The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-02-13

Pacific Railroad ran off the track and tumblet
down an embankment near Kansas City OF
Saturday. Many passengers were severely
injured, while others were bruised and cut by
broken glass.
Mrs.. Mary Branchu, aged 80 years, com
mitted suicide in New York on Sunday BY
jumping from the High Bridge into the Harlem
river. She had been in i'll health for some
time, and her husband had lost the bulk O
his little fortune.
George Koch, wealthy farmer, of Wilson
Township, Wisconsin, lost his way while re
turning home from Sheboygan on Thursday
night Of last week, and on Friday morringshis
dead body was found in the snow within 4
hundred yards of his door.
A telegram from Mt. Carmel, Penna., says
that Jacob Sharp, employed for twenty years
as miner there, received information or
Saturday that by the death of Benjamin Sharp
a relative, in Philadelphia, he had fallen heiI
to property of $150,000.
John Stein, middle aged man, died or
Saturday in the Alexian Brothers Hospital
Chicago. He had been suffering from dropsy,
and during paroxysm of pain cut his throat
with razor. He is said to have been q
wealthy furniture dealer in New York city
several years ago.
The bodies of man, woman and six chill
dren were found frozen to death on the prairie
near Oberlin, Kansas, last week. They are
supposed to have been family named Lem.
mon, who started for Oberlin in an emigrani
wagon just before the recent blizzard.
The Isolation Committee in Montreal re-
ported on last Friday that it was the first day
since the small pox epidemic began on which
a perfectly clean bill of health could be re,
ported. There is not an infected house on
the committees books, nor has any new case
of smallpox been reported.
Mrs. John Hainsey, of Barre, near Hun
tingdon, Penna., visited neighbor on Sun
day morning, leaving her two-year-old child
at home in high chair near the stove.
When the mother returned she found the
child lying on the stove terribly burned. The
little one died two hours later.
The merchants of Dallas, Texas, have been
asked by committee of the Knights of La
Dor to withdraw their patronage from the
Mallory Steamship Line, boycotted by the
strikers. The committee received from the
majority of the merchants the most fattering
assurances of support and sympathy.
Miss Annie Wessmore has brought suit for
breach of promise against Edward L. Green,
postmaster of GAINESVILLE, Indiana, and it is
announced that two hundred and eighty-fve
ardent letters from Green to the young lady
are in the hands of her attorneys, who say
that two days will be consumed in reading
their contents before the court.
Charles Russell, notorious thief and safe
burglar, under sentence to the penitentiary
for three years, escaped from the county Jail
in Cincinnati on Sunday morning by going
out with the Salvationists at the close of their
T. L.l c1,o oT b,c h.
and kept his face hidden until he mingled
with the worshippers. His disguise was
was aided by stealing another prisoner S over
coat.
The Berks County Agricultural Society,1at
a meeting in Reading, Pa, on Saturday,
adopted resolutions declaring that immediate
measures should be taken to stamp out the
pleuro- pneumonia, and requesting Congress
to appropriate 100000 to be apportioned
among the different States and used for
the reimbursement of persons whose cattle
may be destroyed in the effort to suppress the
disease.
A man, apparently tramp, who gave his
name as John Boyer, was found in barn at
Huntington, Long Island, last Friday night,
with his hands and feet badly frozen. He
was taken to the Almshouse, where some
cash was found on his person, and deposit
books, showing that he had about $4,000 in
several banks. He refused to allow any of
the cash found on him to be spent for his food
or drink
A sleighing party of fourteen persons at
Edgeton, Ohio, attempted to cross the rail
road track ON Thursday night of last week, in
front of an approaching freight train. Seeing
that the attempt was likely to fail, the party
was thrown into confusion, some endeavoring
to hold back the horses, while others tried to
urge them forward. The engine struck the
the sleigh, injuring six of the occupants, one
MORALLY.
There was no bloodshed as a result of the
anti Chinese riot in Seattle, on Sunday night,
but on Monday matters grew serious. The
were arrested early in the morn
ing and released on bail. All the Cinnamon
on hoard the steamer were liberated on writs
of habeas corpus, but the great majority chose
to leave by the vessel. About noon an
attack was made by a few ruffians on the
militia, who opened with rolley of mpsketry,
killing one of their assailants and Woundlng
three others. 1t was expected that $50 troops
would leave Vancouver Monday night for
Seattle.
sent out commission to inquire into the pro-
pdDliit1 VI al OHeoiCdh W tHE hoASaho
Their report announces the total dastructinn
of the village of San Yicent Pacaya. Some
forty four tiled rooted houses completely col
lapsed, making such cloud of dust as to
create belief that new crater had opened.
The hot springs surrounding Lake Amatitian
emit a large volume of water at higher tenn
perature than usual. The crater Of Paeaya
remains unchanged, while that of Fuego has
been very lively.
A telegram from Augusta, Georgia, says
that E. III. Coates & Co.. of Philadelphia,
have determined to erect ten thousand spin
die yarn mill on the bank of the Augusta Ca
nal, and have closed the contract with the
city for water power. The work will be COM
menced on the ground in few weeks, and.
the machinery will be brought ont as soon as
the buildingis finished. The mill will employ
$50 hands, and will be in operation in six
months. Coates Il Go. were attracted to Au-
gusta by the fine and cheap water power and
cheap and skilled labor. This will make the
fifth yarn mill in Augusta.
At Macedonia, Ohio, on Tuesday morning,
while John Hoar, farmer, was away from
home, his hired man, Charles Jeuk, aged %
years, attempted to assault Horas daughters
Mary and Minnie. They resisted, and he
knocked them senseless with piece of iron
pipe. Mary is expected to recover, but her
SISTERS injuries are beloved to be moEtal,
After the attack on the girls, Jeuk set fire to
} large barn, which was consumed, with %
,attle, one horse, Is hogs and quantity Of
grain and farming implements. The loss on
property is estimated at $4,000. The villain
vas arrested.
Six laborers who had gone into shanty !
lear the railroad at East st. Louis, on Thurs |
lay evening of last week, to eat supper and |