The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-08-07
News of the Week.

Able List, the renowned pianist, died at
Bayreuth, Germany, last Saturday.
The bricklayers of Cincinnati are on a
strike, and all building is at stand still.
Ann Offner shot and killed Benjamin
Brooks, near Romney, w. Va, last Saturday.
The public debt statement issued on Mon
day shows a reduction of 5000, 1O3 during
July.
The Senate on Monday confirmed Fitz- John
Porter to be Colonel in the army, by vote
of SO to Is.
Snow fell on Tuesday last, August 3rd, al
Mt. Washington, N H., and also at Rome,
N. Y, to the depth of II inches.
President Cleveland has signed the oleo-
margarine bill, though he does not think the
bill as good as might have been framed.
A party of eighteen clergymen have gone
on a bicycling tour through western New
York, and expect to make run of 334 miles.
A man, named Dorpher, was killed, and
his son severely injured by lightning near
New Brunswick, New Jersey, on Saturday
evening.
Capt. Perry, of the American fishing
schooner Ada Ann, put to sea with his Cana
dian captors on board. She will be seized
and the captain imprisoned at the first port
she touches.
A son of Christian Beener, at Norristown,
Pa, thirteen years old, fell into cauldron of
boiling water on Tuesday and was parboiled.
He was rescued, but died in q few hours in
terrible agony.
The schooner Sarah Craig, from Philadel-
phia, with party of eleven pleasure seekers
on board, capsized off Sandy Hook in vio-
lent storm shortly after 6 o clock Friday even
ing, and seven persons, six ladies and gen.
tleman, were drowned.
The front of the English Baptist Church in
St. Clair, Pa, was blown up by dynamite
shortly before daylight on Saturday morning
The outrage is believed to be the outcome of
4 a contest between the Law and Order Society
and violators of the liquor law.
At Gunnison, Colorado, on Saturday,
Frank Mason, on trial for murder, was &C.
quilted 1t appears that the murdered man
applied opprobrious epithets to Mason. The
jury in its report declared that "any one who
called another such names deserved killing"
A hail storm passed over portions of the
Bald Eagle and Nittaning valleys, in the
interior Of Pennsylvania, last Friday evening,
doing much damage to the crops. Some of
the hailstones were two inches in diamter.
A barn near Beach Creek was destroyed by
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Lafayette, Indiana, on Saturday, which at
tracted $4,000 spectators. John Schreyer, of
Andrews, Indiana, private of Company ID,
was so badly hurt in the fight that he died
Sunday. Twenty-Five other soldiers were pros
trated by heat.
The heaviest rain of the season throughout
the Wyoming Valley, Pa, fell on last Sunday
night. In Wilkesbarre the streets were
flooded and many cellars filled with water.
In the country districts much damage is re-
ported. Crops are injured, roads washed
out, barns and outhouses carried away and
bridges destroyed.
1t is reported from Mexico that on Friday
! party of revolutionists captured Burgess in
Tamaulipas, seized all the arms obtainable
and captured all the public funds, including
500 from the stamp Office. 1t is reported
that up the river, in fight with the troops
the revolutionists were defeated, with the
loss of two killed.
Governor West, of Utah, in a letter to the
Secretary of the Interior transmitting his
proclamation against Mormon immigrants,
says, that from the year 1880 to date the Eu-
ropean Mormon immigration to this country
aggregates II ,620 persons. Other companies
of Mormons are expected to arrive on August
21st and October 10th.
Seventy rollers in the Drummond tobacco
factory, at st. Louis, struck on Saturday
against the discontinuace of the eight hour
system, compelling 700 men to become idle.
The rollers were paid by the piece. 1t is I'M
| derstood that all the tobacco manufacturers
in that city will return to the ten hour system
at once, and general trouble is not improb-
able.
There is a serious epidemic of typhoid fever
in Pittsburg, Pa. In the Twenty-ffth Ward
are 121 cases. many of them of dangerous
type. Five new cases and three deaths were
reported on Monday. Five new cases of
fever have been developed in West Elizabeth
and two or three cases are said to be quite
critical. Doctors MeCrew and Welsh were
reported ill.
A telegram from Pittsburg, Pa, says the
strike of the miners along the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad is being gradually settled.
! The long standing strike at the Shaner Works
has ended and the miners resumed work on
Monday. They will be paid on the basis of
the Columbus scale. 1t was reported that
miners at only three of SCOTS Works were
still out All of the other works in that dis
trict are in operation at the Columbus scale.
1t is announced that the Second Assistant
Postmaster General has established fast
mail between the Atlantic coast States and
Havana, Cuba. Eastern mail will be sent by
rail to Tampa, Florida, thence by steamer to
Havana touching at Key West. This will
shorten the time between New York and
Havana about two days. These mail steam
ers will sail from Tampa semi-weekly from
May LIST to November LIST and tri weekly from
November LIST to May LIST.
The Philadelphia Ledger of Monday, says:
A terrific storm, accompanied by thunder,
lightning and rain, prevailed about O'Clock
on Saturday morning. Little damage was
done in the city. In some parts of Camden
county, New Jersey. the storm was more dis
astrous in its effects At Cedar Brook an
old building, in which six German berry
pickers slept, was struck by lightning, and
two of them were killed. The corn crop
throughout Camden county was badly dam
aged by the wind. The dwelling of J. Hur-
rell at Vineland was struck by lightning and
destroyed with all its contents.
A telegram from Butte, Montana. gives de-
tails of the drowning of Miss Jane Macarthur,
in heroic effort to save the lives of others.
For a wear past she has been conducting
cattle ranch on the Upper Sun river. With
her aged mother, she was encamped on the
bank of the river when Judge Armstrong,
with his wife, daughter, aged 10 years, son,
aged u, and a sister, attempted to ford the
river with four horse team. The horses
became unruly, ran into deep water and up
set the family into the rapid current None
of them could swim. Miss Macarthur, seeing
the accident, plunged in and successfully
saved son. daughter and mother. Going
back for the sister, she was seized in death
grip by the drowning woman and both were
lost.
The AZ factories in Brockton, Massachu,
sets, whose proprietors are members of the
Manufacturers Association, have decided to
shut down for an indefinite period or until the
trouble existing is settled. ''The case in
brief is that at the factory of ]. B. Reynolds
there is a man named Bailey employed who
Is ubuuxiuus to the Lasters, Union, and for
this reason no lasters. will work there. The
union has refused to furnish men, and has
refused to meet the manufacturers half way
unless Bailey is discharged. The committee
of the Manufacturers Association, at a meet
ing held Thursday, voted to shut down their
factories in support of the Messrs Reynolds
unless the lasters were heard from by noon
on Saturday." Nothing was heard, and the
closing took place.
At Lousburg, Nova Scotia on Monday
morning, an officer named Townsend boarded
the schooner Ada Ann, and seized her for
having contrnhand goods aboard Cantain