The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-09-29
NEWS Of the Week.

General Bazaine Marshal of France died in Ma.
drid, Spain, on Sunday, aged IL
Cigar makers and smokers escaped the yellow
| fever at Jacksonville and other places.
Avery Gardner, age,f IS years committed suicide
| in Richvile, New York, on Sunday, by hanging
himself
The brewery of Henry Elias, in New York, was al
most destroyed by fire on Saturday night. Loss
Typhus fever has appeared in the City of Mexico.
owing to the water from the heavy rains sagnating
in some of the streets.
The steamer Etruria made her Hast trip from
| Queenstown ~ New York in o days hour and 50
minutes the fastest ON record
The Georgia state Fair has been indefinitely post
poued, owing to the damage by recent floods in the
| state and the yellow fever epidemic.
Mrs. Geo. W. McCntchen died at her home near
Craigsyille Augusta county. Va last week. She was
very large lady, weighing 37j pounds
The National Museum in the City of Mexico, has
received lamb with eight legs two bodies and only
one head. 1t is being stuffed in the museum.
There have been heavy rains throughout the
have been very destructive 10 life and property.
fire at Bristol, Virginia, Friday night of last
week. destroyed seven stores and two dwellings.
causing loss of $4,000 on which the insurance is
about $4,000.
| One hundred and fifty square miles of land in the
| Burdwan district of Bengal, India, is flooded The
| crops in Bombay and Deeean are threatened by
drought.
At Allegheny City, Pa on Tuesday. John X. Lem.
| on. % years of age, was robbed of $1,000 by two
force and escaped.
| The civic parade on Tuesday at the eentenniaI
celebration in Pittsburg Pa fully twenty miles
long. and besides the industrial exhibit there We're
5000 men in line.
The large frame stables of the Consolidated Street
| Car Company in Columbus. Ohio were burned sun
day morning with 20 horses, IL cars and charOis
Loss about $4,000.
Owing to the recent destructive floods at Augusta.
Georgia, Gov; Gordon on Monday ordered the sus.
| pension OF the collection of taxes of Richmond
county until the Legislature meets.
The courthouse in Hot Springs Ark was DESTROY
ed by fire Monday night. 1t is thought the fire was
Hcendiary and the intention 10 destroy the re-
cords of Garland county, but failed.
| A cyclone passed over Mammoth Springs Fulton
county, Arkansas, at noon OH Friday of last week.
Several houses were wrecked trees blown down and
corn and cotton crops are said to be ruined.
Charles Jackson, who murdered John Walters
jailer, in Waterloo New York, in January 1887 was
| on Monday convicted of murder for the third time
and sentenced TO be executed on November 18th.
The family of Isaac L. Crane in Easton Pa con-
sisting Of himself, wife and two children, are in
critical condition from having eaten cabbage upon
| which Paris green had been used TO kill insects.
| Michael Hallahan dropped dead on Monday in
Philadelphia Pa, while endeavoring 70 separate his
brother Cornelius Hallahan and William Geary,
| brotherin-law of Cornelius, who were quarreling.
The jury in the Jones county calfcase at Waterloo
Iowa, on Saturday returned verdict for the plain
tiff for 81 600. The plaintiff says this will end the
case 1t has been going on for ten twelve YEAR,.
Frost was visible on Tuesday morning, at Rome
Ga. Chattanooga, Tenn, and Montgomery, Ala
The cool weather was hailed with joy as calculated
to arrest the progress of yellow fever IN the afflicted
Mrs Newman, wife of Bishop Newman, has pur-
chased the Burnham House. at Round Lake, New
York, for $4,000. The building will be converted
into home for missionaries who return to this
country for rest
on Tuesday from Bremen were detained at Castle
Garden TO ascertain If they were violators of the
contract labor law. They came to work in Philadel
phia at 81 q day and board.
Wallert Johnson an insane man living in Chieapo
on Monday attacked his mother with butcher
knife and inflicted wounds which will prove fatal
He then tried to hang himself but was cut down be-
fore life was extinct and resuscitated.
Policeman John H. Weinke, of Chicago. on Sunday
had bullet removed from his head which had been
there since the Haymarket riot on May A. 1856. The
sembling horse shoe, was completely covered with
a bony growth.
Three prisoners in the penitentiary in Nashville
Tennessee scaled forty foot wall Saturday night
and escaped. They cut hole in the roof TO reach
the WALL and then, by the aid of rope made OF
Irvine, twisted reached the ground. They had ac-
completes outside.
An inhuman husband at Lima, Ohio, who treated
his family most shamefully, was taken in hand by
rail TO the outskirts, and then treating him to 20
ashes the back, set him free with the advice that
he had better never again appear in Lima.
