The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-11-27
News of the Week.

A case of smallpox, the first Of the pres
ent year, was reported in Pittsburg Monday
evening.
-Four men were killed and fifth one fatally
injured by collision between two freight
trains at Savoy, Illinois, Monday night.
During the heavy blow on Thursday of last
week, the barges Menominee and Marinette
were wrecked near Frankfort, Michigan, and
fourteen lives were lost.
The t'first blizzard of the season. at Fort
Keogh, Montana, reached there on Saturday
night On Sunday it was showing hard and
rapidly growing colder.
The Foster Falls property, 2l00 acres, in
Pulaski county, Va, has been sold to Phila-
delphia parties for S150,0o0, one-third cash.
Iron furnaces are to be erected.
At o meeting of Socialists IN New York on
Saturday night, Henry George was denounced
''because he repudiated the doctrines of So
cialism after receiving their support in the
recent election
Part of the scafolding in new cyclorama
building at Detroit gave way Monday morn
ing, throwing four men to the ground, fifty
feet below. Two were killed, and the others
were dangerously injured.
Cholera has broken out in the hospital for
the insane in Buenos Ayres. South America.
Eighteen cases and two deaths are reported.
Nineteen new cases and five deaths were re-
ported at Rosario in one day.
A telegram from Chicago gives summary
of marine losses during the storm of Wednes-
day and Thursday of last week, on the upper
lakes, showing that 36 vessels, valued at
S839, 100, were lost, and that AZ persons per
ished.
A tornado struck Girard, Kansas, Monday
morning, and demolished all the wooden
buildings in path so to rs feet wide, going
through the town from southwest to northeast
A number of persons were injured one per-
haps fatally.
Customs officers on Monday seized $50, 200
worth of opium at the residence of Charles
R. Bronson, at Alameda, California. it is
believed the drug was brought to San Fran
cisco from China on the steamer City of sgd
ney, and removed to Alameda to facilitate its
disposal.
Right Rev. Alfred A. Curtis, Bishop of
Wilmington, Delaware, was installed last
Sunday in st. Peters Prof. Cathedral, in that
city. Cardinal Gibbons preached the install.
lation sermon, and Bishop Curtis celebrated
Pontifcal Mass.
Owing to the prevalence of diphtheria, the
schools in Ishpenning, Michigan, have been
closed DY ORQer OF Tue DOdTu Vi 1IedllH, all
dances and public meetings have been pro-
hibited, and even services in the churches
on Sunday were forbidden.
The Grand Jury at Chicago has ignored the
bill against the Pinkerton men charged by
the Coroner's Jury with completely in the
death of Terrence Begley, near the Union
Stock Yards after the recent strike. The
prisoners have been discharged.
Levi Stackpool, aged years, was killed by
calf at Auburn, New York, on Monday.
He was holding the animal by a rope, which,
in play, he had tiedaround his neck. The
calf started Of. threw the boy down. and
dragged him until death resulted from strangu-
* A malignant type of diphtheria has pre-
vailed for several weeks in Logansport, In.
diana, and one hundred children have died
there. The disease has also appeared in the
nehhboring town Of Rochester and at Rich
Vsiley, and the schools in the latter place
have been closed.
lat Cleveland, Ohio, on Tuesday, Benjamin
llesheller was held, without bail, for the
of his wife, WHEELER is 81 years old
ID his wife was 81. They had lived in
n.,eveland half century, and each was worth
;hllO0, 900. Mrs WHEELER was strangled to
Yath on the night of the 18th inst, and
t0'heller claims that two robbers were the
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