The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-11-25

A despatch from West Superior, Wis
consin, reports probable consolidation Of
the Minnesota Iron Company, which has q
capital of s20,OO0,OO0, and is in combina,
lion with s5O,000,000 more, with the
Rockefeller syndicate, the effect of which
will likely bring them the control of all
the Bessemer mines and ores in the United
States.
Joseph Messer, clerk in the Boston
Industrial Home, of Boston, Massachu.
sets, and George johnson, waiter in the
same institution, quarrelled on Saturday
night, when the latter plunged large meat
knife into Messer's breast, penetrating the
lungs. Messer died on the way TO a hos
pital.
The Edgewood Female Seminary, a
school conducted by the Dominican Sisters
at Madison, Wisconsin, was destroyed by
fire on Thursday night of last week. Mar
jorie Rice and Maggie Stark, pupils, were
fatally suffocated and three others were
injured The property loss amounts to
S75, 900
he VI Olc anu
Shenango Valleys, in Ohio, on Saturday
night signed the Amalgamated Association
scale, and work resumed, after an idleness
of four months. The scale rate for pud-
ding was fixed at s4.75, reduction of %
cents. This is compromise, the manu-
facturers having demanded $3.50 rate.
Ten thousand men returned to work.
Mary McDermott, go years of age, en-
ployed in laundry in Buffalo, New York,
was caught in the machinery on Friday of
last week. Her clothing was stripped from
her, and she was wheeled round and round
the shafting till every bone in her body
was broken and her flesh terribly mangled.
Life was extinct long before she was re-
leased.
On Friday of last week convicts en-
ployed in the Pratt Mines, near Birming
ham, Alabama saturated the bath house
with coal oil and set it on fire, in an effort
to escape. Two white convicts, who were
asleep in the building, were burned to
death. The guards prevented an escape,
and extinguished the flames with but slight
damage to the building.
The village of Oakmont, Pa, is puzzled
by the strange actions of Charlie Mitche Il,
tea-year-old lad. While playing during
the school recess Thursday of last week,
he fell and hurt his head The remainder
of the session he wrote upside down the
words given him by his teacher to copy on
his slate Since then he has been acting
queerly. Everything he sees is exactly
the reverse of what it really is, and he
writes upside down.
While young man named Jacob Peters
was turning willow till on the farm of
John s. Maui, in Paradise township, York
county, Pa, on Friday, large limb broke
and few back ,pinning Mr.. Peters against the
till and nearly crushing him. His axe also
struck him in the forehead, cutting cash to
the bone. Mr.. Peters remained in this posi-
ton for some time. Mr. Maui went to his
rescue, but could not extricate him. Will
liam i. Keech and William r. Stambaugh
then mounted the till and brought both
men down, they being nearly exhausted.
There are pa life saving stations, 1S2
being on the Atlantic, 40 on the lakes, II
on the Pacific and one at the Falls of the
Ohio. During the last fiscal year the num-
Der of disasters to vessels within the field
of the service was APT. There were on
board these vessels 1865 persons, of whom
3542 were saved and % lost. Value Of
property imperiled was S8,096,075, and
the amount saved was s6,442,5 sos. The
number of vessels totally lost was SS. The
cost of maintenance of the service during
the year was 81 ,231 1893.
An investigation of the Elmira, N. Y,
Reformatory (?) began last week in New
York city Testimony of some of the in
mates shows cruelty almost beyond belief.
One boy was stripped and his entire body was
almost a mass Of bruised flesh; another
showed the marks on his wrists from being
chained to post for four days, being only
allowed relief of few hours daily; Others
died under the reforming process while
being strapped. 1t was proven to be a
common practice for the keepers to knock
boys down with their fists and beat and
kick them.