The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-01-23
News of the Week.

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Slight earthquake shocks were felt at Man
chester and Nashua, New Hampshire, on
Sunday evening.
There were II deaths from smallpox in
Montreal and its suburbs last week, against
SO the week before.
The bodies of twenty-four men, frozen to
death in the recent storm, have been found IN
various portions of Kansas.
A paying gold mine, the ore assaying S6S to
$500 per ton, is reported to have been discoy-
cred in Edwards county, Texas.
The Navy Department was on Monday in
formed that Commander Hayward died at
Alexandria, Egypt. on Saturday.
7 A careful inspection of the fig, almond and
Young olive trees in West Florida, fails to
show any injury from the recent cold snap.
Richard Lee, Antonio Nardello and Louis
Sommerfeld, convicted Of different murders,
were sentenced in Washington on Saturday to
be hanged.
The dwelling of Emanuel johnson, in Co.
lumbia county, Arkansas. was burned last
Friday night, and six children, who slept IN
one room, persisted.
An epidemic of malignant diphtheria pre-
walls in and around Hawley, Penn. A num-
school are closed.
Miss Catharine Lee Bayard, daughter OF
Secretary Bayard, was found dead in bed, at
her fathers residence, on Saturday. Heart
disease was the cause.
The Bulgarian government has replied to
the powers that Bulgaria will disarm if Ser
via will do likewise, or if the powers will
guarantee the integrity of Bulgaria.
Holly Epps, colored, who murdered an old
farmer named Dobson, was taken from the
Jail at Vincennes, Indiana, early Monday
morning, and lynched by masked mob.
The smallpox is still committing great
ravages at st. Thomas, Cape st. Ignace,
E'Anse Giles, st. Eugene, Ste. Anne and
St. Alexander, in the Province of Quebec.
A row of frame buildings in Washington,
occupied by colored people, was burned on
Saturday, making fifty poor families home
less. Hezekiah Edwards was killed by jump
ing from a third-story window.
A girl named Collins died suddenly at
Woodstock, Ontario, short time ago. On
Saturday the body was exhumed for removal
to another burial place, when its appearance
indicated that she had been buried alive.
A colored woman, living at Pond Hill Con-
necticut, put her baby in the oven of stove
to keep it warm, the fire being nearly out.
In her absence her husband returned home.
and built fire in the stove, roasting the child
alive.
Autonomous hay stack at Lembere, Bavaria,
used by Migrants during the cold weather for
shelter. has been burned. Twenty dead
bodies have already been taken from the ruins,
and it is thought many others have been
burned to death.
Two hundred and fifty pounds of dynamite
stored at shaft IA of the new Croton acque-
duct in Westchester county, New York, ex-
ploded on Saturday. All the buildings in the
neighborhood were badly shaken, and a Mrs.
Fox was slightly injured.
The full force of the late cholera epidemic
in Italy seems to have spent itself in Sicily,
as, out of the 6397 cases and 3409 deaths
which occurred in the whole kingdom, $685.
and province of Palermo.
Shortly before half past eleven O. clock Fri
day night, two distinct earthquake shocks
York. In Nyack the shocks were heavy
enough to shake pictures from the walls and
break the ice in the river along the shore.
S. W. Warren's dynamite packing house,
three miles from Toms River, New Jersey,
with 5000 pounds of dynamite. The Laurel
House at Lakewood, ten miles distant, was
violently shaken and plaster fell from the cell
lings.
The Post office Department has received a
letter from the German Director of Posts
urging our Government to send an officer of
the Postofice Department to Germany to per-
sonally inspect and study the parcel post SER
vice of that country, with a view to joining the
International Parcel Post.
This Richmond (Virginia) Wing, which sus-
pended on the 22d ult., was sold last Friday
for $4,000. The purchasers were Abner An
derson, formerly of the Danville Register, and
Judge A. w. c. Nowlin, of Washington
The paper will be Democratic. The sale has
been confirmed by the court.
Our Consul at Santiago de Cuba reports to
the State Department the existence of large
quantities of bat guauo on the south coast Of
Cuba. This guano is deposited in caves, one
of which was visited by the Consul and esti
mated to contain from $4,000 to 10000 tons
The facilities for working these deposits are
reported as excellent.
The barns of farmer named Buck, in
Chenille, near Schenectady, New York, were
fired by discharged employe on Saturday
night and consumed. The incendiary was
discovered, and, being pursued, ran to the
Mohawk river. which he attempted to cross
on the ice. When near the middle of the
stream he ran into an air-hole and was
drowned.
George Gallogly quarrelled with Gordon
Apperson, at Feno, O., last week, and struck
him over the head with a chair Apperson
fell into an open gate, and was burned to
crisp. The quarrel arose from remonstranee
by Apperson against Gallogly's marriage with
Apperson's sister.in law, Miss Carrie Brice-
land, because of his being drunk. The bride
swooned.
At Leavenworth, Iowa, there are two hun
dred saloons open in defiance of the prohibi-
tory law. 1t is said each saloon pays the city
$40 month for the privilege. Attorney
General Bradford has begun proceedings
against the county attorney, mayor and other
officers, charging them with collision with the
whisky sellers, and asking that they be re-
moved from Office.
The engine of ballast train on the Balti.
more and Ohio Railroad collided near Mill.
vile, Virginia, on Thursday afternoon, of last
week. Both engines were smashed, and seven
ears were thrown into the Shenandoah River
Three train hands-Wm. Fitzpatrick. super
visor of the Valley branch of the road; Chas
Order, brakeman, and fireman named
Bishop-were killed.
The American Rural Home, of Rochester,
publishes reports from more than five thou
sand correspondents in all parts of the country
indicating that the wheat has been protected
by the snow from injury through the recent
wave of intense cold. The correspondents
generally say that ''there is nothing warrant.
ing high prices in 1886 except the total failure
of the crop now in the ground"
The house of Benjamin Cookson, at Green
bush, Maine, was burned on Saturday night.
Cookson, in trying to save his sons wife and
two children, who were sleeping upstairs, was
caught in the ruins by the falling of the roof
just as he had handed the second child out,
and was burned to death. He was rs years
old. The woman and children were terribly
burned. but will probably recover.
A New Orleans dispatch announces the
death in that city of Marie Augustin, colored,
aged 125 years. She was native of Africa,
and was brought to this country when about
twenty years of age. She was in good health
until month ago. when she began to decline
and gradually sank. She retained her mental
faculties TO the last. She remembered through
out her life the language she learned in Africa,
and also spoke English and French fuently.
The Socialists of Chicago. at their weekly
meeting Tuesday, discussed the question,
"Why do men sleep in the tunnels ?'' Several