The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-12-29
News of the week.


zero in North Dakota and Minnesota on Tues
day.
Ex-City Treasurer Boggs, charged with
embezzliSg $25. 900 of the funds of Tacoma,
has been acquitted.
By the explosion of boiler at Bonayr
kentucky, Saturday, two men were killed and
three others were fatally injured.
The house of Jacob Reed about two miles
south of Hanover, Pa, was burned on Thurs:
day night of last week, and he was burned
with it.
Henry Kinet, wealthy farmer of West
Fork, Ohio was swindled out of s25O0 by the
s'tin-box game by two strangers.
The Commander-in-C Chief of the Sons of
Veterans has refused to grant charter for a
camp composed of negroes, at Vicksburg,
Mississippi.
Deputy Sheriff Payne was set upon by a
mob near Jellico, Tennessee, on Monday, IN
an attempt to rescue prisoner, and vas NOR
tally wounded.
Camelia Nashua and Charles Langley were
murdered in camp at Millinochet, Maine,
on Sunday, ii is supposed by Joseph and Newell
Gabriel, Indian guides.
The Shell Fish Commissioners of Connec-
ticut report that the oyster industry in that
State is valued at $1,000, 900, and has an an
nual payroll of s., 25O,o0O.
Fire started in the cargo of cotton on board
the steamship Avona, at Galveston, Texas,
early Monday morning. Three thousand
bales of cotton are total loss.
A movement has been started for the an
nexation of the towns of Brooklyn, Madison,
Venice and Granite to East st. Louis, thus
making city of 10000 inhabitants.
Colonel J. Hampton Hoge has served notice
of contest on Major Peter j. 0tey, who has
received the certificate of election as Con-
gresham from the Sixth Virginia District.
Patrick Quihlan, a farmer of Homer, New
York, was found in dying condition on the
road near his home on Saturday. 1t is sup
posed that he was waylaid by highwaymen.
A sand storm did great damage at Manyille,
Wyoming, on Friday Of last week. Houses
were unroofed and deposits of sand and dust
six inches deep were left in some dwellings.
Matthew Uhl, aged 10, Frank and Alphonsoo
Landers, aged 10 and % years, were drowned
at ST. Paul, Minnesota, on Monday, by the
breaking of the ice on which they were skat-
ing.
Barney Boykin, in custody in Memphis,
Tennessee, for attempted train robbery at
Panther Burn, has made n confession impll-
eating two other farmers of Sharkey county,
Mississippi.
Two little children of Charles Clark, of
Toledo, Ohio, were left alone in the house
last Saturday night A fire broke out and the
children were smothered before help could
reach them.
A man giving the name of Geo. W. Depew,
of Warren, Pa, is under arrest at Salamanca,
New York, on suspicion of being the murderer
of the two Sherman women, at Bastic, New
York, week ago.
Col. Sol. Palmer, Superintendent of Con-.
struction of the Western Union Telegraph
Company, and the Oldest telegraph line builder
in the world, died at his residence, in st. Louis,
on Monday night, aged 72years,
Emil Nosseck was knocked down and kicked
to death, in Detroit, on Sunday night, by five
men because he resented the action of two of
them in rudely jostling woman with whom
he was walking on the street The men we're
arrested.
Samuel C. Seely, the defaulting book
keeper of the National Shoe and Leather
Bank, has been sentenced by Judge Bene-
Dict of the United States Circuit Court, at
New York, to 8 years in the Kings County
Penitentiary.
Lemuel Williams, of Philadelphia, and ].
z. Starke, of New York, bridge builders,
were killed last Saturday by falling from the
Lonesome Valley viaduct on the Knoxville,
Cumberland Gap and Louisville Railroad
They fell 1873 feet
George King, a negro, was killed IN st.
Bernard parish, Louisiana, on Sunday, by a
crowd of men who were trying to arrest him
for shooting at some boys with shotgun, and
for threatening to kill several men with whom
he had had a quarrel.
A despatch from Leadville, COL, says that
the statements of the smelters for the year 1884
show the bullion produced from Leadville
The gold output for the year is 81 1884, $40, an
increase of $13l, 040. ~
Five white bows were terribly burned ON
Tuesday in suburb of Richmond. Va, by an
explosion of gunpowder. A fire-cracker was
accidentally thrown into box containing
powder for use in toy cannon. Some may
die from their injuries.
The Car of Russia promises to be one of
the most popular monarchs in Europe. He
has completely won the St. Petersburg popu-
lace by his lack of fear in going about the
stceets of the capital Unattended great con-
trast to the manner of his father.
Mabel Shelton, aged years, was burned to
death: Nav, her 5-year-old sister, was killed by
being thrown from a secondstory window, and
their mother was injured beyond hope of re-
covery as the result of fire in their home in
Memphis, Tennessee, last Saturday night.
Mrs. Sydney Howe and her servant, Maggie
Callahan. were burned TO death at Melrose,
Massachusetts. on Monday. The servant was
shaking down the kitchen stove, when her
clothes caught fire from live coal. Mrs.
Howe was burned in trying to save the girl.
An agreement is being prepared for circu-
lation among the newspapers of Alabama by
which the editors enter into compact not to
print the name of Reuben F. Kolb or any of
his political associates. The idea is to stop
feeding the appetite of the Kolbites for notori-
ETY..
Atlanta, Georgia, has had remarkable
growth since the war. A recent toulouse
count of the population shows that the city
now has population of los, ga. In 1870 1t
had q, 789, and ten years ago, 5,S57. The
present Atlanta has FIVE times the population
it had 25 years ago.
The threatened strike of the 2500 conductors
and motormen Of the Consolidated Traction
Company, of Newark, n. j., and surrounding
towns, has been averted, the company aeced--
ing to the demand of the employees that the
trips should be so arranged that they shall
earn 81 per day each.
Jabez Virgins, negro, who was wanted
for murder, resisted arrest in Augusta, Geor
gia, last Sunday. He shot and fatally wound
ed Detective Joseph Murray; disfgured Po-'
liceman Stringer for life; killed John Davis, a
bystander, and wounded Policeman Wrenn.
He was finally captured.
Another wonder doctor" has feen dis
covered in Germany. He is a shepherd named
Asst, living in the small village of Radbruch.
In the last few weeks over 1000 persons have
visited him from all parts of Germany. The
people stand in crowds about the mans hut,
waiting for his advice. His success is said to
be remarkable.
At Cleveland, Ohio, last Saturday, the jury
in the ease of Horace Steel, ex-President Of
the gainesville Saving and Loan Association,
charged with forgery. failed to agree. The
Jury stood II to l for conviction, the twelfth
man being David Skirm. The eleven jurors
preferred charges against Skirm, accusing him
of having been tempered with.
In Terre Haute, Indiana, ON Monday,
George Roberts, one ofthe six men arrested
for wrecking the passenger train on the Big
Four at Fontent, July u, during the strike,
and which resulted in the death of Engineer
Mehrman and Fireman Flick, pleaded guilty,
and hy consent the iurv was instructed tn