The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-03-12
News of the Week.


New York city is suffering from cyclone
of crime three celebrate murders being report
ed in one night.
A wire rope was rectly constructed in
England which was six mieles long and weigh
ed twenty. four tons.
1t is reported that two-foot vein of ore,
worth $1,000 per ton, has Just been uncovered
six miles from Fairplay, Colorado.
An electric railway is projected, which it
to run from St. Petersburg to Archangel,
Russia, distance of more than 800 miles.
1t is announced that the Canadian Gov
eminent will take the duty off binding Irvine
as concession to the farmers of Manitoba.
Foot and mouth disease is prevailing to
such an extent in Scotland that hundreds of
cattle, sheep and hogs are being slaughtered.
George Heuch, aged 81 years, of Carlisle,
| Pa, died on Wednesday, from the effects of
the grip. He was prominent in business cir
cles.
j. Berkely Grimball died in Charleston,
S. c., on Monday aged 90 years. He was
the oldest living graduate of Princeton
| College.
The population of New York city, ex-
| elusive of inmates of State institutions, is
! 1880, sol, according to the State census just
completed.
Geneva College, at Beaver Falls, Pa, has
suspended its sessions owing to the preva-
lence of scarlet fever among the families of
the professors.
Nearly thousand people committed sui
eide in Paris last year. The favorite method
was by drowning, by which 231 ended their
existence.
! A exodus of colored residents of Arkansas,
in the vicinity of Helena, has been taking
place within the past few weeks. many families
having left for Oklahoma.
The bodies of Robert Sicily, Bart. Grum
well and James Roberts were found in the
ice in Erie Bay, Pa, on Sunday. They had
been missing since Thanksgiving Day, on
which date they went duck shooting on the
bay
DIR. r. S. Paine, who keeps the Peabody
Hotel in Philadelphia, Pa, has been arrested
for having in his employ Chinese cook who
was suffering from leprosy. The doctor stated
he knew the man was diseased but he didn
pay him wages.
Suit is to be brought in the United States
Court against the city of New Orleans by the
families of the unnaturalized Italians who
were lynched in connection with the Hennes-
sey affair. The claims will amount to from
Sl50.OOO to 100000.
Robert Mcclure, agent of the Pittsburg,
PA. Law and Order League, who has been
waging war on dealers in Sunday newspapers,
has been arrested on the charge Of perjury in
connection with one of the prosecutions in
stituted by him.
Congressman John W. Kendall, of Ken
lucky, was stricken with apoplexy at his
home in Washington Sunday morning, and
died Monday evening. Mr.. Kendall was
serving his first term in the House, and
was 5s years old.
A store at Boyle's Station, near Cleveland,
Mississippi, was burned on Tuesday night by
two negroes, who complained that the con-
tractor who erected the building had failed to
pay them for their work. They were captured
by posse after being badly wounded.
The discomfort among the large number Of
unemployed workingmen in Leipsic, Ger.
many, is spreading, and fears are entertained
that trouble will follow, the agitation being
carried on among them by socialists unless
repressive measures are employed.
Dinah Hogan, aged lis years, died at
Otterville, Illinois, on Saturday. She was
the oldest person in the county. 1t is said
she could remember being brought from
Africa when very young She was slave of
General Hogan, of Pettis county Missouri
A Swede known as Better, who was employ
ed in the terra Gotta works of Ames X Lyle,
near Woodbridge, n. j.. was beheaded on
Thursday by a new machine which he was
curiously examining. He had been warned
a few moments before to keep away from the
machine.
Rood Williams, Il farmer, shot and killed
himself in Chicago on Monday night. 1t is
claimed that Williams, who was the inventor
of a method of making paper Irvine, was so
hare ssaI in his affprts N form n n
use his invention by the National Cordage |
Company that he lost his reason.
A posse of deputy sherifls went to make
some arrests at resort of disordery negroes |
known as the Curve near Memphis, Ten |
nessee, on Saturday night, when they were |
fred upon. Deputy Cole was fatally wound |
ed and three others were seriously wounded. |
Monday 20 negroes were arrested, charged |
with participation in shooting.
At Santa Fe, New Mexico, Rodrigo Mar
tinez a miner who had Just returned from |
long stay in Mexico, was stabbed to the heart |
and killed by his mother, on Monday evening. |
1t had been represented to the woman that !
her son had been killed and she mistook her |
son for the murderer. When she found her |
mistake she cut her own throat
A hight between white teamsters and
negroes took place at Clark's Cross Roads, |
henIucky, on SATURDAY, Us result oi winch
four negroes were killed and three or four
seriously wounded, and two of the white men
were wounded. One of the white men struck
a negro with whip, withou provocaton,
whereupon / negroes attacked the teamsters
with the result stated.
J. W. Collins, formerly of York, Pa, late
President of the California National Bank at
San Diego. committed suicide on Friday of
last week. He was defaulter to the amount
of 5000, 900, and the bank was closed. Twelve
years ago he was clerk in the Shrewsbury
Savings bank. Collins had hosts of friends
who would not believe the news of his defal-
cation until the bank was closed and his trans
actions made public.