The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-10-06
News of the Week,


On Sunday l46s immigrants landed in New York.
Typhoid fever is prevailing at Duluth, Minnesota
and many deaths have occurred
Fifteen hundred coal miners in Macopin, Madison
and ST. Clair counties, Illinois. are on strike.
Owing to the squeeze in wheat at Chicago
number Of failures occurred in that city and else
where.
A trust has been formed by cabbage growers in
Northwestern Ohio TO put up the price OF cabbageto
) cents head In the fields.
The railroad ticket brokers in Chicago have been
swindled 10 the extent Of about S2oOO0 by man anu
woman who sold them forged tickets.
Henry Fitch Democratic candidate 70 State
Senator from orrford, New Hampshire. was thrown
from wagon and killed on Saturday
The British steamship Edwin sailed from Phila-
delphia for Londonderry on Monday Win y-'si6
bushels of whcsl, equal TO about 155 car loads.
Snow fell TO the depth of two inches at White
Haven, Pa, on Tuesday. and at Ishpeming, Miehi-
gan it fell for six hours. Much suffering is reported
The Traders Bank, of Chicago has failed and
gave bond for $4,000. The liabilities are nearly
Mrs. Lizzie Dewolf Prince died of yellow fever in
Rockford. Illinois, on Saturday. She went there
a few days previous from Decatur, Alabama, where
her husband died.
Charles A. Breitinger, aged about 30 years, COM
taking morphia Worry over lawsuit is supposed
TO have prompted the act
The celebration of the Golden Jubilee of Pope Leo
wcm Sag VIM Sf be srn n Of 5ra M
for the souls in purgatory.
Kentucky claims to have the largest man ia the
world, one Hansen Craig. who weighs 1872 pounds
He is an abnormal expansion of avordupois. His
mother weighed but l22 pounds and his father but
lis.
The Italians and Irish who have been at work on
hada general row on Sunday night. in which knives
were freely used. Seven men were badly cut, one
il is feared fatally.
In the Ohio Methodist Episcopal Conference. in
mi MOnlQy. Rev. w. III.
was tried on the charge of immortality while pastor
at Chillieothe. was expelled from the Conference
and from the Church.
All the window glass factories in the Western As
ISOLATION % in number, resumed operations Mon
day morning. after the usual summer suspension Of
six weeks. Thirteen hundred men found employ
ment in Pittsburg alone.
Snow fell throughout Northern New Hampshire on
Saturday right At Woodsville il was half an inch
Vermont ON Sunday and at Wilmington the tenn
perature fell TO 20 degrees.
In the clothing trade there are 2i1 manufacturers
in New York city, of whom 2A are Hebrew firms,
Over 600 600 cigars per annum are manufactured
in New York by Hebrew firms, employing over 5000
hands, and whose yearly transactions reach $4,000
600.
A light snow fell at Harrisonburg, Virginia. on
Saturday. The mountains are covered with it.
There was also light fall at Pulaski City. AT
Lynehburg there was heavy frost on Friday night.
and it is thought a great deal of tobacco has been
ruined.
Adam Lebr. a farmer, near Roekport, Indiana,
went to a neighbours house last Saturday night for
assistance in ease of sickness. He raped on a
window, and q boy inside installing him for a
burglar. fired heavy charge of shot into his face,
fatally injuring him.
The Governor of Missouri has appointed Samuel
Levi to be Associate Justice of the Court of Butts
county in place of T. J. Bosworth deceased. Judge
Levi who Is hebrew, is said to be the only one of
his race appointed to position OF any kind by q
Governor in Missouri.
The suit of Gen. Adam Badeau against the widow
of Gen. s. Grant, to recover for services al
was called for trial on Monday in the Supreme
Court, special term, in New York, but was adjourn
ed until the 10th inst
Ann Seaman, d years of age. being drunk. in
Hoboken, N j., on Tuesday cut her sons head with
q bowl, and attacked her husband with an axe.
Later while her husband was asleep. she tried to
stab him in the stomach but thick bed quilt saved
him. She was finally arrested.
George Bryson and woman claiming TO be his
wife went to Helena, Montana, several weeks ago,
from Minneapolis. They quarreled over $500 the
woman had in her possession. A short time ago the
woman disappeared and on Monday her body was
found with the skull crushed. Bryson is under
arrest.
william s. Darlington, well known young law
yer was found dead in bed at his home in Delaware
county, Pa. Monday morning he having committed
suicide by shooting himself in the head. he had
been charged with irTegularity in connection with
the recent oeomargarine cases and this it is belev
ed, caused his suicide.
At the instance of the Attorney General, writ of
quo warranto was granted by the Court in Harris
burg, Pa Saturday, citing various beneficial and
mutual insurance associations to appear on October
- and show by what authority they claim 10 make
contracts of insurance and to issue policies of insur
ance in pursuance thereof
In Chicago on Monday, Sam Woh, who has a
white wife, and who has heretofore been charged
with running sort of matrimonial agency to secure
white wives for Cinnamon, was in the Police Court
again and was held for the Grand Jury on a COM
plant of Mary Kee who claimed that Sam Woh had
been an accessory TO her abduction and subsequent
marriage to Chinaman.
