The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-06-26
News of the Week.

the WaUery Magazine, died on Tuesday in
Boston, aged rs years.
The crops on the lowlands around Con-
tooeook, New Hampshire, were killed on
Saturday morning by frost.
Martin Collins and Frank Polansky were
killed by lightning while digging well at
Crete, Nebraska, on Monday.
The Acting Secretary of the treasury on
Monday issued call for the redemption of
four millions of the Three Per Cents.
Three thousand acres of wheat, 80 miles
from Modesto, California, were destroyed by
fire last Friday. The loss is estimated at
| $4,000.
Forty-two circus men struck at Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, on Monday, alleging that
they did not get enough to eat. They were
paid off and discharged.
/ By an explosion of benzine in Decatur,
Indiana, on Sunday, about forty feet of a
| hardware store was blown out, and John
0mler, clerk, was burned to death.
Gen. W. Fl. f. Lee is mentioned as a can
didate for Congress to succeed Hon. John S.
Barbour from the eighth district of Virginia,
who has declined another denomination.
The funeral of King Ludwig, of Bavaria,
took place at Munich on Saturday. The con-
course at the funeral was so great that num-
badly injured.
Some thunder storms prevailed in Mime
sofa on Sunday. Buildings at Fergus Falls,
GAINESVILLE and other places were struck by
| lightning, and one man was killed, several
others being injured.
Two hundred people were poisoned at
picnic at Petersville, Hunterdon county, New
Jersey, on Thursday, and about fifty of them
are still sick. 1t is believed the poison was
in canned meat bought of local grocer in
New York.
James Gleason attempted to stop street
/ fight among drunken roughs in Newport,
i Kentucky, on Sunday, when one of them
| named Banner stabbed Gleason with pocket
4 knife, causing death in few minutes. Ban
ner escaped
! The trial of the alleged conspirators in
dicted by the Grand Jury in Milwaukee at the
recent investigation Of the labor troubles and
riots was begun on Monday afternoon in the
municipal court. About thirty defendants
appeared at the bar.
A telegram from Eldorado, Arkansas, re-
ports that six men there took Willis Ferdi-
nand to a tree and nearly whipped him to
death on alleged charges of trifing with
woman. Neighbors, however, rescued him,
but he will probably die. All the parties are
colored.
In the Circuit Court at Belleville, Illinois
on Tuesday, E. Reynolds and 81. Finerty,
who were engaged in the recent railroad strike,
pleaded guilty to intimidation and were fined
SIS and costs each. William Haley and John
Secard pleaded guilty of rioting and were
also fined.
The heaviest rain ever known at Alexan-
dria, Louisiana, began falling there on Mon
day of last week and continued until the fol-
lowing Wednesday afternoon. large por-
ton of the town was submerged to depth of
three feet. Two colored men were drowned
in u swamp.
1t was reported from Magdalen, Sonora,
that ten Mexicans recently attacked fifteen
Apaches, in Tecapadepe Pass, near Sarache.
The Indians were defeated, and it is believed
several bucks were killed. One squaw is
known to have been killed. The Mexicans
lost three killed and one wounded.
| There was a street fight in Clinton, Iowa,
on Monday, between saloonists and prohibit
| tionists, in which four of the former were
wounded. Two prohibitionists were arrested
for the shooting. The saloon element is
threatening to lynch them and declares the
Jail will be blown up if necessary to get
Terrific storms of wind, rain and hail are
reported to have occurred on Sunday at Elgin,
Manor, and Paige, on the Houston and Texas
| Central Railway, in. Texas. Dwellings and
churches were wrecked and damaged, and it
is asserted that hailstones fell which varied in
size from marble to man s head. Strangely
enough no lives are reported lost, and only
one person injured.
The Commercial Club of Chicago has pre-
scented the government with tract of land.
300 acres in extent, lying on the outskirts of
the city, to be used as military barracks.
| The gift is designed to meet the views of Gen.
| Sheridan, who thinks that the government
should have camp grounds within easy reach
of the principal cities. 1t remains for Con-
gress to accept the land for the purpose
| stated.
The trial of the Anarchists, Louis Lingg,
Michael Schwab. Samuel Fielder, Adolph
Fischer, George Engle and Oscar Neebe, was
begun on Monday in Chicago. When the
Court adjourned in the afternoon, only two
Jurors had been secured. To the surprise of
every one Parsons, the missing Anarchist, APP
peared in Court and surrendered himself.
! After the adjournment he was taken to the
Jail with the other prisoners
Hobert Pasha Hon. August Charles Ho-
bart) marshal of the Turkish Empire, died
last Saturday. He was the third son of the
Earl of Buckingham. and was born April l,
1922. During the late war in this country, he
was engaged in blockade running and entered
! Southern ports ten times successfully. After
wards he was offered large inducements to re-
organize and command the Turkish navy. In
few years he raised the navy to one of much
| power and effectiveness, and was them raised
| to the rank of mushr and marshal of the en-
pire.
Since the explosion or eave-in at the Min
eral Spring Colliery of the Lehigh Valley Coal
Company at Parsons, near Wilkesbarre, the
waters of Laurel Run have been pouring into
the mine through cracks in the surface:
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nal Company, which connects with the Mineral
Spring colliery, is also being flooded, and
many men and boys are thrown out of work
in consequence. 1t is feared the water will
find its way into the other collieries Of the
Delaware and Hudson Company, in which
case disastrous results may follow.
At Lynchburg. Va, on Saturday, Mrs.
Harry Smith, wife of the sporting editor of
the Daily Virginian, cowhided man who
wrote her an insulting note. The fellow pro- |
posed meeting at a certain place, and Mrs. |
Smith went to the street corner designated
alone cher husband being absent from town. |
and administered a sound thrashing before the
fellow could take to his heels. Mrs. Smith |
identified Sam. T. Paris, third foreman of the
city fire department, as the man, as did other |
parties who witnessed the affair, but Paris |
protests his innocence. The note to Mrs. |
Smith bore no signature.
The Northern Pacific Land Grant Forfeit
ure bill, as passed by the Senate, declares for
feited so much of the lands granted to that |
company as are coterminous with that part
of its main line which extends from Wallula
Junction to Portland, ard that part of the
Cascade Branch which shall not have been
completed at the date of the passage of this
bill, and makes the right of way in the Terri
tories subject to taxation. Nothing in the act
is to be construed to wave any right of the
United States to forfeit any other lands gran
ted to them for failure, past or future, to COM
ply with the conditions of the grant.
Rev. Waldo Messaros, well known preach
er, and pastor of the Northwestern Indepen-
dent Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia. Pa,
was arrested on Monday, and held in s., 900
bail for trial, for the alleged attempt to COM
nit criminal assault upon the wife of Chas.
W. Coulson both of whom are members of
the congregation over which Mr.. Messaros
has had charge for about four years. At the
hearing on Monday the testimony for the
prosecutor went to show that the pastor called