The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-10-20
News of the Week.

Key. NJ. Strauss a clergyman, from Glnclnuulf
Ohio, committed suicide in Central Park, New York
ON Monday afternoon, by blowing out his brains.
Captain Samuel Brooks of th e Guon steamer Arr
IONA on the oth inst begins his 6O0th trip across the
Atlantic He is in his 5Sth year, and has followed
the sea since 1915.
The total value of our exports of domestic bread
stuffs during the nine months which ended on Sep
TENDER 30h last was sSl 259 49, against Sl29 GA
during the corresponding period of 1887
A block of seyen,story buildings in Buchanan
opposite were destroyed by fire on Sunday. The
loss is 100000 Four firemen were injured.
Two thousand miners employed by the Conoba
miles from Brmins CHAIN, Alabama, have gone on
strike against reduction from 80 to 40 cents per
ton.
In Salem, N j., living within thirty feet of each
other, are four persons whose ages aggregate 3Sf
years. They are Peter Lakewood. 96 years old;
JOB Simpkins IS; Henry Dobson lO2 and the latters
wife, 9S years
Minnie Boyd. aged years was burned to death
in Mexico Missouri last week, her dress having
two baby sisters The father was at work and the
mother away from the house at the time.
Calvin NJ. Dellinger, charged with the murder of
his l9year-old wife, Mary, whose body was found
on the banks of Conestoga creek. i'll Lancaster
county, Penna. was discharged from custody on
Wednesday for want of evidence against him.
John Wentworth, better known as "Long John"
died i'll Chicago on Tuesday morning. lie was one
of the oldest residents of Chicago. and in his day
was Mayor of the city, Congressman and editor of
the principal daily paper. He was 13 years of age.
Rev John Hagen, the eminent German Jesuit
astronomer and mathematician, member of the
Royal mathematical Society of Berlin, has been
appointed to the chair of Astronomy and director
ship of the Observatory in the Georgetown Univer-
sity, District of Columbia.
Mrs. William Morse, of Pawtueket, Rhode Island,
who was confined in an insane hospital, was found
Monday morning by her husband in room adjoin-
ing their bed chamber in her night clothing, envel
oped in flames. The flames were smothered, but
the woman died in few hours.
The warehouses of the Standard Oil Company al
Duluth, Minnesota, were destroyed by fire on Tues
dav inc with ho of oiI md nm nil
train which had just been switched in The loss is
estimated at Sl50O00 with no insurance. Sparks
from locomotive started the fire.
The grand jury, at Rawlins, Wyoming Territory,
has found twenty-one indictments against conduc
! tors and brakemen on the Union Pacific Railroad.
freight trains are accused of robbing the of
valuable merchandise in transit.
While Mrs. William Morgan sitting in her
with her six months old infant in her lap, her six
year old son, Willie, pointed a gun at her The
weapon went off filling the heads and shoulders of
both mother and infant with shot
The exports of beef and hog products from the
United States during the month of September
amounted to So 1863 and for the II months ended
September 3Oth 27,7l9. The exports of dairy
products for September amounted 10 S959.390, and
for the months ended September SOth, s6,467,2n.
The surviving veterans of the Sixth Pennsylvania
Cavalry on Sunday dedicated thei monument OF
the battlefield of Gettysburg 1t is on the Emmtts-
| burg road, about one mile south of Round Top The
monument is of granite, about u feet high, and
very massive. Lances III bronze adorn the corners
of the die.
In 1886 Robert j. Smith. of Jcssup, Georgia, was
murdered by Lewis Edwards, colored, who was
| sentenced to imprisonment for life. His attorney
secured new trial, and the case was to have been
| begun Monday. On Sunday night party of
masked men entered the Jail and shot Edwards
| dead.
| Chesley Heal died on Saturday near Camden
| Maine, aged 100 years. He was penSioner of the
war of 1872 During the last u years of his life he
| had never been out of the house. His longevity
was partly attributed to the strength of his lungs
onH &c rOnl6 easily hpa
| for distance of a mile.
James Rowe, who lives in Mahomet Illinois,
accused his son George, Is years old with stealing
cigars from show case on Tuesday. quarrel re-
suited and the father threw a scale weight at his
| son, who thereupon drew revolver and shot his
| father in the neck. 1t is thought the wound Will
prove fatal.
The Grand Jury of St. Clair county. Illinois, has
returned an indictment charging Clovis Soucy, ex-
Supervisor of Cohokia township, with the embez
Element of $4,000. Soucy is one of the best known
! men in the county. 1t is averred that he has been
short the above for several years but the facts
were not discovered until few weeks ago.
Among the immigrant arrivals on the steamship
| Spain at New York ON Wednesday, party of des
| titute men and women, who had been sent over by
| the Duke of buckingham from England Work was
slack on the other side, and the Duke was appealed
none had money. The whole party will be returned.
