The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-12-18
News of the Week.

City, Indiana, burst on WeunesuayJ kllllhS
three men.
Two men were killed by the boiler explo-
sion in saw-mill at Evansville, Indiana, on
Tuesday.
Governor R. A. Alger, of Michigan. will
give each of 4s7 Detroit newsboys suit oil
clothes for Christmas present.
By the falling of wall while tearing down
an old building in Washington on Wednesday,
eight men were injured, but none fatally.
Ida Baldridge, daughter of ex-Postmaster
Baldridge, of Greensburg, Penna., was arrest
there ON Monday morning on the charge of
robbing the mails.
George Sparks and Monroe Smith, both
colored, charged with arson and robbery,
were taken from the Jail at Ringgold, Geor-
gia, on Friday night, and lyuched by mob.
The total value of the exports of domestic
breadstuffs from the United States during the
eleven months which ended on November
Both last, was S135, 076,6 74, against S119,-
572, 1868 during the corresponding period of
1885.
Charles Brown and Cora Sibley were mar
ried in Manistee, Michigan, last Saturday
evening. About two hours after the cere-
mony the bridal couple were leading dance
together, when the groom fell dead of heart
disease.
Abraham Dowdney, Representative in Con-
gress from the twelfth district of New York,
was attacked with apoplexy while entering
his house in New York city on Thursday
night, OF last week, and he died at two 0 clock
! the next morning
An explosion occurred on Saturday morn
I ing in the fuel room Of the factory or J A.
Woodbury,in East Cambridge, Massachuse It's,
=, ri; aailehh me apartment was wrecked and
( eight men were injured, one named Frank
Silver, perhaps fatally.
The grain elevator of the Western Mary
land Railroad, at Green Village, near Cham
1 bersburg, Penna., was burned ON Saturday
morning. Ineendiarism is suspected. Oliver
Chambers, who slept in the building, was ter
ribly burned in his efforts to escape.
Ted Stevens, aged Is years, son of respec-
table parents, was arrested at Perry, Iowa,
on Sunday for the murder of a man whose
dead body was foundin wheat car at Aspin-
wall station Stevens confessed that he beat
out his victims brains with car pin and
robbed him of 500.
At Putnam, Connecticut, on Sunday, the
wife of Adelbert Fairchild, after quarrelling
with her husband, administered morphine to
herself and child during the husband S tempo
rary absence. The child is dead, but the
woman has been restored to consciousness.
She shows symptoms of insanity.
Eleven of the knitting mills in Cohoes,
New York, resumed operations on Monday,
practically ending the lock- out which began
nine weeks ago. Five mills had already
opened their doors so that 16 out of &c mills
belonging to the association are now running.
1t is thought that the other 10 mills will re-
sumo this week.
Thirty tramps, who have been camped Just
outside the borough limits of Shenandoah,
Penna., went into the town on Saturday
night, got drunk, created riot in a saloon
and fatally wounded three men, one of them
the saloon keeper, James McKeone. Nine of
the tramps were arrested and four of them
committed to jail.
In the Circuit Court at Indianapolis on
Monday, Judge Ayers sustained the demurrer
of the Attorney General to the complaint
of Senator ]. Green Smith in the Lieutenant
Governor injunction proceedings This is
adverse to Smiths claim, and he will at once
carry the case to the Supreme Court in order to
get decision before the Legislature meets.
James Howard, aged a5, was taken from
the Jail at Texarkana, Texas, Wednesday
night by a masked mob, by whom he was
hanged to railroad trestle. He was charg
es with maltreating his wife, who is scarcely
III years old. Besides beating neT; on the
first of November Howard branded large
letter "Hi' on his wife's personin two places.
President Cleveland, although still suffer
ing from rheumatism in his knees, was able
on Saturday to receive many Congressman
who called upon him and also to receive a
Grand Army Post. DR.. Barth. the Liberal
member of the German Reichstag, had a
special interview with the President, and
came away strongly impressed by the dignity
| ond oil of his raoantiOn
The steamboat J. NJ. White, from Ficks-
burg for New Orleans was burned on Mon
dsy night, at Blue Stone, thirty miles above
Baton Rougue. She had a number of passen-
ger ON board, and a number of these, as well
as deck hands, were lost. The latest estimates
place the number of lives lost at SO. The
boat was built at cost of $225, 200, and her
cargo was valued at about $150,000.
The Delaware State Grange, at its session
in Wilmington on Thursday, adopted resolu-
tons declaring that the P, W. and B. Rail
road is discriminating in its freight charges in
favor of localities far southeast, and south of
Delaware, and running the State S most profit
able industries, and that its present policy
merits the uncompromising indignation and
hostility of the producers of Delaware.
The steamship Elder, which sailed from
New York on Wednesday for Bremen, via
1
mail that has ever been despatched from New
York. 1t consisted of 225 sacks of letters and
$50 sacks of newspapers and other printed
matter, q total of 1856 sacks, of which SIS were
made up at the New York Postofflce, where
all this mail had accumulated since Saturday
last.
J. C. Hill resident of Edgewood, near
Pittsburg, collected $4,000 on last Friday and
took the money home to keep over night.
His daughter, having a severe toothache, got
up early on Saturday morning, and went down
to the library to warm herself Her father,
thinking burglar was in the house, followed
her down stairs with a revolver and fired,
wounding his daughter severely if not danger
ously, in the neck.
The sons of Mrs. John Benner, of St.
Louis, few weeks ago spoke to her about
the birthday dinner they meant to give her on
her ninety first birthday. Although in good
health the old lady said "No, boys Instead
of dinner it will be funeral" No atten-
ton was paid to this, bnt soon after Mrs.
Benner began to fail, and, just as she had pre-
dieted, ON her nipety.frst birthday her sons
assembled at her funeral.
Two months ago Mrs. Daniel Wertman, of
Columbia county, Pa, died, and a short time
| afterward her husband succumbed to the
shock. The daughter Minnie, aged 20, was
taken i'll while attending her fathers funeral
and died four days later, and Saturday the
physicians gave up all hope of the recovery
of the son, Freeman, aged 81. who had been
Frustrated by the sudden taking away of his
father, mother and sister.
4. At Boyertown, Berks county, Penna,, We'd
pesday morning, an pnknewn tramp entered
| the house of Augustus VENTED, and, seiSing
Wentzels daughter, Della, aged l6 years,
who was alone in the house, he held cloth
saturated with chloroform to her face. She
soon became unconscious, and when she re-
covered, half an hour later, she found that
the fellow had cut off her luxnriant tresses,1
which had hung below her waist She suffer
ed no other violence.
The Iron Trade Rerie,o says that the sales
of iron ore for 1886 will reach the largest
figures since the opening of the Lake Superior
| iron ore industry thirty years ago. For the
season ending December LIST il estimates that
| 3,5a6, 500 gross tons we're sold, Compared
with 2,93s,4S6 tons in 1885, an increase of
/ sos, los over last year. The amount of unsold
ore at lower lake ports one year ago was esti-
mated at 10000 tons. This year the unsold
surplus is less than 10000 tons.
The MINER floor of the A. f. Shapleiph &