The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-12-11
News of the Week.

Two hundred cars of wheat for Minneapo-
lis and Dubuque are reported snow-bound at
Wilmar, Minnesota.
William T. Price, congressman from the
Sth Wisconsin district died at Eau Claire on
Monday. He was Republican and was re-
elected to the 50th congress.
The barn of Francis N. Buck, near st.
Georges, Delaware, was burned one night
last week. Fourteen horses and thirty cattle,
mostly valuable stock, were destroyed.
The dead bodies of three Indians, who per-
ished in the recent storm, have been found
near Ashland, Montana. Several more In
dams are believed to have met the same fate.
Herzog's Opera House, in Washington,
was destroyed by fire on Sunday morning.
Loss, $115,000; insurance, $4,000. James
West, colored, is missing and believed to have
persisted.
William Mcdonald and Edwin Forrest
were arrested in st. Louis on Sunday night
while they were dividing $4,000 worth of jew
elry stolen from store in that city on the
night of the 25th ult.
Among the passengers of the steamer Fulda,
which arrived at New York on Sunday, were
party of 40 men, women and children.
They were Gustave Pleth, his wife, his five
sons and their wives and % grandchildren.
They are going to Knife River, Dakota.
Charles B. Snodgrass, clerk in clothing
house at Cynthiana, Kentucky, committed
suicide on Saturday night by taking poison.
He left a note saying he did it because he
had been wrongfully accused by his employer
of dishonesty. Five minutes after the young
mans father heard of the suicide he died of
heart disease.
There was labor riot in Amsterdam, New
York, at six o'clock Wednesday evening.
About 200 of the unemployed mill hands
gathered near Kline & Hubb's mill to attack
the non-union employees. The police charg
ed with drawn clubs and dispersed the crowd,
several of whom were injured. There is
great excitement over the affair.
A cave-in took place on Saturday at the
Paramount Colliery, near Pittston, Penna.,
by which three dwellings were demolished,
the inmates barely escaping with their lives.
The cavern covers an area of one and one
half acres, the surface having settled some
fifteen feet The cause of the accident is
attributed to the "robbing' of pillars in the
mine underneath.
Reuben Hill and his three sons were killed
on Tuesday afternoon at a railroad crossing
near Laporte, Indiana. Hills little daughter
had one of her legs broken at the same time.
The family were in a wagon, crossing the
railroad, and were prevented from seeing APP
preaching trains by an occupied side track.
Hills wife died recently, so the daughter
crippled on Tuesday is the sole survivor of
the family.
When Jane WHEELER was murdered in Cleve-
land, Ohio, last month, her husband accused
Patrick Graves of being her murderer.
Graves was honorably acquitted on the pre-
limiuary examination, and on Saturday he
entered suits against WHEELER for damages,
aggregating S125, 000-$l00, 600 for malicious
arrest and $4,000 for injured reputation.
WHEELER is also under arrest for the murder
of his wife. He is over so years of age.
The Sunday law was enforced in Indianap-
oils on Sunday, so that something to eat and
a coffin were about the only things it was
possible to buy. 1t was the retaliating work
of the Liquor League. Strangers who arrived
in the city were compelled to go to their
hotels on foot, as hack drivers dare not con-
vey them. Cigars could not be bought at any
of the 800 stores where they are regularly
sold and newspapers could be purchased at
only two stands.
A Syracuse On. Y dispatch says: miss
Winnie Davis, daughter of Hon. Jefferson
Davis, who has been visiting Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Emery in this city for the past four
weeks, left for New York Sunday, and has
taken apartments at the New I DIRK hotel.
Miss Davis will visit friends in New York
during the rest of the month and tits expected
will return to Syracuse for another visit in
January. During her stay in Syracuse she
has been the recipient of many social honors,
apd has made pleasing impression upon
all who have met her"
Robert Emmett King, aged % years, who
is serving a six years. sentence in the Mis-
souri, penitentiary for having stolen $751;
from the Sedalia Savings Bank, has prepared
a statement os the cause of his fall. He sets
forth that he entered the bank as book keeper
at the age Of fourteen years, and at II began
to drink and gamble. Losing his own money
he took from the banks funds and covered
his tracks by false entries. For five years he
did thss, he had taken $48, 600. He
then took q SIC, 006-- package and fled to
Canada, but was pursuaded 70 fetsEn by his
father and his sentence to prison foilowed.