The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-04-24
News of the Week.

ty, Virginia, has resulted III u majority Oh ooi
for license.
A storm is reported in Dakota by which
hundreds of trees were leveled and large num-
bers of cattle killed.
Two Mexican horse thieves were caught
and lynched by ranchmen near Corpus Christi,
Texas, on Sunday night.
The Secretary of the Treasury on Tuesday
issued a call for ten millions of three per
cent. bonds. The call will mature onJune list.
Lyon Lemberger, prominent citizen OF
Lebanon county, Penna., and formerly local
Democratic leader, died on Sunday at the age
of SO years.
Our Consul General at Rome telegraphs to
the State Department that from the oth to
the 10th inst there have been IL deaths from
cholera in Brindisi.
Kellis Norman, colored, who had murder
ously assaulted and robbed white man nam
ed Malone, was captured and lynched near
Axton, Virginia, on Sunday night.
Lightning on Tuesday struck schoolhouse
at Freeland, Pa, fatally injuring Florence
Hodgson, aged eight years, and seriously IN
Turing three other girls of about the same age.
A certificate for $25, 600 was received at the
Treasury Department on Monday, being the
amount of bail forfeited by George 2. Cannon
through his failure to appear for trial in Salt
Lake City.
DIR. T. S. Taylor, a wealthy resident of
| Norwood, Long Island, shot and killed his
coachman last week, while giving an exhibit
ton of his skill as marksman by shooting
bottles off the coachman's head.
While eight kegs of giant powder were be-
| ing unloaded from a train at Cintonvllle,
Wisconsin, on Saturday, they were exploded
by the accidental dropping of one of the kegs.
! One man was killed and six were injured, two
fatally.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. P Earle, who were mar
ried in April, 1886, at Hartford, have Just
! celebrated the golden anniversary OF their
| wedding. During the fifty years of their
married life death has never invaded their
home circle.
A 1900 barrel tank of oil in the Bear Creek
Refinery, seven miles north of Pittsburg, ex-
ploded Tuesday evening, setting fire to and
destroying warehouse, nine stills, five set
tling-pan tanks, 300 empty barrels, agitator
tanks, and 1000 feet of lumber.
While experiments were being made in
COMPRISING steel at the iron works of Singer,
Nimick & Co., in Pittsburg, on Saturday, a
mould containing 1000 pounds of molten steel
exploded, scattering the metal in all direc-
tons. About twenty men were injured, SIX OF
them severely.
By the breaking of a dam at a reservoir
two and half miles above the village of East
Lee, Massachusetts, on Tuesday morning,
much property in the village was destroyed,
and number of persons were drowned.
Eleven bodies have been found. The loss
on property is estimated at 100000.
A riot occurred Tuesday at Winona, Mimi,
in consequence of trouble between the Mil
waukee and St. Paul and Chicago and North
western Railroads as to the right of way in
the fourth ward. A large mob of Poles and
others attacked the tracklayers, tore up the
track, threw stones and injured one man
badly.
State Veterinarian Bridges and Secretary
Edge on Monday visited the farm of b. L..
Fry, at Masonville, Lancaster county, Penna.,
where 80 out ITO head of cattle have died
of pleuro- pneumonia. To prevent the spread
of the disease, one steer was killed and eigh-
teen animals were inoculated with the virus.
The rest will be inoculated as soon as more
virus can be obtained.
A telegram from Newport says it is under.
stood that the voting lists in every city and
town in Rhode Island are to be examined to
ascertain when each voter registered and by
whom his tax was paid, with view to obtain
ing decision of the Supreme Court as to the
legality of votes cast by persons whose regis
try taxes have been paid by others. The OBJ
iect is to overthrow the prohibition vote if
possible.
Henry Smith, 80 years of age, was savagely
beaten by three rufians in front of his board
ing house in Chicago, on Sunday. His reeov-
cry is doubtful. He was employed in Max
well Brothers box factory during the recent
strike, and on Saturday night he argued with
some of his fellow boarders that it was every
mans right to belong to a union or not as 1t
pleased him. Hence the assault. Two OF
his assailants have been arrested.
Municipal elections took place in many
Illinois towns Tuesday, and in the majority of
cases where the contest was between license
and no license the former was victorious. At
Joliet, Paxton Urbana, Belvidere, Rockford,
Monmouth, Warren, Mount Sterling and
Lincoln, the license and high-license alder
men are now in the majority. At Henepin,
Dwight, Anna, Monticello, Plano and other
small towns, where license or no license was
the issue, the prohibitonists were victorious.
The sublimation of the mind cure craze in
Boston is a man named Bennett, to whom pa
tients go in and lay down $40, never more nor
less, the doctor pronounces the formula
you are cured, and patients walk out again.
This is humbuggery reduced to its simplest
FORM There is no diagnosis, no treatment,
nothing but faith, and yet it is said that Ben
nett is making big income, $40 bills coming
, in by the mail, and requests for consultation
by telegraph. He calls himself an apostle Of
the Order of the Inspirati.
Washington bartenders think that they can
locate statesman by his drinks. Southern
legislators drink whisky straight and in abun-
dance; Western men rather incline to beer;
those from the Pacific coast drink wine, and
though they insist that their country can't be
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eign wine, and costly. New York men are
divided between wine and beer, and fight shy
of whiskey. After ALL it's the manner in
which the statesman drinks rather than what
he drinks that tells the story.
In St. Louis, last Friday afternoon, bench
warrants were issued by the Criminal Court
for the arrest of Martin Irons, Chairman OF
the Executive Committee of District Assem-
bly, 10l; A. Coughran, Chairman of the Exec
utive Committee District Assembly SO; George
NJ. jackson, formerly prominent Greenback
politician, and S. NJ. Nichols, telegraph ope-
rator, on the charge of felony, for interfering
with telegraph wires in connection with wire
tapping, alleged to have been done two weeks
ago, for the purpose of intercepting dispatches
between Jay Gould and Vice President Hoxie.
At Anthony. Kansas, Monday morning, a
mob of forty men surrounded the Sheriff s
mouse, where Two DrotnerS named weaver
were held in custody for the killing of man
named Abel, and attempted to capture them.
The guard rushed the prisoners into the base
ment of new school building adjacent, but
the sheriff being captured by the mob, the
deputies surrendered. The Weaver brothers
were about to be strung up to the rafters,
when the tramp of approaching footsteps was
heard. The mob thereupon riddled their VIC
tins with bullets, killing both on the spot, and
then rode off.
A despatch from Montreal, Canada, last
Monday, relating to the food and ice jam in
the St. Lawrence river, said: The flood at Mon
treal is the worst which ever visited that city.
The greater part of the business district is
under water, as well as the whole country
along the south shore. In the lower section
of the city the water rose so rapidly that resi-
dents were forced to the upper stories of their
houses, where many are without fire and fuel,
and, as yet, with no immediate prospect of
of relief in the shape of provisions. In some
streets the water is six feet deep. Merchants
say the losses will amount to millions of
dollars.
Attorney general Garland appeared on
Monday before the Telephone Investigating