The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-12-25
News of the Week.


of labor organizations, decided to nominate
ticket for the municipal election.
The returns of the recent election on the
liquor question in Clarke county, Virginia,
show that the Prohibitionists were defeated
by 500 majority.
1t is now definitely known that 3S persons
were on the bark Atlantic, wrecked outside
the harbor of San Francisco. Eleven surviv-
ed and q were drowned.
The United States Grand Jury at St. Louis
last Friday returned 72indictments against as
many persons, election officers and voters,
for frauds at the last election.
Ex-Alderman McQuade. convicted of re-
ceiving bride, was sentenced in New York,
on Monday, to seven years Imprisonment
and payment of fine of $4,000.
A large mortality among cattle in North
western and Southwestern Iowa Is reported.
Pleuro pneumonia is suspected and the Gov
ernor has ordered an investigation.
The epidemic of measels in New York is
on the increase. During last week 558 cases
and &c deaths were reported. Of diphtheria,
100 cases were reported, with so deaths.
Maj. Chas. E. Haas, a prominent lawyer
and citizen of Harrisonburg. Va, died sud
denly on Thursday night of last week, of
hemorrahage of the bowels, aged about 80
years.
Natural gas was struck in a well at Koko-
mo, Indiana, on last Friday. In running the
drill the gas was by some means ignited, and
35 persons were injured by the explosion; II
dangerously.
Maurice Nugent was shot dead by Thomas
Bailey in a saloon in San Francisco early
Tuesday morning. This is the seventh muir
der within six weeks and the fourth within
week in that city.
Hulon Preston, the sixteen-year- old son of
State Senator Preston, of Macon, Georgia,
was accidentally shot dead by his younger
brother, Joseph, last Saturday, while they
| were out hunting together.
William Mussel. charged with murder, was
taken from the Jail at Eaton, Ohio on Tues
day night and lynched by mob The lynch
ers. it is said, include ''the heaviest taxpayers
and best men of the place"
While the cashier of the First National
Bank of Milwaukee was eating his dinner, on
Tuesday. an unknown thief stole about two
thousand dollars in FIVE dollar notes, about
half of which were unsigned.
A telegram from Tacoma, Washington
Territory. says that by the unexpected ex-
posion of train of blasting charges in the
Cascade Tunnel on Monday, three men were
killed and FIVE others dangerously injured.
NJ. de Lesseps, the great canal digger is
healthy and energetic old man of so, appear
ing that he will live to 100. He was 20 years
old when he married his present wife, and
since that six children have been born to
him.
An eccentric woman, recently deceased.
left $3.50, 900 by will to Miss Chrissie King, of
Ontario, Canada provided she marry young
man named Gilbert Allen on the day of the
funeral. The provisions of the will were
promptly complied with.
Thomas Cluverius, who is to be hanged at
Richmond, Va, next month for the murder
of Fannie Lillian Madison. still asserts his in
nocenee and holds to the theory that the lady
committed suicide. He is preparing for death,
though he asserts he will die an innocent
man.
In Milwaukee, on Tuesday, for the publica-
ton of scurrilous verses rejecting on the in
tegrity of the Court in the trial of the riot
cases, Judge Sloan sentenced Paul Grottkau,
editor of the Socialist organ, the Arbeiter
Zeitung, to thirty days Imprisonment at hard
labor.
John G. Whittier on the 10th instant cee-
brated his 10Th birthday at his residence in
Danvers, Massachusetts. In some of the
schools selections from his poems were re-
cited and read. He received a large number
of letters and many callers. His health is
said to be good.
A despatch from Buenos Ayres, on We'd
nesday, says: kilograms from Cordova an
nounced 25 cases of cholera and 10 deaths.
In Mendoza there are 80 cases daily, and the
Nnumber of deaths is increasing In this city
during the past eight hours there were 35
cases and % deaths"
The whaling bark Atlanta was driven
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ing outside tlA harbor of San Francisco.
She went tsseees in few minutes after
striking. her captain and eight or ten men
Iwere saved; twenty five others are believed to
| be lost. The steam whaler Mary and Helen
caught fire on the same day. at San Francisco,
and her magazine exploded, blowing out her
side and killing two men.
In Erie, Penna., on Saturday, while the
family of Christian F. Schau were at dinner,
Schau procured a revolver and attempted to
kill his wife and children. He succeeded in
killing his daughter Minnie. aged % years,
and fatally wounding his daughter Annie,
next in age. The wife and little boy, Frank,
escaped. The tragedy was caused by the
savage temper of Schau, which had kept his
family in terror for several years.
| News has been received at Little Rock that
at three O'Clock on Sunday, in Vitonia, Ar
kansas, ''every business house in the town
was simultaneously set on fire and burned to
the ground, including the barn, cribs and
outhouses of Messrs. George and Thomas
Harris. residing about half mile from Vito
mia. The Harris Brothers lost great quanti-
ties of corn, fodder, cottonseed, hay, &C.,
they being considered the wealthiest farmers
in the county. Total loss about S150,000.
No one has yet been arrested"
The house of John Swilling, near Atlanta.
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last week aid Swlling, his wife and three
children were burned to death. Francis
Sanders was arrested and confessed that he
| had crushed in the skulls of the sleepers, sat
urated the bed clothes with coal oil, applied
the match and left. Citizens seized the muir
derer and carried him off and burned him.
Francis Sanders, the murderer of the Swill-
ing family, reported to have been burned to
death, escaped that penalty, but was taken
from the Jail in Gainesville, Alabama, on Tues
day morning and lynched.
At Indianapolis, on Tuesday morning, in
the investigation of the charges of conspiracy
and forgery in connection with the Marion
county tally sheets at the election last month,
S. E. Perkins, who had been subpenaed as
witness, refused to testify. Thereupon Com
missioner Van Buren, committed him for
ninety days or until further order of Court,
for contempt, and he was at once placed
in Jail. Perkins is prominent ward boss, a
member of the bar, and the son of the late
| Chief Justice Perkins, of the Indiana Supreme
Court. 1t is believed that he can expose the
/ eonspirators and all their work
Mrs. Susanna Warren died on the 9TH inst,
at Sassakawa, in the Indian Territory, and
letter from that place, received in St. Louis,
tells remarkable story of her age. 1t says:
s'She was born in St. Augustine, Florida, in
1850, was Slave and the property of Spanish
masters until 1918, when she with other
Spanish slaves fed from the town of Pensa-
cola wheuit was taken by General jackson.
She lived in the Seminole country from then
until the second treaty of peace with the Sem
inoles, when she was regarded as their COM
mon property and was removed with them to
the Indian Territory. She leaves one daugh-
ter living, who resides in Austin Texas, and
is in her 9th year. She leaves many grand
children here, some of them nearly 20 years
of age"
Andrew Broy, who lived four miles from
Stephens City, Frederick county, Va, left
home on November 9Th for Rerryville, where
he was working, but he failed to reach that
place. Diligent search was made for him
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