The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1889-10-19

Post q. A. r.. in New Haven, Connecticut on
Saturday night. at which the auditors reported a
deficit in the accounts of VIM. H. stowe, Quarter
master. amounting to nearly $1,000.
The receipts from all sources at the recent agri-
cultural fair at York. Pa were sl69S0 an increase
OF ss56l over the previous year. 1t was combined
State and county exhibition. and, of course, the
premium list was considerably larger.
The Mission Greek country, north OF Hiaekley,
Mimi. is all ablaze. Pine, hay and lumbermens
supplies have been destroyed TOR miles. Fires are
also raging north OF the Snake river and at Pine
City. The smoke is SO dense as to obscure a loco
motive headlight fry feet away
The machinery OF the Mount Auburn inclined
plane railway at Cincinnati became unmanageable
on Tuesday. swapping cable aud allowing a car
containing nine persons to descend rapidly from
the top to the bottom Of the plane Five of the
cupants were killed and four injured
Captain z. Jordan died in Biddeford Maine, on
Tuesday aged % years He was for twenty years
Master on the saeo and Boston Packet Line. During
the war of Isle he was OF eighteen who went to
Fort Hill TO drive the English cruisers out of saeo
hRrbor. He had been Mason since is2l.
A few days ago Mrs. John Plat. wife ofAlderman
Plat, Of Newcastle, Pa while killing rooster re-
ceived a scratch from one Of Its spurs. few days
later Mrs. Plat and child she was nursing de-
died on Wednesday and Mrs. Plat cannot recover
AsHA johnson was making out deposit ticket
in the First National Bank in Chicago. on Monday
thief grabbed his money and ran. Pursuit was
given. the thief caught aud the money recovered.
The theft refused to give his name and said be took
the money because he had wife and child starving
TO death.
The United states government officers have seized
the dtssillery Of Frelburg & workum at Lynch
burg. Ohio upon = charge OF defrauding the Unlled
states BY cqualiKlng shortages from shrinkage In
packages before the gaager measured the contents
The whisky seized amounts 10 more than million
gallons
II. d. Gregg FOR many years private secretary Of
ten, sheridan when the General had his headquart
csS in Chicago. aud fer some time department
clerk At Washington. aud later a newspaper man At
Omaha, Neb was sentenced TO the peniientiary at
Kansas City Tuesday for i've years for horse
stealing.
A large number % the woFkmen Of the State force
In Jamestown. Pa were paid OF on Saturday and
many Of them lsecaine intoxicated and the police
hsa much trouble TO keep good order. great
many cases Of fever and other diseases are being
developed in the devastated region, and the physi-
claus fear an epidemic the coming winter
Nine negro men and three negro women have
been arrested in Charlotte y. G.. charged with rob
berries extending over several months. Over one
hundred residences and business houses have been
robbvd aud the losses aggregate nearly $1,000.
The arrests WerC brought about bs one OF the gang
seiiIas god badge which bad been stolen.
The employees Of I0weli's iron foundry al Man
chester New Hampshire. nos having been paid OF
since September 1t, placed attachments, on satnr
iay. on such property a. they could hnd Other
creditors followed suit a. H. Lowell. agent Of the
works. has disappeared aud Is reported 70 have
collected large sum from aEm with whom he had
eDntraet
Rober1 BigxS alias Charles Woods WAS lynehed at
Hermann Mississippi early on Saturday morning BY
a mob of several hundred mea. He had been in
jail since August for criminal assault upon Mrs
Raiusa the wife 81 farmer. near Lakeview. When
arrested he confessed his crime hut asserted that
the woman's husband had hired him 10 murder
her that he wasdrunk and assaulted her instead.
