The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-10-10
News of the Week.

The Government has ordered the gold bull
lion stored in the Mint III Philadelphia to be
converted into coin. There are about forty
tons of gold in the vaults.
The prairie fires in Mcpherson couny, Dat
kota, burned over an area of 100 square miles,
making hundreds of families destitute. The
loss is estimated at $250,OO0.
George Bancroft, the historian, celebrated
his S5th birthday on Saturday. He received
many testimonials from friends and kilograms
from all sections of the country.
Albert Cook was released from jail at Comp
ton. Illinois, on Monday. He went home
early Tuesday morning, killed his wife and
his mother-in-law, and then fed
William Smith set fire to his house, in
Winnipeg, last Friday, intending to burn his
wife and child. Failing in the attempt he
committed suicide by cutting his throat.
A train on the Canadian Pacific Railroad
was wrecked near Kamloops, British Colum
bia, few days ago by running over a cow
Five men were killed and number injured.
At St. Petersburg, Penna., on Friday night
six masked men tied Elias Ritts and his wife,
an aged couple, and two other persons to
chairs, and robbed the house of one thousand
dollars.
1t is said that the President and members
of the Cabinet will attend the Virginia State
Fair, to be held in Richmond on the 22nd
inst, should public business not prevent their
presence.
The potato crop of Erie county, N. Y, has
been almost totally destroyed by the cold,
wet weather, which has produced rot. The
loss to farmers is estimated at several hundred
thousand dollars.
In the Circuit Court at Independence, Mis-
souri,, on Saturday, Miss Edith Vernon was
awarded SIS, 900 in a suit for breach of prom
Use against David Hughes, of Kansas City.
She sued for $25, 900.
A shower of fish fell in Palatka, Fla, on
Saturday week, so says the Savannah NeacS,
which adds: Several of the fnny tribe were
captured alive and can now be seen in glass
jars and other vessels.
The stables of c. L. johnson, dairyman,
near Atlanta, Georgia, were burned on Sun
day, and 128 head of cattle persisted. Several
hundred tons of hay were consumed. The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
A telegram from Winnipeg says that a
thorough examination of the wheat belt of
Manitoba, the Northwest Territory, and the
northern tier of counties in Dakota shows the
grain in that belt was injured irreparably by
the killing frosts in August last.
William Heath a. Co., ana Henry IN. Omltn,
stock brokers of New York, made an assign
ment on Friday of last week. 1t is said Smith
owes Heath & Co. about 81 ZOO, 900, and that
the firm owes It's customers about the same
amount. The suspended spectators were
''bears." The liabilities of Heath & Co. can
not fall short of $1,8Oo,OOO, and may exceed
that sum.
A battery of boilers in the Solar Iron Works
of Clarke & Co., at Pittsburg, exploded early
Saturday morning, scalding seventeen of the
employees Five have since died, and two
or three others are not expected to recover.
1t is stated that the explosion was caused by
the mud eating through the coating of the
mud drum. Pieces of the drum picked up
were not more than thirty second part of an
inch in thickness.