The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-01-09
News of the Week.

Minnesota, Sunday, and throughout the North
west.
Mrs. Samantha Legow was killed by light
ming near Dallas, Texas, on Friday night OF
last week.
Governor Hill, of New York, was inaugu-
rated on January l, with much civic and mil
itary pomp.
The large hay rake works of A. W. Coates
& Co., at Alliance, Ohio, were closed by the
sheriff on Saturday.
Dolls to the number of 1900 and 5000
baby carts were destroyed by recent fire in
great toy factory at Brandenburg, Ger
many.
| A girl employed in a hotel at Crestline, O.,
gave birth to child on Saturday and threw
| in into a red-hot stove. The odor of the
burning flesh attracted attention and led to
the discovery. The girl is in critical condi-
| ton.
New cases of pleuro- pneumonia have been
discovered on the farm of A. 5. Fry, near
Masonvile, Lancaster county, Pa. Twenty
five animals are affected in a herd of one
hundred. The State authorities have been
notified.
| The heaviest rain of the season in Eastern
and Central Mississippi fell during Saturday
night There were washouts on several rail-
roads, delaying trains One train was wreck
ed, and an expressman was dangerously IN
jured.
One hundred and eighty million cigarettes
were made in Richmond, Va, the past year,
of which one firm turned out one hundred
and fifty millions. Most of the work is done
by girls, and the supply Of labor is not equal
to the demand.
In the Superior Court at Atlanta on Mon
day Judge Clark dismissed the petition of the
| LIQUOR men for mandamus to compel the
| Ordinary to hear the contest over the prohl-
bition election. The case will now go to the
Supreme Court.
! A boats crew commanded by John z.
4 Pereira, from the whaling schooner Mary E.
| Simmons, was pulled under the surface by
whale near the Cape Verde Islands on Novem-
Der Doth. No trace of the boat or the men
was seen afterward.
Governor Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia, was
installed on January l, in presence OF both
Houses of Legislature and large number OF
citizens. Bishop Randolph offered prayer,
and the oath of Office was administered by
Chief Justice Lewis.
A chimney 440 feet high has just been com
pleted at Mechernut, Germany. A subter-
ranean portion, fourteen feet deep, is of black
stone, thirty-seven feet are square in plan,
and all the rest is brick. 1t is the highest
chimney yet built in the world.
On December 18th, the safe in the Southern
Express Company's Office at Brinkley, Ar.
kansas, was robbed of $4,000 in money and
two gold watches. On Sunday last one of the
burglars was arrested in Galesburg, Illinois,
and both of the watches and $1100 of the
money recovered.
The American Pasteur Institute in New
York fled its certificate of incorporation on
Saturday. The objects are the gratuitous
care and treatment by the Pasteur system OF
incubation ofNall persons threatened with or
suffering from hydrophobia.
| The Southern Hotel, in New Orleans, was
burned Sunday morning. Loss ST., 200. 1t
is reported that Louis Kissner, a musician, OF
Baltimore, persisted in the flames. The struc-
ture, though erected in 1871, was not used as
hotel until 1884, the authorities having sew
eral times condemned it as unsafe.
The proclamation announcing the annexa-
ton of Burmah to the British empire was
read at Rangoon on the list. England cedes
to China part of Upper Burmah in order to
make the Chinese and Indian frontiers con.
tiguous. India advocates an offensive and
defensive alliance between China and India.
DR.. D. Hamilton, of New Orleans, was
killed by falling from a south bound train of
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, near
Montgomery, Alabama, Monday night. He
was on the way home from Nashville with his
daughter, and they had in charge the body of
her son, who had been accidentally shot dead
near that city.
A despatch from Port Keyser, West Vir-
ginia, says VIM. Rafter has succeeded in
swindling a number of interior farmers and
cattle dealers out of considerable sums of
money by buying stock and giving worthless
checks on the National Bank of Piedmont
The stock was shipped East as fast as bought
and sold by confederates.
Col. F. H. Aston, wealthy planter of
Gregg county, Texas, has been arrested on
the charge of having killed DIR. Wren, prom
ihent citizen of Fayette county, Texas, No.
vember, 1859. The killing was the result of
an old feud and Aston fled to Easton, Texas,
where he has since resided, honored and re-
spected by all classes of citizens.
A religious revival was begun in Palmyra,
Wisconsin, about three weeks ago, and the
minister and several others pledged themselves
not to taste morsel of food until certain
things were accomplished. Rev. NJ. Pate
and six others have kept up the fast, but an
begun to take food. The authorities say they
will not interfere.
A severe storm of snow and sleet ragged in
Iowa and Nebraska-on Saturday and Sun
day. From the Missouri river to points about
one hundred and eighty miles west the snow
drifted over the fences and in the cross cuts
is twenty-five feet deep. Owing to the com
paratively circumscribed area in which snow
fell, four blockades on the railroads are re-
ported. A telegram from Kansas City, Mo-,
reports blockade of trains on the Santa te
and Union Pacific lines in Western Kansas.
The Coal Miners Convention at West Eliz-
abeth in the Monongahela region, on Satur-
day decided by two-thirds vote of the dele
gates present to return to work at the opera
tors terms. The Convention was repre-
sentative gathering, delegates being present
from nearly every pit in the four pools. Work
was resumed in all the mines along the river
on Monday. The strike lasted four months
and was the most stubbornly contested strug-
gle ever known on the river. Fully 5000 men
were engaged in it. Of this number about
1000 returned to work before the strike was
declared at an end.
August Spies on Sunday read an address
before the usual Sunday gathering of Anarch-
lists in Chicago, which was unanimously adopt
ed as the sentiment of the meeting. The
address reminded his auditors that the day
was the 25th anniversary of the accession OF
the Emperor William, and said that his
reign had been digrace to civilization"
Referring to the Emperor, the speaker said
''He has, under the infamous pretence of
patriotism and the honor of Germany, led
Germans against Germans on the battle field.
The catacombs of Sadowa and Langensalza,
the horrible slaughter at the Upper Schawazen,
are proof of this' The speaker concluded
by saying: ''The free German Empire is
transformed into an endless prison, in which
the inmates perform their duties as free citi:.
zens under the supervision of five hundred
thousand skilled murderers."
A despatch from Matamoras, Mexico, Jan.
Sd, says Friday was the day fixed by law for
the installation of the new Board of City Off
GERS At an early hour, Colonel Torres, the
defeated candidate for Mayor, and his sup
porters, took possession of the city hall, and
a bowling mob of their adherents filed the
square in front. Mayor Hinajose, at their APP
proach, took his hat and went home, and the
police were shut up in their quarters with
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