The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-09-08
News of the Week.


interests at Vancouver, b. G.
The recently inundated city OF Leon, in Mexico, is
again suffering from heavy rains and floods.
food destroyed $50 houses aud drowned Is per
sons in the town of Mayosagor. Japan, on August s.
Carl Bauer one of the oldest German editors in
this country, died at Milwaukee Wisconsin, on Sat
urday night.
A telegram from Montgomery. Alabama. on Tues
day, says rains during the past week have done
much damage to open cotton. Some corn is also
ruined
Heavy rims throughout Mexico have greatly
damaged the crops. Washouts on the Mexican
Interrationul Railroad interfered with the regular
running OF trains.
Jules List Secretary of the Duckworth Building
Association in Cincinnati. has stolen $4,000 of the
money of members List used the money in fast
living, and is now in hiding
The public debt statement issued on Saturday
showed that the reduction of the public debt during
in the Treasury was S646,9I3,447
The Ohio Centennial Exposition in Columbus.
intended TO show the growth and development OF
the State in the first hundred years of its history,
opened on Tuesday under favorable auspices.
The receipts of wheat in Minneapolis for the crop
year ending August Sist were Aagsaso as AGAINST
exceeded the whole wheat crop of Minnesota.
A y-fve-thousand-barre oi-tank in Gygnet,
Ohio, exploded on Saturday. and the oil was scat
tered in all directions. Bert Wcincke, who was
holding lantern when the tank burst, was burned
to death.
1t is reported that Saturday nights frost disas
River valley, Minnesota, while in Michigan the
frost has badly injured the and entirely ruined
the buckwheat.
S. Morris Wales of Philadelphia and Charles
Livingstone Strong, of New York, prominent and
wealthy young men. were found murdered on the
plains in wyoming Territory, where they had been
on a hunting trip.
There will be a cavalry reunion at Gettysburg on
the Goth inst 10 assist in establishing Farnsworths
line of battle, along which the Battlefield Memorial
Association will open an avenue from Round Top
to the Emmitsburg road
William Rose, of Bradford, Pa. while acting as
pall-bearer at the funeral of an uncle in Buffalo
Saturday fell unconscious to the floor of the church
1t was supposed he tainted, but when physicians
arrived the young man was dead.
John Schaffer. President of the Jewett County
National Bank at Argenda, Kansas has disappeared.
and the bank has been closed by the sheriff and
Schafer's property attached. 1t is alleged that he
uttered a quantity of forged paper.
While working the street in Duluth, Mime
sofa, several days ago, stream Of water from by;
drant struck Gabriel Marllo in the face and knocked
his false teeth down his throat He died on Satur-
day from hemorrhage following their removal.
The Young Mansion, at City View or Giesboro
Point, an excursion resort on the Potomac river.
about two miles below Washington. D. c.. was burned
Tuesday evening The house, it is said, erected
early in the present century by Washington Young
E. A. Munsell, a young lawyer of Fort Scott Kan
swallowed pin on August &c. 1t gave him no
trouble until Sunday week, when he complained of
mains in the stomach The following Tuesday he
was taken seriously i'll with peritonitis and Sunday
morning he died.
Sterling P. Taylor, aged q, shot and fatally
wounded his step-father. Eli Dickinson, aged IS
years in Wilmington, Delaware, oil Tuesday. Tay-
Tor charged that Dickinson criminally intimate
with his step-daughter Florence Taylor, and this
caused the shooting.
B. Frank Baker, aged 10 years, was killed in Nor
rstown, Penna., early Tuesday morning, while
sleep-walking. He climbed out of a window to a
fourth-story roof and walked along the gutter, a
distance f69 feet, when he fell to an awning below,
a distance OF % feet.
During last week 5s4 Cinnamon arrived at Van
CONVEX British Columbia their ultimate destination
evidently being the United States 1t is estimated
that during the present year the Chinese population
of British Columbia has sent 5000 persons to the
American side of the line
A waterspout burst on Friday of last week along
the line OF the Cincinnati and Southeastern Rail-
road in Kentucky between Flemingsburg and Hills
boru washing out trestlng and bridges and causing
the discontinuance of trains The tobacco planters
along the track suffered great loss,
The Changers Exhibition at Williams Grove. Pa.
was closed at noon on Saturday. 1t was the most
successful exhibition ever held, both financially and
in attendance, During the week over 100000 per-
sons were in attendance. An exhibition will be
held next year at the same place.
