The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-10-13

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Hog cholera is raging in Northwestern New
Jersey, and hogs are dying by hundreds.
Carl Schurz>has written letter from Ger
many to friend in Michigan, saying that he
will support Cleveland, and avowing himself
in favor of the Mills bill.
The New York Dry Goods Cleveland and
Thurman Club, Broadway, numbers 4, 200 and
is rapidly increasing. A branch club, IN
another part of the city, numbers 900.
During a fireworks exhibition at Quincy,
Illinois, at Republican meeting on Wednes-
day evening, the grand stand containing 1910
people, collapsed, and many persons were
injured.
The Grand Jury at Rockford, Illinois, ON
Tuesday night indicted % saloon keepers who
have been openly selling liquor since the
town went 'dry." One man has "A counts
against him.
Mary Griffin, So years of age, died at the
the Almshouse in Meriden, Connecticut, on
Wednesday, after So days of voluntary star
vation, during which she took nothing but wa
ter. She was insane.
At Penn Haven, Pa, on Wednesday night,
an excursion train on the Lehigh Valley rail
road was wrecked, 81 persons killed and %
others mangled and wounded. They had
been to Hazelton to attend a Catholic tenn
perance mass meeting.
The annual parade of the Catholic Total
Abstinence Societies of the diocese of Scran-
ton, Penna., took place on Wednesday. Ten
thousand men and boys were in line, and
many priests occupied seats in carriages. 1t
was the largest temperance demonstration ever
held in the coal regions.
There are 700 men in the world worth over
So, 000, 900 each. Ofthese over 200 reside in
Great Britain, 100 in the United States, 100
India, and l25 in other countries. Jay Gould
is put down as the richest of ALL the valne of
his estate being estimated at S275, 100000.
In Chicago, on Wednesday, the street car
strikers attacked the police who were guard
ing a car run by ''Scabs.n Bonfres were
built on the track, and as soon as one was put
out another would be started In all parts
of the city the tracks were blocked. Several
shots were exchanged between the police and
the strikers but no fatal results are reported.
Col. Joseph NJ. Bennett, of Philadelphia,
Pa, on Wednesday gave the Managers ofthe
Methodist Episcopal Orphanage $4,000 to
build and equip additions to the institution,
made necessary by new applicants for its shell
ter. Col. Bennett had previously given to the
Managers spacious mansion, with 25 acres
ofground attached, on the edge of Paramount
Park and later on $4,000 for the enlarge
ment and improvement Of the house.
! The National Line steamer Queen, which
arrived at New York on Wednesday from
England, collided with the French fishing
schooner Madeline early on last Friday morn
ing during fog off the Banks of Newfound-
land. The Madeline was cut in two and sank
Immediately. The captain, first and second
mates and steward of the fishing schooner
were rescued after they had been in the water
nearly an hour, but the rest ofthe crew, num-
bering twenty one, were lost.
The house of farmer named Richter,
near Geneva, Nebraska, was burned on Sat
urday night, and Richter's wife and five chill
dren, and tramp who was staying in the
house for the night, persisted in the flames.
Richter was so badly burned that he is not
expected to recover. The tramp and Rich
ter had been drinking, and it is supposed one
of them may have fallen asleep while smok-
ing, and thus set the house on fire.
During the laying of the corner stone of st.
| Mary's Polish Catholic Church in Reading,
Pa, on Sunday afternoon, part of a Temporal
ry floor laid upon the wall of the building
which had been carried up one story, gave
way and about 200 men, women and children
were precipitated to the ground, fifteen to
eighteen feet below. About $50 persons
were injured, % dangerously. Several child
rem were reported missing Sunday night
Archbishop Ryan, who was on the platform,
escaped injury.
The American Flint Glass Workers Union
has adopted new tactics in fighting the
Rochester Penn Tumbler Company, where
strike has been in progress for several
weeks. The Union proposes to reduce wages
of employees making tumbers for Union firms
to such an extent that these firms will be en-
abled to undersell the Rochester Tumbler
Company. The loss in wages to the Union
workmen will be made up from the treasury
of the Flint Glass Workers Union.
From advices received by the steamer Bel
gle, which arrived at San Francisco on
| Monday, it is learned that the whole of the
new embankment of the Yellow river at Chang
Chou, begun last autumn and carried on at a
cost equal to over 50, 100000, has been COM
pletey swept away by the recent flood OF
the 5000 lineal feet of river wall recently
completed not one inch remains, and the
waters are pouring through the immense gap
into Honan unchecked. From 800 to 1000
laborers, who were on the bank, were swept
away and drowned.
Browns powder magazine, containing 400
kegs of powder and $500 pounds of dynamite,
about mile from Roanoke, Virginia, blew
up on Saturday evening, giving the little city
a terrible shaking. Many plate glass store
fronts and hundreds of window panes in dwell
ings were smashed. On Sunday morning
fragments of the body of John Brown, farm
hand, were found about 300 yards from where
the magazine stood. A revolver with two
chambers exploded was also found, and it is
supposed that Brown shot at the magazine
and caused the explosion.
A tour of the inspector of Customs for Man
itoba, along the boundary line between Dakota
and Manitoba, revealed the fact that extern
sive smuggling operations in opium, wheat
and other valuable products were being car
iaA in hot hat
titles of Canadian timber have found their
way into the United States without the knowl-
edge of the owners or Government officials.
The headquarters of the parties engaged in
these operations are st. Joe and Walhalla
OAK, and Morden, Manitoba.
Lawrence J. Ibac, known for 40 years
throughout this country as the BLACKSMITH
astronomer" died on Tuesday, at his resi-.
dence in Newmanstown, Lebanon county, Pa.
Deceased carried on his blacksmithing trade
his entire lifetime, but was a man of more
than ordinary gifts. He possessed fall ap-
paratus for the prosecution of the astronomi-
cal researches in which he took delight, and
after his hard days work was done spent a
portion of every night in the study of the
stars. He has long been one of the leading
almanac calculators in the East and furnished
calculations for almanacs published in New
York, Philadelphia, the West, and even in
foreign lands.
A disastrous flood in the province of Mouk-
den, about $50 miles northeast of Pekin,
caused the death of hundreds of the natives,
utter humiliation of very many homes, des.
truction to crops and prospects of general
famine for the coming winter. The cholera
is still raging at Hong Kong. The daily aver
age of new patients ranges from forty to fifty,
most of whom die. The storm on the 3Oth,
at Nokajorie, in Japan, caused the following
damage: Number of houses demolished or
half destroyed, 5000; vessels totally lost, So;
vessels wrecked, 500; number of persons
wounded, injured and receiving public assis-
lance, 1000.