The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1889-05-25
News of the Week.

ticoke. Pa
Four tanneries in Quebec, Canada. were burned
on Sunday Loss 100000.
Ex-Secretary of State Bayard is 10 be married this
summer to Miss Clymer, of Washington, G.
Rutgers College, in New Brunswick, New Jersey
has received $500 from an unknown friend.
fatal disease has broken outamong the horses in
parts of Ini;aaa Finysix died i'll one neishboE
hood last week.
\ severe hail and rain storm III Augusta and al
jacent counties i'll Virginia on Monday night dam
aged growing corn and fruit.
\ number of steamers delayed by the fog in New
York harbor arrived on Monday afternoon having
on board 1862 immigrants.
steve Brodie jumped over the Passaic Falls, New
Jersey on Monday morning and came Off without
injury. The distance was l05 feet.
Notices have been given at the Mabel Sherman
Clair and Douglass furnaces, at Sharpsville Penna
that after June list wages will be reduced.
William b. Derby, cashier of the Mutual District
Messenger Company of Boston, has been arrested on
a charge of embezzling $4,000 from the Western
Union Telegraph Company.
The coal beavers at Ashland, Wisconsin, have
again struck TO secure an advance of so cents per
day and men have been imported from St. Paul
and Duluth to take their places
/ joshua L. hOSS, Il wen Known ldNN dlI hepuD-
Iican politician awaiting second trial at Gloucester.
/ West Virginia, the charge of killing his uncle,
{ George Hughes, committed suicide on Tuesday.
A fire in east South Chicago early on Saturday
morning destroyed nine dwellings and twelve
! barns, causing loss estimated at about $4,000
/ The fire started in a barn. and incendarism is sus-
/ pected.
1 Mabel Rice, aged years. while playing in the
yard Of her parents residence at Carlisle Pa, on
Tuesday, fell head foremost into the cesspool and
was drowned. Her mother jumped in after her but
too late.
a disease supposed to be hydrophobia is epidemic
in Trimbe, Wisconsin. School has been closed in
the district and children are forbidden to leave
home. Men have been engaged to kill all the stray
dogs in the town.
Alexander Frazer and George Eddy were roofing
building in Buffalo, New York. on Saturday, when
the ropes of the scafiolding broke and they were
precipRte to the ground distance OF 100 feet
Both were fatally injured.
James Mccartney. an aged farmer, and his grand
son, James Mccartney, aged about Il years, in
stautly killed on saturday by train on the Bati-
more and Ohio Railroad at FELTON,, near Chester, Pa
He was driving across the tracks.
A freight train ON the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Railroad was deraiIed rear Macon Missouri.
burned Is heavily loaded freight cars. Joseph
Klatz, brakeman, was fatally hurt
james Dorau. welIto-io citizen of Maltby. near
wiIkesbarre Pa. one night last week, chopped his
wife's head To pieces and attempted u kul his
daughter. He then committed suicide by cutting
his throat Domestic trouble was the cause.
The Young Mems Democratic Club OF New York
report that the sale Of tickets for the dinner be
given ex-President Cleveland on Monday next had
been great that 1t has become necessary to pro-
vide larger number of tables for the dinner.
The steamer Rocktou arrived at san Francisco on
Monday with officers and $50 men of the vandalia
and L officers and so men from the Trenton from
Apia, Samoa. in command Of Captain y II Far
quhar Admiral Kimberley, 10 officers and - men
remain in pis.
suit has been begun in Los Angeles California, by
representative OF the Waterloo Mining Company
Of Milwaukee, contestug John 5. Does patent to
Oriental Mine No. in the Calico mining district of
san Beuariino eounty. The suit involves property
valued AZ Sgo0OnJo
The rrentan Horse Car stables in Trenton. New
jersey damaged by fire 10 the extent Of about
$3.50, early sunday morning. Twenty cars were
burned, bur all the horses were saved. John l..
iiauIey driver who was sleeping in the building.
