The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-10-15
News of the Week.

News of the Week.
Leonard Ware l. Sons, the largest and
one of the oldest oil firms in Boston, have
failed
Baker Bres., lumber dealers of Platts
burgh. n. Y, have failed; liabilities
$125, 900.
The majority in favor of prohibition
throughout the Dominion of Canada is
about Is, 900.
The new smokeless powder works at
Santa Cruz, California, is now turning out
5000 pounds of the explosive daily.
The guns which Naval Constructor Hob
son has so far saved from sunken Spanish
warships are valued at $500, 900.
Forest fires near Wichita, Kan, drove
clouds of insects and birds from their hauGts
in such vast numbers as to darken the sky.
W. J. Haldeman, of Glendale, Ohio,
who shot his partner, ex-senator Richard
son, has disappeared from Chicago, ILL.,,
where he had been staying.
In the parade of the Knights Templar
at Pittsburg, Pa, on Tuesday, there were
over 25. 900 men in line, and the city was
handsomely decorated for the occasion.
At Buffalo, n. Y, the John I. Noye
Manufacturing Company, makers Of flour
mill machinery and steam engines, have
gone into the hands of a receiver; liablli-
ties, $50, 600.
A fire at Colorado Springs, Colorado,
on Saturday afternoon destroyed the Ant
lers Hotel, several large lumber yards and
two blocks of business houses The losses
are estimated at 81, 900, 900.
Losses bv the recent hurricane at Bar
BADGES. West Indie; amounts to over
S185, 900 to poor people alone. About
10. 277 laborers' houses were destroyed,
and 4, GA damaged.
A Pittsburg Pa, company is said to be
negotiating for land on the banks of the
Manchester Ship Canal, England, for the
erection of factory, which will employ
), 600 men.
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at the close OF business
September 30, 1898, the debt, less cash
in the Treasury, amounted to 81, O67,
479. 2O5, an increase for the month OF
$54, COS, 488.
1t is stated that a deal has been con-
Guided by Delaware Indians for the pur-
chase of 555, 900 acres of land in Mexico,
and that as soon as they secure a settle
ment with the United States and the
Cherokees, they will remove there.
The comparative statement of the Gov
ernment receipts and expenditures for Sep
tember shows the total receipts to have
been $50, 77S, O70, and the expenditures
S54. 223, 921. This statement takes no
account of the receipts from the war loan,
Mrs. Catharine Watts, Of Scllersville,
Pa, was 1O2 years old last week. Of ten
children seven are living, the youngest is
20, and there are nearly 80 grandchildren,
POS great grandchildren and about 20
great great grandchildren.
Mrs. Annie E. George, who is suspect
ed of the murder of Mrs. Mckinley s
brother, George D. Saxton, at Canton,
Ohio, on Friday afternoon of last week,
was remanded to Jail on Saturday. There
are no new developments in the case.
The monthly statement Of the Comp
troler of the Currency shows that at the
close of business, September 30, the total
circulation of national bank notes was
S235, $50, $50, an increase for the month
of S8,178, 335, and an increase for the
year of 81, 631, 459.
Gen. John M. Bacon and two compan-
les of the Third Infantry had sharp fight
with Pillager Indians at Leech Lake,
Mimi, last week Soldiers were killed,
and late at night there were reports that
the entire command had been massacred.
Reinforcements are being hurried.
| Dun's Review says 1.-THE final re-
turns of failures for the third quarter Of
1898, number in all 2, 500, with liabilities
of S32, COS, PA, and of commercial fail
ures 2, $40, with liabilities of S25, 104,
us" No failures, as a rule, under So, =
900 are reported.
A 10-year-old daughter Of Lewis Del
linger, of Alum Spring, Shenandoah coun-
ty, Virginia, on Wednesday Of last week,
while visiting her grandmother in Hardy
county, West Virginia, was horribly as
saulted by negro man. The child can
not recover,
At Gainesville, Tenn, on Wednesday,
of last week, the Grange tobacco ware
house was burned, together with $780,
900 worth of tobacco; insurance on build
ing and contents $500, 900. 1t was the
largest tobacco warehouse in the world,
having floor space of over five acres
Several other buildings adjoining were
either burned or damaged.
A West Indian cyclone prevailed at Sa
vannah, Georgia, Sunday, and for Is
hours the wind blew steadily from 80 to
20 miles an hour. The lowlands for miles
around Savannah are submerged. The
city escaped with comparatively little dam
age. The loss of property among the Sea
Islands of the Georgia and South Carroll
coasts is very heavy, and there has
great loss of life.