The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1889-06-15
News OF the Week.

Theodore TiIton now a white haired old man, is
o. be seen every night at famous chess cafe in
Parts.
col Charles c Lang,lon, Secretary Of State of
Alabama. died on Saturday, at his home in Mobile
He was born 10 Ism
ON Saturday the Brewers Syndicate bought the
Ballantines ale and lager interests in Newark. \.
J., paying S5loo.So for H.
passenger train was wrecked near Oakland,
Maine. Monday afternoon by washout, and six or
eight persons were seriously wounded.
At villa Nouvele near Toulouse. France, on
Monday. \ rejected sutton murdered a farmers
daughter the father and mother and man servant
At Dalton. Georgia. ON Tuesday morning, 5. E
Field state senator was shot dead by his stepson.
Dennis Taylor. whom he was attempting to ehastise
Hanover. Pa has made contributions OF $1,000 in
cash GOO leaves of bread 40 dozens of eggs and
large quantity of vegetables. to the Johnstown suf
ferers.
Leonard sweet prominent member Of the
Chicago bar. died on Saturday He made thenomi-
nation speech for Abraham Lincoln for President in
1850 aud performed the same service for Judge
Gresham in lSSS.
At the Thames Police Court, London, England, last
week a woman who had been convicted 2S7 times
at that AMI other courts, in the metropolis, was
charged with being drunk and disorderly- She got
1--WE days at hard labor.
sitting Bull. the famous Sioux chief is i'll with
pneumonia al Standing Rock Agency. Dakota He
cannot recover II will be remembered that Sitting
Bull massaered General Custer and many Of his
soldiers a few years ago.
Rev. Charles H. smith. formerly pastor of Pilgrim
Congregational Church, in Dorchester, Mass who
disappeared on April 9TH has been found in San
In IL tod his mind has hapu af-
fecied by the loss offs child.
Twenty-six men captured at dog fight in Long
Island City last Saturday night pleaded guilty on
Monday morning and were fined $40 each Five
Others pleaded not gull y, bat were convicted on
evidence of the police aud fined SO each.
on Sunday afternoon "Jacko" Walker a boatman
and fisherman, and Frank Davy were carried over
the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara. They started in a
boat for the head of Goat Island They lost control
Of the boat which was drawn into the current.
Dennis Carroll wife and two year old daughter
and Edmund Thomas aud wife thrown into
the Monongahela river at Pittsburg, on Sunday
evening by the upsetting of skiif, and the women
and child were drowned The men were drunk.
Postmaster General wanamaker on Saturday in
spected the Postofhce in New York city. He said
the Accommodations for work were very meagre. He
could hardly conceive he said, of dirtier building
in the country. The clerks work in eramped
quarters they are in almost total darkness and the
ventilation is poor.
The stockholders of the Southern White Lead
! Company of St Louis and Chicago have sold their
stock in the company to the National Lead Trust
The Eckstein Company, of Cincinnati, has also
signed a contract to sell the trust, and negotia
tions are also said to be pending for the absorption
! orthe Atlantic Mills, of brooklyn.
Two negroes entered cabin in which twelve
Hungarian miners were sleeping at Turkey Gap
Mcdowell county, w Va, on June T. and demanded
their money. One of the Hungarians drew pisto
and was shot dead The Hungarians then scattered
and the negroes looted the cabin. Joseph Parsons
and William Win are under arrest awaiting identi
J hcation.