The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-12-04
News of the Week.

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Bureau that the tax on oleomargarine, which
went into effect on the LIST ult., will yield
about $500, 900 for the month.
1t is reported that gold has been discovered
in the Oklahoma district of the Indian Terri
tory, and rush of gold seekers thither is ex-
pected. Already about 300 claims have been
staked out
Three Russians, who lived near Roscoe,
Michigan, found bottle by the roadside and
drank the contents, supposed to be alcoholic.
The bottle contained aconite, and all the
drinkers are dead.
| Returns to the Canadian Marine Depart
ment of the storm which swept the lakes on
| the 18th and 18th ult., show that it caused
loss of 81 lives and that SO vessels, valued at
$685., 100, were wrecked.
There were two shocks of earthquake at
Summervile, South Carolina, on Sunday,
one at 1890 A. NJ, the other at 800 P. NJ.
Things were ratified in lively manner.
The second shock was felt slightly in Charles
| ton.
Several barns on the stock farm of L. W.
Allen, at East Syracuse, New York, were
burned on Tuesday morning. Fifty-seven
cattle, and large quantity of grain, hay and
farming implements were consumed. Loss,
$4,000.
Frank Kerner, accused of the murder of his
wife in Reading, has made confession, de-
failing how he strangled his wife, then dragg-
ed her up stairs to the bed, poured coal oil
over it, and set it on fire. He is an Anarchist
in his ideas.
A stay of execution has been granted in
| ST. Louis in the case of W. Fl. L. Maxwell,
the murderer of Preller, under sentence to be
hanged on January 1st, in order that tran
script of the cases may be finished before the
appeal is taken.
Thomas Collins leader Of the Lake Shore
switchmen during the recent strike at Chicago,
has had an Indictment against him for theft,
nine years DID, revived. He has been arrest
ed twice for attempted train wrecking, and
will now be prosecuted on the old charge to
insure his conviction.
An explosion of gas took place last Friday
morning in the Conygham shaft at Wilkes
barre. Pa, by which over forty miners were
burned, twelve of them fatally. The disas-
ter was caused by the carelessness of miner,
who stepped into worked out chamber with
naked light on his hat.
The New Jersey Republican State Com
mittee on Monday offered reward of $1,000
for the arrest and conviction of those impli-
Gated in what they allege to have been ballot
box fixing" in the Third Assembly District
of Camden county. The Democrats claim
that the frauds, if any, were committed by
Republicans.
James Boyle, horse-thief, was shot dead
by Deputy Sheriff, named Nelson, while
trying to escape from custody near Burling-
ton Junction, Missouri, on Saturday. On the
dead mans body were found letters which go
to prove that there is an organized band of
horse thieves operating in Northwest Missouri
and Southern Iowa.
A. G. Kist, a farmer, living near Warsaw,
Indiana, acted as Indian agent at the Paw
Paw agency, in the Indian Territory, six years
ago. Since his retiremeet it has been discov-
cred that there is a shortage of $4,000 in
the agency accounts. Suit against Kist and
his bondsmen has been brought in the U. S.
Court at Indianapolis.
In Cherokee county, Alabama. twenty years
ago, Joseph B. Hardwick was killed by Calvin
McFee in a QUARREL about a tract of land.
McFee fed, and was not arrested until few
days ago, when he was found in Southwest
City, Missouri. He had been caught by
brother of the murdered man, who was on his
track for the last twenty years.
At Corunna, Michigan, on Sunday night,
twelve masked men broke into the house of
Charles Pringle, dragged out a boarder NAM
ed Coleman, tarred and feathered him, and
marched him to the outskirts of the town,
telling him to leave Immediately. The reason
given for this action is that she had long been
an offensive character in the neighborhood.'
A fire in Duluth, Minnesota, on Saturday
night, destroyed Elevators Q and A, an annex
to the latter in course of erection, and nine
frame buildings, occupied as stores and,dwell-
ings There were four men in Elevator Q
when the fire broke out-one of tbem was
killed by jumping from the cupola, another is
known to have persisted in the flames, and
! third is missing.
| The trial Of the Milwaukee Garden rioters,
Iin Milwaukee, ended on Saturday night,
wirh-,a verdict finding Carl Mussfeldt, John
Raugkand August Gatz guilty and acqutting
the other six prisoners who took a minor part
in the riots. The three rioters found guilty
were among the leaders of the mob in the con-
hict with the police when an interchange of
shots took place.
W. A. Baldwin, who recently moved from
Vicksburg to Irondale, Alabama, decided
Tuesday to go back. His wife thereupon
announced that she would leave him. A
quarrel ensued, and A. B. Moore, the wife's
brother, took her part. Both men drew pis-
tolls and began shooting rapidly Moore fell
dead and Baldwin received two flesh wounds.
His wife was shot in the cheek.
At midnight of Monday fifty masked ruffians
visited village occupied by fifty Cinnamon
on siding of the Texas Pacific Railroad,
near Big Springs, Texas, and demanded their
money. Being refused, the robbers hung NJ,
the Cinnamon one by one With their queues
and held one of them oD--ahfot stove. Final
ly the tortured men gave up all their hard
earned money and the robbers retired.
COL John S. Mosby has signed contract
by which he is to receive $500 night for fifty
nights for delivering his lecture on his expe-
riences during the late In addition to
his pay, which will amount to SIS, 900, he will
have his travelling and actual expenses paid.
The Colonel is expected at his home in War
renton, Va, at an early day from California,
and will start from there for Boston, where
his lectures will begin.
A telegram from Williamsburg, Kentucky,
says it has been ascertained that the Poe fam
lily of eight persons, supposed to have been
burned to death in Knox county, month
| ago, were murdered by one of their neighbors
and woman who lived with him. Their
Threats were cut and the house was fred.
The son of the murderers told the story, and
articles which belonged to the murdered fam
lily were found in the cellar of the accused
The neighborhood of Columbus, Indiana,
was excited, about three weeks ago, by what
was supposed to be an attempt to assassinate
James Elliott, farmer, by hanging, he CIV
| ing minute description of his three assail-
ants. Three men who were captured by a
searching party narrowly escaped being lynch
ed for the deed. On Monday, Elliott was
found dead, hanging IN his barn, surrounded
by evidences of suicide, and it is now thought
the first hanging was his own work.
A religious revival has been going on
at Havensville, Jackson county, Kansas, for
some time past, and three men have become
insane from the excitement. One of them,
young farmer, named Rhodes Clements, while
going home from prayer meeting was sud
| denly seized with maniacal frenzy and killed
his companion, Samuel Gordon, with a club.
Soon after Clements was found sitting beside
the body of his victim eating the dead mans
heart. Clements was last Friday adjudged
insane.
The U.S. Circuit Court at Memphis decided
an important suit against the Western Union
Telegraph Company, A creditor at Memphis
telegraphed to his lawyer as follows "a. B.
owes me $1,000. If grounds attach" This
despatch was not delivered. Subsequently o
similar despatch was sent by another creditor
to the same lawyer. An attachment was laid
and the money made, but only enough to pay
/ the second creditor The first creditor sued