The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-01-30

Monday night and 22Oinmates were captured
Two farmers have died near Terre Haute,
Indiana, this week, from gangrene OF the
feet, resulting from frost bites.
The Salisbury ministry has resigned, and
the Liberals will succeed to power. Mr..
Gladstone will likely be called to the Premier
ship.
The suit to contest Carter Harrison's cleo
ton as Mayor of Chicago was dismissed on
Wednesday on motion of counsel for the peti-
TONERS.
Miss Lille Todd, said to have been lo5
wears old, was found dead on Monday IN her
house, in which she lived alone at New Castle,
Delaware
1t is reported that a woman named lsaacs
and her two children were frozen to death in
Wayne county, W. Va, during the recent
cold snap.
A construction train on the Rock Island
Railroad crashed into the rear of sleeping
car at Muscatine, Iowa, on Tuesday morning,
and four train hands were injured, one NOR
tally. The passengers were badly shaken up.
At St. Etienne, Quebec, on Tuesday, Hec-
tor Bouchard fell victim to superstition. 1t
is believed among the shantymen of that re-
gion that if they blow into the muzzle of an
unloaded gun while the cap is being fired any
request they may ask will be granted Bouch-
ard was performing this act, but the gun was
loaded and the bullet went though his head.
A singular phenomenon was noted at Aus
tin, Texas, on Tuesday afternoon. Toward
four o'clock from out of a clear sky shower
of very fine dust began falling. There was no
wind at the time. The shower increased to-
ward nightfall, and continued through half
the night. The dust had peculiar effect on
the lungs and throat, causing irritation and
hoarseness in some instances. A similar
phenomenon was witnessed there eight years
ago.
A report was received in Kansas City,
Missouri, Wednesday night, of an engagement
that occurred about the 10th instant in the
mountains of Sonora between a party OF
Mexicans and small detachment of Crook S
cavalry under Captain Crawford. The parties
met while in search of the renegade Apaches,
and the Mexicans, it seems, fired on Crawford
while he was waving flag of truce, infiictlng
wounds from which he has since died. The
troopers returned the fire, killing the Mexican
captain and four of his men.
The st. Louis Post Despatch publishes the
opinion of more than 200 leading employers
and manufacturers relative to the eight-hour
system. The employers generally say that the
adoption of the eight-hour system will not
affect their business, but that it will surely end
in a reduction of wages, and of consequent
injury to the laboring classes. They also
state that the movement, if put into force,
will be met with the piece" system, and the
method of payment by the hour.
Two thousand striking employees at one OF
the iron works in Decazeville, department of
Aveyoon, France, attacked the house of the
manager of the works. They broke open the
door, entered the building, seized the mana
ger and threw him out of the window. He
was then kicked and trampled to death by
the frenzied crowd. Troops were dispatched
to Decazeville to quell the disturbance. The
troops restored order, but not until after sew
eral rioters had been killed and number
wounded. The strike grows out of the ques-
ton of wages.
1t is said that the forthcoming report of the
Agricultural Department of Illinois will show
a condition of affairs not known before for
twenty-five years, there being deficit in the
crop of 5, 00O, 900 bushels. The acreage har-
vested in 1885 was 1858 The amount
annually required for seed and consumption
is 10, 7S9, O29 bushels, but the amount produc-
ed, as shown by the returns, was s,299, 243.
port surplus in production over the demands
for seed and consumption.
John Muller, crippled tailor, who was ar
rested in Philadelphia for fraudulently OBJ
tanning registered letter containing $40,
was discharged on Wednesday after hearing.
The letter was sent by Henry Muller, of
Bremerhaven, Germany, to John Muller, of
Lexington avenue, Brooklyn, and by mistake
was delivered to the defendant, who lived on
Livingston street. By strange coincidence
the defendant had also a brother named
Henry in Germany, from whom he supposed
the money came. He used it to buy clothing
for his children and pay his debts.
S. E. Chamberlain, stock dealer, living
near Toledo, Ohio, was found in an insensi-
BILE condition in Cincinnati, early on Wednes-
day morning. After being restored to con-
seriousness he said he had arrived in the city
on Tuesday night and, entering the first hack
he noticed at the depot, asked to be driven
to the Palace Hotel. After proceeding some
distance he heard peculiar noise, as of air
escaping from a tube, and soon afterwards
lost consciousness. His pockets had been
rified of Sl2O and valuable gold watch. The
police have made no arrests as yet, but say
the story is undoubtedly true, and claim that
the hack was fixed by means of a pipe extend
ing from the drivers seat to the inside, so
arranged as to enable the driver to force a
sleep producing gas into the vehicle.
The principal American residents of Apia,
Samoa, have forwarded petition to Secretary
Bayard, dated December 9th, 1885, which
asks for the removal of United States Consul
Greenbaum, whom it charges with general
unftness for the office which he holds. Mr..
Greenbaum is accused of charging more than
his legal fees for services rendered in his Off
cial capacity, and of neglect of his official
duties One of the charges brought against
Greenbaum is contained in an affidavit of All
Su, Chinese merchant, who swears that
Greenbaum tried to make arrangements with
him whereby Chinese could be brought from
China to Samoa and furnished with certificates
there which would permit them to enter the
United States. Each Chinaman was to be
charged 500, and the proceeds were to be
equally divided between All Su and Green
baum.