The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-08-04
News of the Week.


heat in New York city Sunday.
Henry Geltz, of York county, Pa, recently
ate 10 large bananas in 8 minutes.
In San Francisco peaches are so plentiful
| they are selling at 10 cents basket
A cask containing $50, 900 in gold was
stolen from train between Havre and Paris,
on Tuesday.
The Chicago Steel Mills, which closed dur
ing the recent strike in that city, have resumed
work with $500 men.
A new building is TO be erected for the
Government printing office, the present one
having been condemned.
After being idle for one year the extensive
pipe works at New Philadelphia, Ohio, will
resume operations within few days.
A company has been organized at Cinein
natl, Ohio to manufacture collins from wood.
pulp. Pulp pals and buckets have long been
in use.
Upwards of sixty buildings and business
concerns at Belle Plain, Iowa. were destroy
ed by fire on Saturday. The loss is estimat
ed at $450,00O.
William Arnett, an aged farmer, whilst
fighting forest fire at Oregonia, Ohio, on
burned to death.
JdIueS hulllBdHs III AlulilBdu I4cllcI
fame, who figured prominently in the political
career of the late James G. Blaine, died in
Boston on Saturday.
The main building of the Northwestern
Lutheran College, at Waterfowl, Wisconsin,
was struck by lightning and badly damaged
by fire, Monday night. Loss, $4,000.
Claims aggregating $88, $3.50 for property
destroyed or damaged during the recent strike
were presented TO the city of Chicago on
Monday by an attorney for several railroads.
Twenty-three cases of small pox are in the
pest house at Newark, New Jersey, and the
authorities are taking extraordinary precau-
tons TO prevent further spread of the dis
ease.
Harry Upp, of York, Pa, has been arrest
ed for using the mails for sending obscene
literature He obtained the names of a large
number of school children and sent them
the vilest matter.
The steamship Australia which arrived at
San Francisco on Saturday from Honolulu,
brought advices that peace prevails through
out Hawaii and the new Government appears
to be firmly established.
The first execution at Norfolk, Virginia. in
so years took place on Tuesday, when Madi-
son Brown, colored, was hanged for the muir
der of select councilman Dollard whose store
Brown was trying to rob.
Thus far l25 fremen on the Wyoming
Division of the Union Pacific Railroad at
Omaha, Nebraska, have been laid off, and
the work has not yet fully begun of dismissing
those who were active during the strike.
despatch from Ironwood, Mich, states
that the miners strike in the Gogebic range
is declared off after an idleness of six weeks
and loss of 100000 in wages. The ad
ditional tax to the county will be $4,000.
At Thomas Island, near Pittsfeld, Mas.
sachusetts on Sunday, George B. Castle,
aged % years, was struck by lightning and
instantly killed, and Charles johnson, Henry
Wagner and Lena Wagner, who were with
Castle under a tree, were terribly shocked.
The steamer Pathfinder arrived at Ash.
tabula, Ohio, Sunday night, and reported
having struck a small schooner, supposed to
be the Glad Tidings, early Sunday morning.
None of the crew of the schooner could be
found, and it is believed that all persisted.
1t is not generally known, but the little
town of Elgin, Illinois, controls the price of
butter east of the Mississippi river. On Mon
day fancy creamery was advanced cents at
that place, and in less than Is minutes the
whole country was made aware of it by tele-
graph.
Twenty acres of lumber piles at Mime
600 feet of lumber, owned by the Shevelin-
Carpenter Company; the round house. 81
freight cars and the gas plant of the ST. Paul.
Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad, were des
troyed on Sunday night by fire.
A Chicago paper is authority for the state
ment that an agent for wealthy corporation,
organized for the building of passenger and
| freight cars, is in communication with the
| employees at Pullman, with view of getting
them to move in a body to St. Louis, where
an immense plant is to be operated.
The President OF the Pittsburg, Cincinnati
| and St. Louis Railroad Company has pre-
scented bill to the city of Chicago for $449,-
69l for the destruction of and damage to rail
road property during the recent strike. A
bill for $2l, 347, of the same kind, has been
presented by the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and
Chicago Railroad.
| In the House Of Representatives, on Mon
| day, Mr.. Boon, Populist member from
Minnesota, introduced bill making it un
lawful for aliens to own land in the United
| States. Three years after the passage of the
| bill the Government is to seize all lands own
ed by aliens, the proceeds of the sales to go
to the alien owners.
Dispatches from six counties in Colorado
along the Kansas and Nebraska lines report
that owing to the hot winds the crops will be
a total failure. Many farmers are leaving in
search of employment and many more would
go if they could get away. Great suffering
and hardships will surely result, as the crop
was very light last year.
The Consul General of the United States
at Panama has reported to the State Depart
ment that the Legislature of the State of
Panama has enacted law levying tax of
10 per cent. on all imports. Before becom-
ing operative, the law must be approved by
the Congress Of the Republic of Colombia,
which is now in session.
The large barn of Mr.. David A. Yount,
near Crimora, Augusta county, Virginia, to-
gether with most of its contents was destroy
ed by fire on Friday of last week. 1t was a
new barn, built in the octagonal form, and
was one of the largest and finest in the conn
ty, which is noted for its large barns. The
loss is estimated at $4,000
President Debs, of the American Railway
Union, addressed large meeting at Terre
Haute, Indiana, Sunday evening After
declaring that he was opposed to strikes and
in favor of arbitration, he added, ~ did not
order the Pullman strike; did not even have
voice in ordering it." He concluded by
saying he would never again take part in a
strike.
The oil tank works of S. F. Bowser Il Co.,
at Fort Wayne, Indiana, were totally destroy
ed by FIRE Saturday night, the loss being est.
mated at 100000. During the FIRE Frank
Magner, laborer, was instantly killed by
picking up broken telephone wire which had
fallen across trolley wire. When his wife
heard of his death she was completely pros.
trated and soon expired.
A dispatch from Hills, Minnesota, on Mon
day says: The territory four miles west of
here. near the Dakota line, was visited by a
terrific cloud burst last night. Water stood
four feet on the level and did great damage to
grain in the shock The cloudburst was fol-
lowed by hai.st which threshed out the
wheat in the shock and cut down hundreds
of acres of corn. Hail laid in winrows this
morning eight inches deep. The damage is
enormous.
The farmers in Indiana, for the first time
| in Tho histnru of the State are rasdinc thair