The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-08-21
News Of the Week.

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last Friday.
A tornado swept through Newburgh, Indi-
ana, on Saturday afternoon, and demolished
several houses.
The total footings of the school census give
Chicago population of 703,8 17, an increase
during the last year of almost $4,000.
A dispatch from London, England, says
thirty six miners were killed by an explosion
in Woodend Colliery, at Leigh, last Satur-
day.
Forty persons were made violently sick in
the Coulter House at Long Branch on Satur-
day night, and their sickness is attributed to
milk poisoning.
During thunder storm in Jefferson county,
New York, on last Friday night, six barns
were struck by lightning and burned. The
loss is estimated at about $50, 900.
By the fall of an elevator in Hanson's fur
factory in Milwaukee, on Saturday evening, a
girl was instantly killed and eight other en-
ployes were injured, two dangerously.
James Moore was lynched in Macon,
Georgia, on Thursday night of last week.
The lynching took place in front of house
where, it is alleged, he assaulted girl.
Annie Curston, Is years old, drowned her
self in a pond in Greenville county, South
Carolina, last Friday. She told her sisters
when she left home that she was going to get
married.
A boiler in the carpenter shop of Periner
& Webster, in Ashland, Wisconsin, burst on
Monday morning. Five persons were killed
and two wounded. There was lack of water
in the boiler.
During a game of base ball between the
Medford and bingham Clubs at Boston, on
Saturday, Charles Larrabee, the umpire, was
instantly killed by being struck over the
heart by foul ball.
S. W. Arnistead, Assistant Postmaster at
Danville, Virginia, committed suicide Mon
day afternoon by hanging himself to gas pipe
in the basement of the post Office building.
Nothing is wrong in his accounts.
The President left Washington on Monday
morning for his summer vacation in the Adri-
ondack mountains. He was accompanied by
Mrs. Cleveland, Mrs. Folsom and Colonel
Joined the party at Albany.
A wind storm, accompanied by torrents of
rain and brilliant display of electricity,
visited Chicago early on Monday morning. A
large brick building in course of erection and
a new frame house were blown down. A
number of chimneys were destroyed.
The school ship Constellation arrived at
Fortress Monroe last Friday with the Anna
polls cadets on board. On the Sd instant
Cadet Schley, of Indiana, was killed by fall.
ing from aloft. Three sailors were drowned
in epdeavoring to recover Schley's remains.
DR.. William Cruice, of Philadelphia, was
taken with a fit while bathing at Spring Lake
on Sunday and was drowned in water less
than three feet deep. Vivian M. Shaw. of
Morristown, New Jersey, was drowned at
the same place. He was attacked with
cramps.
While Professor Emerson, of Amherst Col
the top of Mount Petoquotock, near Palmer,
Massachusetts, last Friday, his team, which
he had left at the foot of the mountain, was
stolen, with 81 900 worth of fine views, which
were under the carriage seat.
Mr.. Davis, Station Agent of the Ohio and
Mississippi Railroad at Huron Station, Ohio,
was murdered by tramp early on Tuesday
morning. Mr.. Davis was endeavoring to put
the tramp out of the station when he received
fatal stab. The tramp was caught, taken
to neighboring tree and hanged by citizens.
A. G. Sedgwick, of New York, has gone to
Mexico on a special mission, by request of
Secretary Bayard, to secure for the State De-
partment further information regarding the
facts and legal features of the Cutting case.
No further steps are contemplated by the
Department until he shall have made his
report.
The August crop report, for the State of
Michigan, indicates probable yield of nearly
%. 900, 900 bushels of wheat, or l $500, 314
bushels in excess of the July estimate. Corn
promises nearly 80 per cent. of average
crop. Potatoes promise two-thirds OF an
average yield, on an acreage seven per cent.
below an average.
James Madigan, teamster, fell from the
roof of house in Madison street, New York,
on Sunday afternoon, and was so badly in
iured that he died soon after. In falling he
struck Thomas Donovan, II years of age.
who was passing along the street. The boy S
right leg was broken, and he was so badly
injured that his recovery is doubtful.
While drunk on Saturday morning, in
Grand Rapids, Michigan, John Boyd stole q
revolver, went to the house of William b.
johnson, prominent citizen, called him to
tie door, and shot him through the heart.
After the shooting Boyd walked down the
street Dragging of what he had done. He also
attempted to shoot two other citizens before
he was arrested.
A London, England, dispatch, of the 18th,
says: In the races for the Cape May cup
between the Trek and the Genesta, the latter
of which won the cup in the United States
last year, the Irex was victorious, arriving at
Cowes at l. 10 p. m. Saturday, at which time
the Genesta had not been sighted. The
start was made at 10 o'clock yesterday morn
ing, and the course was about ITO miles.
The President on Saturday appointed Will
liam T. Newman to be United States District
Judge for the Northern District of Georgia,
Thomas B. Yancey to be U. S. Marshal for
the Western District of Tennessee, and Thos.
W. Scott, U. S. Marshal for the Eastern
District of Virginia. He also appointed John
Goode, of Virginia, to be special counsel on
the part of the United States in the suit in
stituted at Columbus, o., to test the validity
of the patent granted the Bell Telephone
Company.
General Christopher C. Augur, on the re-
tired list of the army, was shot and wounded
four times in front of his residence in Wash
ington, by colored rough named VIM. Pope
about o'clock Monday morning. Pope and
another fellow were using indecent language
in front of the Generals house, and he
opened the door and ordered them away. A
volley of coarse epithets was the reply, when
the General struck Pope on the head with a
light cane. Pope then drew pistol and
fred. The Generals wounds are not con-
sideFed dangerous.
Brother Bonarentpre, of the Order of st.
Francis Xavier, was drowned on Monday
evening while trying to rescue party who
had been thrown into Lake Nabonass TT,
Massachusetts, by the upsetting of their
boat. He rescued a seven year-pld boy, and
then started to swim to the boat, clinging to
which were three men, but he was seized
with cramp and sank before assistance could
be rendered. The other parties were saved,
Brother Bonaventgre was in charge Of st.
Peters Parochial School, in Lowell. He was
native of Kentucky, and 20 years old.
George and John Bush, brothers, started
from Meade county, Kentucky, on the 18th
ultimo, with their families, in a small boat of
their own construction, in order to go further
West and better their condition. After reach
ing the Ohio river all the occupants of the
boat, 10 In number, including their wives and
children, were stricken one by one with
malarial fever, aud In few days, George
Bush's wife. aged 81 years, died Of the
disease. The boat, after losing its covering
in a storm, drifted into Evansville, Indiana,
where it was reported to the authorities, and
the sick survivors were taken off and sent to
the hospital.
John l.. Sullivan and Frank Herald are
matched to box six rounds, Queensberry
rules, for strictly scientific points, on the
18th instant, at Schuetzen Park, Union Hill,