The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-12-19
News of the Week.


and many persons are seriously i'll from it.
Diphtheria is epidemic at Wheatland, Min
nesota. Seven deaths have occurred, and
the schools are closed.
William jackson, of Ellsworth, Me-, has
loss six wives within the past fifty years,
the last having died few weeks since.
The head of the New York bomb -thrower
was fully identified by his parents as that of
Henry L. Norcross, the Boston note broker.
1t is stated that in 1890 the number of per-
sons killed in India by snakes was q ,4l2,
while the number of snakes slaughtered was
510,650.
The longest and heaviest train ever carried
over any road in this country consisted of225
loaded four wheel coal cars on the Lehigh
Valley Railway.
William Drummond, the wealthiest colored
man in Rockbridge county, Va, died in Lex
ington on Tuesday. He was worth $4,000,
made in the carpenters business since the
war.
San Gabrill Valley, Los Angeles and other
parts of California were visited by a severe
storm on Thursday and Friday of last week,
destroying orange groves and buildings.
Several lives were lost
Ellen Cavoney was arrested in Lawrence,
Massachusetts, on Saturday, on the charge OF
having poured boiling water on the head and
shoulders of her husband, who died in the
hospital in great agony.
| DR.. II. W. Morgan, one of the leading
physicians of Alabama, attempted suicide, on
Saturday, at Dayton, Alabama, by taking
morphine. He was revived, when he i'm
mediately shot himself through the head.
Edward NJ. Field the banker of New York,
who failed about two weeks ago, and who
assumed the role of mad or crazy man, and
was placed in an asylum, has been lodged III
Jail. His insanity was bogus and he will now
be tried for larceny.
AT Vicksburg, Mississippi, on Friday night
/ of last week, Albert Coleman, colored,
/ poured molten lead in the ear of his wife
! while she was asleep, and also on the face Of
! his child. The woman is dead, but the child
may recover. Coleman was arrested.
| The situation at Brazil, Indiana, among the
/ striking bituminous coal miners has become
desperate. Many of the strikers are said to
be on the verge of starvation, and in some
places they are totally without fuel, the mine
owners refusing to sell them coal.
Frank Tone, of Poughkeepsie, New York,
became suddenly insane Sunday, and made
murderous attack with a razor upon his wife.
Her screams brought assistance, and, although
\ sue WAS Dtull cut ubT lIluIlt5 were uDb ldldls
| Tone cut his own throat before he could be
disarmed.
In St. Petersburg, England, the grip has
assumed an alarming form. Some patients
| become mad and rush wildly through the
streets in violent paroxysms, then have high
/ fever and utter prostration, often followed by
death. In other cases there are typhoid de-
velopments.
The wheat crop of Kansas would supply
/ population of $4,000, 900, or one fifth Of the
/ population of the country. 1t would take
/ l45, 900 cars of 400 bushels each to haul the
wheat grown in Kansas this year No other
I State in the Union has ever produced so
much surplus wheat.
! Last week Lake Michigan suddenly fell
two feet four inches below the lowest point
/ ever known, and there was Il water famine.
! The cause of the sudden fall is a mystery. A
/ similar occurrence was noticed in all the
lakes, while at Buffalo nearly all the vessels
in harbor were aground.
I While clerk in Little Rock, Arkansas,
! jewelry store was showing two trays of dia.
monds to Il stranger on Wednesday evening,
a masked man entered. seized the trays and,
throwing cayenne pepper into the clerk s
eyes, both strangers rushed out and into Il
dark alley near by, making good their es-
:
George w. Stewart, inventor of the sea
telephone, died suddenly in New York
on the 9th inst. of heart disease He went
/ to New York from Adairsville, Ga, to induce
! New \ FORK capitalists to invest money in his
invention, which he had perfected so that one
/ vessel could communicate with another Il
mile and half distant by submarine wire.
The volcano of Colima, in Mexico, is now
amt nfl chnp ,v,1
smoke, and at night the country, for many
miles around, is illuminated by the glare.
{ Strong winds have carried the ashes distance
] of 400 miles. The villagers living near the
volcano have been ordered to quit their homes
and seek places of safety.
Pennsylvania counties will probably have to
spend $500, 600 for ballot boxes and booths
/ with which to put in operation the modified
Australian ballot law. This new system of
voting has now been extended to nearly
every State in the Union except the Southern
I States, where but few have adopted it. 1t
will be first applied in Pennsylvania at the
! Presidential election in 1892.
I Joe Patterson, negro, of Bosvin, La,
! on SATURDAY. murdered his wife and in his
effort to escape shot and killed Daniel Wal.
/ lace and seriously wounded J. B. Lay. On
/ Sunday Patterson returned to his house and
/ blew out his brains. The mob, which had
been on his trail, removed the body of the
murdered woman and sat fire to the house,
burning Patterson's body with it.
One hundred wealthy citizens of Milwaukee
have signed a guarantee for fund of $780,
600 to pay the expenses of the Democratic
( National Convention, should it be secured for
their city. A committee of 100 will go to
! Washington next month to urge Milwaukee, S
claims upon the Democratic National Com.
mittee Each member of the committee will
wear dark suit, with cream colored trim
mings
( Mrs. A II. Bruce, Mrs. l.. D. Hatch and
her little son, and Master Frank Packwood
were found murdered, on Saturday, in their
cottage, near Smyrna, Florida. They had
recently gone to Florida, from the North, to
spend the winter. There is no clue to the
murder, though the indications are that some
| of their relatives who are interested in some
financial matters, employed some one to do
the deed.
Members of the Life Saving Service on
Saturday last presented Mrs. S. S. Cox, of
New York, with solid silver vase, more than
two feet high, in grateful recognition of the
unceasing and successful efforts of her late
distinguished husband in behalf of that service
while he was in Congress- The purchase was
men and members of the service throughout
the country.
The Mikado of Japan has made a PROPOSE
ton to the management of the Worlds Fair
to erect permanent building upon the
grounds, surround it with a typical Japanese
garden, and then make the city of Chicago a
present of the buildings and garden. The
Mikado is willing to spend 100000 on it if
the Worlds Fair Board gives him the site he
wants. This is about two acres at the north
end of the wooded island,
A terrible accident occurred on Saturday
on the State Belt Railroad, now building, near
Wenksvile, Adams county, Pa. A blast was
being prepared, and five pounds of powder
had been used. In attempting to increase the
srlnount the powder became ignited, and
terrific explosion occurred. A Hungarian,
4 who had charge of the blast, was blown thirty
feet in the air and instantly killed. A half
dozen others we're injured.
| A despatch from Santa Fe on Wednesday