The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-03-20
News of the Week.


that section has been quarantined.
The Mexican Government has ordered an
investigation of the circumstances connected
with the killing of Captain Crawford, of the
U. S. Army, by Mexican troops.
Gold has been discovered on farm near
Greencastle, Penna., but whether in paying
quantities or not has not yet been ascertained.
siOld Sorrel," StonewalI Jackson's war
steed, died in the Confederate Soldiers Home,
Richmond, Va, on Monday, aged 80 years.
A strange disease, called brain fever or
jaundice, has appeared among the horses in
Campbell county, Virginia. Seyenty-fve an
finals have died of it within a few weeks.
Jane Wilson was convicted at East Cam
bridge, Massachusetts, last Friday, of attempt
ing to poison a young relative, Eva Chaplin,
by giving her candy containing white arsenic
and rat poison. Sentence was deferred.
A street car in New Haven, Connecticut,
was run into and crushed by freight car at
the Derby Railroad depot on Saturday. The
conductor of the street car and eleven pas
sengers were injured, but none fatally.
South Manor Suffolk county, N. Y, has
about 80 inhabitants; of this number one is
9S years old, three between SO and 80, five
between IS and so years, eleven between go
and 20 years, and twelve between so and 60.
The rear coach of passenger train on the
Michigan and Ohio Railroad ran off the track
near Eckford, Michigan last Friday, was
dragged some distance on its side and then
fell down an embankment. Thirty passen-
gers were injured, several of them danger
ously.
Joseph Mccall, So years of age, said to
have lived at 1243 Marshall street, Philadel-
phia, was suffocated at Chambersburg, Penna.,
on Saturday night, by going to sleep on
lime kiln while drunk. He had just been re-
leased from Jail. His body was sent to Phil
sadelphia.
|, While an engine making trial trip on the
Lehigh Valley Railroad was going through
Hokendauqua ON Saturday afternoon, the
smokestack was knocked off by striking the
beams of bridge, and it struck Thomas
Moore, engineer, on the head, killing him in
stantly.
Myron Nowland, 13 years of age, while in
school at New Boston, Michigan, week ago,
printed some letters in red ink on the back
of his hand. Some time after his hand and
arm began to swell and commissions set in,
continuing for three days until the boy died
on Thursday last 1t is believed he was poi
soned by the ink.
A peculiar form of influenza, attributed to
the changeableness of the weather, is raging
in Canton, Ohio. Three thousand persons
are reported to be affected, including one
thousand school children, who are confined to
their beds or homes. None of the cases have
yet resulted fatally.
Michael Hahn, Representative in Congress
from the Second District of Louisiana, was
found dead in his room in Wizards Hotel, in
Washington, Monday morning. He had ex
pired from hemorrhage of the lungs. He had
been under medical treatment for some time
for pulmonary disease.
C. W. Beitman, of Huntington township,
Adams county, Pa, lost a valuable horse
last week which makes 81 horses that have
died for him since he started business. We
doubt if there is another like case on record
where one man lost enough horses to have
stocked 20 farms.
Ford and Murphy, the politicians convicted
of murder, were hanged last Friday in New
Orleans. They were taken to the gallows
and executed in an unconscious or partially
unconscious condition, both having attempt
ed suicide during the night or early in the
morning, by swallowing poisonous drug, sup
posed to have been belladonna.
The miners in the Clearfeld region, in
Pennsylvania, struck on Saturday. and all the
pits suspended operations. The Clear6eld
miners had favored arbitration, but were per-
suaded by committee of Cumberland min
ers to strike. The strike in the soft coal re-
gions of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia
and West Virginia embraces nearly $4,000
men.
At meeting of the District Assembly of
Knights of Labor in Chicago, Sunday after
noon, it was decided to sustain the striking
employees of the Mccormick Reaper Compa-
ny, and to boycott the firm, which is now
employing nearly full force of non-union
men. 1t was also decided to raise the Thomp-
son Taylor boycott, one of the firms using
Maxwell Bros goods, and to call out the full
strength of the order in boycotting Maxwell
Bros.
The steamer Ike Bouham, from Vicksburg
for Bayou Vidal, burst her boiler, eleven
miles below Vicksburg, on Thursday of last
week. Six deck hands were blown overheard
and FIVE of them were drowned. The captain
and all on board, except Mrs. Sergeant, who
was in charge of the office, were injured. The
wreck caught fire, but Mrs. Sergeant extin-
guished the flames and threw the red hot
taken off by another steamer.
Henry B. Courtney, member of the
Diamond Match Company, died in Whining
ton, Delaware, on Saturday. He was about
63 years of age, and came to this country
from England thirty three years ago. He
amassed large fortune, but always carefully
preserved the secret of compromising his pre-
paration for dipping the matches, and, it is said,
worked daily at the factory until recently,
when he revealed the formula to his son.
At Little Rock, on Monday, bill was filed
by the attorneys of the St. Louis and Iron
Mountain Railroad against J. Delay and
others, representing the Knights of Labor,
alleging the seizure and mutilation CT their
property, and the obstruction of the business
of the railroad company, and asking for an
order restraining all parties from trespassing
on their property and interfering with the
business of the company. Chancellor Car
roll granted temporary restraining order.
A goose farm is one of the curiosities of
agriculture on the eastern shore of Virginia.
Within an area of about 5000 acres live 5000
geese, of several varieties, attended by herd
ers and regularly fed with corn, &c. The
object is the collecting of down for quilts and
pillows, and once in about six weeks pluck
ing takes place. Only the breast and the
sides under the wings are plucked, and it re-
quires the yield of nearly 100 geese to weigh
a pound The raw feathers are sent to Phil
adelphia for cleaning and sorting.
The British steamship Oregon, from Liver
pool for New York, was run into by a schoon-
er, between and o'clock Sunday morning.
east OF FIRE lSltuu. VIZ uOlCS hcfC sNONc III
the steamer and she began to sink at once.
Part Of her passengers were transferred to .
pilot BOAT and all were subsequently trans
ferred to the steamer Fulda, which arrived in
New York harbor Sunday evening. The Ore
gon sank at one clock in the afternoon. A |
despatch from Fire Island says the Fulda sig
nailed that she had all the passengers of the
Oregon on board.
DR.. G. L. Fletcher, of Wings Station, N.
Y, writes to the Medical Record; "a woman
residing in this town has given birth to % |
children. She is hardly past the prime of
and iss,<,-r good l.eulsh, having recently
recovered from an attack of scarlet fever. !
When the writer was in practice in Northern
Vermont he often had occasion to prescribe |
for the different members of the family in
which the mother had given birth to twenty
five children, having three pair Of twins In /
the crib at aRe time, The same woman had |
two sisters who had borne, respectively, |
twenty-five and eighteen children, making
total Of sixty.fye from the three sisters. 1t is
needless to say that all the families are poor
in the financial sense
A new soda motor, which performs all the
functions of nm ordinary locomotive il in on |