The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-05-12
News of the Week.

Texan, died at Independence, on the I'd
inst, aged 81 years.
Abraham English, retired shoe manu-
facturer, died on Saturday, in Nicetown,
Pa, in his Dist year.
The William N. Whitley Reaper and
Mower Works, Muneie, Indiana, were
burned Sunday. Loss, S245, 900.
Fire burned over 1000 acres in New
Jersey last week, destroying buildings,
timber, &c. Loss estimated at about
100000.
The wages of the employees in the mills
of the Newmarket, New Hampshire, Man
ufacturing Company have been increased
10 per cent.
Mrs. Lille Mcguire, of Wilmington,
Delaware, died on Sunday from blood
poisoning, caused by running a tack in one
of her fingers.
John Hapgood Maynard, one of the
most prominent residents of Manchester.
New Hampshire, died in that city on Sun
day, aged 80 years.
The town of New Hope, Penua., with
population of about 1900, appears to be
having an epidemic of twins, no less than
10 pair being born there lately.
The three factories of the Illinois Glass
Company at Alton, Illinois, have been
compelled to shut down owing to scarcity
of coal. Other mills will be forced to sus-
pend.
On account of lack of coal, the New
Jerusalem and Crescent Paper Mills,
employing 400 men, at Ottawa, Illinois,
shut down at noon Saturday, and other
factories will follow.
The stamped envelope contract has been
awarded by Postmaster General Bissell to
James Purcell, of Hudson, N. Y. The
contract price is 1892, 500 a year, and the
contract is to run four years.
The Bellaire Steel Works and blast fur
naces, at Bellaire, Ohio, shut down on
Saturday on account of the coal strike.
There are now 10000 men idle in that
vicinity because of the coal famine.
John Patton, Jr., lawyer of Grand
Rapids, has been appointed United States
Senator to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Senator Stockbridge He will
serve until January, when the Legislature
will elect
On the 9th instant, at the arsenal on the
Island of Bermuda, fire occurred which
destroyed hundreds of Gatling, Hotchkiss
and Nordenfeldt guns, also 1854 rifles,
5000 swords, 800 bayonets and hundreds
of cases of sbrannel shells.
Theodore Rooms, alias Theo. Warner, a
''frebug," was arrested Monday morning,
in York, Pa, on the charge of having
attempted to set fire to the stable of Albert
Huber. He had been suspected for some
time and was caught in the act.
According to a dispatch from Lake City,
Colorado, one of the largest and richest
mineral bodies ever found in Colorado has
been uncovered in the Golden Fleece Mine
there. 1t is an eight-foot vein of salic
tellurium and ruby silver that will run at
least $4,000 to the ton.
Max Meyer, wealthy dry goods mer-
chant, of Selma, Alabama, who had been
suffering from insomnia and temporary
alteration, and who had gone to New
York city for medical treatment, jumped
from a fourth-story window of an apart
ment house Sunday morning, and sustained
injuries from which he died two hours
later.
A telegram from Ashland, Kentucky,
says that lack of coke has compelled the
blast furnace of the Norton Iron Works
to shut down. Three hundred men are
thrown out of employment Big Sandy
miners are reported ready to join the strike.
The miners at Mount Savage and other
points will be forced to quit if they attempt
to work.
Secretary Carlisle has directed that all
the custom bonded warehouses in the
United States be examined in detail. This
action was taken in view of the recently
discovered irregularities in the Boston
custom house. The work is to be COM
pleted before the new tariff bill takes effect,
so that newly imported goods at different
tariff rates will not have to be taken into
account.
The electric street railway system of La
Sale, Illinois, is tied up on account of the
coal famine. At Danville the gas and
electric light works are burning wood, and
the supply will not last long. When it is
exhausted the plants will be obliged to
shut down, This means the stoppage of
the electric street railway at that point
also. Other towns in Illinois are in a
similar plight.
A State convention of the grain growers
of the Northwest has been called by Pres
ident Donnelly, of the Minnesota State
Farmers Alliance, to be held in Minneap-
oils at the time of the State Populist con-
vention. The object of this movement is
to do away with middlemen, by forming a
gigantic grain growers association, which
shall buy grain direct from the farmers
and sell in the highest market
Residents of Zapata county, Texas, are
asking for assistance. The appeal states
the starving people have become so des-
perate that band of twenty of them
made raid upon a general store the other
day for food supplies. The raid was
stopped by the temporary wants being
supplied. The drouth in that county has
lasted for four years, and there is not a
wagon load of grass in the entire county.
It is the only section in Southeast Texas
that has not been visited by the recent
heavy rains.
The Painter and Diamond Coke Works,
near Scottdale, Penna., were raided by a
mob of Hungarians, men and women, on
Friday of last week, to compel the 80 men
there to stop work. The deputies on duty
fired upon the mob, and at least ten were
wounded. A battle at close quarters fol-
lowed, and two Of the deputies, Superin-
tendent White and Ewing Roddy, book
keeper, we're terribly beaten. Whites
injuries may prove fatal. The rioters car
ried off their wounded and their condition
is not definitely known.
Postmaster General Bissell says that the