The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-07-24
--latest News.

1t is reported that the revolutionists in
Tamaulipas, Mexico, have captured large
hacienda near Mier, and robbed it of $40, 600.
Thomas Conway, aged seventeen years,
committed suicide in Baltimore on Thursday,
by taking rat poison. His father lectured
him about leaving trade at which he had
put him.
The Calispel Indians in Washington Terri
tory on Sunday killed two white men on the
reservation. Gen. Carlin and two companies
of infantry have left Fort Ceur d'Alene for
the scene of trouble.
The disease known as milk sickness is rag
ing among swine and cattle in the country
south of Para, Illinois. Some farmers have
lost all their hogs. People who use the milk
or flesh of affected animals are sickened.
Mrs. Emile Andre, living near Champaign,
Illinois, has been arrested on the charge of
poisoning cattle by scattering Paris green on
their pasture One of her neighbors lost two
COWS, and thirteen-year- boy in her en-
ploy testified that she told him to put the
poison on the grass.
Secretary Bayard has instructed our Min
lister at the City of Mexico to demand the
unconditional release of A. K. Cutting, the
American editor imprisoned for the pubEca-
ton of an article in the Ell Paso papers re-
fecting on Mexican citizen. 1t is rumored
that the Mexican Judge refused to release
Cutting without bond.
President Cleveland accompanied by Secre-
taries Bayard and Whitney, arrived at Albany,
N. Y, on Thursday, and participated in the
BIZ centennial celebration. The President and
both Secretaries made speeches. During the
public reception in the evening a man was
arrested who had been following the Presi-
dent and acting in a peculiar manner.
At Cunningham, Missouri, on Tuesday af
ternoon, Maud, Cora and Anna Davenport
were PLAYING in a sand pit, when the sand
caved in and buried all three. Anna freed
herself and dug away the earth above Cora,
uncovering her face, thus allowing her to
breathe and saving her life. The body of the
other girl she was unable to find, and she ran
to the nearest house for aid. Cora was taken
out uninjured, but Maud was dead when
found.
Assistant Secretary of State, VIM. Hunter,
died in Washington on Thursday, after pro-
tracted illness. He was appointed to a clerk
ship in the State Department in 1929. He
was commissioned Assistant Secretary of
State in 1866 by President johnson. He has
always been trusted in the handling of the
most important diplomatic matters and is the
author of the celebrated Koszta letter to the
| Austrian government his SeTNlCeS, Ill ldcl,
were invaluable.
A dispatch from jackson, Miss, says that
near Union, Newton county, a band of young
white mel, styling themselves the Regula-
| tors, have issued decree that no negro shall
work on the farms in that vicinity. The
band is said to contain about 6fteen members,
and they are charged with having killed three
negroes and wounding several others. About
tweaty citizens, headed by officers armed
with proper warrants, are now after the
young desperadoes.
The Burlington Hawkeye publishes de-
spatches from Southern and Eastern Iowa re-
garding the crops. With the exception of a
few light local showers, there has been no rain
for six weeks. Wheat and oats are nearly
harvested. The quality is good, but the yield
only about ue-half. Corn is generally in
good condition, but everywhere needs rain
| to save the crop. Hay is very light. The
pastures are parched and nearly all the small
streams are dried up.
The feeling in favor of private retaliation
in the Canadian fishery dispute is increasing
in Portland, Me. On Thursday the following
handful was posted up throughout the city !:
''Pirates and thieves, owners and fishermen
of New England, attention What they think
ofus. The Halifax Herald speaks of us as
follows: But fishing vessels of Gloucester
and Whereabouts, owned by pirates and
manned by thieves, we neither love nor re-
spect, and against them we believe in enforc-
ing any and every law that it is in our power
to enforce Govern yourselves accord
ingly."
The Baltimore Manufacturers Record says
that one Philadelphia and two Baltimore
companies have commenced the development
of extensive manganese property in Shenan-
doah county, Virginia. An analysis Of the
manganese in these mines shows "a per cent.
binoxide and 81 per cent. metallic, and has
been pronounced excellent for steel making
by a number of manufacturers. Prepare
tons are being made for getting out the
manganese in large quantities. Surveys are
being made to connect these mines by rail
with the coal fields of West Virginia. I'm
mense iron deposits have been discovered in
the neighborhood, and English capitalists are
investigating with view to the erection Of
steel works on the property.
The Russian empire contains 8Si peniten-
tiary establishments lat least that is the num-
Der of which the Administrator of Prisons
publishes any account). Their occupants on
the first of January last year numbered 94,515
of both sexes, an excess of nearly per cent.
above the returns of the preceding twelve
months. Of these persons, the ordinary
houses of detention contained 68 200, the con-
Wet prisons $500, the reformatories 5000,
the prisons in Poland 5000. The proportion
of women was less than 10 per cent. of the
whole, but in the kingdom of Poland the
women amounted to l6 per cent. of the incar
cerated probably owing to their participation
in political agitation). Nearly three quarters
of million arrests take place in the year.