The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-11-20
News of the Week.

News OF the week.
In the saloon injunction cases at Sioux
City, Iowa, 102 permanent injunctions have
been granted at the present term OF court.
Charles Dinwiddie, colored, charged with
assault and robbery, was killed in the Jail
at Mckenzie, Tennessee. by mob of lynch
ers on Monday night
1t is reported that the Chinese steamship
Takataman burst her boilers off Niigat, and
that SO persons persisted, including the officers,
who were Englishmen.
The Legislature of Vermont has passed a
bill providing that all hotels and restaurants
using oleomargarine shall put up large signs
notifying the public of the fact.
Ten workmen were instantly killed on
Tuesday and six others injured by the collapse
of building in process of erection in Greno-
BILE, Department Of Isere, France.
On Tuesday Michigan Central train on the
Canada Southern Division, having on board
a number of directors and officials, ran from
st. Clair Junction to Windsor Dock, 107
miles, in 95 minutes.
The Chicago Anarchists, sentenced to be
hung for riot and murder, are succeeding well
in delaying their execution. Their case is to be
heard by the Supreme Court in March. and it
may be decision will not be reached for a
month or more later
At Plaquemiues, Louisiana. Sunday morn
ing. about two hundred feet of the river bank,
including Levee street, caved into the river.
Several buildings were destroyed. This is
the fifth cave-in which has taken place in the
river front this season.
The steamer Oceanic, at San Francisco on
Monday from Yokohama, brings news OF the
laundering of the steamer NormantOre off
Pashima, Japan, with ~ persons on board
II of whom reached land. She was laden
with tea for New York and Canada.
The body of John Smith, young man, was
found beside the railroad track near Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, on Monday. 1t was terribly
lacerated. 1t was ascertained that Smith fell
from a train two weeks ago, was run over by
the cars, and had then been attacked by
wolves.
A stage coach, going from Leadville to AS
pen, in Colorado, was caught in snow slide
on a mountain top on Tuesday evening and
carried over a 200foot precipice. There
were nine passengers in the coach. Four es-
capped uninjured, but the others are believed
to have been fatally injured.
Ninety nine persons were arrested in La
Crosse, Wisconsin, on Monday for violation
of the Sunday laws. Among them were the
local railroad employees, the members of an
amateur dramatic company, saloon keepers,
bakers, hackmen, cigar men, etc. AS soon
as the lawyers can fix time test cases will
be made in each branch of business.
President Cleveland has appointed William
d. Burnett to be U. S. Attorney for Southern
Ohio; Amos A. Brown, of New York, Consul
at Clifton, Ontario; Frank c. Hoffman, APP
Cb,oooo. Samuel A Walton of
Kentucky, Consul at Asuncion, Paraguay;
Samuel D. Leavitt to be Collector of Customs
at Passamaquoddy. Maine, and Louis j..
Weller Surveyor of Customs at Michigan City,
Indiana.
The house of Benjamin S. Wheeler, in
Cleveland, Ohio, was entered on Friday night
by burglars, who, after beating the old man
into insensibility and choking his aged wife
to death, ransacked the premises. Quite a
sum of money in a closet escaped the notice
of the robbers, and it is not known how much
was secured. Patrick Graves former ten
ant, was arrested on Saturday for the crime
and Wheeler identified him.
Rev. DR.. Archibald Alexander Hodge,
Professor of Didactics and Polemc Theology
at Princeton College, New Jersey, died on
Friday of last week, in the Gath year of his
age. His death was the result of cold con-
tracted within few days, which produced a
complication of disorders. Deceased was the
eldest son of DIR. Charles Hodge, eminent as
Professor of Theology at Princeton, and was
himself graduate of that College.
The Roman Catholic Pro- cathedral of St.
Peter, in Allegheny City, Penna., was de-
stroyed by fire early on Sunday morning.
$4,000. The spire is unchanged, and the
walls, lined with brick and cement, remain
intact The edi6ce will be rebuilt at once.
The fire is attributed to the registers becom-
ing overheated from natural gas, which was
introduced into the building week ago.
Congressman George D. Wise was arrested
in Richmond, Virginia, on Tuesday morning,
and held in $1,000 bail to keep the peace.
The arrest was the result of the publication of
a card by Wise denouncing in the strongest
language Colonel William Lamb ex- Mayor of
Norfolk. Col. Lamb, in the last campaign
reflected on the private life of Mr.. Wise. IN
his card the latter pronounced Lambs state
ments baseless and false, and the author an
infamous liar."
1t is announced that drawings have been
prepared by the Seth Thomas Clock Compa-
ny, of Thomastou, Connecticut, for the great
clock which is to be placed in the tower of
the new City Hall at Philadelphia, and
which, if completed in accordance with their
plans, will be the largest in the world. The
bells upon which it will strike the hours and
quarters will weigh fifty thousand pounds,
and the glass dials as contemplated, measure
twenty. FIVE feet in diameter.
The strife between the French and Ever
sole factions in Perry county, Kentucky, has
broken out afresh. Almost every citizen of
the county has taken sides with one or the
other. Both factions are armed, and the first
shot will bring about general war. The
feud between French and Eversole dates
back several years. They are rivals in bust
ness, and control the entire trade of several
mountain counties. The report that both
were killed some time ago was not true.
Matters were very quiet at the Chicago
stock yards on Monday. About 10000 strik-
ers made formal application for work, but not
more than ten per cent. of that number were
given immediate employment Thirty five
imported men at Armour's resigned in the
afternoon and were escorted to the depot.
At meeting of the Packers Association the
question of the length of time it would be
necessary to keep the deputies and militia at
the yards was discussed, and twas generally
thought advisable they should be retained for
time at least after all the houses have filed
their complement OF men.
James Cassidy, a Chicago blacksmith, and
Jos. Wallatz, miner, of Joplin, No., fought
seven bloody rounds with bare fists on sand
bar in the middle of the Missouri river Sun
day morning. In the fourth round Cassidy
stretched Wallatz senseless upon the sand.
He lay motionless for seven seconds, and
Cassidy's hackers were claiming the fight.
Suddenly Wallatz jumped to his feet and gave
Cassidy crushing blow full in the face, fol-
lowing with terrific body blow. Cassidy
fought gameIy, but he was dazed, and at the
end of the seventh round, blinded with blood,
he succumbed to his opponent.
Eli Lalande, victim of a recent tarring and
feathering at Muikirk, Ontario has died from
his injuries. His wife and son, and man
named Markham have been arrested for COM
plicity in the crime. 1t appears that Lalande
had not lived with his wife for some time,
and, considering her unfit to have the custo-
dy of his children, he brought suit to recover
them. 1t was while this suit was pending that
a party of masked men entered his house,
and, after dragging him out and bfutally
handling him, covered him with GOAT of tar
and feathers. During his absence from home,
while consulting doctor, the party set FIRE 10
his house and burned everything to the