The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-07-17

Thirty horsesin the neighborhood of Lilley,
Illinois, are suffering from a disease resem-
bling CHAMBERS.
A portable engine on a farm at Alton juno
ton, Illinois, exploded on Monday, injuring
five men, three of them MORALLY.
Samuel E. Brown killed himself in a barn
near Indianapolis on Monday, because the
family of his sweetheart opposed his marrying
| her.
The captain of the steamship Circassian, at
| Quebec, says he passed SO icebergs outside
and 2 in the Straits of Belle Isle. Some of
them were very large.
/ A cloud of grasshoppers settled on wheat
| field near Sanborn, Dakota, last Sunday af-
/ ternoon, and in a very short time cleared fif-
ty acres of every vestige of greenness.
The latest returns of this years wheat crop
in California show total yield of a fraction
/ over 100000 bushels, which will leave,
from California alone, close upon 60,000, 900
bushels for export.
Augustus o. Brewster, wellknown Grim
nal lawyer and politician of Boston, formerly
District Attorney, was arraigned in that city
on Monday on charge of forgery. He was
held in $1,000 bail.
Rattlesnake Island, in Lake Winnepesau
kee, N. H., is in flames. Three hundred
acres have burned over. Mathematics in
large numbers are leaving the island for other
islands and the main land.
The Postmaster General has added 1853 post
Offices to the list of money order offices, the
business of that number having increased
during the year so as TO come within the pro-
visions of the law authorizing the establish
ment of money order offices.
! There were four suicides in New York on
= Ic1ok 1ndf h.
| by their own hands, and two men killed them
1 selves on the public streets. The two latter
were homeless and destitute. The former
were above fifty years each, and were pros
porous.
The convicts employed at the Dade coal
mines, near Chattanooga, about 200 in num-
| Der, have revolted and entrenched themselves
/ in building, refusing to surrender. They
4 are surrounded by guards with the intention
! of starving them out. Troops are held in
I readiness, at Atlanta, to be sent to the scene
| if necessary.
The Supreme Lodge of the World of the
Knights of Pythias opened on Tuesday in
Toronto. Addresses of welcome were de-
livered by Alderman DeFoe on behalf of the
Mayor and by the Grand Chancellor of On
tario. Divine service was held in st. John S
Protestant Episcopal Cathedral, Very Rev.
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Brigade, officiating.
A series of outrages are being perpetrated
upon the active supporters of the Scott tenn
perance act in Ontario. Several persons
have had their property destroyed. Tuesday
house at Arthur, North Wellington, was
burned to the ground, and the stables and
outbuildings of License Commissioner Ora
ham, at Smiths Falls, Lanark county, were
destroyed and Mr.. Graham was fatally burned.
Mrs. Mudgett's boarding house in Chicago
was burned just before daylight Tuesday
morning 1t is supposed the flames were
started by the overturning of a coal-oil lamp
in the hall by rats. To escape death from
the flames the following persons jumped from
| a second story window and were injured: U.
C. Roberts, Parepa Roberts, Paulina Roberts
and Mrs. H. A. Gilbert. The latter's inju-
ries are dangerous.
| Serious riots have occurred in Dublin, Ire
| land, between Catholics and Protestants,
growing out of the contests over Home Rule.
The Catholics favor the measure and the
Protestants generally oppose it. Several
persons have been killed and a large number
wounded. Riots have occurred at Belfast,
! also, but there it was between the Orangemen
and police, the latter restraining the Orange
men from attacking the Catholics.
Isaac Murphy, the noted colored jockey,
has contracted with Lucky Baldwin to be his
first rider next season, at salary of 10000
a year. This is said to be the highest salary
ever paid for jockey in this country, and is
another indication of the growing importance
of racing. Murphy has the privilege of other
mounts when Baldwin's stable is not repre-
sented in a race, which will make him average
about s., 900 month for the year. Besides
being one of the best riders in the country,
Murphy has the reputation of being unpur-
chasable.
T. R. Morris livery stable, in Chicago, was
burned at one o'clock Tuesday morning.
Peter Smith and his wife, Peters cousin,
Charles Smith, and James Flannery, employees
of Morris and lodging over the stable, had to
jump out of the second story window. Charles
Smith had his back broken. He was taken
to the hospital where it was said he could not
recover Peter Smith had his leg broken and
was seriously injured internally. Mrs. Smith
and Flannery also have broken limbs. Eleven
horses were burned to death.