The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-07-03

AT Brooklyn, New York, on Monday,
| eleven members of the Grand Jury of the
! Court of Sessions published afidavits setting
! forth that lawyer named Charles T. Whiteher
had attempted to tamper with them by letter
and postal card concerning a case in which he
desired an Indictment found. The case in
wolves Horace Selleck, of Holland, Erie
county, and a girl named Kate Losel Lawyer
! Whitcher being anxious to have the former
indicted for malpractice. The lawyer makes
| counter statement, claiming that certain
politicians and officials were interested in get
ting Selleck's case quashed. Judge Ham
mond advised the grand jury to find an in
dictment against Whitcher.
! The Lake Shore switchmen's strike at
| Chicago was marked on Saturday by further
riotous proceedings. During the afternoon
4 two Lake Shore engines and cabooses filed
| with railway officials and policemen and i'm
I ported switchmen, which got out of the yard
at Lake, were captured by a mob, who pur-
issued them in a Nickel Plate. engine and
4 Milwaukee and st. Paul engine, which they
had taken possession of. The pursuers hurled
coupling pins, links and Jumps of coal against
the officers, land the latter fired at their as
sailants, wounding several, though not, so
! far as known, MORALLY. The mob proved
too much for the police, and the train which
| it was sought to take out was sent back.
| Several of the imported switchmeu were badly
beaten by the mob.
According to dispatch from AHn Arbor,
Michigan, DR.. V. G. Vaughn, in examining a
specimen of the ice cream which recently
poisoned number of persons at Newton,
Michigan, has made the important discovery
that tyrotoxicon, the active element in poi
sonous cheese, which he discovered some
time since, was also present in the ice
cream, and was the cause of the sickness
This, it is said, "proves that tyrotoxicon is
due to the decomposition of milk and may
be developed in any milk which is kept in
impure atmosphere or unclean vessels. The
germ seems to multiply very rapidly, and
small amount of tainted milk will poison
whole can. 1t is DR.. Vaughn's theory that
tyrotoxicon has much to do with cholera in
fantum, the symptoms Of which are similar to
the symptoms of cheese poisoning
At Milwaukee, on Saturday, Judge Sloan
delivered an opinion on the motion to quash
the indictment of Robert Schilling, State Or
ganizer of the Knights of Labor. who is on
trial ON the charge of conspiracy and making
threats in connection with boycotts. Tn.
Judge ruled ssthat since Schilling threatened
to put the vast machinery of the Knights of
Labor in operation to prevent the public from
patronizing the firm boycotted he injured the
firms income, which was as much property
as machinery or buildings, and that to attempt
to dictate 10 them against their will whom to
employ or discharge was a parallel offence,
All organizations of the kind seeking to inter
fere with the business of manufacturers or
others are not in accordance with law. La
borers or capitalists may organize for their
own protection, but have no right to take the
aggressive. In our social and industrial life
and our government the Socialist, the Anar-
chist and the boycott have no place."