The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-10-16
News of the Week.


About 5000 employees of the Chicago pork
packing houses struck last week against ten
hours time.
Judge Gary, in Chicago, on Saturday, SEN
fenced the seven Anarchists convicted of
murder to be hanged on the Sd of December,
next
Thomas B. Cluverious, convicted of the
murder of Lillian Madison, was sentenced in
Richmond on Saturday to be hanged on the
10th of December next.
David L. Yulee, ex-United States Senator
from Florida, and one of the leaders in the
Secession movement, died in New York city
on Sunday morning, aged rs years.
John Clarke, charged with theft, was shot
dead by Sheriff Beach while resisting arrest
in Carroll county, Illinois, on Monday. Clark
aimed revolver at the sheriff before the latter
fred.
There were three slight earthquake shocks
in Charleston between the hours of and $50
o'clock on Saturday morning. The first shock
was also felt at other points in South Carolina,
and at Augusta, Georgia.
Commissioner Coleman, of the Agricultural
Department. on Monday received telegram
announcing the death of his father, Hamilton
Coleman, at Richfield Springs, New York.
This is the third death in the Commissioner S
family within fifteen months.
Franz Paul, lad of IA years, is the private
secretary of Maurice B. Flynn. He is not
only an expert stenographer and type writing
operator, but has mastered eight languages.
This prodigy is of Hebrew parentage, his ia
ther being private teacher.
The Commissioner of Agriculture on We'd
nesday received telegram from DIR. Salmon,
Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, say
tbaf fba Of ha
show that pleuro pneumonia is widely scatter
ed among the cattle of Chicrgo. -.
The tailor shop and residence of August
Becker, in Cincinnati, was burned early last
Sunday morning. In the ruins were found
the dead bodies of Margaret Link, aged 60
years, and her 49, year-old daughter, who oc
cupied rooms on the third floor.
Destructive prairie fires are reported in
Mcintosh county, Dakota. Many families
have lost everything they possessed, their hay,
grain and dwellings having been consumed.
The country beyond the Cotteaus is a black
ened waste for miles in all directions.
The roof of the repair shop of the North
Chicago Rolling Mill, at Chicago, fell in on
Sunday, burying number of laborers. Ed
ward Divvens and Michael Hoffman were
killed, and several others were injured, one
of whom, Anton Smith, died on Monday
morning.
The delegates to the General Assembly of
the Knights of Labor in Richmond devoted
Monday to enjoying the entertainment ar
ranged for them by the local knights. The
day was observed as a general holiday. The
principal feature of the occasion was parade
about $500 strong.
Reports from different sections of Berks
county, Penna., show great damage from the
drought, which is said to be the severest for
over twenty years. Many fields will have to
be replowed and resown. Wells are drying
up, and in some places farmers are compelled
to haul water from long distances.
At stock sale at Glenview, Kentucky,
two horses were sold at high prices. Nut
wood, the greatest living stud and representa-
tive of the Hambletonians, sold to E. ID.
Stout, of Dubuque, Iowa, for S22, 1000, and
Pancoast, of the great Mambrino Chief, was
purchased by John II. Shuts, of Brooklyn,
for $4,000. The forty-two head realized
1922, 935.
Gen. Miles, at Albuquerque, New Mexico,
on Saturday issued an order formally an
nouncing the close of the most famous Indian
campaign on record, and congratulating the
troops on the result. With the exception of
one small thieving party, now in Chihuahua,
Mexico, all hostile Indians have been removed
to place of safety.
LAFAYETTE Dove, a farmer of Ridge town
ship, near Shelbyville, Illinois, died on the
Sd inst, as was supposed, of mill sickness. u
On Friday morning his wife died with similar
symptoms, and their two children and young
lady visitor are sick. 1t is now believed the
cause of the sickness was poison from cop
per valve in the kitchen pump.
The President has pardoned Ammon NJ.
Terrey, c. j. Kemp and Peter j.. Christoffer
sen, Mormon Bishops, who, in December,
1884, were convicted of poygamy and SEN
fenced each to pay fine of $500 and be i'm
prisoned in the Detroit House of Correction
for three and a half years. 1t appears that
Attorney General Garland recently decided
that they were illegally held, because of in
formalities in their trial and sentence.
Forty arrests have been made of men who
mobbed Gottfried Waller, the Anarchist ins
former, in Chicago, on Sunday night -Four
of them have been identified by Waller and
held to answer. Major Cole, one of the
jurors in the Anarchist trial, who lives in
rufians during his absence several nights last
week. He was also threatened with pistol
by ruffians in lonely spot while returning
home last Thursday night,
A telegram from Shenandoah, Penna.,
says that town and the whole Mahanoy Valley
is threatened with water famine. Only one
shower of rain has fallen in nine weeks, and
the streams in the valley are almost wholly
dried up. The water supply at the collieries
is exhausted, and unless rain shall come
within the next few days most of the collieries
not supplied from the Girard dam will be
compelled to suspend operations. The town
supply is also running short, and the prospect
of an entire exhaustion of the supply is caus-
ing great alarm among the people.
While Rev. Father Miskiewitz, Pastor of
Polish church at the South Side, Pittsburg,
was turning around to address his congrega
ton at the close of mass on Sunday morning.
a bullet was fred at him through side win
dow of the church. The missile passed within
few inches of the priest and fiattened itself
against the opposite wall. The priest seemed
quite cool and waved his flock to their seats,
but more than hundred of them had rushed
outside. No trace was seen, however, OF the
would-be assassin. tits supposed the attempt
grew out of trouble which has existed between
different factions in the church for some time.
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