The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-01-02
News of the Week.

| 1lere were Of uedeilo iiOhA Po@N -
Montreal and its suburbs last week.
The American bark Amethyst, supposed to
be lost in the Arctic ocean, had crew OF
forty men.
! A report has reached Duncan, Arizona,
that a party of Indians had stolen forty horses
and killed three men near Steeple Rock.
High license has decreased the number of
saloons in Chicago from $4,000 to 5000 and
added nearly 81 300, 900 to the revenues of the
city.
The announcement is made by the Chroni-
Gle of Virginia City, New, that fish with fur
in place of scales have been caught at Hind s
Springs.
Vim. West, chief distributing clerk in the
Post office at Des Moines, was arrested on
Sunday for riAiug letters. He was caught by
decoy.
M. Francois Jules P. Grevy was on Mon
day last reelected President of the French
| renublic by the Joint vote of the Senate and
Chamber Of Deputies. His majority on joint
ballot was 1876.
The sum of Sis, 900 has already been spent
in stamping out the smallpox epidemic In
Montreal, and further large sum will be re-
ouired to meet obligations. Compulsory vac
cination is now being strictly enforced.
Martin O'Neil and Christopher Corners
while going home at Wellsville, Ohio, last
Friday night, stepped over the side OF a rail
road culvert and fell to the bed of creek
fifty feet below. O'Neil was killed and Con-
ners dangerously injured.
At Gainestcwn, Alabama, on Sunday, Alex
ander Reid, colored, charged with assaultlng
and numbering Miss Carrie Boyer on the 18th
ult., was chained to q tree at the scene OF the
crime and slowly burned to death by crowd
| of ;nd;0nant whites and blacks
A girl in Wheeling, W. Va, whose sup
posed death occurred suddenly at roller
skating rink, was being prepared for burial
the other day when signs of consciousness
were observed. She had been suffering from
syncope, attributed to over-exertion and tight
acing.
At Newport Mines, Missouri, last Friday
morning, Daniel Thompson and Oscar Nor
rison. brothers-in-law, INDUCED in friendly
scuffie. Morrison father, thinking they were
fighting, struck Thompson terrible blow on
the head with a stone, from the effects OF
which he died on Saturday.
A feature of the Christmas Eve exercises at
a public school in the Ninth Ward OF New
York was tin horn chorus, the blast from
700 bows, each with small trumpet, being
AUGMENTED by four-foot horn used by the
principal of the school, and another OF like
dimensions performed upon by the vice
principal.
A fight between ten or twelve unknown ne
qroes and tramps occurred Christmas day near
Johnstown, Pa, growing out of an attempt to
drive the tramps from their encampment.
After a fight with clubs, stones and revolyers,
lasting an hour, the tramps were driven OH,
with two of their number wounded, one NOR
tally. None of the negroes were injured.
The story is told in Modale, Iowa, that a
certain partisan father promised his daughter
a new silk dress if she would persuade GER
tain bachelor of the place to vote the Demo
cratic ticket. The young woman got IN the
vote by promising her hand In marriage.
Now she refuses to wed, and the old bachelor
talks of a suit for damages in $500 for breach
of promise.
Silas E. Cheek, a prominent real estate
loan operator of Clinton, Missouri, is reported
to have swindled his confiding fellow citizens
out of more than 100000, forging mortgages
and deeds of trust, and raising money on them.
He has fled to Canada. In his desk was found
a paper on which was written: II am thief,
scoundreI, knave and liar. Silas E. Cheek"
Cheek is 80 years of age.
The troubles in St. Albertus' Polish Church,
Detroit, have broken out afresh. There was
considerable rioting on Saturday, the mem
bers of the congregation attacking the houses
of persons obnoxious to them, and also as,
saulting individuals. For time the small
force of police were powerless, but hnally
order was restored about dark. Several per-
sons were injured during the rioting.
fire in Georgetown, Massachusetts, early
ON Saturday morning, destroyed Adams
block, the Masonic block, the Equitable
building, Temey's shoe factory and the dwell
ling of q. j. Temey, causing loss OF SoO,-
600. Thirteen business places were burned
out and $50 hands thrown out Unemployment
During the progress of the fire two men were
killed and four injured, two of them danger
ously.
James l.. Sigmond, an aged citizen of Pet
It's county, Missouri, was taken to Sedalla on
Saturday night and turned over to the Sheriff
to answer for murder committed twenty-five
years ago After the alleged murder he en-
tered the Union army, and when the war was
over settled in Pettis county, where his resi-
dence was not discovered by the detectives
until recently. He has large family and is
well connected.
In Austin, Texas, two respectable women
we're feloniously assaulted and murdered in
different parts of the city last Friday night.
This makes about twelve women who have
been similarly attacked and eight murdered
there within eight months. There is no clew
to the perpetrators of the crime. A meeting
of citizens called by the Mayor was held on
Saturday, at which a committee of public
safety was organized.
St. Elizabeth's Roman Catholic Church, in
Chicago was entered on Saturday night by
miscreants, who ''tore down and completely
mutilated sixteen oil paintings which had been
ON the walls; tore down all the figures in the
inches, went into the sanctuary, threw the
vestments around and spilled the wine found
there over them. Passing into the school
room, the desks were overturned, the books
strewn around and the walls despatched with
ink.
A huge tree, bearing all kinds Of gifts for
the patients and attendants OF the County
Hospital at Chicago, and lavishly illuminated
with candles, caught fire on Christmas while
more than hundred people were packed
closely around it. Almost instantly the tree
was pyramid of flame, and the clothes OF
those who stood nearest to it caught tlre'
Every. one rushed to the door, and others were
! tineuished. About $50 persons suffered pain
full, but not fatal injuries
: Frank Vaughn and Eliza Swope were mar
. ried at Little Blue, Missouri, on Christmas
night. After the ceremony, while they were
standing at the window, bullet was fired at
S them by some one outside and grazed Vaughn S
head Abraham Nave, cousin of the bride,
was suspected of the crime. On Saturday
morning. Nave called on the Vaughns, said
the reports of the Christmas affair worried
his mother, and asked the couple to accom-
pany him to his home and deny that they sqs.
pected him. Sunday morning they started
with him on horseback, and when hall way
: Nave shot Vaughn dead. Nave then rode
' home, and on the approach Of officers to ar
rest him committed suicide.
A reunion has been arranged for the twelve
children of the late 4. B. Fox, of Gowapda,
: W. T., and papers in that section give some
e interesting information on the subject. The
, lightest Of these ''children" is $50 pounds,
: and none of them is under feet in height.
Their parents lived together sixty years, the
: father dying at the age of so, and his widow
r the next day. at the same age. Old Mr.. Fox
f was feet inches in height and weighing
n $50 pounds The twelve children are all mar
e ried, and each one has six children. One Of
e these, aged II years, is feet inches in
height There are two years between the
ages of the twelve children and the same diff
ference between the ages of all their children
Petitions in 535 cases of French spoliatior
claims have been fled in the Court OF Claims
: and it is estimated as probable that i,a0t
J, petitions in all will be filed. The records in