The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-08-13
News of the Week.

Mt. Holly springs, ia.
Plainfeld, N. j., does not allow ''cus-
sing on the public highways.
Bismarck's personal estate, it is said,
amounted to IA, 900, 900 marks.
The wholesale boot and shoe firm OF
Hosmer, Coddling & Co., of Boston, have
assigned.
George P. Gore & Co., the oldest aue-
tioneers in Chicago, have assigned; llablll-
ties $25O,OOO.
The Harnguit cotton mills, at Bristol,
Rhode Island, will be closed this month,
owning to dull market.
Reports from Chicago state that the
present wheat crop is the largest in the
history of the United States.
Mrs. J. T. Orr, of Clarendon, Ark,
has been arrested on the charge of hiring
two colored men to kill her husband.
Flies are so thick in the eastern part OF
PENNSYLVANIA that many diaries have fallen
off in their supply of milk from one fourth
to one-third.
Yung Wing, a graduate Of Yale Col
lege, is the man who has obtained the con-
cession to build Chinese railroad with
S25, 900, 600 of English capital.
Duke Ernest Gunther, Of SchleswiS,
Holstein, broker of the Empress Of Ger
many, was married at Coburg to Princess
Dorothea of Sake Coburg last week.
Fire on the 9TH destroyed the chapel OF
the Niagara University, Roman Catho-
lie institution, near Niagara Falls, New
York, entailing loss Of $40, 600.
The Kings Patent Plaster Mills, at
New Brighton, Richmond borough, New
York, were damaged to the extent OF
500, 900 by fire Saturday night.
Fire destroyed on Sunday the Tomlin-
son Block, in Joesonville, Illinois, con-
tanning seven stores and an Odd Fellows
Temple, entailing loss of S125, 600.
Chicago is arranging for a peace jubilee
in October, in connection with the cere-
monies incident to the laying Of the corner
stone of that city new pOstofice building
\ hot wave has prevailed in the West
the past three weeks Temperatures rang
ing from 50 to 10 were reported. In
the Mississippi Valley the average was
800.
The schooner Cambridge, which arrived
at Halifax on the 9TH, brought tale OF
terrible suffering of people on the New
foundland and Labrador coasts from star
walton.
The gunboat Badger is at Dry Tortugas
with a barge, brig and a towboat, prizes
which the gunboat has captured. There
are 1872 sick and wounded Spanish soldiers
on board the prizes.
The Spanish schooner Dolores, bound
from Progreso, Mexico, for Batabano,
Cuba, was brought into Key West last
week, having been captured by the gun
boat Eagle on July "A.
Rev. Asbury Lowrey, d. d., retired
minister of the VI. +. Church, who was a
member Of the Ohio Conference, died on
Friday night of last week in Philadelphia,
Pa. He was born in 1916.
Charles Yohansen, blind hotel keeper
at South River, New jersey, and his wife
were found dead at their home on Satur-
day. 1t is believed that she strangled HIM
and then committed suicide.
Metz 4 Mehrer, dealers in hardware,
Buffalo, n. Y, have made a general as
signment. Joseph Metz, Of the firm, also
filed an assignment of his personal belong
ings. Liabilities about $40, 900
Judge Elias J. Hall, treasurer of Fox
croft. Maine. committed suicide in 1895.
An investigation of his accounts show that
he was defaulter for $50, 600. His
stealings cover period of about 30 years;
and as he was such good man no one
suspected him.
At Anadarka, Okla, on Wednesday OF
last week, negro named Barrett was
killed while trying to enter the room OF
Miss Phoebe Stokes, school teacher at
that place Miss Stokes heard him polk
inc a window, and fired six shots into his
body, killing him instantly.
On Tuesday of last week there was a
cloudburst at Toms River, n. j., and vi
cinity. In less than two hours + inches
of rain fell; roads were quilted, bridges
carried off, fields flooded and washed, and
several barns were struck by lightning and
burned, together with their contents.
Over 100 survivors of Pickett divi-
sion of Confederate soldiers arrived in
Philadelphia, Pa, from Richmond Vir-
ginia, and attended Low Mass at the
Cathedral, where Archbishop Ryan pre-
sided and made an address. In the after
noon they were taken to Washington Park.
At Dallas, Texas, last week, Il newly
finished water tank on a tower 65 feet
high, to be used for private fire protec-
ton, collapsed. fatally injuring William
Pierce, workman, and doing damage to
the extent of $50, 900 to property Of the
Howell Drug Company and Scarf &
O. Connor's Printers Supply Company,
the water sweeping both concerns out
clean.