The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-03-05
News of the Week

The Stamford Dye Works at Lyhch-
burg. Virginia, were burned Sunday morn
ing; loss, 100000.
The lower House of the Kentucky Leg
islature has passed bill prohibiting the
sale or use of cigarettes.
At Charleston, South Carolina, on Sat
urday last tenement house was burned
causing the less of nine lives.
Miss lydia +. Parker, of Meriden,
Conn. left her $50, 900 estate to the
Town Clerk, cutting off all her relatives.
p. Walker, freight traffic manager
of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, is at
Cincinnati, O., in critical condition from
paralysis.
Fire in the warehouses of the National
Tobacco Company at Louisville, KY, on
Friday of last week, destroyed property
valued at 81, 900, 900.
DIR. John p Maynard, famous as the
discoverer of collodion as useful in surgery,
died in Dedham, Massachusetts, on Satur-
day last, aged y years.
March 20, Prohibition day. the birth
day of General Neal Dow, has been set
apart as special memorial day for Frances
f. Willard by White Ribboners.
George Collins, II years old, of Cairo,
West Virginia, stabbed his mother twelve
times while she was attempting to whip
him on Saturday She cannot recover.
A Grand Trunk train struck loaded
omnibus at grade crossing in Chicago on
Saturday night last, killing six of the occu
pants and iniuring about twenty others.
Floods and avalanches have partially de-
stroyed the mining town of Monte Cristo
in the Cascade Mountains, and have
washed away the only railroad to that
place.
A terrible earthquake occurred on the
Island of Amboine, in the Molucca group.
on January 6, as the result Of which fifty
persons were killed and two hundred in
jured.
In the recent forest fires in South Car
DINA, which burned over - counties, sew
eral persons have persisted, and more than
1000. 900 acres of forests and fields have
been swept.
During fire in Hall Brothers labora
tory, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Saturday
night last three explosions occurred. Six
fremen were killed and four other persons
were fatally injured.
Samuel F. Leopold, President of the
Lake Michigan and Lake Superior Trans
portation Company, and largely interested
in copper mines, died in Chicago on Satur-
day last, aged Y years.
Louis Keller, policeman. Of South
Bend, Indiana, encountered five burglars
in that city on Friday night of last week,
killed one of them, Jack Burk, Of New
York, and was himself shot through the
heart.
The plant of the Wheeling Iron and
Steel Company, at Benwood, West Viz
ginia, has shut down as a result of the de-
termination of 1000 employees to resist the
cut of 5 to 80 per cent. in wages proposed
by the company.
William NJ Singerly, of Philadelphia,
Pa, President of the Record Publishing
Company, the Chestnut Street National
Bank and the Chestnut Street Trust and
Saving Fund, died suddenly from heart
disease on Sunday last, in his Goth year
A Madrid letter to the London Times
says :-"There is an appalling scarcity of
food in many provinces of Spain. The
price of wheat is unprecedentedly high.
Bread riots are of daily occurrence at Sala-
manca, and it is feared that martial law
will be proclaimed. =
The stockholders Of the Warwick Cycle
Company, at Springfield, Massachusetts,,
have decided to 90 into insolvency The
liabilities are $21S, 600 and the assets
S175, 900. Joseph Banigan, of the United
States Rubber Company, of Providence,
is the largest creditor, holding notes of the
concern for $3.50, 600.
A report reached Omaha Sunday from
Bayard, a town in the interior of the State,
remote from telegraph service, that two
masked men took A. O. Tay lor, President
of the Bank of Bayard, from bed, on Sat
prday night, and compelled him to open
the safe in the bank Only small sum
was secured. Taylor was severely beaten
about the head.
The Florida special train between st.
Augustine and New York was brought to
asudden standstill on burning trestle near
Waycross, 100 miles south of Savannah
by warping rail on Friday afternoon of
last week. The sudden shock caused the
death of Mrs. Frank D. Holder, aged 65. |
Of Yonkers, New York. The cars caught
lire, but all the passengers escaped.
The annual statements of fire insurance
companies are being carefully inspected by
capitalists and others interested in new en-
terprises. Seven New York companies
report aggregate premiums receipts of
S18, 500, 900 for the year, collecting alto
gether about SIG, 600, 600 since 1891.
The profit of these companies in six years
amounted to nearly s., 100000 Much
interest is felt in the matter at Chicago
where business men are organizing a new
company.
The British steamer Legislator, Captain
Tenant, bound from Liverpool for Colon,
was burned at sea on February 16, in
latitude 81. % north and longitude A. 10
west. The fire broke out so suddenly that
eleven men forward were cut off from the
rest of the ship, and in saving them a
boat was capsized, and five men, including
the second and third officers, the chief
steward and the chief cook, were drowned.
A fireman received such severe burns that
he died in few minutes The remainder
of the crew, twenty eight in all, with two
passengers, DR.. w. Mortemer and wife, of
London, were rescued within four hours
after the fire broke out, by the fruit
steamer Flowergate, and brought to Boston,
Mass, on Sunday last. The Legislator
was burned to the water edge, The fire
Is supposed to have been the result of
spontaneous combustion in the cargo of