The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-10-30
News of the week.


The formal resignation of S. S. Cox as
Minister to Turkey has been received by the
State Department.
Thompson & Bro, cigar manufacturers OF
Wrightsville, York county, Pa, have failed.
Assets SIS, 900; liabilities $4,000.
James Haynes, colored, who murdered
Nav Jackson, colored, in Bolivar county.
Mississippi last week, was taken from the
Jail on Saturday night by a colored mob and
lynched.
1t is estimated at the Treasury Department
that the ultimate issue Of the new one and
two dollar certificates may aggregate sol, 0OO,
600, and of the FIVE dollar silver certiticats
$50, OOO, 900.
Mrs. Cornelia NJ. Stewart, widow OF the
millionaire dry goods merchant, A. L. Stew
art, died suddenly on Monday morning at her
residence in New York. She was 80 years OF
age, and left an estate of $40, 900, 600.
A telegram from Fowler, Indiana, says the
disease which has for some time been killing
hogs in that vicinity is throat affection re-
sembling diphtheria. Every case proves fatal
and the losses to farmers have reached many
thousand dollars.
It is reported that large sales of iron lands
continue in Pulaski county, Virginia. Sales
to the amount of 1921 900 have been made IN
the last thee weeks, and Northern capitalists
are endeavoring to purchase other large
tracts of both coal and iron lands.
General Miles has telegraphed to the War
Department, from Arizona, news of the cap
ture of Mangus, the last of the Apaches, with
two men, three women and five children:
Mangus was with Geronimo, but separated
from him in April last, when he offered to
surrender to Crook.
At Carlisle, Penna., on Saturday, E. Il.
Garrison, of New Jersey, member of the
Dickinson College football eleven, was killed
in match game with the Swarthmore Col
lege eleven. He was thrown heavily and rup-
tured blood vessel at the base of the brain,
causing death in few minutes.
The Standard, of Buenos Ayres, South
America, publishes an account of losses
caused to stock owners by recent drought
in the supper country More than 0,000,-
600 sheep have died of lnrg and throat dis
ease formerly unknown on the plains, and
the loss is estimated at nearly $50, 100000.
A meeting of the Committee of U. S.
House of Representatives on Appropriations
will be held in Washington on November ODD.
The next session of Congress being short
one, it is the intention of Chairman Randall
to have the Appropriation bills intrusted to
the committee ready for action by the House
soon after it reassembles.
A dozen funerals, mostly of children, and
all of persons who had died of diphtheria,
took place on Sunday in Rushford, N. Y.
In one case parents who had been away at the
funeral of two of their children found third
dead upon their return home. A general
exodus from the village this week is reported
as likely to occur among residents who can
get away.
A fire at Pennington, Maine, last Friday,
destroyed 80 dwellings, 80 stores, hotels and
other business places, 8 churches, 2 newspa-
per offices, the Town House and Post office.
The loss is estimated at $500, 900. The fire
broke out shortly before four O. clock on Fri
day afternoon and continued until half past
three on Saturday morning.
Joseph P. Clark, prominent citizen of
New Hampshire, committed suicide last Fri
day by hanging himself in his barn at Man
chester He was overweighted with business
cares, and keenly disappointed at having
failed to receive nomination for Congress
in the First District He was a soldier in
the late war and had been Mayor of Mauches-
ter and member of the State Legislature.
A Chicago paper on Saturday published an
interview with a leading Socialist, in which
he said that through Mrs. Pasons' efforts
about $3.50 week is being raised to forward
the appeal of the condemned Anarchists, and
that. the conviction of Spies and his friends
has brought about closer union of Socialists
and Anarchists everywhere. He also said
that the Anarchists of Chicago are stronger
than ever before; that they are not advocating
force or dynamite, but are extremely energetic
in pushinp the propaganda.