gang, turned them loose to
make their way up North the best they could.
The fellows begged some old clothes from
negroes and organized themselves into hand
of tramps
General Crook slegraphs to Adjutant Gen
eral Drum, from Arizona, that the hostile
INDIANS are hllliHS all IhS w HllC ~hOuuIdli
Indians they can find scattered over the res
ervation. 1t seems probable that up to this
time they have killed elven women four chill
dren and five men and boys. The Indians
on the reservation have been aroused, and
several parties of scouts and troops are hunt
ing the renegades.
Three hundred Italian laborers passed
through Reading, Pa, on Saturday morning for
Charleston, South Carolina. They are prom
ised SIPS to 81 per day, and it is believed
that the climate of the South will suit them
better than that of the North. The indica-
tons are that a great exodus of Italians,
Poles and Hungarians will take place from
Eastern Pennsylvania this winter and that
most of them will go South.
Two freight trains, running at high speed
on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, collid
ed on Wednesday afternoon in Workman's
Cut, half mile east of Washington, Penna,
There is a curve in the cut, which prevented
the engineer of either train from seeing the
other until it was too late. Frank Snyder,
brakeman, of Piedmont, West Virginia, was
scalded to DEATH All the other hands on
both trains were injured, James Morris, of
Washington and J. o. Reynolds, of James
town, dangerously,
In the new aqueduct at Merritt's Corner,
New York, on Saturday morning, while work
men were descending a shaft the guardslide
caught when but short distance from the top,
throwing out one of the occupants of the car.
named John Edwards. In his fall Edwards
struck against bucket which was coming up
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