The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-05-26
News of the Week.

Virginia town elections on Thursday went
largely Democratic, the city of Petersburg for
the first time in IA years.
The post-office at Attleborough, Massachu-
sets, was robbed of $1,000 worth Of stamps
early Tuesday morning.
On Monday barn in Chicago was burned
and 20 horses were suffocated. Two families
living over the barn were rescued by the fire.
men.
Horace Ellis, Is years of age, fell upon the
saw in mill at Hewittville, New York, on
Monday. His head was severed from his
body.
An attempt was made on Sunday night to
burn the town of Anderson, South Carolina.
Two dwellings and two large stables were
set on fire. The stables were destroyed.
The ]. Lusk Canning Company of San
Francisco, which made an assignment recent
ly, filed an inventory on Tuesday showing
liabilities of S254, 900; assets, $4,000
The safe in Rothschild's clothing store, in
Davenport, Iowa, was blown open by bur-
glars Tuesday morning, and $500 in gold and
valuable papers taken. A clerk who slept in
the store was bound and gagged by the bur-
glars.
A telegram from Pittsburg says the iron
manufacturers of Mahoning Valley had form
ed combination ''to advance their mutual
interests The Iron Manufacturers Associa-
ton has included in its membership every
manufacturer of Iron and Steel in The Mahon-
ing Valley.
Lizzie and Lena Baker, aged II and Is
years, were struck by lightning while playing
on the common at st. Joseph, Mo-, on We'd
from their bodies. Lena was not hurt in the
least, but Lizzie was so badly shocked that
her life is in danger.
The attempts that were made Saturday
night TO burn st. Vincent's Orphan Asylum
at San Rafael, CAL, were renewed Tuesday
night and Wednesday morning. The asylum
has within its walls about 600 orphans. The
fire in each case was started by one or more
of the boys in the building in order to escape.
The first regular service of the German
Baptist Conference of the United States was
held at North Manchester, Indiana, on Satur
day. James Quinter, editor of the Gospel
Messenger, of Huntingdon, Penna., and Pres
ident of the Normal College at that place,
was stricken with apoplexy while leading the
assemblage in prayer and died almost instant
ly. He was born in 1916.
Union Sunday School festival was held
at the Fair Grounds in st. Louis on Saturday.
Over twenty thousand children were present.
There were fireworks, music, parades, games
and all manner Of amusements. This is said
to have been the largest gathering of Sunday
school children ever held in America, and
the beginning of a series of festivals to be
held annually hereafter in all large cities.
The rulings of Judge Cunningham in the
johnson county circuit, in Arkansas, on Sat
urday, were unsatisfactory to Attorney A. P.
McKinnon, who took exceptions to them.
He refused to sit down, and when the Judge
fined him $50 dispute followed, during
which McKinpon cut the Judge about the
face and neck with knife, inficting danger
Gus wounds. McKinnon was arrested.
Saturday was the last day of the Interna-
tional drill and State capital celebration in
Austin, Texas. There was sham battle in
the afternoon. During a cavalry charge
Charles Waters and L. Reynolds were thrown
from their horses, trampled upon and badly
injured. The celebration closed with dis
play of fireworks. In the interstate contest
the Houston Light Guards took the first prize
of $4,000.
The most novel train ever seen in Illinois
passed through that State on Tuesday from
Cairo 10 Rockford. 1t was lot of Sunday
schools, and a Sunday school convention on
wheels and in active operation as it traversed
the prairies and forests of the State. 1t con-
SlolCu vi lNcutJ Cdlo, anu GhSh Nai hhu ITO
superintendent, secretary, treasurer, and Choir
lister, with William Reynolds of Peoria as
general superintendent. For every car there
was a complete programme, with music, les
sons, and speech making. Every car was
handsomely decorated with banners.
The Womens Christian Temperance Union
of Monroe county, New York, has presented
Mrs. Cleveland with an elegant Griffith Club
microscope and accessories, in recognition OF
her temperance views. The microscope,
which was made especially for the gift and
is of the finest workmanship, was sent to
Washington by express, and bears on a silver
plate the following inscription: "To Mrs.
Frances Folsom Cleveland, Presidents Man
sion, Washington. From the w. c. I. U. OF
Monroe county, New York, in appreciation
of her total abstinence principles. Mrs. h.
H. Griffith Fairport, New York, President;
Mrs. H. A.. Perrigo, Brockport, New York,
Secretary"
Last November Simon Hamburg and an
accompice sold to man named Parker, an
Oregon farmer, certain real estate in San
Francisco to which they had no title. Parker
paid them $1,000. When recently the title to
the property was found to be defective Ham
burg entered a plea that he sold under a
belief that the title was perfect, and would
not refund the money. Hamburg's accom-
plice confessed that Hamburg deliberately
planned to rob Parker. The jury found
verdict of guilty. The Judge regretted that
the offence was only misdemeanor in Cali
fornia, but sentenced Hamburg to one years
Imprisonment and to pay fine of $4,000,
and that in default of payment of the fine, he
be further imprisoned at the rate of one day
for each dollar If the fneis not paid, Ham
burg will have to serve altogether SO years
and 20 days.
Sumner C. WEIGH, claim settler for the
Chicago City Railway Company, is on trial in
Chicago for alleged jury fixing. On Tuesday
H. E. Bond, formerly employed as q, clerk
by the company testified that it had been
part of his duties for long period to get as
quainted with jurors and witnesses and intro
duce them to WEIGH The latter had regular
ly furnished him money to spend with jurors
and others in saloons. In one instance,
when there was no other resource, WEIGH
had solicited him to go on the stand and
testify in case about which he knew moth
ing. WEIGH outlined the. testimony desired.
John S. Newton went before the Grand Jury
on Tuesday and testified that WEIGH and
William Starkey, attorney for the company,
had paid him money as juror to help throw
a verdict for the street railway company, ana
when the present investigation began wanted
him to leave town, offering him S4O0 -
penses.