The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-07-10

Since Sunday night there have been three
homicides in Philadelphia taverns, all origi
mating in drunken quarrels.
At New Holland, Ohio, on Tuesday, Mrs.
Arnold celebrated her Tooth birthday. She
has two sisters living, one aged l06 years and
the other liz.
The village of Waterford, in Racine county,
Wis.,, is terribly stricken with typhoid fever.
Fifty people are down with the disease, and
four have died
Z. j. Betzler, merchant of Carrollton,
Missouri, was accidentally shot dead by his
brother, E. A. Betzler, in a target practicing
game on Tuesday afternoon.
Seventy persons were poisoned at Coulter
vile, Illinois, on Monday, by eating picnic
ice cream. Four have died and several others
are in precarious condition.
There was terrible storm at Apalachicola,
Florida, on Wednesday of last week, which
destroyed $4,000 worth of property. Six
persons were drowned in the bay.
The use of natural gas in the manufactures
of Pittsburg has done away with the consump
ton of l89, $50 bushels of coal day, and has
! thrown about 1000 men out of work.
Two men were fighting on the track at
Engleside, near Philadelphia, on Tuesday, as
q Train dpprOdCueu. II DySlduucEp bhCh
from the track, but was himself struck by the
train and fatally injured.
| The cholera returns on Wednesday were as
follow: Venice, new cases, l death; Brln,
| dist, 1879 new cases, II deaths; Latiano, 10
new cases, 26 deaths; San Vito, 50 new cases,
4 deaths; Fontana, &c new cases, "a deaths
| A seven-year-old son of Adam Baird, of
| Shirley township, near Huntingdon, Pa, set
fire to the barn Tuesday while playing. with
matches The barn and the dwelling house
we're destroyed, and the boy was burned to
death.
While four boys were playing on Lumber
pile in Shenandoah, PeDna., on Monday even
ing, the lumber fell, injuring one OF them,
John w. Kreiger, so badly that he died IN a
few hours. Two others were dangerously
injured.
The Lake Shore Company continues to
move freight at Chicago without opposition
! from the strikers, although every train so
/ moved has guard of armed detectives. A
Lake Shore train was stoned on Wednesday
by packing house employees
The colored laborers on the Tate plantation
nine miles below Little Rock, Arkansas,
struck on Monday for higher wages, and then
prevented others from being employed in
their places. A Sheriff posse was sent to
the scene and dispersed the mob.
The trial of Dr. Taylor, of Merrick, l.. l.
for killing Thaddeus Gritman, aged Is, of
Norwood, while attepting to shoot tomato
can off the latter's head, terminated in the
Queens County Court of New York Thursday
evening in verdict of mansaughter in the
third degree.
At Yonkers, New York, on Monday, Will
liam G. Townsend and William F. Couzins,
16-year- old boys, were shooting at target,
when the weapon while in the hands of
Couzins was accidentally discharged. The
ball struck Townsend in the eye and inflicted
"a wound which proved fatal two hours later.
i The New York and New England Railroad
Company arranged picnic at Highland
Lake Grove, Massachusetts, on Monday.
There was rough crowd present. A fight
took place, in which one officer was seriously,
and perhaps fatally hurt, and over twenty
attendants were badly beaten or otherwise
injured.
i ]. S. Delay, prominent Knight of Labor,
just arrived in St. Louis from Texas, says the
cost of the Gould system strike to the general
board was 500, 900, and in loss of wages to
strikers 1000, 000 C. A. Hall, whose dis
charge was instrumental in causing the trou-
BILE, is still residing in Marshall, Texas, out
of work.
Mrs. 0berly, wife of farmer of Norfolk
county, Virginia, on Tuesday attempted to
kindle fire with kerosene, when the oil can
exploded, and the burning fluid was scattered
over herself and two children, und instantly
the clothing of all three was in a blaze. The
mother and one child died on Tuesday night;
the other child, while horribly burned, may
live.
Fifty hardened and unregenerate thieves
were present among an audience of 5000
which attended one of Sam Jones' meetings
at Grand Rapids. After the conclusion of a
powerful and eloquent sermon they left the
hall happy and contented-in the possession
of the rich pickings they had made from the
pockets of the audience while they were listen
ing to the reyivalists.
A blast was fired on Tuesday on the new
Pottsville and Mahanoy Railroad at deep
cut at Coal and Nicholas streets, in Potts.
vile, with serious results. The Black Dia-
+ mond Hotel and a saloon opposite were rid
4 died by flying stones, and Joseph Miller, of
I Cressona, who was standing at the bar of the
hotel, had his thigh broken. Several others
were less seriously injured.
In Glendale, near Cincinnati, Wednesday
morning, Jacob Alexander was assailed by
two men, He managed to throw them off
and fire upon them just as one was aiming at
him. One of them fell and the other fled.
4.
that he had killed Michael Fogarty, who had
previously killed two men and served terms
in the workhouse and penitentiary.
At Warren, Ohio, on Saturday morning.
Charles Egbert and Jake Ward were danger
ousy burned while firing cannon in antici-
patton of the celebration of the Fourth. The
cannon hung fire and they attempted to ram
| it again, when it went off, burning Ward so
/ badly that both hands will have to be ampu-
tated Egbert's injuries, about the left Shout
der and arm, are so bad that he may lose an
| arm.
A romantic marriage took place at Ker-
honkson, N. Y, on Saturday, The groom
was John Ward, of Wolf Trap, Va, and the
bride Mrs Jennie Lansing, of Kerhonkson.
Neither of the newly welded couple had ever
seen one another until the night preceding
the marriage. The courtship had all been
carried on by letter. After the wedding the
couple left for Virginia, where they will make
| their home.
Among those overcome by the intense heat
of Tuesday, in Chicago, was Lemuel Ceols,
one of the imported Lake Shore switchmen,
While riding beside top brake he fell be-
tween the cars and was ground to shapeless
mass. In the vacant lot adjoining the tracks
where the body lay large number of the
] wives and daughters of the striking switchmen
or of their sympathizers collected and cursed
the remains.
In Providence, Rhode Island, on Monday
evening, Agnes Lynn and Kate Herman, sew
enteen- year old girls, while sitting on va
cant lot, were approached by an acquaintance
named Joseph L. Nolan, aged l6, who delib-
erately discharged a shotgun at them. Both
girls had their faces peppered with bird shot,
and Agnes Lynn will probably lose both eyes.
Nolan was arrested and said the shooting was
accidental 1t is believed, however, that he
was jealous of one of the girls.
At st. Louis on Tuesday, Judge Van Wag
-oner, in his address to the grand jury, in
structed them to investigate fully the various
charges made recently against certain mem
bers of the House of Delegates. These charges
Include those of bribery in connection with
the passage of the bill granting franchise to
the Forest Park and Carondelet street railway
and the defeat of the Electric Railway bill,
as well as those against eight of the members
who, it is alleged, were ineligible to office
when elected, and swore falsely as to their
eligibility when inaugurated.
Excessive heat and drought have been com
planned of throughout the Northwest and
Northeast for several DAYS the first part of