The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-08-15
News of the Week.

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The yellow fever has appeared at Mazatl an
and Tehuantepec, Mexico.
| The Webster block in Manchester, New
Hampshire, was burned last Friday night
Seven dead bodies have been taken from the
| ruins.
| There were 1882 cases of cholera in the
plague stricken districts of Spain on Satur-
day. The deaths from the disease on that
day were 1883.
Joseph II: Ensign, Secretary of the Board
OF Police Commissioners of Dayton, Ohio,
has disappeared, leaving deficit, SO far as
known, Of 900.
During quarrel about woman at Sacra-
mento, California, on Saturday, Barney Palm
and Joe Mclsaacs drew revolvers and exchang-
ed shots. Both were fatally wounded and
are dead.
The schooner James A. Garfield, from the
Arctic Ocean, has arrived at San Francisco,
with news of the bark Napoleon of New Bed
ford. The Napoleon was crushed in the ice,
and twenty-five lives were lost.
Goods to the amount of many thousands of
dollars have lately been stolen from the cars
of the Northern Pacific Railroad, in transit to
Oregon. The detectives have been at work
trying to ferret out the thieves.
! By wreck on the Cincinnati and Eastern
Railroad about sixteen miles from Cincinnati,
on Saturday night, three passengers were kill
ed and three others fatally injured. A num-
Der of others suffered slighter injuries.
During the firing of Grant salute, at Paris,
Illinois, ON Saturday night, a premature dis
charge of cannon killed Spencer Jones and
dangerously injured Henry Fink, chief of the
Fire Department. Another man was slightly
injured.
Advices of a cyclone which passed down
Loupe Valley, in Omaha, have been received.
1t lasted twenty minutes, and nearly wreck
ed the town of Ord. Tin roofs were torn up,
weak buildings blown down and crops de-
stroyed.
AT Marshfeld, Indiana, last week Dr. Grin
Aborn, who had been insane for three months,
/. assaulted and fatally cut DIR. C. Boyer, an in
innate friend. The maniac then cut his own
throat and swallowed iodine. He died in
few hours.
U. S. Consul Dubois, at Havre has inform
ed the State Department that cholera is in
creasing at Marseiles. In accordance with his
own recommendations, Consul Dubois has
been directed to inspect vessels leaving for
the United States.
! The United States authorities arrested
Millianus Luna notorious Mexican SNUG
gler, near Ell Paso Texas, last week. 1t is
worth of goods into this country and nearly
an equal amount into Mexico.
William Kearney, an insane man, was ar
rested in Kansas City, Missouri, last Friday.
He lives in Nebraska and said he was on his
way to Washington to kill President Cleveland,
against whom he had fanced grievance.
He had a revolver and was we'll supplied with
money.
The China Overland Mail of the I'd of July
reports that by the great food in the pro-
vince of Canton, which began on June 10,
whole villages were engulfed, the rice and
silk crops nearly ruined, and 1000 lives lost.
The flood was caused by the bursting of
dykes.
Secretary Whitney has written letter to
the assgnees of John Roach, in which he
says the contracts with that gentleman for the
construction of the new cruisers 1.-THE Boston,
the Atlanta and the Chicago) have been for
feited and that the Government will complete
the work at the navy yards.
A farmer near Middletown, N. Y, who was
losing his potatoes by parties digging them
up at night, resolved to watch his patch.
He and friend armed with guns, took po-
sition near the patch, but both fell asleep,
and, upon awaking, found that two rows
of potatoes had been dug and their guns were
stolen.
The soldiers monument at Atlanta is to
/ have statues of Grant, Lee, Johnston, and
Sherman around the base of the column.
Near the top will be two soldiers, the blue
and the gray, clasping hands, and above the
globe that crowns the summit will be the
Goddess of Liberty. The structure will be
$50 feet in height and will cost 100000
Judge James Garland died at his home in
/ Lynchburg, Va, last Saturday, in the Oath
year of his age. He was several times mem
! Der of the Virginia Legislature, member of
Congress, where he made national reputa-
ton as defender of Andrew jackson, COR
! poraton attorney, and lastly Judge of the cor
poraton court the latter trust being resigned
only two years ago.
In Pittsburg last Sunday evening, George
! Miller, suffering from mania-po escaped
from his home, and with large dirk knife
created panic on the street by attacking
the pedestrians After slightly cutting three
/ persons, he went up into a second-story of
! house and jumped from the window, falling
on the knife, which he still had in his hand
and intlicting fatal wound in the abdomen.
! james Gray and James Gallagher. both
colored, went to church together in Washing
ton last Sunday morning, and when they
! got home sat on their doorsteps and began a
! theological discussion" Finally Gallagher,
being angered by remark by Gray, slashed
/ the latter with a razor across the back and
arms. Gray picked up an axe near by and
/ struck Gallagher blow which fractured his
skull.
/ The Italian Postmaster General has notified
1 our Post office Department that lowing to the
1 prevalence of cholera in that part of French
/ territory through which mails from the United
States destined for Italy must pass, all mail
sacks Of the ordinary kind will be fumigated."
/ He suggests that to avoid detention for fumi-
CATION, tarred mail sacks be used. The ST.
perintendent of Foreign Mails has issued in
structions carrying into effect this suggestion.
William Parks, colored, has been arrested
in Amherst county, Virginia, on the charge
of starving his children to death. Within
five months four of his seven children have
died and the three survivors are said to be
emaciated from want of food, the father not
only refusing to provide for them, but pro-
hibiting the neighbors from giving them food.
Parks, it is charged, wants to marry again,
and the woman refused to accept him while
he had so many children.
The Salvation Army in Belleville, Ontario,
were mobbed one night last week by crowd
composed mostly of boys The Army had
been holding meetings every night on Market
Square. Some patent medicine men rented
the square for the purpose of giving enter
tainments, and when they drove on the ground
they found the Army in possession oft The
Salvatonists refused to retire, when the crowd
set upon them and forced them TO retreat
under shower of rotten eggs. The Army
was followed to their barracks, where stones
were thrown and windows broken.
David Small, ST., editor and proprietor of
the York pa. Gazette, died Saturday, in the
18th year Of his age, after long illness. He
was prominent Democratic politician, filling
during his life time numerous positions of
honor and responsibility, prominent among
which was that of postmaster of York under
Pierce and Buchanan. He was also chief
burgess of York for several terms. On the
same day and near the same hour Daniel
Small, only brother of Mr.. David Small, died
at his residence in SehqylkiIl Haven, Pa, in
the Sdth year of his age,
A despatch from Jersey City, New Jersey,
says an excavation alongside the American
Lead Pencil Factory, in Hoboken, weakened
the wall, and portion fell last Friday even
ing. A number of laborers were buried be-