The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-05-15
News of the Week.

sOeed oysters 1or planting IN EngllSn ana
Irish waters have been going abroad at the
rate of from $50 to 200 barrels per day.
Dick Walker, colored, charged with crimi-
nal assault on young lady of Charlotte coun-
ty, Virginia, was taken from Jail and lynch
ed last week.
Frank Benoit's farm house near jackson,
Minnesota, was burned on Friday of last week,
aud his three children, aged from one to five
years, persisted in the flames.
A fire at Hull, Quebec, early on Sunday
morning, burned over an area of ten acres,
making $50 families homeless. The only
public building destroyed was the postofiice,
which cost about S250,000.
During camp meeting in johnson county,
Kansas, on Sunday, large tent was blown
down. Three persons-Mr. and Mrs. Jack
son and their infant-were killed and many
were slightly injured.
A series of resolutions looking towards
reunion of the two great branches of the
Methodist Episcopal Church have been in
troduced in the General Conference of the
Southern Methodists at Richmond.
The Democratic Convention of the Second
District of Louisiana on Saturday nominated
j. G. Beard for Congressman, to fill the va
cancy caused by the death of Michael Hahn.
There are two Republican nominees.
Five or six of the Anarchists who plGnder-
ed drug store in Chicago last week seized
bottle containing carbolic acid, and, thinking
it whisky, drank the contents. Two of them
were dead and three dying at last accounts.
The Court of Appeals of Virginia has sus-
tanned the court below in the case of Thomas
j. Cluverius, convicted of the murder of
Fannie Lillian Madison. Executive clemency
L ba orallouvc
The Reading Daily Times suspended last
Saturday rather than grant a demand of its
compositors for 20 per cent. increase of
wages and 'other demands of the unions cir
cular regulating the management of its bust
ness"
A fire at Honolulu, on April 18th, destroy
ed eight squares of buildings covering sixty
acres of the Chinese quarter. About 5000
persons were made homeless. The loss is es-
timated at 81, 100000, the insurance at $780,
900. Two lives were lost.
David Fisher, who died in Clermont coun-
ty, Ohio, on Monday, aged nnety-two, served
a term as Wing member of Congress from
1s47 to 1849. He occupied seat next to
John Quincy Adams, who fell into his arms
when stricken with paralysis.
William J. Blew died at the county hospi-
tai in Chicago last week, and the physicians
think his death was FASTENED if not caused,
by fright received while he was undergoing
mock initiation ceremonies in a new local
court of Foresters, which he Joined few
weeks ago.
Nineteen Socialists and Anarchists, includ
ing four ringleaders, were arraigned in Mil
waukee on Saturday morning, on charges of
riot and conspiracy to kill. Each was re-
manded in $1,000 bail. 1t is expected that
the Grand Jury to meet on the 18th inst.
will indict more than one hundred of these
people.
A missing merchant of Claremont, N. H.,
has been heard from by letter dated Lon
don, Eng, in which he explains that seven
weeks ago he found himself aboard an English
steamer, 12O miles out from New York, with
his baggage and 5000 in money all safe. but
he had no recollection of leaving New York
or how he got on the steamer.
The amount of contributions which have
already been received by the Treasurer of the
Policeman's Benevolent Fund, in Chicago, is
S33, 637. The money contributed by the
Board of Trade, the wholesale grocers, the
lumbermen and the metal workers has not
been received by the association. The total
amount will nearly reach $4,000.
The six-day bicycle race at Minneapolis,
Mimi, between Prince and Schock continues
to attract much attention from the fact that
both riders are far ahead of the best previous
records. Schock never leaves his wheel.
Prince lost little over a minute Wednesday.
Neither contestant shows any signs of wearing
out. The total score for three days is as fol-
lows: Prince, 545 miles 4 laps; Schock, 533
miles laps.
Some of the heaviest rain and hail storms
ever known in Kansas and Missouri fell in
those States on Thursday of last week, doing
great damage to property. The loss in
Springfield, Missouri, and the surrounding
country is estimated at Sll5,00es An ice
dam at Fort Scott, Kansas, broke and swept
a house some distance from its foundations,
drowning an infant. A mother and child
were drowned by water spout near Empo-
ria.
Memorial Day was observed in Danville,
Va, Monday, and the Confederate graves
were decorated. Near the Confederate mon
nment is the National Cemetery. All the
speakers spoke in complimentary terms of
the "Boys in Blue" who sleep under the
stars aud stripes That ''they did their duty
and fought for principle" was the sentiment
expressed After the speeches soldiers and
citizens marched through the National Gem
etery and decorated the graves of the Union
soldiers with flowers.
1t has now. been ascertained that of the
Polish and Bohemian rioters who drank sup
posed whisky when they sacked the drug
store in Chicago, on Wednesday of last week,
eight have died and four others are in dy-
ing condition. There are probably other
victims who will not be heard of. Itappears
that the principal drug swallowed by them
was wine of colchicum, which resembles
sherry, and has a strong smell of alcohol. 1t
IS an almost certainly fatal poison when
taken in quantities larger than teaspoonful.
A violent storm swept along the Cone
naugh Valley in Western Pennsylvania on
Monday night. Near Conemaugh, a num-
Der of empty freight cars, standing on siding,
were. blown over upon the main track. A
west bound freight train of rs cars, going at
A speed of 80 miles an hour, dashed into the |
at midnight. All the cars were |
smashed up, and Conductor Thomas Con-
nors, Engineer Thomas Mowray and Fireman
Michael Myers were killed almost instantly. |
The rest of the crew escaped with slight IN
uries All trains were delayed twelve |
hours.
From Glasgow, Scotland, comes a special
cable dispatch to the Nautical Gazette, which |
announces the construction on the Clyde of a
most formidable engine of war, which threat
Ems to annihiate every ironclad in the world, I
according to the claims of the inventors. Il |
S a vessel with speed of % knots, armed I
With Maxim guns, throwing 10 six-inch shots |
/ minute, and also shell containing 400 |
pounds of blasting gelatine, which can be
hurled 1900 yards. Each one of these
shells, the makers of this mysterious engine |
If naval warfare say, can wipe out of exist
,nce the largest ironclad afoat.
Another Socialist meeting was held in
Chicago on Sunday, at which the red flag was
displayed and incendiarism ventilated, but
he gang were cut short in their proceedings
~ the police. In a saloon under the hall
hree Anarchists who were cursing the laws
md the authorities, and who had their
pockets stuffed with Anarchist literature and
With lists of groups and organizers in
-arious parts of Ohio, Illinois and Massachu-
etts were arrested and taken to the station
louse A friend of one of the prisoners, who
allied to see why he had been arrested, was
Isked if he, too, was Socialist. He prompt
y avowed that he was, and was locked up
With his friend.
Miss Kate NJ Hastings, of Darien. Wis,
las filed rather singular bill in the United
states Circuit Court at Chicago against the
illinois Masons' Benevolent Society, to COM
,el it to pay her So, 900. She charges that in
November, 1884, Eugene H. Wright, her in
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