The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-12-30
News of the Week.

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Henry W. Paine, an eminent lawyer, died
at his residence, in Cambridge, Mass, on
Tuesday morning, aged SO years.
Two cases of cholera were reported at
Liege, Belgium, on Tuesday, where it was
supposed to have been stamped out.
Secretary Gresham has instructed Minister
White. at st. Petersburg, TO inform the Rus
sian government that assisted" immigrants
will not be allowed to land in the United
States.
A professional beggar left $l7. 900 to his
son. The son and his wife and mother-in-
law went promptly on spree, spent the
money within year, and landed in the sta
ton house as dsorderly characters.
According to the New York Press, the
railroad bankruptcies of 1893 involve IS com
NAMES. 3, 1878 miles of railroad and $l,Gll,
9S4. 900 in bonds and stocks. Ii is a record
without precedent in the worlds history.
John T. Quinn, former base ball player,
of Wilmington, Delaware, was arrested on
Tuesday. charged with larceny. John NJ.
Sewall. the proprietor of a saloon, is the
complainant He says Quinn broke into
penny, in-the. slot machine in his saloon and
robbed it.
John M. Houston, who was recently strick
en- with paralysis, died on Dec. 25, near
Georgetown, Del He was 60 years of age
and was "A member of the well known HOus
ton family of Sussex county. He was State
treasurer under Gov. Stockler, and brother
of Speaker of the Senate Chas. b. Houston.
The funeral of ex Governor Benjamin I.
Biggs, of Delaware, took place on Thursday
last. Rev. n. NJ. Brown, pastor of the NJ.
+. Church in Middletown, Of which he was
"A member, conducted the services Inter
ment was made in Bethel cemetery, Pivot
Bridge, near Chesapeake City, Cecil county,
Maryland
George May received telegram stating
that the remains of his brother, Fred. May,
who died September LIST at the Isle of Wight.
England, had arrived in New York. The
body came on the steamship La Bretagne
from Havre, and was forwarded 10 Baltimore
to the establishment of Henry w. jenkins
Sons, where it arrived on Tuesday night
Mrs. Elwood Morgan. of Bridgevile. Del,
was struck and instantly killed on Monday
night by a freight train Of the Delaware Rail-
road. She was crossing the Seaford bridge
and did not hear the approaching train. just
as she reached the end of the bridge the en-
CINE struck her, throwing her under the
wheels. Her body WAS horribly mangled.
The Louisville Comier-Journal says Son
November II, Alexander Hockaday, residing
in Spencer township, Harrison county, Ind.
about rs miles west of New Albany, cele
brated the l14th anniversary of his birth He
was born in Virginia, November Il, lI79, the
date, it is claimed, being authenticated by the
record of family Bible now in the old mans
possession.
At Amsterdam. Holland, twothousand men
out of employment paraded the streets on
Tuesday, under socialistic auspices. The po-
lice were sent to dispense them. The police
were received with volleys of stones and
savage fight ensued. A Socialist named Goel
was badly injured and had to be taken to a
hospital Three members of the Socialist
committee and one policeman were also Sc
verely injured. Many others received slight
wounds.
The British South African Company re-
ports that the Matabeles have been complete
iy subjugated. Possession will now be taken
of valuable gold fields, from which the ma
tives had to be driven before they could be
worked. 1t is hard on the natives. but it is
the way of the world. Civilized people re-
spect the rights of property among them
sevles. but have no respect for such rights as
held by Indians, negroes or other heather
aborigines.
James Mccormick, a member of the Della
received by falling from the hook and ladder
truck of the company while responding to an
alarm. Mccormick jumped on the appara-
tus as it was coming out of the house. As
the long trnck swung into French street Nc
Cormick was thrown off. He fell against the
rear wheels, and at first it was thought he
was not injured seriously. He was taken in
to the truck house and after lingering several
hours died.
Uncle Sans great warship, New York, has
been ordered to Rio. The New York's arri-
val at Rio will increase the force of United
States vessels there to FIVE modern cruisers
greater number of United States vessels as
sembed at one point to protect American
interests than has happened since the civil
war. The Charleston. the Newark and the
Detroit are already at Rio and the San Fran
cisco is due there in less than a week. The
doubled turreted Meantonomah is also des-
tined for the same port it is said. Something
unusual must be expected in Brazil.
1t is reported that immigrant agents from
the United States have organized squads of
Cinnamon, numbering several hundred in all,
in Mexico, and that these forbidden arrivals
expect to enter the United States by way of
the Rio Grande. The Government should
make searching inquiry into the report, and
if it prove true should deal rigidly with the
citizens of our own country who scheme to
defy its laws. 1t is not a question of the pro-
pr;ety oil. the law, or of much. discussed Mon
golian immigration, but matter of defiance
of law for the sake of making money by the
operation.
Mayor Henry B. Tyler was sitting in his
office on the first floor of the city hall in
Louisville, KY, on Tuesday afternoon when
a we'll dressed man of medium height walked
in and said he wanted it proved th.t his
father had not committed suicide. The
mayor saw that the man was crank and told
him he knew nothing about his father. The
visitor said 81 came here to demand my
rights. | own property near the city limits
and | do not want them extended. The
crank pulled a revolver and told the mayer
he was going to kill him. The mayor, al
though small of statue, quickly seized the
weapon and called assistance. The crank
resisted arrest, but was overpowered. He
gave the name of Phil. J. Schwartz.
A curiosity in the shape of ian orange
within an orange fell to the share of Morris
A. Thomas of Baltimore, on Tuesday in lot
of fruit purchased by him from James Cord
shell, No. 2513 Pennsylvania avenue. 1t was
such a such curiosity that Mr.. Thomas, af-
ter opening the orange, returned 1t to Mr..
dence of being other than an ordinary one,
but inside, when splitin half, was another and a
perfect orange, except that it had no rind,
and only about an inch and a-half in dame
ter. 1t also had a sort of stem, about rs
large as clay pipe stem, running up through
the center of what might be termed the par
ent of the baby orange to the main stem.
The "baby" orange was not in the center of
the larger one, but very close to the outside
rind at the end farthest from the main stem.
Secretary Carlisle received this telegram
on Monday from Edwin A. Wood, Special
treasury Agent in Oregon, dated Union Sta
ton. December "a;
"Chinese conspiracy jury found ex-SpeciaI
Agent Mnlkey. William Dunbar, and Notary
Public Bannon guilty. As to exColleetor
Lotion they disagreed. being eleven for con
vieton to one for acqnittal. The huge con.
spiracy was proved. Illegal landing in eight
months of 1900 Chinese laborers, and Null
key received salary from the ring Of 1920
per month. Whitney l.. Boise. Chairman of