The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-04-17
News of the Week.

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Hon. John Welsh, of Philadelphia, ex-
minister to England, died on Saturday, in his
S1st year.
The business men of Richmond, Va, will
| hold public meeting next Monday evening
to protest against local option.
Five cattle affecte d with pleuro- pneumonia,
on farm near Mas onville, Lancaster county,
Pa, were killed on Saturday by order of the
authorities
! General Miles arrived at Fort Bowie, Arr
IONA, on Sunday night. He says he will
pursue the hostile Indians until they are killed
or captured.
The local option election at West Point,
| Virginia, on Tuesday, drew out the largest
vote ever polled there, with one exception,
and resulted in a majority of 46 against Ii
cense.
The strain on the floor of house in East
Macon, Ca, at which a wake was held the
other evening, was SO great that it gave way,
precipitating the corpse and all present into
the cellar.
Chas. Jones, SO years old, went to Wash
ington the other day for the first time in sew
enty-five years. When he was there before
Madison was President and Clay and Ran
dolph were leaders in the House.
Steel was made in Chattanooga on Satur-
day by the Bessemer process, at the South
| Tredegar Iron Works. 1t is the first time
this nrocess has been used there on Southern
| ore. and the result is declared satisfactory.
Job, WAGNER farmer of Lincoln Wis.
conS;n on Wondav morninq killed lanes
Moe with whom he onarrelled about some
1and A moh srrronrdod Woonaris bonse
and threatened 70 Ivncb him. w5erennon he
committed suicide.
.o,o..o,, f.o,, ponorno ranor+s tbot on
A., eo.I 81. " ,,o. ,ioS;n1' - noorrpod on hoard
the sn,aiI ION Coinmb;a attba Island
~ ~ Tnn,aoo E;aaan rersons were k;JIed and
tive ser;onslv ;n;nred The steamer
was completely destroyed.
The first elections under the local option
1,r in V;roinis took nlace on Saturday. at
ia" ~ rl - III - W,,.San;1Ia +ba
eloyu III ison i;n ,u oarr;ad tba dan
ms. naneu Piae' i,e t; i;a,,or ar We
IN tne las'f h,, P'aro ell III n'a;or;ty
s. SOaD a1 r. D. d;ad neor Go,l.t;r Tenn
los 9@ weeL aged 10I wears He served in the
,'a1r IF 1919 and ut the hattie of New
0riaons nndar Jackson He had been blind
Co. ~ years His mental facnlties were GOOD
ioi =. .e4 ~ e. 49, of 70 daath
~ ~, " ''o - y -. &C A., H. Doxu,
me qSar1ef1y IgPo ;, VI .n4 fI.tb .hot Geo
Gn en' =, +bo Sr.t tbroe 9ont5s Of tbe present
wear did S727, 467 damage. They also caused
| the loss of twelve lives and the greater or less
| injury of seventy-five persons.
No fewer than eleven additional ex. Alder.
80, 80, arros+ad in Nv YorL ON Tuesday
n,orn;na on cbareas If corrnntion in connec.
t;on viii The Rroadwav Railroad Franchise.
They were County Democrats, Irving Hall,
Tammany and Republicans.
| In the United States Senate on Tuesday a
bill from the House was passed authorizing
the Secretary of War to deliver to the lawful
| owners. on proper proof. certain classes of
nronertv cantured in the late war. consisting
| IF family be;rlooms silver ware. watches etc
CT. .oo1, .,Iaoo Io.t c,,nda, aftor
pi.1KT t or, Me- W;s i,,' botao AIho
Miller Of thar city. and lack Bailey of Brook
| Ivn. N. Y. The fight lasted 3 hours and 25
minutes, during which ZIG rounds were fought
with three ounce gloves, Both men were
badlv nunished. and the referee decided the
! fgbt a draw.
,J,, MN
oonh Milier, llJureH ae tng e.npeis S?l tnlil
te, III T nioSss.i., ~,
the Boston and Lowell Railroad hearing a
! false renort that his brother-in-law had been
! killed at the fire. tainted and fell under his
train Roth his 1egs we're Ont off and he also
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Lawrence, Massachusetts, was burned on
Saturday. Loss, 100000. A number OF
men were c ar GOWN oy tue iHiling III u
InG IoU ni;u eneSe e' os - I'D NJ
gonu m 1iI5 ia So S"r o,lars
Nei'N.e ~ ~ :: ai ''-'e'
"eie se'eie'y
A cream separator IN butter factory near
4 Harvard, Illinois, burst on Monday, killing
one man and injnring three others One OF
the latter is not expected to recover. The
centripetal cream separator in the Big Foot
creamery at Elk horn, Wisconsin Durst on
luesuay, hiliiiIs que lii.tL, .loIte.iy "ou'iu,i
boy, ana causing severe INJURIES 10 several
other persons.
| Thaddeus Fairbanks, the scale manufac-
| turer, died in St. Johnsbury, Verm't, Tuesday
morning, aged 80 years. He was born in
Bromfeld, Mass. He built his first scale in
| 1880. At the Vienna Exhibition he was
made knight of the Imperial Order of
| Francis Joseph. AT an expense OF 100000
ne built ana endowed the o.. 0ohhsoury
Academy. lie leaves one son.
Miss Ada Williams, of Peoria, who occu
pied a room on the second floor of the Plan
| ters' House, Chicago, arose from bed Tuesday
night and, breaking the window glass with her
naked hand. jumped through the sash into
/ the street. The glass cut great gashes IN her
/ Hduus anu dlisi sofClih5 tAiS .SS' OaS
cannot recover. She had been ill with typhoid
fever, and was deirious when she jumped.
1 The Harlan & HoliDgsworth Co., at VIII
mington, Delaware, last Friday, declined to
make an estimate of cost of twenty-four first
class passenger cars for the N. Y, L. e. and
| W. railroad because of the uncertainty of the
labor market The contract would have
amounted to about 100000. This is the
third large contract turned away by this com,
| pany within SIX weeks. The total amount OF
money diverted is sSS5,OO0.
! A photograph has Just been taken in Hart
ford of five persons who represent five genera
tions. On the right sits the great great grand
father, Benoni Austin, of North Woodstock,
aged 95 years. On the left is the great grand
father, John Austin, aged 20; back of him is
the grandfather, n. V. Austin, aged 81; in
the centre stands the father, Arthur T; Austin,
aged %: and in front of him stands his little
son, Forrest, just years old. They are all
in good health.
1t is reported from Portland, Oregon, that
letters were received by the last Chinese mail
by agents of the Six Companies stating that
a., L',ol;sh Garp,an and ChiDasa svnd;oata