The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-10-27

strawberries for this year has just been gathered
In making fruits stuff their wallets the WaIa Wal
| LAWYERS can probably wallop creation.
VIM Rutan was arrested at Oxford Furnace New
| Jersey on Monday night, on the charge of having
stolen horses in Philadelphia and other points in
Pennsylvania. Rutan, who is about 80 years old
has been horse thief for 25 years He confessed to
| the officer and told him where some of the stolen
horses could be found.
An attempt was made OH Monday by incendiaries
| to destroy the Fontainebleau forest near Paris
France. Fires started in five different places
and were extinguished with great difficulty. large
quantity of forage was consumed The loss is 125O,-
| 600 francs Two men have been arrested on suspi-
! cion of having started the fires.
| wholesale system of freight robbery has been
discovered on the Mexican Central Railroad. and is
is believed the loss to the company will reach S50-
| OOO Three conductors, one brakeman and a former
4 agent of the company, all Americans, have been
| arrested. 1t is thought that number of other EN-
poyes will be arrested. The stealing has been car
/ ried on for the past two years.
A hail storm, accompanied by high gale ragged
in the vicinity of Chicago on Thursday evening of
\ last week. Sharp flashes of lightning and thunder
preceded the storm The hailsones shattered street.
lamps and electric light globes. The lighthouses in
the parks and those of florists were badly damaged
The rainfall amounted TO almost an inch, and the
| haistones were exceptionally large.
An express train on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road ran into an open switch near the depot in
week and was precipitated over trestie distance
| of ten feet James Noonan engineer, was killed,
and william McAniiiie a me fireman a was probably
Others were injured but none it is thought danger
| ousy.
Two colored men were discovered by policemen
| in Washington, ID. c., about O'Clock Monday morn
| ing carrying bag between them. As as they
saw the policemen they dropped the bag and fled,
after them. When the bag was opened it was found
TO contain the body of Charles l. Noel well-known
colored barber, who was buried the Wednesday pre-
| vious
telegram from Pittsburg says the outlook for the
steel rail business is Frightening. The Edgar Thorn
| son works have enough contracts to keep them in
operation the rest the year. The Eastern mills
are busy though those in the West have not succeed
| ed in Securing large enough contracts to ensure
steady running The selling price still ranges from
SIS to $40 though the indications point to slightly
| higher figures.
Adyices from the Snake River country received at
Cheyenne, Wy, state that f. W. Adams and COM
panion, known "Dutchy" were lynched. The two
men began wholesale slaughter OF deer and elk Tom
| johnson, a ranchman, reconstructed with them On
last Thursday night the hunters set fire to johnson s
ranch. Johnson gathered force of forty men, who
followed and caught Adams and "Dutehy" and han
ged them to tree.
While Charles and William Weller, miners, were
digging their way through the snow from La Junta
week a snow slide carried them 1900 feet down the
| mountain side. William dug himself out with a
cuing party alter two hours hard work, found the
dead body of Charles crushed under several hun
bred tons of snow and rocks.
The sufferers in Ramsey county, Dakota, are Pol
ish Jews who two years ago, formed a settlement
about is miles from DEVILS Lake. The settlement
| comprises 20 families numbering 23S souls. Their
in August and they are now without food, shelter.
clothing or fuel. Many described of naked
women and children existing in frost and snow.
Food clothing and money are urgently asked for.
Thomas Axworthy city treasurer of Cleveland
Ohio. has disappeared. and is reported to be de-
faulter for large amount 1t IS said the city will
lose nothing by his dishonesty. His bondsmen are
United States Senator Payne and j. H. Wade, Jr. and
they are pledged for S500O00 The deficit is stated
500 ss7. Ax%orthy owned large property in real
and personal estate and il is being attached by the
sheriff The defaulter who Is said to have with him
100000, is supposed TO be in Canada
A telegram from Los Angeles California saws
negotiations going on between the President of
the University of Southern California and Alva
Clarke of Cambridge. Mass for the construction of
42inch lens for the biggest telescope in the world
to be erected on one of the lofty mountains near
Los Angeles. Clarke says he can lake such a lens
in five years for 100000. 1t will be eight inches
larger than the Lick telescope and will bring the
moon within sixty miles of the earth.
