The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1889-04-27
News of the Week.

The hidehu Canal. IN Ontario Canada, was opened
Monday. being the earliest opening Cor 50 years.
Zslmon Ladingion, soldier OF the War Of 1872,
died ON sunday in Philadelphia. Pa. aged %
years
newsoa Williams & Co. hide and leather dealers
in Boston have made an assignment The liabili-
ties are said to be in the neighborhood Of 500 600.
Il IS aid that the Governor Ames. tho ave-mas,ed
schooner recently built on the New England coast.
viii bold as much lumber as 4 train Of ears mile
long
Henry G. Pearson. Postmaster of New YORK died
% saturday. HIS death was fr0m hemorrhage
casss~d by cancer OF the stomach. He was IS years
of sgc
The slaughter house and PORK factory OF ?. A
fsFdlsy & Co, in Cincinnati, Ohio. were destroyed
BY Gre on Tuesday night. The loSs Is estimated a;
about $4,000.
The Norzaatown Female Seminary. at Morgan
tswa. wess Virginia. was burned on Tuesday.
Lass S9soes Insurance. sou About 20 OF the
papiis lost their clothing and effects.
The British steamship Pine Branch arrived al
R4lnmoTc GA sunday. and reports the yellow fever
terrible AZ santos and Rio Janeiro the number OF
deaths at the latter port reaching 100 a day.
The wages q the miners and coke workers at the
standard Mines Mount Pleasant Pa viii be re-
duccd ISL per cent oa Nay ist. A strike Is ex-
peeied IT'S ovens at these works were closed on
saturday.
The Oklahoma eoaauy was opened 10 settlers on
Monday. and thousands OF boomer entered.
several aghss occurred aud Feyo,vers and rides were
used white and q coloyed man were seriously
wounded
The safe Ia the law Office Of Hubbell & Co.. in
EikhArs Indiana Was robbed ON Sunday night Of
notes and money amounting 10 5000 George
Jones young col0red man was arrested Tuesday
and confessed his guilt
SIGHT occurred In Noun. Carmel. Pa. on Mon
day night between officers and drunken Hunga-
rams John Shorus. Hungarian was killed and
oihers were badly Injured. The officers arrested
ahsai doren Of the rioters
Retaras ofthe ele,tion held on Monday la Massa-
ehusests on a prohibition amendment 10 the state
constitution iadcate that the amendment has been
defeated by q sss majority. The Of Boston on
the amendment was Yes. 1850. no. 81 ,O7S,
The college Of William and Mary. al Williams
barg Virginia which conferred upon Washington
his first public ones-saFveyor Of virginia-has re-
solved 10 suspend Is exercises on April soth on
aecoant Of the New York Centennial
April Is was the hottest day o. the year in Pitts
burg Pa The mercury rose to Sc. Two mer were
overcome BY the heat John Jenkins, steel worker.
was prossrased whiie at work in the oliver mill aud
Z will die. An unknown man was overcome on
B
smlihheld street
W. r. Burt. Of saginaw, Michigan. President OF the
Michigan Salt Association. sailed for Bremen on
Wednesday from New York on the steamer Saale.
I He has gone abroad 10 secure s10G00OOo which
has been guaranteed by s British syndicate Of
capitalists toward the formation Of an American
salt trust
Judge White of the Common Pleas Court in Pitts
( burg has handed down his decision in the liquor
license applications Of Allegheny county He grant
cd hut 95 retail aud IS wholesale licenses in PITTS
burg against a total Of over 100 two years ago and
"a las, year Thirty nine retail and Is wholesale
( licenses were granted in Allegheny. The total
number Of wholesale and retail licenses granted in
The county was ~.
The Michigan Central Railroad will hereafter run
freight trains on sunday except When absolutely
necessary for the conveyance of perlshable good.
and live stock. All other trains viii be stopped Al
6P ". Saturday aud viii not start before A. NJ. on
Monday. This viii give large number OF employee:
one days rest in seven. The Vanderbilt roads cas-
OF Chicago viii on May abandon great proper
ton Of their sunday freight trains
For some time past registered letters have been
stolen on the Gulf. Colorado and Santa Fe Railway
between Fort Worth and Galveston. Pest-ofic,
Inspector Holingsworth has been working on tn,
case and sent out several decoy letters with Posta
disappeared at O'Clock on Tuesday morning
I wiukler went out as usual with l6 Fort WORT
I registered letters. He gathered number NOR,
along his run. When he reached Rosenberg June
ton he quietly left the train and disappeared Tn,
loss is said to be heavy.
At noon on Tuesday man named MeCarth!
entered Collins & Sons bank in Ventura California
where Jack Morrison was alone Mccarthy com
planned of his poverty and desperation which haC
drawn him TO think of suicide, He laid package
on the counter which he said was dynamite. and
drew six-shooter and demanded $4,000. Morrison
lodged behind the counter aud ran out of the banl
door. The robber then seized tray containing
about $1,000 and walked into the street. Morrison
gave the alarm, and Mccarthy was arrested ant
all the money recovered.
One of the heaviest rain and hail storms eve
known in Atlanta, Georgia, began to fall at halfpas
four O'Clock on Wednesday afternoon. The storm
burst suddenly. At the time the gust came on fire
men were inside the walls of the Jackson building
burned last Sunday, flames having again broker
out among the debris. One of the walls fell upo1
the men. killing w. P. Leach and Henry Howell
and injuring several Others. The wind also blew
down the Ivy Street Mission building and the fencj
of the base ball park and damaged buildings IL
different parts of the city.
A masked burglar entered the railroad station a
fdttonspue hssoNA4' VA fiiuaS hlshtO Vi last week
covered the agent the only person in the station
with pistol, and demanded the key, which he re
eeived lie then made the agent occupy gvel
position and proceeded to plumber the safe, II,
cleaned it out of everything valuable, securing
money estimated at from Sc 900 to $4,000 Anon;
the booty one express package of 5000, lette
addresse; TO the Pattonshurg Bank containing 500
aud number of express packages. He also took al
the express, freight and ticket funds and robbed
the agent OF his own money and valuables Tn,
robber then backed ont of the station, mounted
horse and rode away