The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-04-03

Il.
News has been received at Fort Bowie,
Arizona, that Geronimo, Chihuahua, Mana
and Matches, with 20 men and 48 women,
Internationally surrendered to General Crook,
near San Bernardino, on the Mexican line,
last Saturday. Lieutenant Maus is now bring
ing the captives to Fort Bowie.
A fire at Key West, Florida, on Tuesday,
DESTROYED over fifty buildings, including the
San Carlos Theatre, Masonic Hall and five
ware houses. Six wharves were also destroy
ed. The loss is estimated at 81 100000,
the insurance at only 100000. About fif-
teen persons were injured, but no lives were
lost.
Two convicts employed in the laundry OF
the Kansas Penitentiary, at Leavenworth,
have been for several weeks engaged in max
inc counterfeit coin. The mouds were acct
dentaly discovered in the drying room and
six dollars in coin were found in the cell OF
one of the men, The -counterfeiters named
as accomplices two of the guards, who have
been suspended pending an inquiry
A two.faced child was born in the Massa-
chusetts City Hospital few days since, but
lived only AZ hours. The infant had, IN ad-
dition to the second face, which is said to
have been fully developed, and protruded
from the back Of the head, one half more than
omen. but otherwise the organs were perfectly
formed.
| A telegram from Panama reports that Gen.
Santo Domingo has ordered the suspension,
by force; if necessary, of the American news
paper. the Star and Herald. The suspension
is for sixty days, the offence being the refusal
! of the paper to publish correspondence fur
nished it unofficially by the Governor. The
managing editor has protested to the Amer-
can Consul, who will seek diplomatic redress.
| The steamer Mary Lewis, of the Morgan
Line, was sunk on Monday night by collision
with the bridge across the Atchafalaya, about
n mile below Pattersonville, La. The second
engineer and two colored men were drowned.
The steamer Barmore, engaged in saving the
cargo and machinery of the Mary Lewis,
| exploded her boiler. Four men were blown
| overheard and drowned, and four others are
badly wounded.
The Cornors jury investigating the lynching
of 'tMingo jack at Eatontown' New =; Jersey,
brouqht in the following verdict Tuesday
night: 'sWe find that Samuel johnson was
willfully murdered at the Eatontown lock up
ON the night of March 5, 1886, by being
beaten upon the head with clubs and by hang
ing by the neck, said blows and hanging hay
ing been done by some person or persons to
the jury unknown
| All the mines in sas coal iGelds around
Piedmont, West Virginia, are heias boarded
up and the men paid off and discharged, IN
dicating a repetition of the trouble OF 1857,
when there was six months strike. Besides
the thousand of miners now idle, several
hundred railroad men are out OF work The
loss in wages in the immediate neighborhood
of Piedmont is estimated at $1,000 per day.
1t is believed the mine owners will introduce
foreign labor.
A dispatch from Richmond, Va, on Mon
day. saws: Argument was commenced in the
! Conrt of Appeals to-day in the case of Thos.
]. Cluyerius, convicted of the murder of Miss
| Fannie Lillian Madison. The prisoner was
represented by ex-Judge W. w. Crump and
ali of the other counsel who defended him
before the Hastings Court. There are eigla
bills of exceptions in this case. Each of these
were reviewed to-day by Mr.. Beverly Crump,
| of prisoners counsel. The argument will oc-
cupy four or five days.
At Monkey, Ga, there are two ladies who
are twin sisters. Their maiden name was
Scruggs They married twin brothers on the
same night, the name of the latter being
Their husbands were injured in the same ac-
cident on a railroad. and two months after
died within a week of each other. The
widows sued for damages, and recovered
between them twenty-five hundred dollars
With the money, they engaged in the mer'
camille business, in which they continue.
Six employees of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad on Saturday began suit against the
company, in Pittsburg, for damages, aggre.
eating $780, 600 Two other suits for $40, 0OC
each will be commenced to-day. The plain
tiffs are G. j. Churchill William Zacharias
James Keesey, J: e. Shines, Edward Boyle
John Norton, J. W. Aber and Samuel Mays
Vile. The claims are the result of the
"double- header" strike which took place las
August at Glenwood. All the plaintiffs were
arrested and imprisoned. The bill of charges
was ignored by the Grand Jury. The plain
tiffs now sue for damages for false arrest ano
Imprisonment.
Accompanying the State Comptroler's re
mort. bill was presented in the New York
Legislature on Tuesday 'sfor the taxation o
the Indebtedness of corporations, joint stock
companies and associations" 1t provides
that hereafter it shall be the duty of the treas
urer of each of such companies TO report an.
nually in November to the State Comptroller
the amount of scrip, bonds or certificates oil
Indebtedness owned by residents OF this State,
under oath Of the president or treasurer, and
such corporations shall pay within fifteen days
after the first of January next thereafter, {
tax upon such script, etc., at the rate OF one
4 quarter of mill on each dollar of par valae
i thereof for each one per cent. Of interest pay
able upon such scrip, etc.; and such corpora
ton may deduct said tax so paid from the in
terest payable by it to the holders OF such
scrip, bonds, etc. For every failure to re
port or pay as aforesaid the Comptroller shall
add ten per cent. to said tax as a penalty, and
shall charge interest at the rate OF six PEI
cent per annum until the same shall be paid