The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-01-24
News of the Week.

Dr. Rudolph Tausky, the insanity expert
who shot his wife and himself two weeks ago,
was last Friday adjudged insane by sheriff s
jury in New York.
Sister Theresa, niece of james G. Blaine,
died at st. Mary's Catholic Convent, in Will
kesbarre, Pa, Wednesday.
The South Infirmary of the Illinois East
ern Hospital for the insane, at Kankakee,
was burned at clock on Sunday morning.
Seventeen of the inmates are reported to have
persisted.
Two chicken thieves, named Sanders and
arrest in Evansville, Indiana, early Tuesday
morning. Sanders was killed and Nally NOR
tally wounded.
The famous stallion General Greene died
on Monday of lung fever on G. Green's stock
at SIS, 900. An offer of 900 for him was
refused two weeks ago.
Rear Admiral L. NJ Powell, U. S. N, re-
tired, died last week at his residence in Wash
ington, in the 18th year of his age. He was
a native of Winchester, Va, and entered
West Point in 1917.
At Paso del Norte, Mexico, on New Year S
Day, young man named Juan Balda, while
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shot his mother through the heart. He has
become a maniac.
The boiler in Ernst's saw mill at Keffer' S
station, on the Lebanon and fremont Rail
road, in Pennsylvania, exploded on Saturday,
demolishing the mill, killing three men, and
severely injuring two others.
The Master Builders Association of New
York has adopted a resolution declaring that
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hour, at rate not exceeding 40 cents per
hour for masons and 25 for laborers.
Emil Spackman, aged IS, committed sui
eide at Syracuse, New York, on Sunday,
because of the urgency of his friends that he
should attend church. His mind had been
affected by reading sensational stories,
A Wabash Toledo train bound for st. Louis
was thrown from the track near Venice station
Illinois, Monday morning, by broken rail.
The baggage car and smoker fell into ditch.
Eleven persons, seven of them passengers,
were injured
The Chief of Police at Montreal has re-
ceived an anonymous letter informing him
that 'unless he desists from interfering with
tavern keepers in Hockelaga for keeping open
with dynamite.
A number of veterans of the First Army
Corps met in Washington on Saturday night
and arranged for the historical visit of the
Corps to the Gettysburg battlefield on the 4th
of May next. x-Governor Curtin presided
at the meeting.
The Indians on the Kiowa reservation in
the Indian Territory are reported TO be suf-
fering greatly, notwithstanding Government
aid Hundreds of their sheep and cattle have
been killed by the severe weather, and five Of
the Indians themselves were found frozen to
death last Friday, near Wichita Falls.
A fleet of seven coal boats and six barges
broke from their moorings near Pittsburg on
Sunday night, and six of the coal boats and
FIVE of the barges, containing 235, 900 bushels
of coal, sank in the Ohio river. One of the
boats is said to be in the channel, and will Sc
riously interfere with navigation.
The lard rendering tank in the pork pack
ing house of j. E. Birge & Co., at Sioux
Cify, Iowa. exploded Tuesday, tearing down
part of the building. John o. Worrall Jos.
French and John Keelers were killed, and
Joseph Brewer was dangerously injured. The
damage to the building is estimated at SIS, 900.
At San Antonio, Texas, early on Monday
morning, six masked men entered Wood S
gambling house, bound and gagged the en-
ployes, who were sleeping in the room which
contained the safe, removed the safe to a
back room and robbed it of over $4,000 in
cash. The gagged employees have been ar
rested on suspicion of completely in the rob-
berry.
The special Grand Jury appointed by the
Cook County Criminal Court at Chicago on
Friday night returned indictments against
Mackin, Gallagher, Shields, Hansbrough,
Sullivan, Biehl and Gleason for participation
in the Eighteenth Ward election frauds.
Mackin was also indicted separately for per.
Jury, in swearing he did not order the print
ing of bogus tickets.
Mrs. Matilda Bowman, aged IS years, was
fatally burned at Washington, Pa, on Satur-
day evening by falling into a CRATE while she
was dressing herself. Lettie Jones, said to
be ITO years of age, was fatally burned in
Petersburg, Virginia, on the same day. Her
clothes igniied while she was standing with
her back to the fire.
The annual report of the Department Of
Agriculture, now in the press, make the corn
production for the year 1884, 1,795, 100000
bushels; that of wheat nearly 513 400, 00C
bushels, and of oats 583,000,0 900 bushels.
These aggregates are the largest ever record
ed. The rate of yield is 25.S bushels fol
corn, Is for wheat, and 27.4 for oats.
There is much excitement in Akron, Ohio
about violent sickness which has Frustrated
900 of the 700 men employed in Aultman,
Miller 4 Co. Mower and Reaper Works.
Many others throughout the city are also suf
fering. The symptoms are violent purgine
and Mains in the stomach and bowels. Nc
deaths have yet been reported. The cause
of the sickness is unknown,
In Kalamazoo, Michigan, on Sunday after
noon, George and Ray Sweet little boys,
were playing doctor, when George got on q
chair and secured a package from the top OF
a clock, which he had seen his father put
there a few days before. He gave portion
of the contents to his brother, who died in
short time. The powder in the package
was found to be strychnine, bought to kill
rats.
Wolf Picknor; a Russian peddler, was taken
sick last Sunday morning in St Louis with
symptoms resembling cholera, and died the
same day, the physician assigning native
cholera as the cause of his death. He had
been in New Orleans about ten days pre-
viously. Geo. W. Evans, colored, also died
in st. Louis Sunday, after a sickness of sew
eral days, from what the physician called
choleraic diarrh9a.
A telegram from Utica, New York, reports
that an investigation is being made into the
recent death of William Druse, at that place.
Frank Gates, the nephew, whose age is IA,
has made a full confession, showing that the
crime was committed on December 18th, and
that Mrs. Druse compelled him to shoot hel
husband second time and dispose Of the
body. He boiled it and fed the flesh to hogs
and burned the bones, the ashes being buried
in swamp. The boy says the woman cut
her husbands head off and put it in the stove.
Neighbors who noticed an unusual odor and
smoke were refused admittance to the house.
At the same time papers were kept over the
windows.
At Washington on Tuesday evening the
iury in the case of Bell Mann of Chicago
and Edward Kirkwood and Daniel Corrigan,
of Washington. indicted for presenting
fraudulent claims through the Bureau of Med
icine and Surgery of the Navy Department,
brought in verdict of guilty against all the
parties. The jury had been locked up since
Saturday afternoon. In the case OF L. b. San
born, Kirkwood and Corrigan, indicted for a
similar offence, which was given to another
jury Tuesday afternoon, verdict of guilty
was returned within fifteen minutes after the
delivery of the Judges charge. Motions for
new trials were filed.
A Portland dispatch says passengers arriy-
ing over the Oregon Short Line Road are
cursing the management roundly. The road
has been blockaded for twenty five days.
Hundreds of passengers have been delayed at
Huntington and Union, where the snow Is
deepest. Notwithstanding this, the officers
of the road have been for ten days selling
tickets at each end, and running passengers