The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-07-21
News of the Week.

Claus Spreckles ''squeezed" the sugar trust
combination for s., O0O, 900 last Saturday.
From January 1st to July IA, inclusive
there was shipped 59,667, 522 gallons of pc.
troleum from Philadelphia, Pa.
A dispatch from Capetown, Africa, says
that 25 whites and 200 natives were burned
to death in the mine fire on July Ia.
In Athens, Greece, on July Is, the heat
was terrible, the temperature being 104 in the
shade. Fully one-fourth of the currant crop
is destroyed by the intense heat.
The total value of our exports of domestic
breadstuffs during the II months which ended
June Both last was $l23, 298, 1861, against
1852, Az, 2O5 during the proceeding II months
A battery of eight gas tanks, in Ludlow,
Kentucky, exploded on Saturday, injuring
fifteen men, four of them fatally. The gas
was generated from naphtha for lighting the
railroad shops.
A dispatch from Petersburg, Virginia, says
the outlook for the corn and peanut crops in
the adjoining cQuRties is discouraging. This
is due to the recent wet season, followed by
dry and cool weather. The oat crop is poor.
A female patient at the insane hospital in
Austin, Texas, died on Tuesday, and upon a
post norton examination q bunch of hair, ten
inches long and over one inch in diameter,
twisted like chignon, was found in her intes-
tines.
A natural gas explosion occurred in Wash
ington, Penna., on Saturday morning. A par
ty Of workmen were making connection and
the gas was turned on by mistake Just as the
men had made their fire to heat the pipes.
Several persons were severely burned.
A statement prepared at the Pension Office
shows that, during the fiscal year ended June
80, there was issued 113,087 pension certif-
Gates, of which 60, 16l were original and 3d.
926 increase pensions. The number of origi-
nal pensions granted exceeds that of any for
mer year by nearly 5000.
While long freight train on the Reading
Railroad was descending aheavy grade at
Ashland, Penna., on Saturday morning, it
station the second section crashed into the
first, smashing nineteen cars and destroying
or damaging their contents.
At Confederate reunion in Lexington
county, South Carolina, last Wednesday, two
brothers named Reedy forced quarrel upon
Manuel Williams, peaeeably disposed young
man. Williams, in selfdefence, shot and kill
ed one of the brothers with pistol and stabb-
ed the other to the heart with pocket knife.
A cowboy walked into the bank of La Jun
Ia, in Hutchinson, Kansas, on Saturday af-
ternoon, and covering Rufus Phillips, the
cashier, with revolver, ordered him 70 drop
all the funds of the bank into a bag he placed
on the counter. The cashier complied, aud
the daring robher at ONCE mounted his horse
and escaped. The loss is estimated at from
SIC, 900 to 5000.
Over 400 Icelander immigrants arrived in
Winnipeg, Manitoba, last week, aud over
400 others are expected within two weeks.
The people in the north of iceland are threat
ened with starvation owing to the unusual
rigor of the season. On June 9th all but
three of the harbors on the coast were still
blocked by ice, thing which has not occurred
before for nearly century.
An explosion Of gas occurred in the Office
of the County Clerk in Detroit, Michigan, on
Monday, Yrecking the vault and registry room.
A large number OF people were up stairs pay
ing taxes, and panic occurred among them.
They tumbled over each other in their hurry
to get down stairs, but no person was danger
ously injured. The explosion was caused by
escaping gas in the vault of the Clerk office.
The Grant locomotive works, at Patterson,
N. j., have been compelled to shut down,
being unable to complete with similar estab-
lishments elsewhere, and 200 men have been
thrown out of WORK. 1t is estimated that it
would involve an outlay Of $3.50, 900 TO $780,
600 to place the establishment in a condition
to compete successfully with the great loco
motive building works throughout the country.
A telegram from Pittshurg, Pa, says the
great iron lockout is practically over, before
the end of the week general resumption of the
mills is expected. There are still fifty firms
in the Manufacturers Association that have
no. yet grated the demands of the workmen.
They still claim that the wages demanded by
the Amalgamated Association are excessive,
and that some mills will have to close down
indefinitely.
The celebration Of the centennial year of
Marietta, Ohio, and of the Inauguration Of
civil government under st. Clair, began on
Sunday. The celebration, for which Marietta
has been two years preparing, Is national, and
has the recognition of Congress and Of the
two northwestern States formed out Of the old
territory. Commissioners from these States
were present during the week. The open
ing ceremonies took place in Centennial Hall,
building erected to hold 5000 people. Gov
ernor Foraker presided, and Bishop Gilmore
delivered an address on Religion and Civil
Government. Senator Esarts will deliver an
Grafton on Monday and Senators Daniel and
Sherman and Judge Harlan are to speak on
Tuesday.