The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-05-30

colored conyicts and one free miner. named Thos
Moore were killed. 1t is believed that the men had
in some way knocked off plank from door which
stood across an old chamber and on which the WORD
gas was written. The gas rushed ont and caught
fire from the lamp.
special committee of the Michigan Senate, in
vestgating the Adrian Industrial Home for Girls has
found that girls who boisterous are compelled
to submit to hyperdermic injections of some fluid
the nature OF which is unknown TO the person:
giving the injections. Girls have been confined fol
twenty days and nights in a dark cell. with nc
furniture OH bread and water. Gross carelessness
and negligence are also charged.
Mrs. Jennie Hinnichs, aged Il years, who arrived
at Baltimore Nd, on the steamship Muenchen on
the Goth instant has been ordered be returned To
Germany, because she is suffering from the tuber
culous disease known lupus, which is held Il
come under the terms of the law excluding aliens
suffering from loathsome or contagious disease
Her son. who lives in German Valley Illinois, {.
willing to support her, but Treasury officials hold
that the law is mandatory.
train was held up near Enfield, Maine, on
Monday evening. by four men, who fired at the en-
gineer and cars. The leader of the gang Was armed
with rife the Others with revolyers. They fired
several shots into the baggage and mail cars but
the engineer pulled the train out before any one
was injured. The station agent at Enfield was fired
at by the men as he was hanging out signal light.
The glass of the lantern was broken and the light
extinguished. The men ordered him to leave, and
he did so.
On Friday and Saturday Of last week all the trains
on the Milwaukee railroad, near Mankato Mime
sofa, were delayed by caterpillars, which had
crawled upon the rails to sun themselves. The
sand boxes were soon exhausted and two engines
were hardly sufficient TO move the train. The
morning freight was hour aud ten minutes in
going two miles The caterpillars were ground into
masses of grease, which the wheels slipped like
so much butter. The caterpillars have been a pest
in that locality for two weeks.
Pension Commissioner Raum last week approved
and signed pension certificate for sl65OO in favor
of John G. Hildt, formerly of Company X, First
Michigan Volunteer Infantry. This pension is for
a gunshot wound in the right arm, causing amputa-
tion and resulting in nervous prostration and in-
sanity and dates from 1862, for amounts per month
varying from s25 to SIS. Hildt had been an inmate
of the Government Insane Asylum, near Washing
ton, since 1862 and question arises as to whether
the Government should be reimbursed .from this
money for his care in the asylum since that year
Miss Mary Elizabeth Mtnn, of Washington, d. c..
has conveyed in trust to the American Security
and Trust Company eight lots now valued at $50.
600 in the northwestern sc :tion of that CITY, the pr
mary purpose of the trust being to devote the in.
come of the property after her death to the support
Of cathedral endowment to be created by the
Protestant Episcopal Church of the District of
Columbia and is constantly improving 1t will be
the beginning Of an endo yment fund for u great
National Protestant Episcopal Cathedral establish
ment, embodying not only magnificent house of
worship, but schools and oth,r institutions together
with houses for the cathedral STAFF.