The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-09-25
News of the Week.

The trial of the great Bell Telephone case
was begun on Monday in the United States
Court at Cincinnati.
The Washington Evening Star reports that
Mr. Manning has decided to retire from the
Treasury Department, and that he will be
appointed Minister to Austria.
There was violent storm at Newport,
New Hampshire, on last Friday afternoon.
A barn and shed were demolished at Pike
Hill, and the roar of the wind could be heard
for several miles.
Sunday morning Rev. Jesse Perkins,
Baptist minister, while taking his text at Tear
Wallet Church, Cumberland county, Va, fell
dead in his pulpit, presumably from heart
disease. The deceased was 65 years of age,
and a prominent Mason.
During a storm at Hermosa, Illinois, on
Thursday of last week, several carpenters
working on some frame buildings took shelter
in one of them. 1t was struck by lightning,
and three of the men were injured by the
electric bolt, two of them so badly that their
recovery is doubtful.
Dexter P. Wager, a farmer of Cropseyville,
near Troy, New York, who had for several
days shown symptoms of insanity, on Satur-
day afternoon drove his wife and mother-in-
law from the house. When they returned
three r-old daughter.
At the Pension Office in Louisville, last
week, the sum of 81, 500 was paid to Marcus
D. Buell., an aged soldier, of Milton, Ken
lucky. The cause for the pension was total
blindness induced by an injury to the eyes
received in the war, in 1868, and the pension
dated back to that year.
The notorious Martin Irons was arrested
in Kansas City on Sunday night and will be
held until he is tried in st. Louis on an in
dictment charging him with completely in
tapping the private telegraph wires running
into Vice President Hoxie residence. Irons
recent bad conduct caused his bondsmen to
give him up.
Alden, small mining town about nine
miles from Wilkesbarre, Pa, was visited by q
terrible storm of wind and rain on Sunday
night. Several houses were swept away, a
drug store, a hotel and public school were
wrecked, and nearly every other building in
the place was damaged. Several persons
were injured, but none fatally.
The annual session of the Sovereign Grand
Lodge of Odd Follows opened on Monday in
Boston. The reports of the Grand Officers
were presented. They show a total member
ship of 517,3l0. The figures of various Odd
Fellows beneficial associations show receipts
for the past year of ST 1850, 9O5; paid to famil-
lies of deceased members, S873, 1868.
When William II. Hubbell returned to his
home in Brooklyn from his place of business
on Saturday afternoon he found his house
locked up and forced an entrance. He found
that his wife, Annie, 50 years old, had
drowned her little x-year-old daughter,
Ethel, in bath tub, and then hanged herself
to the bathroom door. He said his wife
never showed any symptoms of insanity.
Another distillery was quarantined in Chi
cago on Monday afternoon to prevent the
spread of pleuro-pneumonia among cattle.
There are S65 cows fed in this distillery, and
the veterinarian found among them seven
pronounced cases of the disease. The total
number of cattle now under quarantine is
about 5000, and it looks as if it would be
necessary to slaughter them all. In addition,
it is officially reported that the city is full OF
| glandered horses.
The hurricane which swept over southwest
ern Michigan on Thursday evening of last
week was the severest ever known in that
State. The principal damage done was in
! Leuwanee, Clinton, Livingston and Wayne
counties, but great damage was done else
where. AT Brighton barns were demolished,
orchards and crops ruined, and new church
blown from its foundations In Victor town
ship, Clinton county, houses and barns were
wrecked and the hay scattered broadcast.
At Howell several buildings were literally
torn to pieces and many badly damaged.
The southwestern part of the town is mostly
in ruins,
Bowman Paxton, a prominent business
man of Maiden, Missouri, week ago quar-
relied with and killed a neighbor named
McGuilvey. To avoid lynchers Paxton was
lodged in Jail in the adjacent town of Ken
nett. Late on Sunday night the Sheriff,
with a posse, left Kennett with the prisoner
for Maiden, where the trial was to take place.
About five miles from Maiden masked mob
of one hundred men compelled the officers to
| give up Paxton, and lynohed him by hanging
him from tree. 1t was believed by the PEG.
/ Pile generally that Paxton's wealth and social
standing, the array of legal talent, and Other
defeat the aims of the law.
A terrific wind storm visited Joliet Illinois,
on Saturday evening. A grain elevator, a
pump factory and ten or twelve frame build
ings were demolished, and man and &
women were severely injured in the ruins Of
their dwellings, That no loss of life wa.
caused il explained by the fact that constant
flashes of lightning so illuminated the SKY
that the funnel shaped cloud could be plainly
seen as it came whirling towards the city
i with a roar like hundred locomotives blow.
ing off steam. Seeing its approach, people
| fled to the cellars. Twelve houses were de.
molished, and number of others were NOV
ed from their foundations. One house wa
turned completely upside down, A large ell
evator was wrecked, and trees and telegraph
poles were torn up, twisted off and bent int
various shapes. Along Fourth avenue grea
holes were scoped out of the hard grave
road; and eye-witnesses say this was done b.
balls of electric fire, which bounded along the
ground. A horse and wagon hitched in from
of house disappeared in the tornado, anC
no trace of either has been discovered since