The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-01-30
News of the Week.

III DAN AHtOuiO, 1CAdo'
Fifteen cases of smallpox have been re-
ported at Loretto, Quebec.
The city directory of Atlanta, Georgia, for
1885, places the population of that city ut
10000.
Sixty-five glandered horses have been found
in Brooklyn street-car companies stables
within few months past, and shot.
Thirty nine men were killed by the explo-
sion of fire damp in the Oriel mine, at New
burg, West Virginia, on Thursday afternoon
of last week.
Calvin Simpson, colored, murderer of
woman named Graves, was taken from the
Jail at Henderson, Kentucky, early Monday
morning, and lynched by mob.
The Jacksonville Times Union estimates
the total loss by damage to vegetation through
out Florida from the recent freeze at s., 00O,-
600, of which 81, 100, 900 is on the oranges.
A locomotive exploded in the round house
of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul depot
in Madison, Wisconsin, last Friday night,
killing Peter Burk and injuring nine other
men.
Shares and notes, the former mostly in
mining companies, and which cost their pur-
chaser $11, 600, were sold as part of dece-
dant's estate in Port Jervis, N. Y, on Satur-
day, for 81.
A boy in Kingston, Canada, son ola prom
iuent merchant, is said to have caused the de-
struction of $15O,OO0 worth of property,
through his incendiary mania, within three
months past.
Alice Halter, aged IA years, was arrested in
Buffalo last Friday night, for arson. 1t is
charged that the night before she desired to
go to party with her employers family, and
being refused, set fire to the house.
A despatch on Wednesday said-''The Mis-
sissippi river is blocked by solid mass of ice
from St. Louis as far north as the mouth of
the Illinois river, and as far south as the Cen
eyieve, distance of sixty-fve miles. The
ice is l6 or II inches in thickness"
A number of Chinese have begun suit in
the U. S. Circuit Court at San Francisco
against the city of Eureka for $132, 900 dam
ages, for losses of property alleged to have
been sustained by them at the time of their
expulsion from that place nearly year ago.
John Moore, wealthy farmer, living near
Clifford, Michigan, during fit OF temporary
insanity, removed the cover from large
wood stove and jumped head first into the tire.
He was dragged out almost Immediately, but
was terribly burned about the head and upper
portion of his body.
A widow named Nickolaus died of leprosy
in Algiers, opposite New Orleans, on Friday.
She was "a years of age, and had been lep'
rous for about thirteen years. She had'a son
and two daughters, and the son inherited or
contracted the disease from her. She was a
native of Switzerland.
A mass meeting of the Prohibitionists OF
More than 500 delegates were present. Ad-
dresses were delivered by Governor Larabee,
Mrs. J. Ellen Foster and others, and it was
decided to raise a fund of $50, 900 to aid IN
enforcing prohibitory law.
The first suit by the Chicago Reform ALI
ance to compel the saloons of that city to close
on Sundays, in compliance with the State law,
was tried on Saturday before justice of the
peace and jury The fact of saloon being
open was conceded by the defendants, but the
Jury returned verdict of not guilty.
Joseph Rankin, Democrat, Representative
in Congress from the Fifth District of Wis
consin, died on Sunday in Washington. He
served three years in the Union army during
the war, was in the Wisconsin Legislature
eleven years and was member of the last
and reelected to the present Congress
Dr. Weber, county inspector of diseased
cattle, visited the herd of Samuel G. Hake,
of Spring Grove, York county, Pa. ,on Monday.
and found 10 head of cattle suffering from
pleuro- pneumonia. The herd from which the
cattle were bought came from Baltimore, and
the remainder were sold in Adams county.
Samuel Strong, a well-known contractor Of
Washington, d. c., who was recently ap-
pointed by Secretary Manning as inspector OF
of materials, under the Supervising Architect,
was removed on Friday of last week because
of information that he had been dismissed
from similar position during President Fill
more's administration on charges OF maltea-
sance in office.
At Portland, Oregon, on Thursday, Geo.
F. Tribon, aged 55 years, was walking in the
middle of one of the streets to avoid the snow
on the sidewalks. The jingling of the bells
of the many sleighs in the street was so ioud
that he did not hear the noise made by d run
away team which came up behind, and the
tongue struck him on the back of the head,
crushing his skull. He died soon after.
Telegraphic communication between Den
yer and Silvertop, Colorado, has been re.
opened after suspension of nine days. caused
by storms and snow slides. Besides the dam
age to property and loss of life previously re-
ported, news comes of the destruction of
houses and machinery at the varions mines,
and also of the fact that there is danger of
starvation among the horses and pack animals.
A telegram from Portland, Oregon, says
the snow slides on the Oregon Railway and
Navigation Company's line, between the Dali
les and Multnomah Falls, are much heavier
than at first supposed, as earth, trees and rocks
were brought down with the snow. Flows
cannot break through the obstruction and 1t
must be removed with picks and shovels. 1t
is reasonably certain that the track will not be
cleared for three days.
The total collections of internal revenue
during the first six months OF the fiscal year
were S58, $40 GIL, an increase of 81, 029, 464,
COMPARED with the collections during the same
period Of the last fiscal year. There was an
increase of S676, 573 on spirits, an increase OF
1889, sos on tobacco, and an increase of S437,
sol on fermented liquors, and decrease of
S74,475 on miscellaneous items. The receipts
during December, 1885, were $558. 24l greater
than the receipts during December, 1884.
In the Senate of Virginia on Friday of last
week, the Committee on Public Institutions,
charged with the investigation of the manage.
ment of the affairs of the Colored Normal
Collegiate Institute at Petersburg, submitted
report. The committee charge gross mis-
management and Recommend the immediate
displacement of the members of the present
Republican Board of Visitors of the institu-
ton and the appointment of a new board and
the reorganization OF the whole management.
The report was adopted.
The County Poorhouse at jackson. Michi-
gan, was burned about l O'Clock Monday
morning. Five of the inmates, whose ages
ranged from 60 to 90 years, persisted in the
Aames-three of them were insane, one deaf
and one blind. The rest of the inmates, about
So in number, were driven out without cloth.
ing in a temperature of l0o below zero, and
some of them will probably die from exposure.
One of the inmates was VIM. Mills, the man
who first issued Sanders Spelling Book. He
was reputed at one time to be worth $3.50, 600
A despatch from Panama says that accounts
of extraordinary phenomena come from Ecu
dor. At Chimbo there were showers of earth
on January IL from to P. NJ. At about
l9P. NJ. shock of earthquake was felt in
Guayaquil. At midnight on the 18th inst, loud
rumbling noises were heard, and they con
tinued up to last accounts. These noises were
heard in different parts of the country. Or
the night of the 18th there was fall of ashes
at GuayaquiI. These phenomena were at firsi
attributed to the eruption of Cotapaxi, bu
intelligence has been received from the int
rior to the effect that there has been terrible
eruption of the Tunguragua volcano. NJ
particulars have been received, and nothing
is known as to the extent of the damage.
At Manchester, Clay county, KY, George
| and Dan GRAY, brothers, "Dink" Stivers anC