was dangerously 70 not fatally. burned
NsW York bag occurred during thick fog on
saturday aaer1ooa. The steamship Normandie
outward bound. ran Into and sank the piio; boat
Charlotte Sebb. AZ anchor ten miles east Of Sandy
Hoos. Ten OF the wcbbs men were drowned
About en- italian laboreT on the West Virginia
Cenlral Railway extension at Randolph. West
Virginia. engaged in a riot last week Three Of
them werr shot. one through the lungs. one IN the
head and one In the thigh. Two others were seri.
oJisiy stabbed aud others we're beaten struck with
stones. etc
All the culhcricz Of the Pennsylvania cosl Com
pany. numbering afteeu aad all but two Of the In
dtyidual eoiiicries Al Pi,ss,on. Pa. resumed work
Monday on ons-halft!me During June the men
will work os three foar.hs time and thereafter on
fuIl time. over Eve thousand miners viii be given
employment.
Mrs Emma C. Folsom. mother Of Mrs Grover
Cleveland, was married "a Jackson Michigan ON
Monday evening 10 Henry Z Ferriue. merchant in
Buffalo. NcW Nors- Mu- Cleveland was present az
lhe ceremony. Mr. and Mrs Perrine icft on the
night Train Cor Chicago and the West for trip be-
fore returning n Buffalo to reside
Joseph Peiz who. IL is asserted. bad 5rutaily
beaten his " year old seplaughter To oompe. her 10
sisn him certain property whsch belonged 20
her vas taken from bis home AZ Horton Kansas. ON
Thursday night by 80 men, caUied half mile
fram town and given % lashes the bare back.
lie was warned 10 leave the town at once
Mr. sarah r Allen, teacher a, a public school in
Washington fatally shot on Friday afternoon OF
last week tn The prenee OF her little girl pupils by
her WORTHLESS husband whom she had supported by
her labots teacher Amer he had done the
deed Allen committed suicide by shooting himself
in ihe head. The wife died shortly Afterwards
The annual meeting OF the American Baptist
~ a..
The Secretary announced that he had letter from
John d. Rockefeller Offering $4,000 for the institu
tlou OF learning 20 De established IN Chicago aud
another from e. Hlnckeley Of Chicago. Offering
s0oo0 tina, they had 10 raise only $4,000 Of the
$4,000 necessary.
The striped and pocket gophers that abound
throughout The West At present threaten 70 become
formidable pest to farmers in portions of Iowa. 10
n number Of counties bounty Of cents each has
been placsd on sopheg scaips, This has resulted in
active labor Of iArMerS' 70 secure the bounty
Ia Rooue county thus far this spring over 1900
.calps have been paid for.
In Pensacola Florida on Saturday the Southern
states Land and Lambev Company made final pay
menp. took charge OF the Museogee Lumber Com
pany property the George Robinson MIll Company
and lhe Michigan Lumber Company, agsregeting
i've mills with $1,000 acres Of land and about A.
miles Of railroad. The deal involved more than
million and hAlfof dollsrz
ca last saturday afternoon an election for school
0lacers took place az Forest City, Arkansas For
several days previous two negro men had made in
cendiary speeches. advocating the election OF ne
gfoes ins.ead Of white officers. AT the polls Medley
one OF the speakers insulted several whites he was
knocked down general fight ensued in which
the sheriff Of his deputies, several whites and
negroes were Killed.
\ despatch from NicSsbQFg, Mississippi, says that
an accident occurred near the foot Of West Pass,
Saturday evening, to party Of negroes who were
returning in two skis from trip to the Louisiana
shore. The wind and waves were high, and the
people in one OF the boats became frightened and
oapszed the boat aud nine out of the ten paSsen-
gers were drowned-a little girl being the only one
that reached the bank in safety.
Arthur Frazier captain Of canal boat and his
wife called on Edward Howe and his wife, near
Hawkins Ohio. on sunday. Ia the course of con-
versation Ms. Howe said There never has been
man here shat could not throw" Frazier said
she couldn't throw him. They elinched. and after
a few moments wrestling she threw Frazier on his
back on lounge He did not rise. and was found
TO be dead. 1t is supposed an artery was ruptured.
Delegates from fifteen OF the principal block coal
mines Of Indiana and representing over 1900 votes,
held a convention in Brazil on Saturday, and re-
jected the operators demand for 10 cents reduction,
and declared a strike by a twothirds vote The re-