Gcorsc c HazweiI. Of Hartford Connecticut came
grief IN Portland Oregon, on Frdsy Of last week
SIX months ago Haxweil robbed his father Of $4,000
worth Of unregistered I. :. bonds, and since then
has been seeing the country. HIS uncle started in
pursuit and ou Friday found his nephew. The
young man returned 5000 in bonds and quite a
SUN ia nutes. and the uncle and nephew started for
Hartford ca Friday night
Immoral conduct in threatening the life OF fellow
man and In defamation Of character was convicted
on saturday by the Methodist Episcopal conference,
and sentenced 10 a Suspension Of one year. The
trouble was the outgrowth OF a split in Colonel
Danks's Church, in that city, year ago. In his
anger the reverend gentleman made use Of certain
threatening and defamalory remarks concerning
his principal opponent in the congregation and Ii
was for this that he vas suspended.
The Philadelphia express train on the Pennsylva-
mia Railroad Jumped the track near Railway New
Jersey. on sunday morning, while running at the
rate Of 90 miles an hour The couplings broke and
each OF the ave cars took shoot in a different
direction tearing up the road bed for over 500 feet
When the finally stopped il was found that the
only persons injured were two ladies' who were cut
by dying glass. The accident was due TO thespread
ing Of the rails which and ii is said, had
no, been properly spiked by the section men.
stephen = sherman and Z. c. Leyeridge were ar.
raigned in Buffalo. n " on Tuesday, on indies-
ments from the grand jury. sherman is charged
with stealing $500 bushels Of grain, with issuing
fictitious warehouse receipts, with issuing duplicate
warehouse receipts. and with not caneelling ware
house receipts when the goods were ordered out of
the warehouse Loveridge is charged two ae-
counts Of grand larceny in helping TO steal the S.
90 bushels OF grain. The accused pleaded not
guilty and were admitted to bail in Sl25oO each.
Henry Fritz of St Louis. Missouri, on Monday
notified his andady that his wife had just died Of
hemorrhage of the lungs. The police were notified,
and on entering Fritz's room the woman was found
in bed with one side of her head crushed in
and her body and the bed clothes besmeared
with blood one corner of the stove was also
bloody. and the indications were that Fritz and
his wife both of whom had been drinking heavily,
had auarreled and that Fritz had thrown his wife
against the stove and killed her. Fritz arrested.
An electric lineman employed by the Western
Union Telegraph Company was killed at the corner
of Centre and Chambers streets, in New York, on
Friday afternoon of last week, by contact with an
electric light wire He presented terrible sight as
he died on the network of wires in mid air, while
the deadly fluid actually made his body sizzle and
the blood pour out to the sidewalk and over the
clothes of Mortified spectators The mans body lay
limp and motioness over the mass of wires attach
ed TO the cross trees of the pole The fremen
brought out ladder and went up with pair Of
shears to cut the wires.
Advices from Mexico say the bill to grant con
! cession OF Henry c. Ferguson and William H. Ellis,
! the two colored men from Texas, who proposed TO
4 COLOMBO lands in the States of oaxaca, Guerrero
/ Vera Cruz Mchoacan and San Luis Potosi with
negroes from Texas and other American States, ha'
passed both Houses of Congress 1t is believed tina
the bill will pass and be signed by President Diaz
Ferguson and Ellis expect that 10000 negroes from
/ Texas alone will move TO Mexico aud raise cotton
on these lands aud that many thousands of indus
trious blacks skilled in the cultivation of cottoI
will follow them from States east of the Mississippi
! river,
The Hanover (Pa.) Citizen, of Thursday says: A
midnight on Wednesday of last week, TIE dwelling
ON the farm OF f. C. Hestand, in Heidelberg town
ship. was destroyed by fire. The house is Situate
along the York road about seven miles from thi
place and was occupied by Absalom Hoover an
his family. When they were awakened by the fr'
the house was in flames down stairs and overhead
The family escaped out of the window, the 81
children being dropped out upon the clothes, NJ
Hoover lost ali his household effects aud clothing
+ and has no insurance The house was a large brio
residence SKIP feet. and was insured in the Par
r disc Mutual Company for 81 500. The cause of tt
IRE is unknown.