The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-11-27
News of the Week.

The Argentine Republic Will have million
tons of wheat for export.
Thomas Edwin Cooke, IA former well known
circus performer, died at Paterson, New Jer-
sey las, week, aged SO years.
Floods are reported in the Skikowish, Still
quamsh. Stuck and White rivers in Wash
ington, and much damage has been done.
BY the explosion of boiler in mill at
Louisville, Mississippi, On Saturday night,
three men were killed and several others ia
tally injured.
Smallpox is ravagiug the neighborhOod of
the insurgent headquarters in Pinar del Rio,
Cnba. There are 100 persons suffering from
the disease in the hospitals in the hills.
In the Austrian Reichsratl p, Tuesday a.
fight occurred amoug the~Es& GERS on the
question of making the Czech lankuage COOK
dinate with the German m Bohemia. Vt was
fist fight and lasted for quarter of AM hour.
During riot in Gratz, Syria, last Sun day,
between Christian Socialists and Social Demo
Gratis, the police and military charged with
fixed bayonets, killing one person and Wound
ing many. Five policemen were badly hurt.
By the collapse of the floor OFT the Gerry
Methodist Chapel, in Cleveland Il Ohio. last
Sunday evening, 500 colored persons were
precpilated to the ground, di4 Stance of seven
feet, but only three person9 we're hurt sad
they not seriously
About 400 square miISsof country hub
book, Hale and Crosby counties fexas, were
burned over by a praI1rja.fe last week. At
one point 5000 Ship were burned in one
fsck, and many farmers lost their winter
feed, the fire burning it in the stacks.
Deputy United States marshals in Scott
county, Arkansas, have arrested fifteen Illicit
distillers, and destroyed six stills and about
1000 gallons of whisky and beer. Two illicit
stills were seized in New York city this week,
after desperate fight with the proprietors.
William j. Bryan is to make four weeks
tour of Mexico. He will be accompanied by
Ex-Governor Crittenden, of Missouri, who
was Consul General to Mexico under the last
Cleveland Administration. Mr.. Bryan, it is
stated, will make study of Mexico's Gnan-
cal system.
A heavy storm ragged all of Thursday and
Friday of last week all along the Pacific coast
At Ydquina Bay, Oregon, the custom house
was blown down and the records lost in the
bay The steamer Tinikee, from TillameOk
for San Francisco, is reported aground at
Umqua river, Oregon.
A special from Wiliamsport, Pa, reports
the organization of the American Woodwork
ing Machinery Company with Il capital of
So, SOC, 600. 1t will control fourteen concerns
manufacturing seyen-eighths of the wood
working machinery produced in this country.
A commission of Canadian officials is ex-
pected to visit Washington soon to discuss all
questions i'll controversy between the United
States and the Dominion. The proposal sub
mitted by the Washington authorities is that
both nations prohibit pelagic sealing during
the deliberations of the commission.
The report that Germany has broken off
diplomatic relations with Hayti is untrue.
Count Schwerin is still at Port au Prince, and
the negotiations regarding the question of
compensation for the false Imprisonment of
German citizen will be carried on from Ber-
lin Germany has demanded $4,000.
The Indiana Supreme Court has affirmed
the consttutionaity of the statute making it
the duty of the Prosecuting Attorney to sue
for and recover, in the name of the State, for
the benefit of his wife or minor children, all
sums of money lost by any person at gamb-
ling for which he negects to sue within six
months.
A special dispatch from Berlin describes
terrible fatality in Poland last week. While
a recent performance of wild beasts and their
tanner was in progress at a village near kovno,
Poland. the lion tanner was killed by lion
Il y
crowd, and eight persons were crushed to
death, and many were seriously injured.
Mrs. NJ. A Trigg, aged - years, and her
10-year old daughter, Ethel, lost their lives
in a fire that destroyed their residence in
Topeka, Kansas, Sunday morning. son
escaped with broken leg, jumping from
second-story window. Mrs. Trigg had es-
capped, but returned to save her daughter.
In the District Court in Arriba county,
New Mexico, in the case of Epifami lara
milo and p Salazar for the murder of Pablo
Garcia, the jury brought in a verdict of not
guilty Then Judge Laughlin said to the
Jury: Gentlemen, | find it is entirely use
less to prosecute crimes in this county. 1t
seems that murder is justified here. You can
all be discharged permanently and go home.
In the United States District Court at
Topeka, Kansas, on Monday, Judge Foster
refused to grant the injunction asked for by
the Travellers Insurance Company to restrain
Insurance Commissioner McNall from exam
lining the company's books. The Court,
however. severely condemned the method of
the examinations. The suits of the New
York Life Insurance Company against Nc
Nall were withdrawn
The Chief Justice of the United States
Court Of Claims has ccnfrIned the report of
the referee III TIE case Of the Western Zion
f'ee.Fa,. iii Company against the United States,
aud entered jadgmentin favor OF the company
for $25S, $50. The case arose out OF a dispute
between the Government and the company,
Mr.. WanaInaker, the then Postmaster Gen
eral, making a sweeping reduction of Govern
ment rates, Notwithstanding the telegraph
companys protests.