The harvesting that is now under way of this sea-
sons yield of the wide onion growing belt west OF
the Hudson River, in New York, discloses the fact
that the crop is by far the largest raised in the
REGION and will probably aggregate 500 600 bushels.
OF this aggregate Orange County will supply about
and Sussex and Warren counties, N. j. 100000 bush
els.
The business failures throughoutthe United States
during the third quarter of the present year. accord
ing to K. G. Dun Co.. numbered SCI, with liabili-
ties aggregating S22000O00, The failures for the
third quarter OF 1857 numbered 1895 with liabilities
aggregating the enormous sum of SI3 COO 900. For
the nine months of 1883 the failures numbered 1850,
with liabilities of over S9000O000 as against $50
failures and S12SC000O0 of liabilities in the same
period of 1887.
The residents of Plains, three miles from Wilkes
barre, Pa, are in great alarm, owing to the subs-
dence of the ground in their town, on account of
eayeins in the Mill creek slope mine The cham
bers in the mines were crushing In and many build
ings in danger. The surface under the residence
of Edward Clark settled II feet nearly overurning
the building while his family were in it. All work
i'm the mine has been stopped. IL was caused by
SHINING the mine.
A telegram from Sanitac Michigan says terrible
storm ragged there on Monday night, Tuesday morn
ing the barge st. Clair was wrecked and four men
and one woman were. drowned. The Australia
went ashore at Holland Michigan, News was re-
ceived in Duluth that the schooner Brandon had
been lost that the schooner Jennie was adrift and
Forester of Port Huron parted her lines at Grind
stone City, on Monday night, and went to pieces
No lives were lost.
washoe Indian fired three shots from rife into
the town of Truekee California, on Sunday, from a
bluff, one striking a squaw. Citizens gave chase.
The Indian took refuge IN the rocks and endeavored
TO shoot the leader of the party, but he was shot
dead before he could fire. This tribe of Indians has
been troublesome Of late, and on Monday 1t was
learned that they have been securing liquor and
opium from Cinnamon. In the evening 800 citizens
waited on all the Chinaf1en and ordered them TO
leave town within "a hours Many left Immediately.
Policeman Frederick Conklin, of the thirty
second Precinct in New York, was on Monday dis
missed from the force as an exconvct and arrested
for perjury He was recognized by detective
named Campbell, as Frank Caseland," who, 10
womans pocket and sentenced to five years im-
prisonment- He was sworn in as policeman on
September 2, 1886 As Con kiln, before being placed
on the force had made oath that he had never been
indicted or convicted of any crime he was held to
answer for perjury.
On Tuesday 1t was believed In Minneapolis that
-four, which has advanced 50 within two months,
will reach $40 barrel. Charles A. Pillsbury head
OF the great milling firm, said: We have had quite
little squal in prices. but that is nothing to the
cyclone that is coming later on. Ny reason for this
belief Is the fact that there is not enough good mill
ing wheat in this country to supply our local demand
for good ours to say nothing OF the foreign demand
which cuts figure on the present crop. as no mat
ter how much they would offer for our -four, our
home trade must have 1t at higher prices.
Two years ago party of 10 men started from Al
buquerque, New Mexico, on a prospecting tour.
Near Fort Apache, Arizona, they were ambushed by
an Apache Indian of the San Carlos tribe, who shot
aud killed seven of the men and robbed their camp
The other men escaped. reward OF $1,000 was Of
fered by the Government for the capture of the
daring Indian, dead or alive Wednesday last half
breed was in the mountains. near Fort Apache,
when he discovered the Indians retreat Literally
dosing him with whisky. he got him in Q stupefed
condition. and then handed him over to the military
authorities at Fort Apache, This is the third time
within two years that he has been captured. Each
previous time he has managed TO escape, and this
time extra precautions will be taken,
The glass works at Dover Delaware, were burned
on Monday night, together with the stables the
Fairview Park Fair Grounds near by. The loss is
estimated at about so 900. fully insured. The fire
was of incendary origin. Warts furniture fEetpry
In Sturgis. Michigan, was burned on Monday night,
loss SIS 600; no insurance. The planning mill and
all the lumber left from the fire of last Friday at
Rome, Ohio were burned on Monday, this fire also
is supposed to have been of incendiary origin; the
total loss reaches S1T5 0 with about so coo in
surance The planning mill of Booth & Leas and
day The loss Is sS5An which is partially insured:
about 400 men are thrown out of work. Tho cottage
occupied by Peter Callahan and wife at Waukesha,
Wisconsin, was burned on Monday night, and Gala
han persisted In the flames. During the temporary
absence of g. 7. Williams and his wife from their
home In Parsons, Kansas, oil Sunday night, burn
ing lamp fell Into a crib upon sleeping baby;
Georgia Williams, years old. who was in the house
by herself secured blanket from an adjoining
room, pulled the baby from the blazing orb and