The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-06-19
News of the week.

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Sullivan and Mitchell will box eight tire
minute rounds in New York on July 5. III
The dead body of an unknown man, wit
the throat cut, was found in the woods nea
| Clearfeld, Penna., on Sunday. /
Bishop Duhamel, of the Diocese of Ottaws
has issued pastoral warning the Catholic |
of his diocese not to join the knights 4
Labor.
The heirs of an estate $500, 000) in Mount |
Holly, N. j., will be paid this week ona
settlement that has been reached afteTa |
chancery suit of thirty years.
| Captain Francis Jeffrey Dickens, sonbf |
the late Charles Dickens, the novelist, dld |
suddenly at Moline, Illinois, last Frid.y !
| night, Of paralysis of the heart He was II |
years of age.
At Pekin, Ohio, on Monday, Mrs. Noh
! Mossholder, aged 81 years, attempted TO |
save little child which had run on he |
railroad track before an approaching tran.
| Both were killed.
| Rabies is reported epidemic in YanktDn.
| Dakota, among dogs, horses and cattle, AMI
most people who go abroad carry guns as
defence against the numerous rabid dogs tfpt
are running wild through that county.
| A wind storm at Crookston, Minnesota, last
| Friday night, blew down the Germania Hotil |
and wrecked the Catholic chuch. The frort |
| of the Crookston House was also blown oq
| In the Germania Hotel eight persons were
| injured. |
The earthquake shock reported at Sanly
! Hook and Quarantine Island on Friday night /.
was felt at several other places along the New
Jersey coast At Asbury Park the shock
lasted two minutes and was accompanied BY
| a rumbling noise Houses were shaken ard
pictures on the wall swung to and fro.
A band of Mexican smugglers has just BEEN
captured near Deming, New Mexico. They
had dozen pack mules loaded with goods
and were driving Ga head of cattle and 20
horses, all of which had been smuggled across
| by circuitous route which has been known
| by Mexicans for many years. Five Mexieans
were captured.
A Waterman was employed by a resident
of Plain Edge to guard his premises. To see
what kind of duty the man performed the
owner tried him the other night and found
him painfully vigilant. The Waterman. not
recognizing his employer and receiving no
reply to his challenge, fired and put several
buckshot in the latter's legs.
Ellen Human, an aged woman, was
found dying of starvation in an attic in West
street, New York, on Monday. She expired
soon after being removed. Unable to work,
and too proud to beg, she had crawled into
the attic to die. She had not tasted food for
| five days 1t is said the poor woman had
been of respectable standing through life
A severe wind storm prevailed in Texas
on Sunday night and on Monday morning,
the gale having a velocity at Galveston OF
sixty miles per hour. On Monday morning
the storm blew away parts Of the two bridges
which span Galveston Bay, and swept of all
the telegraph lines running into Galveston,
thus cutting off communication with thai
city.
Three meetings of as many different
branches of Socialists were held in st. Louis
on Sunday to arrange for grand demonstra-
ton on the Fourth of July. 1t will take the
shape of picnic, at which it is expected 10
600 persons will be present, and the proceeds
will be used to defray the expense of defend
ing Socialists now being prosecuted by the
authorities The notorious Prince krapot-
| kline, who is reported about to sail from Eng
land for the United States, is promised as one
of the attractions.
Capt. John Paul Jones Dawson, who died
in Georgetown, California, June G, was one
of the oldest Masons in the United States, II
not the world. He was born in Norwich,
Conn. November 8, 1887, and was conse-
quently ninety-eight years and about seven
months old at the time of his death. he
served. as warrant officer in the United States
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and previously under Commodore Balm
bridge, with Capt. Decatur in the Algerine
war with the pirates in the Mediterranean.
Nelse Hansen. one of the policemen
wounded in the Haymarket riot in Chicago,
died on Monday. A short time previous to
his death the operation of TRANSMISSION of
blood into the veins of the dying man was
performed, four ounces ofblood being taken
for the purpose from the arm of Hansen's
brother-in- law, a healthy, robust man.
! There was slight and temporary revival of
| vitality, but it was accompanied by great
suffering, and death ensued in about two
hours.
Vancouver, British Columbia, has been
burned, and 5000 people are homeless. Ten
dead bodies have been recovered from the
debris. The loss on property is estimated
at 81 900, 000 The conhagration originated
from brush fires along the Canadian Pacific
Railway, which were suddenly stirred to fury
| by high wind. Vancouver was the Pacific
terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
The fire started at one end of the town about
2 O. clock Monday afternoon and the flames
swept so rapidly through the wooden build
ings that by O. clock nothing was left.
! On Friday last the French Chamber of
Deputies passed the bill, as drawn up by the
government, decreeing the immediate expul-
sion of the Count of Paris and his family and
of Jerome Bonaparte and his son Victor.
They are henceforth interdicted from resld-
ing in any part of France, or any one OF her
colonies, and any violation of this interdict
is to be punished by imprisonment for from
two to five years, and at the expiration OF
their term of Imprisonment they are to be re-
conducted to the frontier Those members
of the families of the princes who are not in
the direct line of succession to the French
| throne will be allowed to remain in France,
subject, however, to the pleasure of the gov
eminent, but are excluded from all public
functions.
Ludwig, who was recently deposed from
| the Bavarian throne, committed suicide at SIX
O'Clock ON Sunday evening. He had gone out
for promenade in the park of the Berg
Castle, accompanied by DIR. Guddeu, his
physician. The King suddenly threw him
self into Starnberg lake and was drowned.
The physician jumped into the water to res
cue the King and was also drowned. The
medical commission which examined the
late King Ludwig report that he had ordered
the members of the Ministerial deputation,
headed by Count Holstein, who called upon
him to procure his consent to Regency, to
be logged until they bled and then to have
their eyes extracated. Before his death the
belief was spreading among the common peo-
pie of Bavaria that the Kings deposition was
illegal. The people did not believe he was
insane. Precautions had been taken to pre-
vent the populace from rising to restore the
King.
A sword contest for the championship be-
tween Duncan C. Ross and Sergeant Walsh
was fought at Denver, COL, Sunday afternoon
in the presence of nearly 5000 people. Ross
was the victor in the seventeenth attack,
knocking Walsh from his horse in senseless
condition. Interest was first shown in the
! fourteenth attack, when Ross claimed that
the decision against him was not right. The ]
umpire's decision made Ross angry and be 4
fought with savage blows during the rest of
the contest. In the seventeenth attack the
point was won by Walsh by right under.
hand cut on Ross breastplate, but before
the decision of the umpire was given Ross
gave Walsh so terrible blow on the head
that he fell senseless from his horse. At this
time the record was IL points to 6 in Walsh's
favor. The sergeant being unable to appear
in the arena again, the medal was awarded to
Ross. They were to have fought for %
points. At last accounts Walsh was i'm
proving.