The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-11-19
News of the Week.

There are So vessels of various kinds under
construction for the United States Navy.
A shipment of GO, 920 gallons of alcohol
destination being Japan. 1t is to be used in
the manufacture of smokeless powder.
James S. Richardson, of New Orleans, said
to have been the largest individual cotton
planter in the world, died on Tuesday night,
at his plantation, near Benoit, Mississippi.
Fire at Canonsburg, Washington county,
Pa, on Monday, wiped out the business sec
ton of the place, entailing loss of $3.50, 900,
one third of which is covered by insurance.
Ernest Messman, who was arrested for the
double murder of Mr.. and Mrs. John Bahls,
at Mshicott, near Two Rivers, on November
5, committed suicide in the Jail at Manitowoc,
Wisconsin, on Sunday.
On Wednesday, throughout the Western
States the weather was fair and slightly warm
er, although the temperature in the upper
Mississippi and Missouri valleys was from the
point of freezing to 140 below.
The Turney & Jones Coal Company, of
Columbus, Ohio, and the the Pennsylvania
and Ohio Fuel Company, Of St. Paul, with
offices also in Chicago, have been put into
the hands of the Security and Title Company.
of Chicago, as receivers; liabilities, 81 200,
900.
The average price of the stocks of nine
Boston banks in 1890 was 118, and the aver
age price this year is 81, decrease of 81
points. This has caused some of the savings
banks to unload their holdings of these
stocks. No one seems to be able to explain
the cause of it.
A Grand Trunk express train and a freight
were in collision near Murray Hill crossing,
two miles west of Trenton, Ontario, early on
Tuesday morning. Twelve persons were
killed, including the engineer and fireman of
the passenger train, and dozen or more Sc
riously injured.
Thousands of acres of land in Brown, Rock
and Dixon counties. Nebraska, have been
swept by prairie fires, and much grain, many
barns and several houses destroyed. In Greg
DRY, Todd and Trip counties, South Dakota,
the range is on fire, and many cattle are re-
ported lost. Settlers are fighting the flames
with poor success.
Secretary f. d. Coburn of the Kansas De.
partment of Agriculture, reports the corn
yield of his State as about "a, 663, 900 bushels,
or 1G per cent. less than last year, the year
beginning with some 25,250,0 900 bushels less
of old corn on hand. The total crop for the
State is given as about 1877 500, 900 bushels.
The largest yield per acre will be 80 bushels
in Wyandotte county, the counties Of the corn
belt presenting the minimum yields.
Nellie Hak's recipe for liquid for preserv-
ing eggs from time Of plenty to time of scar
city is: Put y pounds unslaked lime and 4
pounds barrel salt into "A gallons boiling wa
ter. and stir frequently for one day. Next
day dip off the clear liquid into stone jars and
add a liquid made as follows: Dissolve in Il
gallon of boiling water ounces each carbon
ate of soda, cream of tartar. saltpetre and
boraX and one ounce of alum. Drop the
eggs into this each day as gathered
The First National Bank of Emporia,
Kansas, was closed on Wednesday last,
by telegraphic order from Comptroller
Dawes, and the president of the bank, l.. NJ.
Cross. on hearing of the order, went to his
barn and shot himself. His father helped to
organize the bank in 1871. On the elder
Cross's death, several years ago, the son took
up his fathers interest in the bank. Mr..
Cross is well known as Il Hereford cattle
breeder At Sunny Slope Farm, near En-
poria he had herd known all over the West
Rev. fuller Rhoades Methodist minister,
was arrested in Wichita, Kansas, on Sunday
by sheriff Simmons as he was delivering Il
sermon. OH the charge of being a member Of
n gang of outlaws in the Indian Territory and
stealing horses from Wichita citizens. He
confessed that he had stolen horses four years
ago and was also member of the Williams
gang Of outlaws up to that time. When the
officers got too close upon his heels he fled to
South Dakota and joined the Salvation Army.
Later he entered the Methodist ministry and
on Saturday returned to Wichita, thinking
his identity had been forgotten. His arrest
created a sensation, as he was thought to be
all right by his congregation.