The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-03-13
News of the Week.

the witness box.
Rev DIR. J. r. W. Sloane, Professor o.
Theology at the Reformed Presbyterian The
illogical Seminary at Allegheny City, Pa, was
found dead on Saturday morning.
Gen. Simon Cameron on Monday entered
upon his 8Sth year. The veteran statesman
is enjoying good health, and his mind is as
active and clear as it was % years ago.
A series of explosions occurred on Monday
in the Uniondale mine at Dunton, near Con.
nellsville, Pa, by which two men were killed
and twelve injured. Four of the injured are
not expected to recover.
Samuel johnson, colored, called "Mingo
Jack, was severely dubbed and then hung
by a mob at the jail in Eatontown, New Jer
sey, last Saturday. He had assaulted young
lady in the neighborhood.
The gas house at the Augusta Factory, al
Augusta, Georgia, was burned last Friday
night, and falling wall buried nine men,
killing one and fatally injuring two others,
one of whom has since died.
Rev. Nicholas Hoppin, d. D., Rector Of
Christ Church. Cambridge. Massachusetts,
from 1880 to 1874, died on Monday of paraly-
sis, aged IA years. He was ordained at St.
Peters Church, Philadelphia, in 1889.
Twelve men, identified as leaders of the
mob who drove the Chinese out of Oregon
City, Oregon, on the night of February ID
have been held in $4,000 bail each to await
the action of the United States Grand Jury.
Charles C. MARBLE, living in Gloucester
City, New Jersey, shot his daughter, Fannie,
about 18years old, early last Friday morning,
installing her in the darkness for burglar.
1t is said that the wound is not necessarily
fatal.
Near Port Townsend, Washington Terri
tory, few days ago, two rufhans attacked
an inoffensive Chinaman, and, after beating
his head against the rocks and fearfully NAL.
treating him, tore his queue out by the roots
and left him for dead.
The State Department has been informed
''that affairs are quiet on the Samoan Islands,
and that the report of an attempt on the part
of Germany to seize the islands arose from a
purely private controversy between the Ger
man Consul and the local authorities"
Col Witcher, of Ceredo, Wayne county,
W. Va, was lynched last week, for murder
ing his wife. He was great orator and pol
itician, but man with rather loose ideas of
treating a wife. He was married five times,
and had spent several years in Salt Lake City,
Utah.
At Windsor, Vermont, on Sunday afternoon,
Richard Merchant took home a revolver,
which he wished his father to buy. While
the father was examining it the weapon went
off and bullet entered the head of his 4
year-ol daughter, causing her death within
two hours.
A celebrated fat hog sell" was slaughter
ed at Poughkeepsie, N. Y, last week, and
thousands of dollars are said to have changed
hands on wagers as to his weight. Few bets
xuor hoca1 lose than 1000 Lbs hut tho
weight of the animal was found to be less
than 900 lbs.
Mary Blocker Seymour, widow of Horatio
Seymour, died on Monday, at the residence
of her sister, Mrs. Roscoe Conkling, in Utica,
New York. Mrs. Seymour had been sick for
some time, and it was while attending her
that her husband was attacked by the illness
of which he died.
An examination by Gov. Pattison and
Attorney General Cassidy, into the condition
of the Mount Joy Soldiers Orphan School,
near Harrisburg, Pa, showed the boys had
the itch, wore clothes two months without
change, and that the well and diseased wash
ed in the same water, &c.
One hundred and twenty Chinese who had
been wood chopping and grubbing near
Mount Tabor, five miles east of Portland,
Oregon, were driven out before daylight on
last Friday morning by mob of over sixty
masked white men. The Chinese were placed
on ferryboat and sent to Portland.
The bodies of NJ. Coleman and Wilson
Patten, of Seattle, Washington Territory, who
were assassinated by unknown persons, ar
rived at Portland on Saturday. Coleman was
foreman of the Grand Jury that indicted the
Seattle rioters, and it is believed they were
murdered by anti Chinese agitators.
All but one of the large buildings compos-
ing the great oatmeal mills of Ferdinand
Schumacher, in Akron, Ohio, were destroyed
by fire early on Saturday morning. A large
and the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio
Railroad depot were also destroyed. The
total loss is estimated at nearly 81 600, 900. y
The late Charles Losekam, the noted res
taurateur, of Washington D. c., on the Sun
day before he died, while sitting at q friend S
table at dinner, noticed that there were thir-
teen present. He said: "One of us is going
to die soon, and | will be the man." He
was half in jest and half in earnest, but, of
course, never dreaming that his words would
50 soon come true.
The board of supervisors of Rockingham
county, Va, have brought suit against Sam
uel r. Sterling, late treasurer, and his sure
ties, for ST., 1929 the amount of his defici-
ency on county and district funds. The Com
monwealth has brought suit against the same
parties for SS7 900 deficiency in State taxes.
The treasurer left $4,000 in bank, and the
question is to be tried in court as to who shall
get it.
Charles H. Birk, defaulting collector for
George D. Randall, of Newark, New Jersey,
who disappeared last July, and left clothing
in a bathing house at Asbury Park, to convey
the idea that he was drowned, has been dis
covered in Chicago. Information of his
whereabouts was received Just as the Travel
lers' Insurance Company was about to pay a
policy which he had taken out the day before
he disappeared.
News was received in Tombstone, Arizona,
on Sunday night, of a recent attack by Apa-
ches on party of travellers near Nocosaia,
Sonora. Two of the travellers were killed.
The Indians then went to William Browns
mine and killed Brown and James Moser.
They then stole eighty horses from settlers
near San Pedro and went towards the noun.
tains, These Indians were believed to belong
to aeronimo's baud.
The following vessels, owned in New
Haven, are overdue and believed to be lost
men, which left Boston in ballast for Balti-
more, twenty days ago, and was provisioned
for ten days only. The schoaaers Abbie c.
Stubbs and E, Harrls Weaver, which left
Hampton Roads for New Haven two days
before the great gales of two weeks ago, and
have not been heard of since.
John F. Miller, Republican u S. Senator
from California, died Monday in Washington,
aged So years- He was a native of indiana,
and a soldier of the war for the Union, from
which, after conspicuous gallantry, he emery
ed breyet major-general. He removed 10
California, was collector at San Francisco
under President johnson; accumulated
fortune in business, and was elected T. 9.
Senator in 1881 to sapcasd Newton Booth.
At the meeting of the Baptist Ministers of
Chicago, Monday morning, the labors of Rev.
..Sam" Jones and Rev. Sam" Small were
discussed. DR., Northrup, President of the
Baptist Seminary at Morgan Park, said that,
towing to diversity of taste, it was impossi.
BILE to please every one. Many were disposed
to criticise the revivalists, while others were
drawn to their meetings and greatly benefit
ed.,' There is, y said the Doctor, ian ele-
ment of grossness and vulgarity about these
men that is certainly not commendabe, but
they are doing needed work and should be
supported.
Francis Mcaonigle and James sheady,
young men, the former a miner, the latter
q blacksmith, fought a prize fight In a barn