The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-01-02

! dispute over piece of land in Shade
| Valley, Pa, between John Norris and the
Chilcoat brothers, has led to hostilities, each
of the disputants, with an armed body Of ad-
herents, keeping guard over the other from
opposite hills
| An Erie Railway transfer float, loaded with
II cars carrying 100 head of cattle, while being
towed up the East River, at New York
! Sunday, struck on Black Rock. A hole
was stove in the fiat causing it to sink, and
| l43 head of cattle were drowned. Loss SlO,-
| 600.
| BY mistake in train orders collision
between two freight trains occurred on Tues,
day at Chillicothe, Missouri, on the Hannibal
| and St. Joseph Railroad. -Four men were
killed and two fatally injured. Eleven cars
| of cattle were wrecked and the animals were
/ burned to death.
During the months of August and Septem-
/ Der in the city and vicinity Of Noronezh,
| Russia, more than FIVE thousand horses were
| killed for their hides, because their owners
/ had no food for them. The slaughtering OF
! good horses has continued at even a larger
rate since that time.
/ William S. Elliott, DR., assistant state
attorney at Chicago, is i'll from nervous pros
tration, caused by the discovery Of plot to
] take MS lie. IL Is Salu ne HIS DetH lS
/ ouently threatened by criminals, and was
once assaulted and dangerously wounded by
a criminal whose conviction he had secured.
4 severe blizzard ragged on Friday and
| Saturday of last week throughout the North
west, with temperatures near and below zero.
/ The storm extended to Kansas and Colorado.
| In Wyoming heavy loss of stock is reported.
| Heavy SHOWS, causing delays to railroad travel,
were reported throughout Oregon and Wash
ington on Saturday.
Gen ". Raymond Lee, graduate of
! West Point and soldier of the Mexican war
and the late war died in Boston, on Saturday,
( aged 81 years. In 1861 he was commissioned
! Colonel of the Twentieth Massachusetts In
iantry and was captured at Balls Bluff and
confined for months as hostage in the Rich
mond Jail. Upon his release he returned to
Boston, and in 1858 was appointed by Gov.
4 ernor Andrew Chief Engineer with rank of
4 Brigadier General on his staff.
r Robert Sims, Thomas Savage and two
4 young sons of Con Savage, who were besieg-
/ ed by the sheriff in Choctaw county, Alabama,
I surrendered on Saturday morning rather than
| that Sims wife and daughters should be ex
| posed to the certain death which threatened
the entire party. The sheriff started with
his prisoners towards Butler, but mob over
/ LOOK MIN anu hahgeu the iour hleh 10 tree;
On their way they met Con Savage, one of
Sims gang,and he too was summarily lynched.
| Several cowboys took possession of train
| on the International and Great Northern
road. near San Antonio, Texas, on Sunday
night They got on board at Buda station,
| and their first act was to force Chicago
drummer off the moving train because he
wore red cravat and high silk hat They
then made number of young ladies in the
/ Pullman car sing for them. All their de-
mands were enforced with drawn pistols.
After terrorizing the train for twenty miles
/ they got off at a way station.