The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-05-29
News of the Week.

racy.
Capt. H. L. Budd, of Chambersbnrg, Pa,
is ninety six years old and his wife eighty
seven. Both are in fine health.
Mrs Alexander Wilson was killed by
lightning at Corona, Long Island, on Satur-
day evening, just as she was entering her
house.
The house of man named Shipe, near
Sunbury, Penna., was struck by lightning last
Friday evening and two children were injured,
one dangerously.
The body of little girl was found last
Friday in the debris of the storm at Xenia,
Ohio, making twenty nine recovered. No
more are missing.
Near Townsville, Ga, on Saturday, Frank
Coleman, farmer, becoming enraged at his
wife, felled her with hoe, and then got ra-
zor and cut her throat.
Gen. Durbin Ward died on Saturday, 22d
inst, at his home in Batavia, Ohio, of rheu-
matism. Gen. Ward distinguished himself in
the war between the States.
DR.. Dio Lewis died on the Dist instant.
His remains we're incinerated on Monday the
18th inst. at Fresh Pond, Long Island, in ac-
cordance with his own instructions.
Jas. Harlow was on Monday lodged in Jail
at Harrisonburg, Virginia, charged with the
murder of his little step daughter by brutality
beating her and then cutting her throat.
Several large barns and number of sheds
at Brighton, one of the suburbs of Boston,
were burned on Friday night. Incendiarism
is suspected The total loss is estimated at
$4,000.
Eleven wounded policemen are still in the
County Hospital at Chicago, and one of them,
named McNulty, is hardly expected to recover.
Another, Henry Wienke, is at his home, in
critical condition.
At Carrollton, Kentucky. Monday morning,
William Whitehead fatally shot Laura Har-
wood, and then killed himself. They had
agreed to die together because their parents
opposed their marrying.
The Acting Secretary of the Treasury on
Saturday issued the 18th call for redemption
of bonds. 1t is for four millions of the Three
Per Cents, and the interest on the bonds call
ed will cease on July LIST.
At Reading, Penna., on Monday, nine strik
ing hat fnishers were arrested on the charge
of having burned E. H. Coldren's hat factory
at Adamstown, causing a loss of $4,000. All
except one of them gave bail.
A terrible storm of wind and rain passed
over Hendricks county, Indiana, on Sunday
afternoon. There was great destruction of
vegetation, windows were smashed by hail
stones and many cattle and horses were kill
ed by falling trees.
A freight train ran into drove of cattle
near Slater, Missouri, on Sunday morning,
killing three of the animals. The engine and
ten cars were thrown from the track and the
fireman was killed. Two other train hands
were dangerously injured.
All the furniture factories in st. Louis were
closed on Saturday, locking out 1000 men.
The manufacturers are determined to return to
the ten-hour system, and the men refuse to
work ten hours without an increase of pay per
hour. Hence the lockout.
Abraham Staley, a citizen of Franklin coun-
ty, Pa, now in the ninety second year of his
age, is still as sprightly as many younger
man. He was found the other day out in a
field blowing with the energy of STRIPPING,
managing two horses with firm and acurate
hand.
George w. Biddle, of Philadelphia, and
William l.. Putnam, of Portland, Maine, have
been retained by the United States Govern
ment to represent its interests in the trials
arising from the seizure of the fishing vessels
David j. Adams and Ella NJ. Doughty by the
Canadian authorities.
Samuel johnson, his wife and daughter,
Willis Hall and two colored men, left Knox
vile, Tennessee, last Friday morning, for
Lenoirs, on boat loaded with grain and pro-
duce. The current was swift and the boat
was upset by striking rock. All on board,
except johnson, were drowned.
The wool hat manufacturers of Reading,
Penna., at meeting on Saturday resolved
'that hereafter they will run their respective
factories independent of the United States
Wool Hat Finishers' Association, employing
or discharging whoever they see proper, with
out regard to the rules of any organization. u
John C. Callahan, painter, of Washing
ton, has begun civil suit for $4,000 damages
against certain members of the Journeymen
House Painters Assembly, Knights of Labor.
The cause for action is alleged conspiracy on
the part of the defendants, which, through
boycotting and other means, resulted in the
ruin of the plaintiff business.
The Presbyterian General Assembly at
Minneapolis decided last week to hold the
One Hundredth General Assembly at Phila-
delphia in 1885, and make the second Thurs
day of the session day of jubilee in the
churches all over the world; also, to raise a
centenary fund of $4,000, 900 for the benefit
of the various church enterprises.
Complaint was made to the Indiana Board
of Health on Saturday that there are 16 cases
of small pox at Crossville, and that people
who own dogs and cats refuse to keep their
domestic animels at home, thereby spreading
the contagion. The authorities seek the aid
of the law to destroy the disease distributing
felines and CANNES or to enforce their re-
straint.
At Springfield, Missouri, Monday morning,
John Russell, in a fit of insanity, attempted
to kill his wife and child by cutting their
throats He cut his wife frightfully, but she
escaped aud gave the alarm, and when the
neighbors arrived at the house, they found
the would be murderer on the floor with
bullet in his brain. The woman and child
may recover.
The Grand Jury at Chicago last Friday
evening returned indictments for conspiracy
to murder and melting to riot against Au-
gust Spies, Samuel Fielding and A. r. Par
sons, the Anarchists. These were the speak
ers at the Haymarket meeting, which proceed
ed the bomb throwing and riot on May 4.
Investigation as to the others accused of
completely in the crime has not yet been com
pleted.
A telegram from Pittsburg says the new
Edgar natural gas we'll, set on fire by light
ming last Saturday afternoon, is still burning,
the flames reaching into the air nearly 200
feet. No attempt has yet been made to ex
tinguish the burning gas, and it is probable
that it will be left to blow and burn for
several days. The Duff well, IN Murrays-
vile, also fired by lightning on Saturday, is
still burning.
Henry Bender and Truman Ormsbee met
and uuarreled in house of ill-fame in Har-
risburg early Sunday morning. Both were
drunk, and, after leaving the den, they again
met at the Cumberland Valley Railroad de-
pot. Here the fight was renewed, and the
couple rolled on the railroad tracks where they
were struck by shifting engine. Both were
severely injured, Bender perhaps fatally.
Ormsbee is said to be a resident of Philadel-
phia.
The ancient wreck exhumed by the sea near
Peaked Hill Bar Life Station, Massachusetts,
Is without doubt that of the British 64-gun
ship Somerset, which, at the battle of Bunker
Hill, covered the landing of the English in
Charlestown. In November, 1878, while
chasing the French feet, she was caught in
northeast gale and driven ashore. Several of
her crew of 4S0 men were drowned, and most
of the others were captured and confined in
Boston.
The President has appointed as members
of the Board of Visitors to West Point for I
the present year Professor w. G. Sumner, of
Yale College, Connecticut; Kemp P. Battle,
Ill. D., President of the University of North |
rarol;na. William G Rissall of New York. /