The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-09-04
News of the week.

Brevet Major General George II. Gordon
died suddenly in Harrington, Massachusetts,
Tuesday morning, aged 81 years.
Five men were killed and two others Sc
verely injured by an explosion of gas in the
Fairlawn Colliery, at Scranton, Pa, Monday
morning.
During the past year the Alaska Seal Com
pany, under its contract, took 99,880 seal
skins, in return for which it paid the Govern
ment S262, 4S7.
Thirty-four persons were arrested in New
port, Rhode Island, on Saturday night charg-
ed with the illegal sale of liquor and main
tanning nuisances.
George Kenn, farmer, who was thrown
from his wagon by the powdermill explosion
at Chicago, on Sunday, died on Monday, max
ing two deaths from the casualty.
The town of Indianola, Texas, devastated
by the recent storm, is said to be fast beeom-
ing depopulated, a great many of its inhab-
itants having decided to seek homes else
where.
Constant Benoit, Swede, q years of age,
who had just arrived in America, was torn to
pieces by ferocious boar at Dickinson's
Island Hog Farm, two miles above Knoxville,
Tennessee, one day last week.
Louis Juhl, Henry Batzel and William
Kloth, Anarchists, were arrested in Chicago
on Sunday and locked up on the charge of
conspiracy to do an unlawful act. Their resi-
dences contained small arsenals of swords and
firearms.
An earthquake shock was felt in Summer
vile, South CAROLINA, last Friday morning.
| The shock lasted several seconds and was
preceded by dull rumbling, followed by a
sound as of cannon shot fire at a distance.
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Anthony Gillespie, grocer of Mt. Carmel,
Penna., left there on horseback for Shame
kin on Monday. In the evening his horse
was found loose in the woods, and Wednesday
morning his dead body, with a bullet hole in
the head, was found on an abandoned road.
Three tramps are suspected of the crime.
The extensive factory of Carlos, Felix
& Co., near the city of Mexico, was burned
on Friday, and seven operatives persisted
while trying to extinguish the flames. Two
of the victims were Americans, whose homes
were in Richmond, Virginia. Several others
were badly injured.
! A despatch from Madison, Indiana, says
hog cholera in that and adjacent counties will
entail loss to farmers of many thousands of
dollars. No remedy prescribed appears to
have any effect in checking the disease.
Numerous individual losses of more than one
hundred head are reported.
In the midst of heavy storm on Sunday
morning the powder magazine of the Latin &
Rand Powder Company, in Chicago, was
struck by lightning. An explosion followed,
which destroyed property running up in the
neighborhood of SIS, 200, killing one person
instantly and fatality wounding four others.
The cigar makers strike inaugurated in
Reading, Penna., several months ago for an
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manufacturers have successfully operated
their shops with non-union men. OF the 500
cigar makers involved in the strike, large
number have obtained employment elsewhere.
The cornerstone of new Catholic Church
at Ashland, Penna., was laid last Sunday by
Archbishop Ryan, of Philadelphia. About
ten thousand persons were present The
church will be built of brick, 160 feet in
length, and when completed will cost $50, 900.
The collections on Sunday amounted to about
$4,000.
On last Friday a wagon containing three
men, two women and a number of children
was crossing a bridge over Elm Fork of the
Trinity river, near Dallas, Texas, when the
structure gave way, precipitating the whole
party to the ground, some forty feet below.
The men were fatally injured, and the others
more or less seriously hurt.
While pleasure barge containing eleven
men was returning to Boston from Squantum
on Sunday afternoon it was overturned at
West Roxbury, and the occupants were
thrown against stone wall. Edward Reding-
ton and Thomas Jones, of Roxbury, were in
stantly killed. Thomas Sullivan's head was
cut open and he received injuries that may
prove fatal. George Smith was also badly
hurt.
Five armed men boarded a passenger
train at East st. Louis, on Monday evening
and took James Carroll notorious bank
robber, from Deputy Sheriff Richey, of Gales
burg, Illinois, who was taking him to Gales
burg for trial, he having been concerned in
bank robbery there some years ago. Soon
after the Galesburg robbery Carroll escaped to
Canada, but he was arrested and sent to pris-
on for crime previously committed in that
coutry.
Near Reading, Penna., on Monday night,
an unknown man was run over and killed by
freight train. The engineer saw the man
kneeling on the track as though he were pray
ing, but it was then too late to stop the train.
About the same time Charles Luther, aged
Sc of Reading, sought shelter from the rain
under car when the train to which the car
was attached suddenly started and Luther was
run over and killed.
The Board OF Trustees of the proposed
Catholic University in Washington, D. c.,
will meet this month to make final arrange
ments for building the institution. 1t is I'M
derstood the plans have been agreed upon,
and that funds are not wanting. Beside the
100000 contributed by Miss Caldwell, of
New York, the Treasurer has, it is said, about
as much more, raised throughout the country
since last November
Sister Eulalie, the Superioress of the In
maculate Academy, Newport, Kentucky, was
nearly convalesoent from an attack of typhoid
fever, when, in trying to take some medicine
last Friday morning, mosquito bar took fire,
and in moment the bed was a mass of
flames. She sprang out of bed, but found the
door locked, and could not find the key.
When rescued she was so badly burned that
she died in two hours.
Some bones of mastodon have been dug
up at Milan, Michigan. A part of the tusk,
broken, is 50 inches long and IA inches in
circumference. The femar is 40 inches long.
Two bones of the hind leg are "a inches in
length. A tooth is 124 inches across the top,
81 inches wide and Z inches deep. Many
parts of the skeleton are lacking. The lower
jaw is partly gone, so that anything like ac-
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