The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-02-20
News of the Week.

hey west mas lol clB1f lacIOrleS. each cHl
ploying from 10 to 800 hands.
The Senate of Kentucky has passed bill
establishing a whipping post for wife beaters
A contract to build S3,0O0,000 railway
bridge in Australia has been awarded a Bnf-
falo firm.
Twelve crews located on the beach al
Northampton, Long Island. have caught So
600 Goldfish this winter.
Count de Lesseps arrived Thursday morn
ing at Colon, and was welcomed by the entire
official staff of the Panama Canal Company.
The shortage in the account of S. B. Ster-
ling, ex-Treasurer of Rockingham county,
Virginia, will, it is now thought, approximate
100000.
The latest reports from Florida are 10 the
effect that in many of the orange growing
districts no material damage was done by the
cold snap.
A slight earthquake shock was felt last
Saturday, at daybreak, along the Tombigbee
river in Sumpter, Marengo and Choctaw
counties, Alabama.
The earthquakes at Amatitlan, Guatemala,
continue, and the very few houses that es-
capped ruin by the first heavy shocks are now
shattered and uninhabitabe.
A severe thunder storm visited Halifax,
Nova Scotia, on Monday night. St. Andrew s
Presbyterian Church had both its steeples
badly damaged by lightning.
Miss Margaret Ann Salisbury, the only
sister of Senator Salisbury, died Wednesday
afternoon at her brother residence in Dover,
Delaware, at the age of 81 years.
st. Hedwig's Polish Church, in Toledo,
Ohio, the scene of more or less religious
trouble during the last three years, was de-
stroyed by an incendiary fire Thursday night.
Anna Webster, of Morgan county, Ohio,
was Thursday awarded So, 400 damages in her
suit against George Williams, of Morgan
county, Ohio, for breach of promise of mar
riage, at Columbus, Ohio.
George Q. Cannon, the Mormon leader,
was arrested at Winnemuca, Nevada. on
Saturday afternoon, and taken to Salt Lake
City, to answer the charge of polygamy. He
had been in hiding for nearly year.
A miner named Perry, who had killed
another miner named Gleason, in a dispute
about the payment of debt of five dollars,
was taken from the Jail at Red Cliff, Colorado,
on Sunday night, and lynched by mob
The wife of Henry I. Kirk, a well-to do
farmer of Hendricks county, Indiana, COM
mitted suicide on last Friday by pouring coal
oil over her head and clothes and setting it
on fire. She had showed symptoms of in
sanity.
Gov. Lee, of Virginia, on Thursday sent
message to the General Assembly of that
State recommending the appointment of
commission to endeavor to get the States
creditors to accede to the debt settlement
already made.
An epidemic of scarlet fever. which began
last December, at Shenandoah, Pa, continues
without abatement. More than 200 children
have died of the disease within the last two
weeks, and there are now more than 100
cases in the town.
The body of Rev. Jesse B. Brady, of Nor
tonville, Kentucky, was found in the river at
Carondelet, near st. Louis, on Tuesday after
noon. Letters found upon him indicated that
he had committed suicide through fear of the
result of an investigation of his private habits.
By an accident on the Ohio Central Rail-
road, near Point Pleasant, West Virginia, on
Tuesday night, two passengers. named Searles
and Humphreys. were killed. and several
others were slightly injured. The passenger
car fell into q stream and the passengers were
drenched.
A fire at Lancaster, South Carolina, on
destroyed the Crockett House. two
stores and building occupied by two fami-
lies. The fire was started by man named
Odurnier, who went to bed drunk with
matches in his pockets. His body was found
in the ruins.
The Mccormick Reaper Works, at Chicago,
were closed on Tuesday morning, throwing
of the works was due to demand upon Mr..
Mccormick to which he refused to submit,
for the discharge of some non-union men en-
ployed in the moulding department.
A fire in St. Georges, Ontario. early on
Saturday morning, destroyed Cummings
Hotel, the Masonic Hall and two stores,
causing loss of $4,000. Two boarders in
The hotel were burned to death, and several
persons were injured by falling walls.
Thomas M. Jackson, colored, recently
found frozen in his hut in the hills of Union |
township. Berks county, Pa, died on Tues
lay. 1t is said there is undoubted evidence |
hat Jackson was 127 years of age. Over 10 !
years ago he was in the employ of General
Jackson, on the latter's plantation in Tennes-
see.
A colored resident of jackson county, Ga,
whose propensity for stealing was so great as
% much annoy, not to say cause serious loss |
o his neighbors, awoke the other morning |
md found coffin, on which was painted |
rec and rope, in front of his door. He took |
Known.
The funeral of General Hancock took place |
IN Saturday, the funeral services being held |
n Trinity Church, New York. After the /
services the body was taken to Jersey City !
lad thence on the Pennsylvania Railroad to
Norristown, where it was inferred. Every
where thousands ofpeople watched the solemn
procession, and the obsequies were attended |
~ delegates from military associations and by
citizens.
John B. Mannix, ex-assignee of the estate
IF Archbishop Purcell, was arrested in Gin
,innati on Saturday on charge of having
.mbezzled $3.50, 900 of the estate. He was
committed in defanlt of $110, 900 bail. Some
ime ago an examination into Mannix's man.
gement of the affairs of the Arehbishop's
state revealed the fact that large sum had
,een lost in purchase of stock which after
yard deprecated in price.
John B. Cough, the famous temperance lec-
urer, died on Thursday afternoon at the house
f Jacob Wagner, in frankfort, suburb of
where he was taken after being
tricken with paralysis while leeturing on
donday. He was unconscious from the time
# attack. Mr.. Cough was a native of Sand
ate, England, and was born ON the 22d of
august, 1917. His father was common
older in the British army.
The Treasury Department has redeemed
bout So, 500, 900 of the bonds embraced in
he 1921 call for $4,000, 900 three per cents,
fhieh matured on the list inst. About $780,
90 of the bonds embraced in the 133d. call
or O,000, coo, which natures March LIST,
ave already been received for redemption.
t is expected that another call for S1O,000,-
90 three per cent. bonds will be issued about
he end of the month to mature April LIST.
George G. Bates, one of the organizers of
he Wing party, died in Denver, Colorado,
n the 18th, aged II years. He was born in
Jew York, but emigrated West in early life
lie was delegate in the National Conven-
ions which nominated Harrison and Clay;