The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-05-07
News of the Week.

Labor strikes began on Monday in almost
every city in the Union, the men demanding
nine hours pay for eight hours labor.
Mr.. James I. Wolcott, of Dover, has been
appointed chancellor of the State of Della
ware to succeed the late Willard Salisbury.
Henry Huston, aged sixty years, census
examiner in Philadelphia, has been arrested,
charged with fraud against the government.
Rev. NJ. L. Weakley, the Oldest Methodist
Episcopal minister in the United States, died
in Berlin, Somerset county, Penna., on Sat
urday, aged 95 years.
Rev. J. K. Demarest, for II years pastor
of the Presbyterian church at Gettysburg, Pa,
died on Sunday night at Hackensack, N. j.,
from the effects of the grip.
John w. Lafferty was acquitted at Gettys-
burg, Pa, on Thursday of last week of the
charge of having caused the death of Z year
old colored boy by i'll treatment
Rev. DR.. W. f. Evans, pastor of CRANKY
Street Methodist Episcopal Church South,
Norfolk, Va, has resigned, and will enter the
ministry of the Episcopal Church.
The main shaft of the engine of the Will.
mantle Linen Company at Willimantic, Con-
necticut, broke on Saturday, wrecking the
engine and engine house. Loss $4,000.
The British steamship Tynehead sailed
from New York Monday with 1000, 900
pounds of wheat for Riga, Russia, the contri-
button of the farmers of Iowa for the famine
sufferers.
Noah Confer, farm hand, near Belletonte,
Pa, has been lodged in Jail on a charge of as
sault upon the 9-year old child of James Da-
Wis, his employer. The child is in preca
rious condition.
Charles Shane, aged 10 years, who lived
near Boyertown, Bucks county, Penna., was
| found hanging to timber in ''pig stable,
on..Friday night. The coroner's jury decided
that he accidentally hung himself in play"
The Charleston News and Courier has re-
| ports from every county in South Carolina
showing that the cotton acreage has been re-
duced about % per cent, and that the acre.
age taken from cotton is being given 10 bread
crops.
| A car on the San Francisco and San Mateo
Railroad, an electric motor line, jumped the
track Monday evening and was overturned
| The car was filled with passengers, and Is
were more or less injured, and three fatally
injured.
Indians from Lower California, who have
have arrived at Yuma, A;iz., report that the
volcanoes near Lake Sullulee, close to the
| Gulf of California, are in active eruption, and
] tnaI Ine eruption Has Dtei ttteHueu ny e'iItii-
quake shocks.
DIR. Leslie G. Kelley, the wealthy proprie-
| tor T.: the famous hi chloride of gold institute
| is threatened with death by person signing
the name of frankie Parsons, who says DIR.
Kelley is responsible for her husbands
Heath. She demands 100000.
Among litter of pigs belonging to Thomas
Scott, near Montpelier, Ind, one was found
with the ears, nose and trunk even to the
tusks of an elephant, while the legs and feet
/ and the body were those of natural formation.
The pig lived but short time.
The Lancaster Watch Factory, at Lancaster,
Penna., which has been in operation for some
months under the management ofthe assignee,
shut down definitely on Saturday, all the
stock having been used up. Several hundred
hands are thrown out of employment.
The first Buddhist cremation in this coun
try took place at Los Angeles, California,
Friday, when the body of Byron Adonis,
one Of the most advanced adopts of the Cir
Gle of Theosophists, was incinerated with the
ceremonies attending Buddhist funeral.
Sandow, the strong man, recently missed
some Of his valuables, and traced the robbery
to two OF his acquaintance. Casually meet
ing these acquaintance in the street, he
picked them up, one in each hand, and car
were locked up.
The fiftieth anniversary of the ministry of
Rev. Joseph A. SeisS, d. D., LII. D., Pastor
of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the
Holy Communion, Philadelphia, Pa, was eel
ebrated in the church Tuesday evening.
There was large gathering Of distinguished
clergyman and others.
James Mahurran attempted TO stop Il run
away team attached to a pillow near Fort Scott,
| Kan, Friday night. He was knocked down,
the point of the pillow striking hin. below the
/ hip and tearing IA furrow along his body clear
to his neck. Before assistance could reach
him he bled 10 death.
A negro murderer, lyman Purdie, was
taken from Jail at Elizabethtown, North Caro-
! lin, on Sunday night, ard hanged from n limb
of tree. Purde had killed young white
man who had found him robbing barn. The
negroes believed him guilty, but are greatly
excited over the lynching.
A company has been formed at Christiana,
Norway, to reproduce as seaworthy a vessel
as can be sailed across the ocean to exhibit at
the Worlds Fair. 1t will be an exact model
of the Viking boat discovered some years
ago in an ice foe. The original boat is so
feet long and II feet wide with a cross at the
bow.
A census bulletin Just issued shows the mum.
Der of dwellings in the United States tobe II, :
Asa, 3lS, as compared with 1856, So in 1880.
The average number of persons in dwelling
is 5.45, as against 800 in $780, Massachu-
sets, Rhode Island and New York are most
densely peopled, having more than six per
sons to dwelling.
Judge Ridgely, ofNashville, Tenn, charged
the grand jury to investigate the lynching of
the two colored men Friday and Saturday
night. He said that all who were present, or
aiding or abetting, were guilty Of murder.
The negroes had assaulted two young ladies
i'll the presence of dying sister, aged IA,
whom they were nursing.
What is claimed to be the biggest port wine
sale ever known in England is arranged to
take place next month, when Il, 900, 900 bot.
ties will be offered. To get these bottles out
of the auetioneer's hands will cost over
! So, 200, 900, and yet this amount of port does
not represent more than seven months or
binary consumption in the United Kingdom.
Margaret Helmsley, colored, died at Dover,
| Delaware, on Tuesday last. She was les
years old on Wednesday of last week She
| had spent her whole life with members of one
tamily--the Whartons-and her aye was am
ply vouched for by her freedom papers. She
retained all her faculties, was sick but eight
days prior to her death, and had always de.
/ CldIcO SllC uGNSI hHcN u udy ) SlChueSS III utF
| life.
! Wyoming contemplates sending woman
delegate to the Republican National Conven-
ton at Minneapolis. Miss Emma Schultz
and Mrs. Fidela Elliott, both of Cheyenne,
| are candidates for the honor. They have
be N elected delegates to the State Conven-
ton, and Cheyenne despatch says it is
thought one of them will be chosen Nation
al delegate.
Dispatches from Warsaw, Poland, state
! that out of the $4,000 Polish emigrauts who
| went to Brazil 1900 are recorded as having
returned. 1t is estimated that $4,000 Poles
Jied in Brazil from the yellow fever The
many bad reports from Brazil have diverted
the stream OF emigration to the United States,
and this has been increased by the recent
bad harvests in Poland.
David H. Ames, of Jerseyville, Ills, who
celebrated his Tooth anniversary on Sunday
weighs over 200 pounds, has never, it is said,
/ exnendad S25 for doctors never uSad intOv;