The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-05-12
News of the Week.

| The membership OF the MetnOuiSt EpaRel
pal Church, in this country, now numb efE q
093, 1856.
Philadelphia has at present $500 SALOONS
After June l there will be only 1,e01s tn
result of high license.
Dr. Laurens P Hickok, President G
Union College, died in Amherst, Massachu
sets, on Sunday, aged SO.
Citizens of Louisville Tuesday subscribe,
5000, 900 to start a cotton mill there, and tn
work of erection will begin al once.
DIR. C. S. Muscroft, Sr., one of the oldes
physicians in Cincinnati, dropped dead Of
Saturday from paralysis Of the heart.
The unwilling of the monument to Stone
wall jackson, which was to have taken plac
at Charlottesville, Virginia, on May 10th
has been postponed to June 18th.
The wholesale commission house of w. 7
Coleman & Co., of San Francisco, California
made an assignment for the benefit of thei
creditors. Liabilities $4,000, 900, assets un
known.
A despatch from San Francisco says thu
rain which was general throughout the State
on Friday of last week, was worth millions o
dollars. The harvest will now meet reason
able expectations.
Adam Gets, So years of age, committed
suicide at Shickshinny, Penna., Sunday morn
ing by drowning himself in the Susquehanna.
He was dissipated, and had frequently threat
ened self-destruction.
The debate on the eligibility of women as
lay delegates to the General Conference Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church closed on
Monday in that body, and resulted in the ex.
clusion of the women.
Mrs. Claire Hoyt celebrated her 98th birth
day at Danbury, Conn.,, on Monday. She is
hale and hearty and walked to church Sun
day, distance of two miles. She has not
used glasses for 80 years.
General Warner Lewis, prominent citizen
of Dubuque, Iowa, died on Saturday night.
He belonged by descent to one of the old
families of Virginia. His wife, a relative of
General Lafayette, survives him.
Daniel Fl. German and Isaac Edmunson
were arrested in Huntingdon, Penna., on
Saturday, for circulating counterfeit dollars
1t is said that the whole region is flooded
with spurious coins of this denomination.
Frederick ]. Stewart, Treasurer of Luce
county, Michigan, and postmaster of New
bury, was arrested on Saturday, with his de-
pu.y, c. W. Heux, editor of the Newbury
Ne,cs, on a charge of embezzling $1,000.
Lightning struck a school house in Della
ware county, Ohio, on Friday afternoon of
last week, killing John Bowers, aged ~ years,
and stunning the teacher and twenty of the
pupils, throwing them from their chairs to the
floor.
Dispatches from India, on May Z, announce
that Delhi and Moradabad have been visited
by disastrous haistorms, about $50 persons
having been killed. The haistones were fiat
and oval in shape, and some Of them weighed
as much as two pounds.
Mrs. Annie Eisenbarth fell dead in her
home in St. Louis, Sunday morning Her
sister, who lived near by, was summoned, and
on arriving at the house and entering the
room where the corpse was, fell dead. Both
women were supposed to be in good health.
Warrants were issued in Cincinnati on
Monday for 147 persons who, on Sunday,
violated the Owen law, and all who were ar
rested gave bond. Mayor Smith intimates
that he may change his policy next Sunday
by arresting at once all who open their
saloons.
A woman is living in Xenia, Ohio, at the
age of 80, who does not know by sight or
name the children of her brother, man of
20, who is a resident of the same town. A
quarrel estranged the two 35 years ago, and
they have not spoken nor even seen each
other since.
General James W. Ewing, disbursing clerk
Of the Department of Justice, has been found
short in his accounts to the extent of about
$4,000. The Government is secured by his
official bond of $4,000. Frank A. Branigan,
Of Steubenville, Ohio, has been appointed to
MS place.
On Saturday Sal ,000 in one package was
tent by the American Exchange National |
Bank, of New York, to the Treasury Depart
nent. The package arrived, but when open |
d was found to contain only paper cut to the
ize of bank notes. The express company
will have to make the loss good.
Rev. Charles j. Clark, Assistant Secretary
f the Methodist General Conference, died on
unday in New Y ork at the Sturtevant House.
lie was taken sick on Friday, and his ailment
eveloped into diphtheria. He was native
f Maine, about 43 years of age, and was
residing elder of the Portland district,
Two girls, named Sarah Bolton and Mary
e Moore, fought a duel in the Lima Valley,
ew Mexico, last week, as the result of
narrel over the affections of young cowboy.
liss LIE Moore was wounded in the shoulder,
ut soon recovered. On Saturday evening,
osely yelled, she went to the house of her
val, and meeting her at the gate, shot her
cad. A revolver was found also on the
erson of the murdered woman.
James Losch, Is years of age, barber of
eading, dressed himself in his best clothes {
tuesday, afternoon, went to a saloon, took a
rink, remarking, That's my last glass;" {
ent to Mineral Springs Park and blew out (
IS brains with pistol. On his coat was
nned card on which he had written, sI'm {
red of living-Jim." In his pocket was ]
und letter from girl in Pottsville, scold-
g him for not calling on her last Sunday.
Two sections of a freight train on the Read |
G Railroad came into collision at the foot of a
'avy grade near Locust Gap, Penna., be.
-een 10 and II o'clock on Saturday night.
ID two cars loaded with dynamite and giant |
wider blew up. Twelve cars and seventeen y
'uses, occupied by the nployes of the Read. /
g Coal Company, were destroyed. fire COM
etingthe ruin of the dwellings. Seven per- /
ms were killed and between 20 and 80 in.
red, three of whom are not expected to L
cover.
The schooner Edward E. Webster arrived I
San francisco on Monday, after 100 DAYS
yage from Gloucester, Massachusetts. The
ssel was fitted out for seal fishing at Cape
artery, but had rough weather from the {
lrt, and while beating about Cape Horn all :
r meat spoiled and soon after the flour be.
me musty. The crew were brought down
disease which swelled their legs like
opsy and prevented them from working.
hen they reached port only two men were "
lie to work. Il
The laying of the track through the long n
mel OF the Northern Pacific Railway where
crosses the Cascade Mountains, three hours 8
lie east OF Tacoma, Washington Territory. a
IS completed on Sunday. The tunnel is 8
80 feet in length and therefore second only
the Hoosac among the railroad tunnels of
, United States. The event, which means r,
, final completion of the main line of the .