Heavy rains have caused serious damage to the
crops in the Chattahoochie valley Georgia. The
| low water mark, and many large plantations are
inundated The Eagle and Phoenix mills in Col
umbus have been compelled to shut down.
! Dr. Gray OF Palatka Florida, the surgeon for one
of the florida railroads was in Chicago Tuesday
He said that yellow fever would reach St. Augustine
without doubt in few days and in his opinion, it
would spread throughout the entire South. He has
no hopes of a cessation of the plague until frosts
| come In November.
Reports received from various parts of Arkansas
complain of having too much rain. Many of the
cotton fields that two weeks ago gave promise of
fair harvest are now impossible on account of mud
and water. Picking, which was about to be begun,
has been indefinitely postponed, The halfgrown
bolls are nearly all rotting and shedding.
The paraders in the Labor demonstration at Cleve-
land, ohio, adjourned to garden Tuesday even
a red flag They were attacked by number of
traIn mil cd nndpF a
were arrested on the charge of riot The Others
escaped.
Rev. James S. Greene nearly 50 years of age, and
Church in Chicago was evicted from the Grand
Pacific Hotel of that city on Monday night, where
he occupied quarters with an innocent bride, on the
charge of bigamy, preferred against him by his
legal wife, who, it is stated, left him short time
ago in fear of her life.
Louis Larsen, workman for Crane Bros Chicago
erawed into an iron cylinder used for the piston of
a hydraulic elevator for the purpose of cleaning 1t
on "Wednesday; ne sook ;hgnIea candle de- and
infammable gas. An explosion followed, aud the
man was enyeloped in flames, which burned him
death. Owing to his situation ii was impossible
to help him,
A heavy stoFEs visited Hot Springs. Arkansas late
on Thursday night of last week, Several buildings
Mere swept away aid Mrs. Matte Fletcher and her
four children, eolored. were drowned, and a woman
named Harrison was killed by the collapse of a
building Several Others, whose names were not
learned, were lost. The victims were poor people
living in small cottages, which could not stand
against the Storm
William A. Swart L. II. Jobnston and Elijah
Becker respectively President teller and solicitor
of the savings bank Ut Rosalnd, Illinois, were miss
g on Monday together VIII " az the funds Of the
suburb Of Chicago and has population of 1000.
nearly all HollanderS, swart was one of the young
etc. and offered high interest for the use Of his
neghhors' money.
A Mr.. Sullivan, living near Nevada, NO., is hay
ing peculiar and painful experience it is reported
as ono of the immediate results of the recent hail
and wind storms in that locality. He had a COW
The next day he skinned her and his hogs deyoured
the carcass. Since then the hogs have all died
Their mouths sweiied until they could neither eat
nor drink, Mr. Splliysns arms also swelled alarm
jlgly, and the doctors say they will have to be
While John Baker was feeding threshing ma
chine on farm near Guide Rock, just over the
Nebraska line. near Argenda, Kansas, on Saturday
he was accidentally cut on the hand by the band
boy IA b rage d he ,g Fasd the lad and and deb
screams attracted the attention Of the other hands,
but before they cGni ~ interfere the boys body had
seized Baker and hanged him to a straw carrier
The boy was cut to pieces,
The. Manufacturers Record Of Baltimore. Nd,
says that in 1880 the South had 26l2 miles of rail-
t present Tina has S sniies costing 81 80 70 COO ga
m Invested in railroads. It IS said that IN the
growth of the iron interests has had marked effect
the South viii make 600 tons of pig iron against
1877 Sol tons in 1880 The traffic in coke ore and
iron developed by this business will furnish South
ern railroads In 1880 over 1900 900 tons of freight
which is equal ~ volume TO the entire wheat crop
Of the country and seven times as great as the cotton
CROP
A despatch received in Kansas City, Missouri. on
Monday, from Paladora. in the public land strip
says that the farmers and herdsmen of that section
who had lost many horses and cattle recently sus-
pected band of campers who claimed 10 DO catch
ing wild horses, and finding evidence Of guilt forty
well armed vigilantes surrounded the camp and
sent in q compiittee Of six men TO demand the sur
render at The thieves The reply of the desperadoes
was Voliey, which wounded one man and two
horses. This angered the vigilantes and firing was
81 once oegun ana me out QUIZ , We're SAot Gown
quarter asked or given, In u minutes the firing
ceased. and IL outlaws were found to have been
killed. Tho pigilantes had three men killed and
nine Wounded Two horses were also killed and
seven wounded Sixteen stolen horses were recov-
cred Not one outlaw escaped alive.