The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-07-03
News of the Week.

The Dublin conference of the Irish Metho-
dist Church, by vote of 1877 to %, has con-
demned Mr.. Gladstone's Home Rule policy.
A thunder storm, accompanied by hail,
did damage to the amount of nearly 81, 1000
in the Catawissa valley, Pa, ON Saturday
night.
| Miss Rose Cleveland, sister of the Presi-
dent, is to make her home in Chicago, and
will take charge of the editorial department
of Literary Life, a magazine.
A Chicago paper publishes report that
the Bohemian Anarchists are still drilling in
that city. The number drilled is estimated
at from 906 to 1900.
Rev. John E. O7Sulivan, convicted at SYRIA
cuse, N. Y, of criminal assault on Abbie
| 0lConnor, at the Catholic parsonage in Ca
millus, in May, 1884, has been sentenced to
eleven years in Auburn prison.
In parts of Fayette county, Ills, the chinch
bugs are destroying the corn, field after field
having been given up to the pests. With a
view of exterminatlng them the farmers have
agreed not to SOW any wheat for three success
sive seasons.
| Mrs. John Wallace, of Knoxville, Tenn,
stepped to the gate to look for her fve-year
old boy, and at that moment runaway horse
| dashed by. 1t is thought that she supposed
! that her boy had been run over, for she fell
| to the ground dead
The new steamship La Bourgoyne, which
arrived at New Y ork on Saturday from Havre,
made the passage in days, 5 hours and
minutes-the quickest time on record between
those ports. Her average speed was little
over 1871 miles per hour.
While Joseph Hawk was driving moving
machine on the McSparran farm, in Fulton
township, Lancaster county, Pa, the mules
ran away and he was thrown among the
knives. His right hand was cut off, and his
left shoulder and thigh were badly lacerated.
The miners who struck at Grape Creek,
Illinois, on May LIST, have been evicted from
their houses, owned by the company, and
with their families are camped in the woods.
About 1000 persons are homeless and desti-
Lutte. 1t is said that but for a few professional
1 agitators the men would long since have been
back to work.
| A violent hail storm last Friday passed
through the lower portion of Berks county
and the eastern section of Lancaster county,
Pa. The storm continued about half an hour,
and was very destructive to tobacco plants,
the leaves of which were cut into shreds.
Entire fields of growing wheat were leveled to
the ground.
The clerical force of the Treasury Depart
ment has been reduced by 50 dismissals, which
took effect Wednesday afternoon. Of the
number fourteen were in the sixth auditors
Office, fifteen in the second auditors Office,
twelve in the second comptroller's Office, ten
in the registers office and one in the Secre-
tary's office.
John B. Smith, Connecticut farmer, stored
four hundred barrels of last years crop of
apples in neighbours ice house. During the
winter the barrels were covered with ice.
The owner now finds his apples in perfect
order, and has sold them at three dollars a
barrel. Last fall there was such glut of the
fruit that he could not even give them away.
Gen. Ben. Buffers old war horse Phil died
in Lowell, Mass, few days ago. He bore
the General through his entire campaign in
the South, sharing with his master the humili-
alton of defeat at Fort Fisher and the exhila-
ration of triumph at New Orleans. For ten
years the horse has done no service, but has
been carefully cared for at the Generals ex-
pense.
The Vosburg tunnel, on the Lehigh Valley
Railroad, four miles above Tunkhannock,
Pa, was opened on Saturday. The tunnel
cost about one million dollars and occupied
three years in its construction, during which
time FIVE lives were lost in it by fall ofrock.
The tunnel cuts off some very troublesome
curves. The exact distance saved is miles
and 900 feet.
Governor McEnery, of Louisiana, has is
sued proclamation reciting information re-
ceived of great distress resulting from severe
storms and inundation in portions of the par
shes of Rapids, Grant and Catapoula. The
crops have been totally destroyed, cattle and
hogs drowned, and the soil in many cases has
been washed away to such an extent that it
will be impossible to raise crops of any kind
this year.
A strange disease has broken out in Frank
lin county, Pa. The animal is affected with
severe cold and dry, hacking cough; then
fever sets in, and finally stiffness in the
legs, followed frequently with death. The
disease is spreading rapidly, and causing con-
siderable annoyance to farmers at this busy
season of the year. In Greencastle and
Chambersburg it is impossible to obtain a
horse of the liverymen.
A violent thunder storm passed over Hall
fax, Nova Scotia, on Sunday. Several houses
were struck by lightning and the topmast of
a vessel was broken off by the electric fluid.
The lightning struck a fire hydrant on Corn
wallis street, passed into the ground, and
badly tore up the street for length of two
blocks, throwing large rocks to the surface
In another street the lightning struck gutter,
throwing cobble stones all over the roadway.
ago that they had stamped out pleuro- pneu
monia among cattle in Lancaster county, Pa,
by the rigid measures adopted, but the dis
ease has broken out afresh. In response to
a call from Henry Bender. Turkey Hill,
Manor township, Secretary Edge, of Harris
burg, and State Veterinary Surgeon Bridge,
of Philadelphia, went to Lancaster Monday
morning and went to Bender's farm. They
found two cows and four heifers in an advanc-
ed stage of the disease, and killed them all.
The largest blast of rock ever made in West
Virginia was fired on Wednesday on the ex-
tension of the Ohio River Railroad, opposite
the town of Little Hooking. The line of the
blast was 12O feet long, eighty four kegs of
giant powder being used and over 20, 600 cubic
feet of sandstone rock was moved. Eye-wit-
nesses say it seemed as though the entire face
of the hill was thrown into the air. Rocks
weighing hundreds of pounds. were thrown
across the Ohio into Little Hooking Almost
every window in the town was broken, and
residents were thrown to the ground by the
shock.
AT Brooklyn, New York, on Monday,
eleven members of the Grand Jury of the
Court of Sessions published affdavits setting
forth that lawyer named Charles I. Whiteher
had attempted to tamper with them by letter
and postal card concerning a case in which he
desired an Indictment found. The case in
wolves Horace Selleck, of Holland, Erie
county, and girl named Kate Losel, Lawyer
Whitcher being anxious to have the former
indicted for malpractice. The lawyer makes
counter statement, claiming that certain |
politicians and officials were interested in get
ting Selleck's case quashed. Judge Ham
mond advised the grand jury to find an in
dictment against Whitcher.
The Lake Shore switchmen's strike at
Chicago was marked on Saturday by further
riotous proceedings. During the afternoon
two Lake Shore engines and cabooses filled |
with railway officials and policemen and i'm
ported switchmen, which got out of the yard
at Lake, were captured by a mob, who pur-