The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-08-20
News of the Week.

inches high, at Bolivar, Mo-, on Tuesday
Five negro children were burned to death
| at Griffin. Georgia, on Tuesday night. They
were left alone while the family went to
church.
Thomas Price, colored of Wilmington,
Delaware, has been arrested for killing
Mariana White, his mistress. Jealousy was
the cause.
j. B. Tolbert, plantation superintendent,
was attacked by gang OF drunken negroes
in Memphis, Saturday night, and fatally
slashed with razors.
Jacob N. Grabill, bishop of the River
Brethren Church, died at his home, in Manor
township. Lancaster county, Pa, on Tues
day, aged 81 years.
Returns from the Fall River, Mass, mills
for the last quarter show that the mills are
now enjoying the most prosperous season ever
known in cotton manufacturing in that city.
A family named Morgan, of Hampden
Maine. were poisoned on Saturday by eating
potatoes on which paris green had been used
to kill bugs. Mrs. Morgan is in critical
condition.
Budd Dodle drove his mare Nancy Hanks
a mile in 2.O7I on the Washington Park track
at Chicago on Wednesday, lowering the trot-
ting record of LOST made by Maud s. at
Chenille Ohio, July 30, 1885.
The town Of Red Mountain, IA mining camp,
near Silverton, Colorado, was destroyed by
fire Sunday. The total loss is estimated at
$275, 900, with but little insurance. The fire
was started by an incendiary.
At Palmer, Indiana, the Chicago and Erie
Railroad track is sinking in quagmire. A
bridge eight feet high has disappeared, and
several thousands carloads of dirt have failed
to make any impression on the pit.
During last week 3ls carloads, containing
3SlS tons of green fruit, were shipped east
from California over the Central Pacific Road.
So far this season 6,G00,00O pounds more of
fruit has been shipped than last year.
The mutilated body of Mrs Matte Looney,
an aged woman of Marietta, Georgia, was
! found near her home Tuesday. VIM. Ellis,
an adopted son and the heir of the murdered
woman, is suspected of having committed the
! crime.
| Peter McCauley, farmer living near
/ Smithvile, No. got drunk on Saturday evening
and was arrested for breach of the peace. His
son William, hearing of his fathers disgrace.
( bought revolver, shot and killed him and
then killed himself
| +. W. Curry, member of the Democratic
State Committee of Iowa, on Saturday night,
shot and killed William F. Ellis, tough.
Ellis had repeatedly threatened to kill Curry,
ana made Il mOtOn 10 draw revolver upon
him when Curry fired.
Adam Gingery, of Pine Creek township,
Clinton county, Penna., died on Sunday. A
post-mortem examination showed that death
was caused by grain of wheat which had
lodged in the intestinal cul de sac known as
the vermiform appendix.
The Brooklyn Cooperage Company's build
ing, in New Orleans, was destroyed by fire
Sunday, causing a loss estimated at $3.50, 900.
The insurance is 100000. The Brooklyn
Company is auxiliary of the American
Sugar Refining Company.
Cahib Garrett and John Post, on one side, |
and Burton Brown and man named Davis |
fought with pistols and knives at Il Peoples |
Party Convention at Macaune, Texas, on
Monday. Two of them were killed and the !
other two fatally wounded.
Rev. Richard Deerng, of Louisville, Ky, |
died Monday in Chattanooga, after sixty |
years of service in the ministry. He was the |
oldest preacher in years and in point of serv-
ice in the Kentucky Conference Of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church South.
At Medora, North Dakota on Monday the
mercury ranged from l Is to 12S in the shade.
During the past week, in the west, the heat
has been intense, ranging from % to l04. |
Rain began falling on Thursday Gaming the
temperature 10 Iali SllBnIIy.
Knod, the Pittsburg Anarchist, was releas-
ed on bail on Saturday. Alexander Berg
mann, who shot and stabbed Chairman Frick,
on Saturday sent for lawyer and asked him
to conduct his case. Bergman has hereto
fore declared his intention of conducting his |
own defence.
Jennie Taylor of Hudson, Michigan, was
arrested Tuesday having 20 dynamite cart
ridges in her possession. She confessed that
she had intended to blow up the house, to- \
gether with her brother and sister, in order |
that she might secure the whole of her fathers |
estate of $50, 900
The body of Samuel f. Keller, sheriff of
Dauphin county, was found beside the Penn
sylvania Rairord track, east of Conewago
Station, Pa, Tuesday morning. He was in
Lancaster on Monday attending picnic, and |
it is supposed he was accidentally thrown
from IA train during the night while passing !
from one car to another.
Running the st. Lawrence Rapids is one
of the most exciting events in summer travel, |
but on Tuesday the 300 or more passengers
had more than they bargained for. new
steamer made the trip but the rudder rope
broke and the steamer drifted on the rocks
and will be wrecked. The passengers and
baggage were safely landed.
About 1000 people, most of them pleasure
seekers, sailed away from New York for
! Europe in a recent week, and during the
same week about 10000 immigrants, most of
them seeking new homes in this country,
/ came from foreign lands. A prominent bank
/ ing house estimated that each passenger, on
an average carries out of the country $3.50,
aud that the average immigrant brings in $50
While Howard Pulver was walking home
| in friendly converse with a stranger at Crete
! Illinois, on Saturday night, the stranger sud
/ denly attacked Pulver with ian old saucer"
slashing him fatally. The man then walked
back along the railroad track and committed
suicide by throwing himselfin front of a train.
/ 1t is supposed he was insane.
Logan Murphy, despe RADIO and murderer,
was hanged near Mount Sterling, Kentucky,
/ Tuesday morning by an armed mob of 800
| men, who took him from the Jail by force.
! He was dragged TO 2 trestle, rope was put
around his neck and he was pushed of.
4 He had been sentenced to death, but vas
granted respite, pending an application for
a rehearing.
/ While drunk on Saturday night at Home.
stead, Penna., Samuel Rogers, one of the
/ locked out workmep, tried to pass the sentry
| line. He was challenged, but, dlsregarding |
the notification, tried to pass on. The sentry,
who belongs to the 10Th Regi ment showed his
bayonet into the leg of the man. The wound
is painful, but not dangerous Rogers was
arrested and taken to camp.
! Arsenic was placed in the well on the farm
/ Of John Rosser, at Oak Grove, Delaware, last
/ week and as q result Raymond Rosser, aged
years, died on the 18th instant; John Rosser
and his wife are in critical condition, and |
| George and Joe Williams, eolored farm |
hands, are dying. William Evans, a brother.
in-law of Rosser's, is suspected of the crime, |
having been heard to threaten to kill the |
ghole Rosser family. He has been arrested
The stockade at Tracy City, Tennessee, in
which the conyicts employed by the Teppes-
see Coal, Iron and Railroad Company were |
confined was burned on Saturday morning by |
a mob of miners. The property of the com.
pany was first removed, and the convicts, $50 |
in number, were led out under gard and lock
/ ed up in railroad box cars. The stockade |