The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-05-21
News of the Week.

Diptheria prevails to an alarming extent
in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Several persons have been arrested in
Philadelphia, Pa, for offering for sale mon
key veal.
A cave-in on the SOO-feet level of the Ana
conda mine, at Butte, Montana, killed eight
miners on Saturday.
A congregation of the Greek Church has
been organized in Chicago by orthodox
Russians residing there.
Gen. Thomas A. Rowley, who served in the
Mexican war and in the late war diedin Pitts
burg on Saturday, aged IS years.
Long distance photography has at last
been accomplished, and pictures are now
made of objects two miles distant.
The Cotton block on Capitol street, Charles
ton, West Virginia, was damaged by lire on
Tuesday night to the extent of S30,00
Thomas Davis and Henry Dickson, negroes,
were hanged in Nashville, Illinois, on Satur-
day, for the murder of Marcus Deitsch.
After eating heartily of hailstones which
fell on Saturday, a Scottsburg (lnd. girl was
taken violently sick and died soon after.
Fred C. Pillsbury, of the great Minneapolis
milling firm of Pillsbury Il Co., died on Sun
day Of malignant diphtheria, aged Ss years.
During 1891 the number of persons that
emigrated to this country from Europe was
334 ,543; in 1890 there were 315, $3.50 emigrants.
David Halter, a wealthy farmer, ofNewark,
| Ohio, shot his wife and cut his own throat
on Saturday. Both are in precarious con-
dition.
! There is no sign abatement of the granite
| cutters strike. 1t is estimated that 10000
men have been thrown out of work by the
strike.
A severe earthquake was left on Wednes-
day morning in the county of Cornwall, Eng
| land. The earth trembings were so great
that houses rocked to and fro on their founda-
tons Many persons, believing that their
houses were about to fall, rushed out in their
night dresses.
A mob of 200 men broke into Jail at Clarks-
Vile. Ga, at o'clock Tuesday morning,
took thereform three colored men charged
with the murder of Night Policeman Carter
at Toccoa last week, and hanged them all on
one limb of large oak tree.
Rev. William F. Speake, Pastor of the
| Fourth Street Methodist Church, died sudden
ly of heart failure in Washington, ID. C., on
Sunday aged 60 years. He had just finished
talking to the Sunday school children wher
he was taken suddenly ILL.,
The contract for building the road from
! Alexandria to Mt. vernon mas Deen gwen &c
New York parties, and the work will be com
menced at once. The 18th of August Is
named as the latest time by which the road
will be completed and in running order.
A suit for. SO, 900 damages against DIR
Kelley has been filed by j. I. Kitchen
administrator of the estate of Charles Stock
dell at indianapolis, Indiana. On Decembe
10th StockdelI entered the Kelley Institute
at Dwight, and on the l4th he died, hence
the action.
James Dooley, who murdered his amt
Mrs William Coons, and her 10year OLD
child, near Corning, Iowa, has been captur
ed. He confessed his guilt, and an angry
mob attempted to lynch him, but the prisoner
was taken to Council Bluffs Jail under
strong guard.
: A strike is threatened on the Michigan
: Division of the Big -Four Railroad. Represen
tatives of every branch of the service hav'
formulated demand for an increase of wage
to the standard paid on other divisions of tn
road, and threaten to ''tie-up" the entire roa'
unless the'request is granted.