The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-07-31
News of the Week.


rested in New York for violating the Sunday
liquor law.
Twenty-Five cases of diptheria, eight of
them fatal, were reported in Melrose, Massa-
chusetts, last week.
Eight hundred and eighty scandinayians
landed at New York on Saturday. They
have gone West to become farmers.
Hog cholera is raging in Botetourt and ad-
have lost one hundred animals in one week.
Nearly 40 privates of the Royal Irish
Rifles at Halifax have deserted since July
LIST, and only two of them have been cap
tured.
Hubert o. Thompson, leader of the County
Democracy, the most influential and power
full political organization in New York, died
on Monday of apoplexy, aged AZ years.
The Hess oil well at Washington, Penna.,
was struck by lightning on Monday after.
noon. The derrick was burned to the ground
and a 600 barrel oil tank was consumed.
Reports from Montana say that live stock
there is generally in excellent condition.
During the season there will be shipments
East Of 125, 900 head of cattle, 100000 sheep
and 10, 900 horses.
Thirteen head of cattle infected with
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a farm in Manor Township, Lancaster county,
Penna. A herd on an adjoining farm was
found to be infected.
Seven hundred Providence people, finding
the prohibition law check upon their
methods of enjoying Sunday, went to Fall
River, Massachusetts, got drunk, quarreled,
and thirty of them were locked up.
Hugh Gavigan, Postmaster at Columbus,
L., of
blow up the County Court House and thus
destroy the record of certain land frauds.
Several other conspirators await trial.
The drought in Colorado and Wisconsin
has been ended by copious rains. In Colorado
all the crops are fourishing. In Wisconsin
the relief will come too late in some sections,
though it will save the crops in many.
As a result of an ice cream supper given in
a church at Eastport, Maine, one night last
week, the minister and about forty other per
sons were taken violently i'll with cramps and
vomiting. 1t is believed that poisonous ex-
tract was used in the cream.
During heavy storm in Albemarle county,
Va, on Friday afternoon of last week, an old
man named Steele was killed by lightning
while he was in the act of lighting his pipe,
and his little grandson, standing few feet
away, was also killed. Neither had any marks
on them.
A large tank in Armour's oleomargarine
factory at Chicago exploded on Sunday
morning, throwing its boiling contents over
four men. One of them has died, and
another is not expected to recover. Two
men who stood thirty yards distant were injur-
ed by flying debris.
The Canadian Government is about to
send a steamer to Newfoundland and Labrador
for the relief of the starving people on those
coasts. Additional particulars of the distress
have been received 1t is estimated that
1900 persons have persisted of starvation in
the afflicted regions within five months.
Thomas ballard, colored miner, died in
Mcdonald, Penna., on Monday night, from
injuries received in a quarrel with his wife
several nights ago. He went home drunk
and began to abuse her. Refusing to desist,
she threw can of carbon oil over him and
then set fire to his clothing. She has not
been arrested.
Internal Revenue Commissioner Miller
said on Saturday that he thought the tax on
oleomargarine could be collected easily in
the same manner as the tax on tobacco. He
estimated that $4,000 would cover the ex-
penses of the collections for the first year,
which collections he thought, would aggre-
gate about 81 100000.
1t is reported from Hutchinson, Mime
sofa, that several sudden deaths having oc-
Cured there, an investigation was made
which showed that the victims had been eat
ing picked beef, containing poison. The
butcher protested he had never sold poisoned
meat, and to prove the assertion gave some
to his two children, who quickly died.
A telegram from Atlanta, Georgia, reports
the performance ON Saturday by a ''Profes-
SORT Leon, from Ohio, of the most foolhardy
feat of rope walking yet recorded. He
crossed the Grand Chasm at Tallulah Falls,
On an inch and half rope, fifteen hundred
feet long and suspended from cliff to cliff, at
a height of twelve hundred feet above the
rapids Four thousand people witnessed the
feat.
Colonel W. II. Bolton, chiefof the division
for handling second class mail matter IN the
postohice at Chicago, was arrested on Mon
day on the charge of stealing public funds.
1t is estimated that the total shortage" will
be over $4,000. John T. Stewart, weigher,
was also arrested, and more arrests are ex-
pected. Bolton, who was a soldier of the
Union, with good record, was appointed by
Postmaster Palmer in 1877. He was held in
$4,000 bail, and Stewart in $4,000.
A riot broke out Monday afternoon be-
tween two gangs of Italian and Hungarian
laborers on the new Pennsylvania Schuylkill
Valley Railroad, between Delano and Halle
ton. The Italians struck for an advance in
wages, and undertook to compel the Hunga-
rians to strike with them. The latter refns-
ed, and fight ensued, in which nearly four
hundred men participated. The Italians
drove the Hungarians 10 the woods, and
stopped all work on the line. Several of the
Hungarians are badly wounded, and three of
them are reported dying.
A party of tourists from Boston on Satur-
day visited the famous snow arch in Tucker
mans Ravine, on the side of Mount Wash
ington, New Hampshire. After lunching,
young lady named Pierce and Sewell Faunce,
aged Is years, ventured to explore the arch,
when it suddenly fell with crash carrying
down both. Miss Pierce was rescued alive,
though dangerously injured. but Faunce was
buried deep in the drift. The leader of the
party sought help, and number of hotel
employees and signal service men from the
top of the mountain dug out Faunce's lifeless
body.
The schooner Barrett put in at St. Johns,
Newfoundland, on Tuesday, with later news
from Labrador. She was blockaded for
nearly two weeks in York Harbor by field
of ice. She brings as passengers FIVE families
who reached that point from Sandwich Bay,
one hundred miles inland, on sledges drawn
by ponies, which furnished them with food
after their arrival. York Harbor is crowded
with fugitives from the Southern coast. On
July 18th, two days snow storm buried
Eastern Labrador, cutting off all communi-
cation with its population of $4,000 persons.
Whalers arriving at White Bay report that
Hudson Bay Strait is again frozen over, an
unprecedented occurrence at this season.
Up to date $40 survivors have arrived there
The number that have died is estimated it
$500.
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