The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-07-24

The health of ex- President Arthur is much
improved since his soiourn at New London,
Connecticut.
tween Omaha and San Francisco on August
LIST. 1t will make the run in y hours, against
90, the present time.
A wind storm in Kearney county, Ne
braska, on Monday, blew down church, and
killed a woman. Near Minden, farmer,
his son, and his daughter were killed by
lightning.
A special engine collided with an accom-
mediation train on the Louisville and Nash
vile railroad, near Columbia, Tennessee, on
Tuesday evening, killing seven men and in-
juring two others.
Riots, started by Royalists, at Marselles,
France, have been quelled. At midnight
last Tuesday the military made charge on
the rioters, capturing 200, including Count
Isnards, who, together with the others, were
sent to prison.
The revolutionary movement in Northern
Mexico appears to be growing There was
fight in Matamoras on Monday, and great
excitement prevails there. Five hundred
more troops were expected at New Laredo
on Tuesday.
During a thunder storm on Sunday after
noon four Indians were killed and ten injur-
ed by lightning on Red Lake reservation in
Minnesota. 1t is also reported that a settler
and his wife, on Thief river, were killed in
the same way.
Heavy rains fell during Sunday night and
Monday over two-thirds of Kansas. Wind
storms also ragged at several places. At
Lakin twenty houses were demolished and
ten or twelve persons severely injured. AT
Nickerson eighteen houses were blown
down.
A telegram from Omaha says that Cashier
Beltzer, who wrecked the Duudy County Bank,
at Benkelman, has also wrecked the Chase
County Bank, at Imperial, of which he was
President. Its patrons were homesteaders
and ranchmen, who will lose about $25, 900.
The assets of the bank will not exceed $1,000.
1t is reported from Tombstone, Arizona,
that Project Oposura, of Sonora, Mexico,
and four companions were killed by Apaches
| last week while on their way to examine
mining property near that place. They had
an escort of fifteen. The others escaped.
1t is said that eighty Indians were seen in the
fight.
Mail advices from Yokohama received in
San Francisco on Monday say that the
cholera, which has been raging at Osaka,
Hiogo and Kioto, is now abating. About one
hundred cases are now occurring daily in the
first named place, and fifty at each of the
latter cities. The mortality is about IS per
cent.
Six men are in jail at Wyandotte, Kansas,
charged with having wrecked Missouri
Pacific freight train, near that place, on the
morning of April 26th, during the strike. By
the wreck two train men were killed. The
alleged wreckers are members of the Execu-
tive Board of the Local Lodge of the Knights
of Labor, and Hamilton, the man who is rep
resented as the ringleader in the crime, is
Chairman of the Board.
A telegram from Port Townsend, Wash
ington Territory, says that on Saturday night
several tugs coming up to Cape Flattery were
struck by a tidal wave of very dangerous
character. The sea ran so high that the
tugs were buried at times. The commotion
lasted about half an hour. After the waves
had subsidized it was found that the sea was
covered with dead Goldfish, halibut and
salmon. A submarine eruption is sus-
pected.
An express train from New York collided
with gravel train, in Bridgeport, Connect
cut, Tuesday afternoon. Six gravel cars
were demolished, and the express engine was
wrecked. Two men on the gravel train were
killed and two injured, two perhaps fatally,
Ephraim Slayback, engineer of the express
train, jumped off before the collision and was
severely cut in the mouth. He was arrested
for having disregarded danger signal, and
thus caused the smash.