The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-06-23
News of the Week.

Monday. All the inmates escaped. Loss,
S25, 1000.
An explosion of gasoline occurred in the
drug house of Bailey Brothers & Co., in
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, on Saturday morning, fol-
lowed by FIRE. Several persons were fatally
burned
Baron Hi'sch has deposited in the Bank of
London $4,000, 600 for the education of poor
Jews of Russia. This is with one exception |
the largest benevolent gift in the history Of
the world.
A. W. Wickes, ex-cashier Of the Central
National Bank in Troy, New York, was
arrested on Wednesday, on the charge of
appropriating about $4,000 of the funds of the |
bank to his own use.
Seven coke works of Mcclure & Co., in
the Connellsville region, Pa, shut down on
Monday on account of a strike of the en-
ployes against the discharge of a workman. |
About 1000 men are idle.
George Bumprey, one-legged colored |
man, who was recently convicted of present |
ing fraudulent claim for pension, in Wash |
lngton, D. T., was, on Saturday, sentenced to |
two years imprisonment.
The wheat harvest in the Valley of Virginia
began on Tuesday. 1t is expected that the |
yield will be the best for 10 years. All |
through the valley the acreage is large and
the condition of the crop is excellent.
Myriads of grasshoppers have appeared in
many parts of Southern Indiana, and are
| devouring all the vegetables as they CO.
They destroy meadows first then the foliage
of trees, and next corn, oats and garden veg
etables.
A disastrous flood is reported in the Mex-
can State of Guanjuato, the Leon river having
overlooked and demolished many houses in
the cities of Leon and Silas. Large numbers
of cattle and many persons have been
drowned.
Lane Britton, the notorious Ozark desper-
ado, who has been fugitive for FIVE years,
and who is wanted to answer for the killing
of eight men, was arrested in Mansfield, Ohio,
on Sunday. In order to prevent lynching,
sheriff and posse is guarding the jail.
The Pennsylvania Steel Works, at Harris.
burg, Pa, will be closed for two weeks on
June Both. Stagnation in the iron trade, due
to pending tariff legislation, is ascribed as
the cause. There will be reduction of
wages when operations are resumed
John Staff committed suicide in the jail at
| Reading, Pa, on Wednesday, by hanging.
Recently he stabbed and killed his wife and
then cut his own throat, but recovered. He
stabbed his wife because she wanted him to
go to work and earn living for their starving
children.
At the commencement exercises of Swarth-
more College, at Swarthmore, Pa, on Tues
day, President Magill announced an endow
ment of $1,000 for four new professorships.
1t is the largest sum received by any Amer
lean College this year. Thirty-two degrees
were conferred.
| A bronze tablet has been prepared in Wash
ington, which will be inlaid in the marble
floor of the old hall of the House of Repre-
sentatives, to mark the exact place where
John Quincy Adams was stricken by death.
1t bears the inscription John Quincy Adams,
February 81, 1913, here"
The corner-stone of the Sacred Heart Ca
thedral, in Dayton, Ohio, was laid on Sunday,
in the presence of 10000 spectators. Arch
bishop Elder ofiiciated, assisted by Rev. John
Mackey, of Cincinnati, and all the resident
priests. The weather was very hot, and
several persons in the procession were sun
struck.
The jury in the case of r. D. Lancaster,
Surveyor of the Port of st. Louis, against
Congressman John NJ. Glover, rendered
verdict for the plaintiff for thirteen cents ON
Sunday. The suit was for $3.50, 600 damages,
and grew out of the charges made in Wash
ington by Glover when the President appoint
| ed Lancaster.
On Wednesday morning Mrs. Josephine
| Marck, living in tenement house in Allie |
L
her three children, aged I, and years re-
| spectively, and then swallowed large dose
OF the poison herself In less than three
/ hours the two oldest children and the mother |
were dead, and the youngest in the throes of
commissions with no hopes of recovery.
Early Tuesday morning a party of Hunga-
rians who had got drunk at christening at
! Wilkesbarre, Pa, started out to mob the
Irish inhabitants of Georgetown, a suburb of
the city. A battle with clubs and stones en-
sued, in which q number on both sides were
badly used up. Two miners are reported to
be fatally injured. Six of the rioters are
under arrest. The ringleader and dozen
others have fed to the mountains
On Monday afternoon two monuments COM
memorative of the late war were dedicated
near Richmond, Virginia, one at Emmanuel
Church Cemetery, over the remains of 76
Confederate dead, and the other on the spot
where the great Confederate calvary leader,
General j. L. b. Stuart, fell The mounted
military from Richmond and the surrounding
country, the r. E. Lee Camp of Confederate
Veterans and old soldiers generally, and
large number of citizens were present at both
ceremonies.
A reduction of ten per cent. in the wages
of the 2500 hands employed by the Reading
! Iron Works, at Reading, Pa, went into effect
on Monday. All the employees except so
went to work, under protest, at the reduced
wages. The matter has been placed in the
hands of the United Council of the Knights
of Labor. The management has notified the
men that they will be treated with as individ-
uals only, and that no Knights of Labor COM
mittees will be recognized.
The President and members of his Cabinet,
excepting Secretary Whitney, who was out of
the city, and Attorney General Garland, who
is sick, attended the services at the German
Lutheran Church in Washington, on Monday
morning, in memory of Emperor Frederick
III. Many other distinguished people were
in attendance, including nearly all the mem
bers of the Diplomatic Corps. The services
were conducted by Rev. j. Mueller, Pastor
OF the church. Appropriate music was rem
dered by the Washington Saengerbnnd.
In the Circuit Court at Winchester, Virginia,
on Tuesday, Judge Turner granted Turner
| Ashley Ridemour, under sentence Of death,
a new trial, on the ground that Judge Cark's
certificate of facts did not state Broy, the
murdered man name, to be William Andrew
Broy, but Andrew hroy. The indictment
charges William Andrew Broy. The seventy
bills Of exceptions taken by counsel for the
prisoner were all decided against him. This
will be the third trial, the former trials result
ing in verdicts of murder in the first degree.
Capt. VIM. A. Andrews left Boston on
Monday evening for Queenstown, England,
on little dory, the Ozark Secret" which
measures just "a feet from stem to stern. If
it reaches its far-away destination safely it
will be the smallest craft known to history to
successfully encounter the perils of the deep
on so long voyage. The tiny boat is built
on model which insures staunchness rather
than speed Its chief virtue lies in its capac.
ity to float in the toughest sea. Captain An
drews has no doubt of his arrival at Queens
town in safety sometime within the next
forty-6ve days.
A west bound express train on the North
ern Pacific Railroad was stopped by danger
signal and robbed, between Big Horn and
Myers Station, Montana, on Saturday night.
The robbers, eight in number, compelled the
engineer, Sargent. to go through the train,
while they robbed the passengers. Sargent
was compelled to break in the door of the
express car and crawl in first. The robbers
followed and broke open the safe, taking out
money. The conductor, Reaman, was CON-