The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-06-12

A great riot occurred at Belfast, Ireland,
on Tuesday night, Orangemen attacking a
hotel kept by a Catholic. Over 100 houses
were burned or wrecked, and six men and
two women were killed.
George Fullmer, of Sunbury, Pa, or Sun
day after church took book and seating
himself in swing in his yard. read and idly
swung. The swing, made of an upright post
and heavy crossbeam resting on tree, was
old; the upright gave way and the cross piece
anne down, and striking Fullmer on the head,
lied him.
The Constancia sugar plantation at Glen
| fuegos, Cuba, has made this season Is, 400
hogsheads of sugar. and the production will
doubtless reach 16, 900 hogsheads. This will
be the largest production by single planta-
ton ever known in Cuba. The prolonged
drought has been of great benefit to the sugar
manufacturers, whose work has not been in
terrupted for some weeks.
By a lucky speculation few months ago
Frank Harrison Learned, of Denver, Col,
made S125, 200. Soon afterward he was plac-
| ed in an asylum, but in Marcn he was releas-
ed, and went to Brooklyn, N. Y, and mar
ried Sarah Ann Magnus, although he had
left wife in Colorado. He beat his new
wife terribly, and she left him, and he then
hired Bridget Cusic and beat her The wom-
an had him arrested on Wednesday, and wife
No. has been sent for.
During the reunion of the Pennsylvania
Reserves in Reading about 25 persons, visi-
tors and citizens of Reading, were made vio-
lently i'll after eating lunch at Mannerchor
! Hall, where more than 1900 persons were fed.
During Monday night they exhibited every
symptom of arsenical poisoning, but were
nearly all considered out of danger on Tues
day. 1t is thought their illness was caused
| by the vessels in which the coffee was boiled,
or the cans in which the corned beef was
packed.
A sad story is told by the officers of the
Cunard steamer Catalonia, which arrived at
Boston from Liverpool last Saturday. A
family of five-father, mother and three
children, the youngest an infant-embarked
as steerage passengers at Queenstown, and
when out few days the two elder children
sickened and died. Then followed in pain
fully rapid succession the mother and father.
All were buried at sea. The remaining child,
between two and three years old, was taken
I to the Chardon Street Home.
The executive committee of the Lynchburg
| (Va.) Agricultural Society, charged with the
duty of arranging for the centennial fair in
October next, have invited Gov. Lee to open
the exposition, Hon. John W. Daniel to de-
| liver the opening address, Mr.. c. NJ. Black
ford the historical address, and Mr.. James
Barron Hope a centennial poem. The COM
mittee has also requested the Hon. Allen u.
Thurman, of Ohio, who is q native of Lynch
burg, to honor the occasion by his presence
and an address upon such theme as he may
see proper to select
The Richmond (Va.) Dispatch states that
Thomas j. Cluverius, the young lawyer con-
victed of the murder of his cousin, Miss Fan
ME Lillian Madison, and now awaiting resen-
tence of death, has been furnished with more
comfortable quarters in the jail of that city IN
consequence of his revealing plot of some
other prisoners to escape by attacking the
deputy The information proved so timely
that when the convicts were about to escape
the police summoned to protect the Jail forced
the fellows back to their cells Cluverius gave
the information so cleverly that the other
prisoners are ignorant how the plan of escape
was discovered.
The Grand Jury at Chicago on Saturday
afternoon reported to Judge Rogers. The
report says: "The number of dangerous An
archists has been greatly overestmated. In
reality there are less than 100 dangerous
characters of Anarchtistic tendencies. The
remainder are made up of Ignorant men who
implicitly follow the guidance of their leaders.
The police are in possession of facts which
cannot fail to bring these leaders to the pun
ishment they so justly deserve. The bomb
throwing was the consequence Of premedi-
tated conspiracy and detection of the leaders
should be left in the hands of the police
The Oakland Street Car Company of
Pittsburg on Tuesday began suits in the
United States Court against Richard Camp
bell, Master Workman of the Street Car As
sembly, Knights of Labor, and Messrs. Ed
ward Woods, Henry Gamble and Robert Eb-
erhardt, charging them with conspiracy. The
accused were in the employ of the company.
and struck recently for the twelve hour
schedule. President Gordon, of the Compa-
ny, alleges that they conspired to prevent the
running of cars and interfered with the men
who wanted to work Woods and Campbell
were arrested and held for hearing in $500
bail each. Warrants are out for Campbell
and Eberhardt The suits were entered un-
der Section 5507 of the laws of the United
States, which provides that two or more per-
sons who conspire, Cypress or threaten
citizen in the discharge on his duty or pursuit
Of business shall be subject of conviction to
fine of $1,000 or ten years Imprisonment.