The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-03-27
News af the WISE:

Vorce before a Chicago Judge SATURDAY.
| General Neal Dow, the veteran prohibi
tiohist, celebrated his SD birthday on Satur
| day.
| Mrs. Sarah Drew, of Halifax, Mass, who
| ON March LIST passed the lOlst anniversary Of
| her birth, has recently cut her third set o.
upper teeth.
| Dominick Broderick was killed and three
other men were injured by the fall of scat
| fold in an air shaft at hotel in course o.
erection in New York Monday.
The Chinese of San Francisco, taking adj
| vantage of the low railroad rates, are coming
East in large numbers. Two car loads Of
them left San Francisco on Saturday.
There are eight female physicians in Phil.
adelphia who are said to have an income Of
$40, 900 year; twelve have an income Of
10000, and twenty-five have 5000 or over
The Secretary of the Treasury on Monday
issued the 135th call for the redemption Of
bonds. The call is for ten millions of the
Three Per Cents of 1882, to mature on the Isl
of May.
The steamer Beda, loaded with railroad
iron, sprang a leak and sunk on the 18th
inst, forty miles off Cape Perpetua, on the
Pacific coast. Of thirteen men on board only
two were saved.
Movers Patterson, an employee of the Elec-
trio Light Company at Lynchburg, Virginia,
while repairing a light Monday afternoon, was
killed by shock from the electric current.
He was on pole twenty feet from the ground.
The dog which had the distinguished honor
| to bite the Newark children who were sent to
| France to be cured of hydrophobia by Pasteur,
has been kept shut up and proves to be as
healthy as rich uncle and as harmless as a
| sheep.
The Government papers to test the validity
of the Bell Telephone patents were filed on
Tuesday in the U. S. Court at Columbus
Ohio. 1t is understood that the first question
considered in connection with the case will be
that of jurisdiction.
| Placards daubed with red flag and the
words "Vive la Commune, " have been posted
in Bridgeport, Conn.,, announcing that the
| fifteenth anniversary of the Paris Commune
will be celebrated by the lnternatonals o.
Bridgeport on the 9th.
The wife of gate tender, at Weymouth,
Mass, on the Old Colony Railroad, has just
been relieved of five lizards, which she is
thought to have taken in her drinking water.
She has been unable for some time to retain
the food of which she partook.
The local option agitation in Lynchburg
Virginia, has resulted in so much excitement
that the business of the city has suffered.
On the petition of business men the Judge Of
the Corporation Court has decided to hold an
election ON the question on April 18th.
Governor Hill, of New York, on Tuesday
appointed Mary Seymour and Mary Wilson,
of New York; Mary P. Morgan, of Brooklyn;
Mrs Carrie L. Dinsmore, of Orleans county,
and Ida NJ Blake, of Putnam county, Nota-
ries Public for their respective counties.
A fall of top rock occurred early Monday
morning in the Pottsville and Mahanoy Rail
road tunnel at Horseshoe Curve, near Potts
vile. Twenty workmen, mostly Italians,
were buried. Two of them were killed, and
about fifteen others injured, three perhaps
fatally.
The farm hands of Petite and Saline coun-
ties, Missouri, have secured an increase OF
wages to $40 month and board. The re-
quest was at first refused, but was granted
after fifty of the men had struck. Steps will
be taken to organize the farm hands through
out the State.
A freight train on the Pittsburg and Lake
Erie Railroad ran into alandslide near Stoop' S
Ferry, Pa, on Saturday night and was thrown
cars were demolished. William Clymer, con-
ductor, and Frederick Kirchner, fireman,
were killed.
| +. d. u.
| Wilmington, Delaware, died on Monday at
Summit, New Jersey, while visiting his daugh-
ter. He was born in Philadelphia in 1888.
| He was brother-in-law of Secretary Bayard
and brother of Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, of
! Arctic renown, and attended the expedition
sent in search of his brother.
| Joseph Pulitzer, editor of the New York
! World, has sent to the Governors of the New
York Hospital check for $4,000, the amount
of his first years salary as representative in
Congress from the Ninth District. This do
nation is to be used in endowing permanent
bed in the hospital for the benefit of sick
and disabled newspaper workers OF every
kind.
! Edward johnson, who killed his employer
| near Oakland, Nebraska, on Saturday, and
entrenched himself in a barn, killing two men
| and woundiug several others who tried to cap
tured him, was killed by his hunters on Sun.
day evening. The barn was set on fire and
/ johnson was riddled with bullets. When the
| fire had subsidized his body was found in pile
! of oats.
An explosion of natural gas occurred on
Friday Of last week at Murraysville, West
moreland county, Penna., by which seven per-
sons were injured, three of them fatally, and
seven dwellings burned. The fatally injured
are Mrs. Henry Taylor, William Taylor. her
father-in-law and Nellie Hanlan, aged IA
years. The explosion was caused by leak
from a main connecting two gas wells. One
of the wells caught fire and sent flame 200
feet in the air.
The train ferry boat Lackawanna and the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad ferryboat Baltimore
collided in the North river, at New York,
last Friday afternoon. The Baltimore struck
the Lackawanna forward, tearing open the
pentlemen's cabin. Five persons were Sc
verely injured, one of them, William DAILY,
aged 10 years, had both legs crushed below
the knees, and another, Mortimer w. Wright,
also 10, had his left foot crushed. 1t is
doubtful if DAILY will survive.
The prospects for an early settlement of
the strike on the Gould railways were on
Tuesday regarded by both sides as very
gloomy, the indications being rather towards
an extension of the trouble. Freight trains
have been interfered with and engines dis.
abled at Palestine, Sedalia and Atchison.
Business in Kansas City is PROSTATE; several
factories have been closed, and wholesale
and jobbing houses are curtailling their
forcea,
The American Agricultural and Dairy As
socation has issued circular calling on all
4 dairymen and creamery men to meetin Wash
ington on April 9th, to go before the House
Committee on Agriculture in behalf OF the
bill now before that committee, 10 tax ana
place the manufacture and sale of imitation
butter under the supervision of the Internal
Revenue bureau, Those interested are also
requested to write to members of Congress
from their respective States urging their at
tentipn 10 the matter, and to circulate petit
tons for the passage of the bill.
Arthur B. Smith, prominent lumberman
of Pincenning, Bay county, Michigan, was
taken sick on the 18th inst. with symptoms
closely resembling those of Asiatic cholera.
At last accounts he was expected to recover.
DR.. Baker, Secretary of the State Board OF
Health, who has been investigating the case,
says that, though immigrants had recently
arrived in the vicinity, none were from place
known to be infected. The Doctor is dispos-
ed to attribute the patients sickness to rails
ms, and he adds: "a box in the house came
from Valencia, Spain, and the raisins which
Smith had eaten were not coated with sugar,
but were apparently fresh, probably of the
crop of 1888, at which time cholera is known
to have prevailed extensively in Valencia.
The box will be examined for cholera
germs"
DIR. Harding, crack shot, and leader of a
band of Kickapoo Indians and medicine men,
shot his son-in-law, Everett Smith, in the
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