The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-09-11
News of the Week.

here was light SHOW In helena, mOntana,
on Sunday night, with the temperature at 81
| degrees.
Mayor Smith, the reform mayor OF Phila-
delphia, is being investigated on some ale
cations of financial Encouragement.
Mrs Polk, widow of ex-President James
K. Polk. living at Nashville, Tennessee, eel
ebrated her 8Srd birthday last Saturday.
Mahlon Brown was accidentally shot dead
by companion named McIntee, while gun
ing near Texas, in Lancaster county, Penna.,
last Friday.
Ex-President Arthur has written to friend
| in Washington that his health has very much
improved during his soiourn in New London,
Connecticut.
Three boys with hydrophobia have arrived
at Buenos Ayres from Montevideo for treat
ment They will be inoculated with virus
taken from rabbits. The cases will be watched
with great interest.
Twelve dwellings at Mt Carmel, Penn,
owned by the Lehigh Valley Railroad Com
pany, were destroyed by fire last Friday
morning. A woman and child are missing
and believed to be burned to death.
In runaway accident at Bradford, Pa,
last Friday, Mrs. Hackenberry, wife of an oil
driller, and her babe, were thrown from a
buggy. The childs skull was fractured, and
the mother was injured internally.
A shanty in which were lodged twenty
Hungarian laborers, near Sonestown, Penna.,
on the Williamsport and North Branch Rail
road, was burned on Thursday night of last
week and seven men persisted. in the flames.
Special Agent Sedgwick has finished his in
vestigation of the Cutting matter in the City
of Mexico and gone to Chihuahua, having
obtained permission from the Mexican Gov
eminent to look at all the records in the
case.
The eastern end of the Northern Pacific
tunnel in course of construction through the
Cascade Mountains has caved in and nine
white men are buried under the stones and
earth, with little chance of being recovered
alive.
lantern was taken into well in
t.course of excavation near Warsaw, Illinois,
on Monday, and an explosion of natural gas
followed. Henry Miller was killed; John
Hope probably fatally injured, and two others
were terribly burned.
The New York Commercial Bulletin esti-
mates that the fire loss in the United States
and Canada in August at $4,000, 900 or ~
per cent. above the usual August average.
Included in the above is an estimate OF 3d.
100000 for forest fires.
Geronimo and his band have surrendered
to Captain Lawton. This band have COM
mitted numerous outrages in the Southwest
and Mexico the past six months, but. being
reduced to starvation, and being surrounded
by military he has surrendered.
Pleuro pneumonia has appeared among the
cattle in the northwestern part of Berks
county, Penna., and some of the affected
animals have died. The State Veterinarian
has ordered several of the worst cases to be
killed and the rest of the sick to be quaran-
tined.
|, While Antoine Rivet was dragging his ca
noe ashore at Bayou des Allemands, Louis
lana, on Saturday, he was fatally wounded
by the accidental discharge of his gun, lying
in the canoe, and died within an hour. His
uncle was killed in similar manner at the
same place last winter.
A Socialist picnic was held last Sunday in
Sheffield, Indiana, to raise money for the de-
| fence of the condemned Anarchists, and three
thousand Socialists from Chicago were among
the participants. Mrs. A. r. Parsons and
Mrs. Schwab were among the principal and
most pronounced haranguers.
There has been no rain in Jones and Stone
wall counties, Texas, for fourteen months,
and most of the settlers have left. Those
who remain, about 400 families, are in a state
of extreme destitption. 1t is believed that
throughout the drought affected section per-
haps 5000 families are destitute.
A posse of deputy sheriffs appeared on
Sunday at each of the base ball parks in New
ton, Long Island, where Sunday games are
played, and notified the proprietors that no
base ball playing would be permitted that
day. Among the games stopped was that
between the Brooklyn and Athletic Club,
after 81 innings had been played.
Salvation Army parades in Troy, New
York, having caused great disorder in the
streets of that city, the police have attempted
to suppress the parades. On Saturday after
noon Captain Lizzie Blampied was sent
to Jail for "a days, she refusing to give bonds,
The army again paraded on Saturday night,
and its members were taken to the station
house and locked up.
Monday was observed as tIabor Day. in
the principal cities by parades of working
men, picnics and other festivities. The num-
bers parading in the different cities heard
from are estimated as follows; New York,
10000; Chicago, 10000; Brooklyn, $4,000 /;
Newark, New Jersey, $4,000; Boston, $4,000;
Baltimore, $1,000 to $4,000; Albany, 5000 !;
Elizabeth, New Jersey, 1000; Buffalo, 1000;
Detroit 5000