The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-05-22
News of the Week.


At Clifton, Oak, a cyclone cave sufficiently
large to shelter all the citizens of the town is
in course of erection.
An Essex county Mass publisher offers
his paper free for year to all residents OF
the county who marry between now and
December LIST.
Officer Thomas Redden died on Monday in
Chicago, from wounds received by the An
archist bomb. He is the sixth victim. he
leaves wife and two children.
A ride through the southwestern portion of
Minneapolis, Minnesota, will discover 1000
new buildings, either completed since the list
of January or in the process of erection.
The latest reports of the tornado at Celina,
Ohio, last Saturday evening, show that three
persons were killed and seven injured. Three
of the latter were not expected to recover.
Two hundred and fifty employees of the N.
K. Fairbank & Co. lard and soap factory, in
St. Louis. who struck on May LIST for eight
hours, resumed work on Saturday at the old
schedule of hours and wages.
Twelve convicts underwent the punishment
of the piilory and the whipping post, at New
Castle, Delaware, on Saturday. Ten were
negroes and two whites. The offences were
burglary and petty larcenies.
A fire broke out in a hall in which "Uncle
Toms Cabin was being performed, at Wes-
terville, near Columbus, Ohio, on Monday
night, and thirteen persons were burned OF
injured, one fatally. The fire was confined to
the stage.
Ex-Alderman Jaehne, of New York, has
been convicted of receiving $4,000 bride
for his vote in connection with the franchise Of
an elevated railroad. All of his associates
except two, twenty odd in number, have also
been indicted for taking brides.
The Cincinnati Art Museum. built through
the muni6cence of the late Charles W. West
who gave S150,000 upon the condition that
the citizens should give a like sum and who
afterwards gave Sl50,000 to endow the muse
nm -DAs tLrorn Upen to tho pnhlic on Monday
afternoon 49,
At Digby, Nova Scotia, on Friday of las
week, the American schooner David j. 'Ad
ans was seized by the sheriff on a warrant re
ceived from Halifax. The Dominion steamer
Lansdowne went to sea Saturday morning te
look after more American vessels that may
try to purchase bait.
A telegram from Danville, Virginia, reports
desperate fight at Martinsville last Monday
night between Col. P. D. Spencer and the
Terry brothers. J. X. Terry was killed, and
Spencer, Tarleton Brown, Hugh Dyer, Robert
Gregory and two negroes were fearfully, i
not fatally wounded
The Grand Jury of Washington county
Penna., has returned true bills against 81 o.
the striking coal miners, who were charged
with conspiracy. Their trials will come up
at the present term of Court in that county.
The indictments are the result of rioting in
the Fourth Pool several months ago.
The damage by the great hurricane in Spain
reported in last weeks ADVOCATE, is greater
than at first supposed. In Madrid alone 3:
persons were killed, 420 injured, and property
to the amount of 81, 100000 was destroyed
The country districts were distressingly ravag
ed, the working classes suffering the heaviest
losses. Many washerwomen were blown into
the river Manzanares and % were drowned
Right Rev. Thomas A. Becker, recently
Bishop of Wilmington, Delaware, but trans
ferred to Savannah to succeed Bishop Gross
elevated to the Archbishopric of Oregon, was
installed last Sunday in the Cathedral of his
new See. Bishops Northrop, of Charleston
and Moore, of St. Augustine; MonsignoI
Quigley, of Charleston, and twenty five priests
of the diocese were present.
Heavy frosts were reported on Saturday
night and Sunday night at various points in
Illinois, Iowa, northern Indiana and western
Michigan, which did great deal of damage
to small fruits. In some places the cold wave
was quite severe, and farmers are anxious
about the corn, which is not yet up. AT
East Tawas, Michigan, thin ice formed, while
at Muskegan the ice was an inch thick and
all vegetation was killed.
Saturday was the day set for the hat manu-.
facturers of Reading, Penna., to answer their
G fort
as agreed upon by the National Finishers'
Convention. Two of the smallest factories
alone signed the Unions schedule and con-
tinue working. In eight other factories the
manufacturers decided not to pay the advance
and the fnishers, numbering $50, stopped
work, which will throw out all other depart
ments, causing over 1900 persons to be idle.
A number of men gathered at house at
the Cliff Mine, near Pittsburg, on Saturday
night to spend the evening, and one of them,
Frederick Howcroft, got into a fight with
Weston Butler. colored. Butler drew knife
and slashed Howcroft, who called for help.
The others wished to stop the fight, but But
Ter. slashing right and left with the knife at
all who got within his reach, succeeded in es-
Gaping. Five men were cut, two of them,
Howcroft and Joseph Yates, perhaps fatally.
The bark Vidette, which arrived at New
York on Sunday from Cienfuegos, reports
that on May 9Th, at 1.30 A. NJ, in latitude
32.10, longitude TAO, weather fine, with a
sky nearly clear and wind from the south,
it was set on fire in the maintop by a meteor.
Ay prompt action the mates and two men put
the fire out in five or six minutes. The me-
teor seemed like fire rocket, lighting Up the
vessel throughout, and in less than ten sec
onds the mast was in full blaze at the MIST
head.
Five Socialists were arrested for misde-
meanor while haranguing a meeting in San
Francisco on Sunday. The leader, J. P.
Rudeizky. advocated going to Mob Hill and
sacking the residences of Messrs Stanford,
Croker and Flood and distributing what
money and valuables they found among
themselves On Rudeiky's person were found
two pamphlets written by John Most and en-
titled: "The Beast of Property" and Total
Annihiiation. Imposed as the Only Infallible
Remedy" The prisoners resisted arrest, and
the officers had to use their clubs.
In Chicago on last Friday morning an .ex-
pressman named Bies, fifty years old, hanged
himself in the barn in the rear of his home.
His wife found him, and her screams brought
crowd of neighbors to the scene, but no one
interfered or attempted to cut the rope, owing
to the frantic efforts made by the suicide to
release himself by throwing his legs and arms
apart. Crowds from the street came in to
view the sight but none ventured to attempt
a rescue. Finally, after lapse of ten or
fifteen minutes, a policeman appeared and
cut the man down. He was then dead
Plymouth White, alias Frank Park. alias
'Plin'' White, a notorious confidence man,
died in Reading, Vermont, on Sunday. He
was about 81 years of age. 1t is said that
during the last thirty-fve years of his life he
swindled business men, grangers and confid
ing women ont of sums amounting in the ag-
gregate to $1,000, 900; that he crossed the
ocean sixteen times to escape arrest, and that
he was bigamist, two of his wives having
lived in Boston at the same time This con-
scoundrel was highly educated. and
refined in appearance and manners.
The latest reports of the Western storms
last week add little TO those published IN the
ADVOCATE last Saturday. By tornado in
Meiggs county, Ohio, on Wednesday night,
two persons were killed and one injured. At
Upton, Indiana, four persons were killed and
several fatally injured. In Madison county,
Kentucky, damage estimated at 5000, was
done. At Wilkinson. Indiana, two persons
were killed and number injured, several Sc
verely. Near Danville, Illinois, three per-
sons were killed and one was fatally injured.
storm did much damage to the
beaches at Long Branch, Ocean Grove, AS