The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-04-03
News of the Week.

Over 1000 immigrants arrived at Castle
Garden on Sunday from Liverpool and Glas.
gov.
Ten men were killed and forty badly injured
by powder explosion ON the Panama Canal
Tuesday.
The total number of hogs packed in the
United States during the year ended March l
was II. 1868, 567.
Light Myers tobacco factory, in st.
Louis, has been obliged to shut down for want
OF coal, throwing $50 men out of work
In boring wells at the sulphur mine at Lake
Charles, Louisiana, oil has been struck at a
depth of $50 feet, and is flowing at the rate of
200 barrels daily.
The Windsor Hotel, the Chaffee County
Bank and twenty.seven of the principal stores
IN Sallda, Colorado, were DESTROYED bv fire on
Thursday of last week
A mastodon's bones, the teeth four inches
square on the face, were discovered last week
near Mattoon, ILL.,, it is reported, by a man
who was digging ditch.
An unfinished building on Friend street.
Boston, tumbled down Tuesday morning
burying the workmen in the ruins. Six men
were injured, four dangerously.
Two three-story brick buildings in Natcbez.
Mississippi, tumbled down during Monday
night. A man was killed and woman so
badly injured that she has since died.
Frederick Millerosa, charged with a felo-
nous assault, was taken from the iail at
vicksburg, Mississippi, about one o'clock
Monday morning, and lynched by mob
James Dennis, colored pauper, 80 years
OF age, hanged himself Friday last at the Poor
House farm, in Reading, Pa During the
graveyard insurance" swindle craze his life
was insured for 100000.
The furniture manufacturers of CHICAGO. Mt
meeting last Friday afternoon unanimously
decided that they 'would not submit to any
dictation from their employees in the matter of
eight-hour law, or anything efse.''
Weakly Ridley and Tobias Williams, both !
colored, who murdered Daniel Guthrie, a |
prominent citizen of Crockett county, Ten |
nessee, were taken from the Jail at Alamo |
early on Monday morning and lynched by a
mob.
The British government has expended
$685., 900 in exterminating the locusts on the
Island of Cyprus. The object has been ac.
complished, and the expenditure has been
several times repaid in the value of the crops
saved.
The family of Thomas Rollison, farmer,
living. near East Saginaw, Michigan, ate wild
parsnlps on Monday. Two of the children.
aged five and two years, died from the effects
of the poison on Tuesday, and the mother is
not expected to recover
A great prairie fire in the Crow reservation,
Montana, has devastated many miles of terri
tory and consumed thousands of tons of uncut
hay. 1t is reported at Billings that the Crow
Indians started the fire, the object being to
drive cattle off the reservation.
The House Committee of invalid Pensions
tuesday agreed to report a bill to increase the
pensions for loss of limb below the elbow or
knee to $50 per month; above the elbow or
knee to S36 per month, and at the shoulder
Or hip joint to $45 per month.
A three story dwelling and hennery, with
400 fowls, on the farm of Assemblyman
Titus, near Ithaca, New York, were burned
'arly Tuesday morning During the fire sew. :
raj farm hands were dangerously injured by
he explosion of a can of coal OIL
Mrs. Mary Barnitz Schmidt, of York, Pa.
lied last Friday, aged 90 years. She - +
Vidow of Jno. c. Schmidt, mas6
Did York Bank, who disdua Mas the
ntsE.aiasd T. over g Years ago.
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