The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-05-19
News of the Week.

The Granger picnic opens at Williams
Grove, Pa, Monday, August 81.
Theodore Tilton is residing in Paris, and
the only literary labor he is known to be en-
gagged in, is in writing to some of the Amer
lean newspapers.
Lindley 7. Brown, an aged and promi-
nent farmer living near Gap Station, Lancas-
ter county, Pa, was gored to death by bull
on his farm Monday evening.
The six days go-as you-please walking
match in New York closed on Saturday night
at 10 o'clock, Littlewood made Gil miles and
2 laps. The best record ever made was by
Albert 621 miles.
Victor Dupont, a brother of the senior
member of the powder manufacturing firm
and one of the leading lawyers of Delaware,
died on Sunday in Wilmington after long
illness.
The total value of our beef and hog pro-
ducts during the six months which ended
April 30th last was $50, 056, 0S4, against S41,
314, 733 during the corresponding period of
the preceding year.
Mrs. Wedler, the fasting inmate ofthe Coun-
ty Hospital at Lancaster, Penna., partook of
food on Wednesday, after a fast of fifty. four
days. She ate the food unobserved, but still
refuses to eat in the presence of others.
A dispatch from indianapolis says discour-
aging reports regarding the outlook for crops
are being received from all parts of Indiana.
In many counties hay and oats have suffered
severely from the drought, while in the south
ern half of the State corn fields are being
devastated by the cut worm.
Colonel James H. Woolford, formerly of
Maryland, died suddenly of heart disease in
Madison, Indiana, on Tuesday. He was a
lieutenant in the regular army during the
Mexican war. During the rebellion he was
in the Confederate Treasury Department at
Richmond, Virginia, and issued all the bonds
of the Confederacy.
The action of the Brazilian Assembly in
abolishing slavery sweeps away almost the
last vestige of human servitude from the
American continent. Porto Rico and Cuba
are now the only countries that recognize the
institution, and it is only question of time
when they, too, will yield to the universal
demand for freedom for all mankind.
During heavy thunder storm Monday
afternoon lightning struck the tower of the
school house at Parsonsborough, three miles
from Wilkesbarre, Penna. 1t passed down
through one of the school rooms to the cellar,
completely demolishing the heating appara-
tus. Many of the children we're stunned, and
a panic was created, but none of the scholars
were seriously hurt.
A cyclone visited the vicinity of Freeport,
Illinois, Thursday night of last week. The
Yellowstone Creek brewery, owned by Haze
gle & Roth, was almost ruined. The resi-
dence of Mr.. Brockhausen, near by, was
overturned, and his barn was destroyed.
Two farmers~were severely injured. The
damage to fences and other property is large.
no q Saod .csaica three buildings were blown
Nice Little Home, dozen
minister; so acres of prime land, gootSSs:.S-
t Eecatonrice, So, 500.
,wn and seveisaa ugeodeId." HaIpd buildings
.rsons were injured.
On Saturday afternoon lightning struck a :
1000 barrel tank belonging to the Keystone
e6ning Company on Oil creek, two miles I
nth of Oil City, Penua. The tank contain
10000 barrels Of oil and at halEpast ten v
clock Sunday morning the oil boiled over b
d ran down the creek about three quarters
mile. A strong wind forced the burning
troleum to the opposite bank, saving sever
oil works, butanother tank, containing 30,-
0 barrels, was ignited by the overflow
William Smith, Chairman of the Knox :
unity delegation 10 the Democratic State D
invention of Tennessee, went to church in y
lshville on Sunday morning, He sat in y
1t pew anu soon Iell INTO Q0Ze. Ihe
eacher was telling of the great men of Ten
ssee, and finally reached John Knox, once W
vernon of the State. As he pronounced
. name Knox the delegate aroused, and :
ing from his seat, shouted in stentorian
les, Thirty five votes for Robert Taylor
e congregation took in the situation, and
audible litter went through the church, m
ring which the delegate escaped
William J. Badger has been arrested in
scotah, Kansas, for crime alleged to have
N committed 80 years ago. In the year
IS Badger was appointed an Indian agent =
President Buchanan. After the election 7
Lincoln he resigned his Office. In making 1
ettlement the Government found $4,000 a.
ich it claimed was enormously allowed by ac
agent Suit was brought against Badger ac
course of time and judgment allowed for 81
200, which included interest Badger in
appeared and was reported soon after al
,e dead. He had been in South America
the past twelve years
i train on the Santa Fe Railway reached
intain, Colorado, early Monday morning, 4
had been standing but a few minutes w
IN freight train, the brakes of which th'
got loose, ran down from side track,
collision occurred. One car was load
with naphtha, which exploded, setting the
n on fire. The train men showed the I'M =
red cars back from the wreck, and were /
ng to save the depot, when the flames a
shed car load of powder, which exploded, Mi
POLISHING the depot, several dwellings and PEI
lumber Of cars. Three persons, one Sal
nan and two men, were killed, and six, 70,
red. are