The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-04-02
News of the Week.


Indians who control 100000 acres of the public
land.
English capitalists said TO have secured an
option ON the Memphis cotton compress. the price
being Sl50OO0J
Torrential rains in North Dakota and Northern
Minnesota on Tuesday are reported to have done
great damage to the wheat.
The steamer City of Detroit passed out of the De-
troit river into Lake Erie on Monday morning,
being the first of the season.
pig with one head, but two perfectly formed
bodies and eight legs, was born alive in Wilkinson
county Georgia. a few weeks ago.
Mr. Potter, aged "A years, of Bowling Green, Ken
lucky. Is one of II living brothers. Not death
having occurred for g. years in the family.
An epidemic among recently foaled colts, which
destroys four-ffths of them Immediately after birth,
is reported in Montana and also in Kentucky.
In less than "a hours over 900 worth ofpropery
was burned in Philadelphia, Pa. on Saturday night
and Sunday, and 2G5O hands were thrown out of
employment
Mrs. Elizabeth Clark Hudson. aged % years died
in Wilmington. DEL on Monday She was a native
of Sussex county, aud was well up to short time
before her death
General Surrel is said to have invented an eectri
cal instrument for striking a ship when fourteen
miles distant from New York blow equal in force
to 5000 foot tons.
Nine. Regina Nancy, of Lisbon, lineal descen-
dant of the wife of Columbus, is preparing gene
illogical tree of the Columbus family for exhibition
at the Worlds Fair.
Rev. Joshua Shultz, Il well known schwenkfelder
preacher, fell dead in a pulpit during funeral
service near Palm Station Berks county, Pa, We'd
nesday afternoon. He was over so years ofage.
The Baltimore Methodist Episcopal Conference at
Harrisonville, Va, on Saturday adopted the report
Of a committee condemning and discountenancing
the indiscriminate OF pulpits by irresponsible
so-called evangelists.
James Mcclure, of Port Carbon, Pa, II loader
the Eagle Hill Colliery, on Monday evening jumped
from car upon drill which had been left in the
| gangway. The drill pierced his abdomen to
depth of five inches.
! 4 scaffold in New York city, upon which two
painters were at work, struck by passing ele-
waited railroad train on Monday morning. and the
men were thrown into the street; one was killed
and the other seriously hurt
W. L. Pert, attorney of Kittaning, Pa, has filed
! charges of mismanagement and barbarous treat
ment of patients against the officials of the Warren
Insane Asylum, of Warren. Pa. He asks the State
authorities TO investigate his charges.
! John and William Bloom and Edward Daniels
were arrested in Detroit Sunday night in the act
of kindling fire in large furniture factory. They
have confessed to setting fire to twenty-one diff
| ferent places since the first of January
| The Wyoming Methodist Episcopal Conference, at
| wilkesbarre, Pa. on Saturday, acted favorably
the amendment admitting women delegates to the
General Conference, but the proposition for equal
representation of the laity and clergy rejected.
despatch from Holly Springs, Miss, says that
| Mrs. c. X. Smith, wife of white laborer living
farm near that city, on Sunday gave birth to six
/ babies all boys well developed and weighing in
I the aggregate As pounds The mother and babies
are doing well. They have been named Lee,
Jackson. vanhorn, Grant Sherman and Buell..
A tornado swept over Plat county, Illinois, on
Saturday dwelling buildings and destroying many
thousands of dollars worth of property No loss of
life is reported On the same day there was
heavy fall of snow at Omaha, Nebraska. 1t was
said to be the heaviest of the season. and eegraphic
communication was completely cut off for a hours.
Seven Hungarians who had recently landed in
New York were arrested as Migrants at Saratoga
Tuesday and were sent back to New York. They
said that their passage had been paid to New York
from Vienna, which city they had left in nearly
destitute circumstances having but from 81 to SO
in their possession, and that they had no work in
view
rotary of the Interior that there are the
pleted files awaiting adjudication ISL $50 cases. of
which number ~ 49 are original invalid claims,
% 6GI original widows and dependents claims and
79,5lS increase and new disabilities claims. This
lot of cases constitutes about five months'-wsEk for
the office.
| despatch from Chamberlain, South Dakota,
says that stockmen west of the Missouri river are
making active preparations for the spring roundup.
g,,a roh
the winter so small not to be worth mentioning.
II is believed shipments this season will be the
heaviest ever made from the stock ranges of Western
South Dakota.
There is said to be negro, Is years old living
near Rutedge, Ga, that bears remarkable resem-
blance to sheep. His skin is black, but his head.
face and the rest of his body covered with long,
| thick white wool. The wool on his body appeared
when he was u years old and was perfectly white
then. He has a special fondness for sheep, and
often sleeps with them.
certificate of incorporation of the United States
Rubber Company. capital s5O,OOO.OOO, has been filed
at New Brunswick NJ J. The object ofthe company
is to manufacture and deal in rubber goods, buy
material for manufacturers and shares of stocks and
patents of other rubber companies. Every rubber
company of any size in this country is in the com
bination which has bought controlling interest in
the stock except one company in Boston
After sensational trial lasting several days Rev.
Samuel J. Gotten, rector of Carough, Ireland on
Tuesday was found guilty of manslaughter of a boy
| named Brown and of other charges of cruelty in
| connection with his management of an orphanage
in the county of Kildare The Society of the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Children made an invcstga-
| ton last year regarding the manner in which the
| orphanage was conducted, and horrible state of
| affairs was revealed.
] iTht five
whites visited Dennis Cobb, a well-to-do negro,
| compelled him to accompany them away from his
| house and hung him TO a tree. As soon as he was
pulled up each took shot at him and Immediately
left Several bullets struck him, but he still lived
aud struggled to free himself Finally the limb to
which he was hanging broke and he crawled to his
house, several hundred feet away, where he soon
died from loss of blood and exhaustion.
Dispatches from London, England, on March 2S
say: Severe snow storms are again reported in the
north of Wales England and Scotland, with drifts
from two to five feet high. The storm was terrible
off Berwick, and it is feared that the Newcastle
| steamer Homerook foundered, with loss of II
| lives. A mangled body has been washed ashore
| there, and portion of vessel and her masts are
visible from Berwick. Several persons in Scotland
were frozen to death, were also horses and cattle
The residence of NJ. Boulet, the public prosecutor
of Paris France the scene of an explosion sun
day evening in which eight pounds of explosive
was used, the effect being to rock houses in each
direction for eighth of mile as if by an earth
quake. and to crack and bulge walls and shatter
windows. Though the prosecutors house was
wrecEeu, ne escaped WITHOUT INJURY IL Is DeiIeNeu
to be a part of the campaign of the anarchist
against the lives of all who have taken part in the
conviction of any Of their number.
What will probably be the greatest real estate law
suit in the history New York is about to be begun
by the heirs of Thomas DUNCAN who was Governor
of the colony of New York in $780, to test the title to
millions of dollars worth Of real estate located IN
that city and now in the possession of some OF the
wealthiest and most influential men in the city
The property involved includes many lols DC
tween whitehall street and the City Hall, and the
majority of the lots touch Broadway, making them
the most valuable pieces of real estate in the city
f. NJ Hotter has made the final surveys for hi
electric road over the battlefield of Gettysburg and
it will be finished by June 1st The road will b.