The veterans of the 1S6th New York Infantry on
| Tuesday, dedicated their monument at Gettysburg,
on the 1aneytown road in the rear of the National
Cemetery. The monument is about ten feet high, OF
4 granite, and has as cap piece a tree trunk, on
! which are cut the accOutrementS ana q drum me
regiment belonged to the Eleventh Corps and lost
| 100 men at Gettysburg.
About dozen women were taken TO Grand Forks
| Dakota, under arrest from Thompson, on Tuesday
1t appears that all other attempts to close the sd
| looms in Thompson having failed mob of women
tore out the bars and spilled the liquor on the
| ground. For this they were arrested. All wore
| white badges, land spent their time on the train
singing temperance songs
The Farmers and Merchants Bank in Pittsburg
closed its doors on Saturday. The cause of the
pension is not known. The bank had capital of
Upon am ts S e %
deposits of 100000 and the individual ledger S3l9
| COZ, a difference of S2l5OOO The, books have not
| been examined for ten years and it is not known
where the money has gone.
I APennsylvania Railroad fast freight train struck
the caboose of gravel train on the Pottsville Divi
| sion of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, on Tuesday
morning near Tamanend. The caboose contained
number of Hungarian laborers, six of whom were
| killed and &c injured, two of them dying while be-
| ing conveyed TO the hospital at Ashland. The re-
sponsbty for the disaster is said to rest upon the
shoulders of fagman who failed to flag the freight
train in time.
At Ephrata, Lancaster county, Pa, on Tuesday
morning, one of the historic buildings of the once
fiourishing German Baptist community was totally
DESTROYED by fire. The building one of a num-
Der by Conrad Beisel founder OF this strange
Community, $50 years ago and occupied by men and
tiers" and had everything in common. The COM
munity has long since died out, but the buildings
have been maintained because OF their historic ill.,
terest. No insurance.
A Washington despatch says that Cesar Celso
Moreno has just received letter from California
stating that on ranch near Cloverdale. i'll that
State there are employed about 100 Italians, who
were imported under contract by San Francisco
druggist named Zabaldano, It is said that induce.
ments of fabulous gains and of interests in the gold
mines of Sonoma comfy were held out TO the peo-
ple who were well-to-do viticultursts in the Pied
mont district of Northern Italy They are now COM
PEELED to work is hours day for the of $50 per
month, without board.
The United Boss Bakers Association of New York
on Monday raised the price of loaves of bread form
ery sold at cents TO cents and the cent loaYest to
g. owing to the advance in wheat proportionate
increase was made in the price of rolls. Subse
ouently the executive board of the Journeyman
bakers Union met and decided that the action of
the bosses was the first step toward forming bread
trust and urged all working people not TO patronize
shops where an increase in prices was made. 1t
was determined to call mass meeting to discuss
the bread question.
When train from Weehawken reached point
in the West Point tunnel where the roof is being re-
haired on Tuesday night u large mass of rock and
earth came down on the baggage and express cars
crushing them and suddenly stopping the train
Nobody was injured. The damage 10 the tunnel is
ereat and il will be fully week before it can be
Used. The tunnel runs under the parade ground Of
the United States Military Academy, which is $50
feet above. The cave is beneath Gallows Hollow,
and there the surface of the ground for the diane
ter of 50 feet in extent, sank down 50 feet
Lightning performed singular freak among the
cattle of Washington Schmeck, farmer residing in
Ruscumb Manor Township, Berks county. Pa, last |
week. The fluid passed down the lightning rod on |
the stable until near the ground, when il passed
cows in STALL Then the lightning passed through
a heap of straw but did not ignite it. On the oppo-
site side of the stable six cows chained and
from the first every other COW was struck by the |
bolt and killed 1t passed out through the wall |
again. and Holstein bull was made victim. The !
stone wall was scarcely injured.
The General Land Office Saturday received |
information of the conviction of Charles L. Beach |
for subornaton of perjury in connection with the |
entry of large body Of redwood timber land in |
California consisting of 81 COO acres, bearing timber
of the estimated value of S1l,0O0000 A syndicate |
composed chiefly of foreign capitalists, organ
lied it is said for the purpose of securing title to
this valuable tract from the Government, and the |
attempt was made TO do SO by means of fraudulent |
entries About three hundred and sixty such entries
were made embracing about one hundred and sixty /
acres each. OF these entries many have been held |
cancellation and steps being taken to
forfeiture to the Government in the other cases,
Rev. Dr. Beale NJ. Schumacher, pastor of the Lu-
theran Church of the TRANSPORTATION of Pottstown,
Pa. died on Monday morning of heart disease, on
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad train, near
Phenixville, while on his way to Philadelphia,
aged IS years He was member of the Pennsylva-
mia Historical Society, member of the Board OF
Trustees of Muhlenberg College, Secretary of the
Board of Directors of the Lutheran Theological
Seminary and Secretary of the Board of Foreign
Missions of the General Council of the Lutheran
Church in America. Dr.. Schumacher was profound
thinker and one of the most learned theologians in
the Lutheran Church in America. He was the
author of several church works and authority on