George Williams colored and Charles CrandelI
white entered the house of Mr.. Schorowski, who
lives on farm near Durham Connecticut early
Tuesday morning, and; dragging Mrs schorowski.
assaulted her The old ladys husband, n years old
who tried to defend her. was hit on the head with
and CrandelI were found playing cards in an old
shanty in an unfrequened place, and were arrested
James E. Bedel, the clerk of the law firm of Ship
man. Barlow Larocque & Choate. who robbed his
employers clients of about S26i000 in fraudulent
Deeds was arraigned in the Court of General SEES
sions in New York, on Tuesday. There are II
indictments against him and he pleaded guilty TO
forgery in the first degree. He was remanded for
sentence He will be used as witness on the trial
alleged he spent $4,000 of the proceeds of his
theft.
The freight shipments have increased so largely
on the Pan Handle Railroad, according to despatch
from Pittsburg, that there is not enough motive
power to handle the business, and several locomo-
lives have been borrowed from the Fort Wayne
Road. All of the locomotive works 50 pushed
with orders that at present 1t Is almost impossible
for the railroads to place new contracts TIE shops
their utmost capacity turning out locomotives for
the Pennsylvania system.
General James Craig died suddenly in St. Joseph
Missouri, on Sunday night of cancer of the neck,
aged "A years, He sat in Congress with Thomas A.
Hendricks before the war; commanded the Union
forces at st. Joseph during the Rebellion; Cir
cult Attorney of the Plat purchase comprising ALL
Northwest Missouri was first President of the Han
across the State the first Comptroller of St. Joseph
and had occupied numerous other places of honor
and trust. He was a leading Democratic politician.
despatch from Potenza Italy on Sunday, says
that 10 cars of train crowded with excursionists
returning from the Naples fetes were crushed in
remote portion Of that district BY landslide con-
line being broken by the fall of rock help was de
layed two hours. The scenes that followed the dis
aster were horrible Seventy injured passengers and
90 corpses have been taken from the wreck. There
are still two cars buried beneath the rock, and it is
certain that the list of the dead will be increased
The work of excavation continues
There was heavy snow storm in northern Min
deep and in the woods back of Eli it lies u inches
on he level. There was no wind and no drifting
In northern Iowa there were slight urries of snow
but at no point is the depth reported more than two
inches and that melted. Some snow fell in central
Minnesota and northern Dakota on Saturday. but it
melted almost soon as 1t fell. Light snow fell at
Omaha Nebraska, an Sunday afternoon and night
Al no time was the ground covered as the particles
melted as soon they fell. Advices from points
along the Missouri river snow that the storm was
general.
The Supreme Court of the United States on Tues
day sustained the consttutonality ofthe prohibition
law of Iowa. The point at issue was the right to
manufacture intoxicating liquors solely for expor
tation to other States despite the State law, and it
was pleaded that the prohibitiory feature IN SO iar
was in conflict with the constitutional provisions
giving Congress the sole right to regulate
commerce The case was that of j. ). Kidd, distil-
Ter plaintiff in error, l. E. Pearson and S. J.
Loughras. The Court holds, in opinion by Justice
ufacture and the sale except for mechanical, medi
cinal culinary and sacramental purposes is not in
conflict with the interstate commerce provisions,
and the decision of the Iowa Court is sustained.
Francisco Iata, Natalie sabatano and Giuseppe Can
izzaro now in the Tombs If New York on suspicion
Of having been concerned in the murder of Antonio
Flacconio on the street near Cooper Union, about
ten days ago. have made confessions II appears
s sc;ay snown as the Maize which Furnishes BY
death any of its members who divulge its secrets or
give information to the police regarding me iden
fity of any of its members who have violated the
laws of the land Flacconio had done both. and
knew he was to die. He arranged with his son 10
carry on his business in of his sudden disap-
pearance ON Sunday October 14th he was enticed
into the Italian restaurant, at No. St Marks Place,
quarrel between him and Carlo Quarteraro. The
men Imprisoned swear they saw Carlo and Vincenzo
Ouarteraro follow Flacconio into the street Fran
that no sought TO prevent the murdert fineenzo
made lunge at Flao0onio, and lata dashed him
aside Carlo Qulrteraro then jumped forward and
plunged dirk into Flacconios breast There were
altogether nine Italians on the seene and all with
fhe exception Of Carlo returned to the restaurant
and took the oath Of secrecy Inspector Byrnes says
that several reputable Siclians have to belong 10
the aMafe' as matter of protection TO themselves
The police expect soon to have the murderer ana
his brothers under arrest.