The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-08-14
News of the Week.


Miss Sadie Nichols, of Sturgeon Bay, Wis
consin, committed suicide at Cape May on
Wednesday, by drowning herself
By direction of the President the War De-
partment on Saturday issued an order placing
Gen. Fitz John Porter on the retired list of
the army.
Rev. A. A. Whitmore fell dead in the pull
pit of the Congregational church at Ante,
Iowa, on Sunday, after he had uttered the
words sit is true we have passed from death
unto life" He was SO years of age.
At a mass meeting held in Minneola, Tex
as, on Monday night, resolutions were passed
favoring an immediate war with Mexico.
Many military organizations in the South
west have offered their services to help ami
hilate Mexico.
Capt. Frank D. Longsrord started from
Gloucester, Massachusetts, ON Monday, to
capture swordfsh. He harpooned one, which
rose to the surface and drove its sword
through the boat, penetrating the abdomen
of the Captain. He will probably die.
In Noble county, Ohio, on Saturday after
noon, John Rogers, aged % years, being
drunk, began to abuse his wife. His father,
Thomas Rogers, interfered, when the young
rufiian drew knife and stabbed his father to
the heart, killing him instantly.
The President expects to leave Washington
about The middle of next week for his sum-
mer vacation, and he is now hard at work dis
posing of the business on hand prior to his
departure. He does not expect to return to
Washington before the first of October.
Hon. Adam Ebaugh, ex-Associate Judge
of York county, Pa, celebrated his S0th
birthday by having family reunion of all his
children and grandchildren at the old home
stead near Stewartstown. Judge Ebaugh
was born August 4th, 1906, and has resided
on the property on which he was born all his
life.
Jesse J. Catlin, yardmaster of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, who was struck by locome-
tive while trying to save Miss Anna E. Wye
koff, at South Elizabeth, New Jersey, about
four weeks ago, has become insane, and his
wife is said to be in dying condition from
nervous prostration caused by constant watch
ing and grief.
A tornado struck Hartand, Kansas, on
Thursday of last week, demolishing twenty
houses, blowing sixteen cars from the rail-
road track, and doing great damage to the
crops. A severe storm passed over Decatur,
Illinois, on the same evening, damaging
buildings, stripping fruit trees and leveling
corn in the fields.
A cloud burst occurred on August I'd, on
the American fork of the Mussel Shoal River,
in Montana, which drowned 800 sheep. A
terrific hailstorm in the Upper Yellowstone
Valley four days later destroyed all vegeta-
ton in a strip of country six miles wide.
Near Merrill the hail drifts were fourteen
inches deep in some places.
The funeral of Samuel j. Tilden took place
on Saturday, according to the published Or
der, services being held at Greystone and the
remains being taken to New Lebanon for in
terment. There were present at the services
President Cleveland, Secretaries Manning,
Whitney and Endicott, Governor Hill and
other prominent persons. The funeral was
without ostentation and vain show.
A telegram from Oakland, Illinois, reports
over 10000 people in attendance at a camp
meeting near that place last Friday. There
was speaking from six stands. The religious
fervor is very great. Women shout them
selves hoarse, and the excitement of old men
and boys is so great that they appear insane.
The attendance on Sunday was $4,000.
The trial of editor Cutting, in Paso del
Norte, Mexico, resulted on Saturday in his
sentence to one years Imprisonment at hard
labor and payment of fine of 5000. Should
he be unable to pay. the fine he must serve
one hundred days longer. Medina, whom
Cutting libeled, has leave to bring civil suit
for damages. A higher Mexican court is to
review Cuttings case.
The Commerce. del Yale, published in st.
Louis, prints letter from its correspondent
in the City of Mexico, saying that the Presi-
dents and ex-Presidents of the Central Amer
lean republics of Salvador, Nicaragua, Hon
duras, Costa RIGA and Guatemala are now in
that city arranging plan for the union. of
tboea OF confederation with ba
ultimate view to annexation to the Mexican
republic.
AT Cincinnati on Saturday prisoners con-
victed of violating the election laws in Octo-
Der last were sentenced as follows: John
Minor and Patrick Kelly, 800 and ten days in
Jail David o. Brien, one year in the peniten-
tiary; Joseph Ryan, six months in work house;
John Brummagen, one year in the peniten-
tiary, VIM. Kilcoyne, two years in the peni.
Tertiary; John P. Evans, two years in the
penitentiary.
At Birdseye, Dubois county, Indiana, on
the LIST instant, two men named Faultz and
Waller were waylaid and shot by Thomas
Hobbs and his son while going home from
picnic. Fault was killed and Waller so bad
iy wounded that he died next day. A mob
of citizens hunted down the murderers,
hanged them to tree and riddled their bod
les with bullets. A feud had existed for
some time between Waller and Hobbs.
A meteorologist named Foster makes the
announcement that one of the greatest storm
periods of 1886 will begin on August 10th
and continue until the 9th, during which the
great drought will be completely broken by
heavy rains, hail and tornadoes and heavy
gales A tropical hurricane on the southeast
Atlantic coast will occur between the 10th
and 10th. These storms will be general, and
Iowa, Illinois, New England states, Eastern
Canada and Labrador will be in the danger
path. Vivid sun spots from the 18th to oath,
brilliant auroras on the both and 23d
The president of the Pennsylvania state
board of health has investigated the cause of
the typhoid epidemic at Pittsburg, which has
carried off so many citizens of that place.
He reports the sewerage bad and the water
very impure Beck S run was found to be in
a horrible condition. The water was very
putrid. and at various points were found the
carcasses of animals in advanced stages of
decomposition. The run empties into the
Monongahela river which supplies the resi-
dents of the afflicted section with water.
The directors of the American Agricultural
and Dairy Association met ON Tuesday in
New ork to wind up the recent campaign
against oeomargarine, which eliminated in
the recent passage of the Oleomargarine bill.
The board adopted resolutions regretting the
death of Samuel j. Tilden, who always had
deep interest in the work of the association
also commencing the supporters in Congress
Of the 0leomargarine bill as wise and patri-
otto men. The time and place of the next
national convention was fixed for September
14th and 18th at Philadelphia, Pa.
The will of Samuel J. Tilden was read on
Monday at Greystone. 1t has not yet been
probated. After making requests to all his
relatives, in the order of their consanguinity,
he provides for the establishing of free libra,
ries in New Lebanon and Yonkers, "and il
in the discretion of the trustees they choose
to establish free library in New York City
they may do so, and if not they are at liberty |
to use the funds that free library would cost
in the promotion of any charitable or educa-
tional cause The executors and trustees
are John Bgelow, Andrew Il. Green and
George W. Smith, and great deal is left to
their discretion. Mr.. Bgecw says the actual
value of the estate is about S5,0O0,000, aad
of this an amount not exceeding one third is
in legacies and incomes to the rel
atives of the deceased.
A dispatch on Monday said Forest fires 4
are raging in Marathon and Clark counties, !
doing great damage. The greater |
portion of the village of Spencer was de- |
l., Al -