The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-05-01
News of the Week.

The plasterers in San Antonio, Texas, struck
for So per day of eight hours, and 81 for ten
hours.
Father A. j. Ryan, the 'spoet- priest of the
South died in Louisville on Thursday night,
April %. He was 46 years of age.
Two hundred Mormons, destined for Salt
Lake, arrived in New York on Tuesday by
the steamship Nevada, from Liverpool.
Two hundred and thirty-fo divorce cases
are to be heard by Judge Allen, of the Su-
preme Court, in Boston, at the May term.
A mail carrier named Roberts and nineteen
mules were killed by a snow-slide on Red
Mountain, near Silverton, Colorado, on April
20.
During fight between boys in Danvillc.
Indiana, on Saturday night, Terry O'Donnell
was fatally shot by j. r. Miller, a sixteen
year old pupil of the Normal School.
A tornado near Killear, Texas, on Sunday
evening, demolished two dwellings, injuring
several persons and killing a baby. Hailstones
as large as hens eggs fell during the storm.
A destructive storm of wind, rain and hail
swept over Fort Smith, Arkansas, on Sunday
night. Buildings were unroofed and stables
| and shops blown down. but no lives are re-
ported lost.
The mutilated bodies of Il colored man and
a colored woman were discovered by two boys
on Friday afternoon in bogshead, which had
been left in a field near GAINESVILLE Tennes-
see, by the receding waters of the Cumber-
land river.
Alfred H. Hahn, ex-County Auditor, who
recently pleaded guilty to seven indictments
for forgery and larceny, was sentenced in
Easton, Pa, on Saturday, to pay 500 fine
and the costs of the prosecution and to serve
four years in Jail.
A frame building erected on posts at Alton,
near Bradford, Pa, and used as sleeping
quarters for laborers, toppled over early on
Saturday morning and caught fire from a Ian
| tern. Six men were burned to death and
three others badly injured. ST IN
The Mexican House of Deputies has passed
bill for the appointment of two monetary
commissions-one to be sent to Washington
and the other to Europe-to study means of
protecting the country from the evils of
deprecated silver currency.
David R. Leedom. Assessor of Newton
Township, Bucks county, Penna., died on
| Monday. At the same time his brother-in-
law, 7. C. Kelly, Assessor of the borough,
was taken violently insane from worrying over
the duties of his office in connection with the
new tax law.
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fatally burned in Chicago on Saturday after
noon, by an explosion of coal oil, while the
elder was filling lighted lamp. A servant
] girl named Whalen also suffered from the in
! halation of gas and smoke. After several
hours intense suffering all died.
The finishing and storage building of the
Williamsport Furniture Manufacturing Com
pany at Williamsport, Pa, was burned last
Monday evening. 1t was frame, five stories
high. and filed with furniture, mostly unfn-
ished. Loss, $4,000; insurance, 100000
The fire was started by spark from a neigh
boring mill.
The lower portion of Las Vegas, New Mex
| leo, was inundated by a freshet in the Rio
Gallinas, which flows through the town, last
Sunday. Several bridges, the post-o Office and
many dwellings were swept away, and the
Continental Oil Company's warehouse and
the round house and other buildings of the
Santa Fe Railroad were wrecked.
1t is reported from Sonora, Mexico, that
Apaches recently attacked the Budo Secs
ranch, 25 miles east of Magdelena, killed
three men and two women, and destroyed
quantity of property. 1t is also said that In
dams, supposed to be part of Geronimo's
| band attacked a ranch near Santa Cruz,
Mexico, and killed number of ranchers.
According to a telegram from Cleveland,
Ohio, the ministers of that city, headed by
Bishop Bedell, of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, are preparing to boycott the Sunday
newspapers. Confidential circulars have been
issued to clergymed. and all have been
urged to Join the movement and denounce the
Sunday papers from their pulpit on May 2.
Elections on the liquor question were held
on Monday in Richmond, Manchester and
Lynchburg, Virginia. Richmond gave 56s1
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| Lynchburg 1888. The colored vote as far as
known was almost unanimous against prohibit
ton. The total vote in Richmond and Man
| chester was nearly as large as in the Presi-
dental election.
| A telegram from Providence, Rhode Island
says the Protestant clergymen of that city and
! State. TO the number of 1S2, chiefly Baptists
and Methodists, have published declaration
| that the publication of Sunday newspapers is
hindrance to the proper observance of the
Sabbath and calling the attention of all Chris
tan people to the alleged detrimental tenden-
ces of their publication and sale.
Early on Monday morning fifteen illicit dis
tillers rode into Manchester, Tennessee, and
several of them broke into the house of a
deputy marshal named Webb Purdon, while
others kent guard outside Purdon met his
assassins with revolver, and in the conflict
Purdon and 'moonshiner' were killed and
! three other moonshiners fatally wounded
! Purdon had been raiding Illicit stills
telegram from Guaymas, Mexico, to the
San Francisco Call reports that "Geronimo's
band attacked ranches near Imuris. completely
destroying all the buildings at Casita, small
way station. near Imurs, on the Sonora
Railroad, killing fifteen persons, all Mexicans.
A company of soldiers were sent after them.
Two soldiers were killed. The Indians were
moving in the direction of Nacori, in the
! Sierra Madre Mountains.
Near Port Monmouth, New Jersey. early
last Friday morning, the wife of j. Monroe
Smith, being insane. killed her four year-old
daughter, Edna. and dangerously. if not NOR
tally, wounded Rufus. aged 10; Bessie. aged
II, and Aida, aged I. Two other children
escaped by locking themselves in a room.
Mrs. Smith had taken poison beforehand, and
at last accounts was in a critical condition.
She had been in the insane asylum.
On Saturday afternoon small boy dropped
lighted cigar stump down the shaft of the
Rush Run Coal Company S mine, fifteen miles
north of Wheeling, West Virginia. The
mine had been idle for several weeks and was
| full of fire damp. In an instant there was a
terrible explosion. flames shot out of the pit
and all the buildings around the mouth OF the
shaft were destroyed, together with sever hun
dred feet of trestle work and a quantity of
coal.
| The number of deaths which have resulted
from the confagration which recently devas-
tated the town of Stry, Austria Hungary. is
12S. The greater number were caused di-
rectly by the flames, but many of the unfor-
tunate people died from exposure, while some
died of fright, and few committed suicide in
despair over their irretrevable losses. The
Burgomaster estimates thatit will cost at least
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The loss on private property was 5000, 900.
A rebellion against the Mexican Govern
ment is reported at Cusihueria. an important
mining town in chihuahua. 1t appears that
the Federal Government annulled the local
election for ''Jefe Politico' and sent man
of its own choosing to act as such. The peo
pie, under the leadership of Don Teodoro