As Forepaugh's circus was being unloaded at Du-
Bots, Penna.. on Tuesday John Peggy, an elephant
trainer of Salem New Jersey, attacked and kill
ed by the elephant Tip" Peggy was trying to get
by men and boys feeding il apples which contained
tobacco and pepper.
monument to the Confederate dead in Staunton,
Virginia. was unveiled on Tuesday in the presence
of 5000 people granddaughter of Albert Sidney
Johnson assisted by young ladies from every state
represented in the cemetery, unveiled the monu-
ment and addresses were delivered by Gov Lee
Gen. Early Gen. Rosser and Mr. Mccullough of An
napolis.
Rev John Holston and Mrs Matilda Pierson were
married Marshal. Illinois, last week. The groom
is ~ years old, of medium height and weighs about
$50 pounds, while the bride is nearly six feet tall
weighs fully go and is close TO 80 years of age. She
has son several years older than her new husband.
Holston claims to be preacher of the Campbellite
denomination.
The Lone Highwayman" who in the past two
years has been terror TO travellers in the vicinity OF
kerrvile, Texas, and who has robbed stage coaches
rified mail bags and relieved commercial men of
their vauables without the assistance of a confed-
crate has been killed BY Mrs Lizzie Hay in Bandero
county after he had entered the house for the pur
pose Of robbery.
Monroe wilkinson a notorious negro entered
colored church in seottsyille, Kentucky, during
service on Saturday. and tourishing a revolver,
and highly respected colored man. was shot and
Killed while demonstrating with Wilkinson. The
murderer was arrested, and the negroes made three
unsuccessful efforts to lynch him.
James Murray garroted Herman Huber in New
York on the 9th inst. On Monday he was sentenced
to ten years and six months in the penitentiary In
the same city on the same day Patrick McCabe and
his wife. convicted of robbing and beating Mrs.
Nellie Walsh, were sentenced, the man to twelve
and two months in the state prison.
oliver Bohannon was arrested in New Orleans on
Monday for passing counterfeit silver money. aud
s2l5 in the spurious coin was found in possession
The Secret Service agent who arrested him says he
has evidence that BGhalnon burned his house for
the purpose of using the insurance thereon, amount
ing 10 $500, in the purchase of travelling boat to be
fitted up for the manufacture of counterfeit coin.
Charles E. Dodge. cashier of the legal firm of
Shipmsn, Barlow. Laroque and Choate, committed
suicide en- Tuesday night by turning on the gas in
his room at Clifton; staten Island The firm is the
same rece zee i, th r Dy ror a 6eae Ne NE
honesty Gas never doubted. The firm bel ieve the
direct cause Of suicide was oyeTEork In his capaci
negotiated, which act caused him much anxiety
and trouble, though he did nothing more than his
duty in so doing,
of farmer William Beattie. who lives on the CHM
aTron river north Of the Territory line. was carried
in the morning leaving in his dug-out his two chill
dren, five years old and baby aged two months.
About noon Beattie returned home and found his
girl IN tears She said she had taken the baby into
the yard and LETT it while She went into the house.
In few minutes she heard ssy and on looking ont
The father knew AZ once that an eagle had visited
his home, and summoned SUI. his nelghaoors % the
made. In about an hour the sound of a shot sum-
moned the searchers together One of the men had
it. He had emptied his gun at the bic bird and had
broken wing, and was using his gun as club
when reinforcements arrived Tho eagle nuttered
into the BUSH and then the father saw his infant
dead the body badly lacerated.
St. Louis dispatch dated Saturday says-A case,
that the physicians claim is without parallel, devel
oped during the past q hours in the person of Willie
Moehle 14-year-old boy, living on Chouteau ave
At noon on Monday the boy was seized with synp.
toms OF hydrophobia. He barked end frothed at
the mo nth, and gnawed at the carpets and chars.
Two physicians were summoned, and they called in
a third, but |; required the combined strength Of
four men To overpower the lad He was fastened TO
bed where his body was raeked with terrible con-
vulsions, The physicians declared 1t hydrophobia
and were confirmed in this diagnosis when the
patient exhibited great frenzy at the sight Of water
They said that the case was a fatal one and waited
for the death. The boy became unconscious this
morning, but revived at noon, perfectly well but
weak. He was released, and said he remembered
nothing that occurred during the period of the at
tack. The physicians Drs Plrtle Spreglhalter and
Schultz are greatly puzzled over the case, The boy
Is around tonight apparently well, He said he had
been Twice bitten by dogs this summer.
From he Washington Post.
We are inclined to think that the American
workingmen generally will take it as very
great piece of impertinence on the part CT the
Republican machine to import Fan English
workingman, so called, to tell them how to
vote in the coming election. Suppose