The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-01-15
News Of the Week


were made in Tampa, Fla.
| The soil crops for Iowa for 1897 are ost.
mated to be worth 5000, 100000.
Last year Greece was buying guns. and this
year it has ordered 10000 plowS.
A rich deposit of platinum is said TO have
been discovered in Jack county, Texas.
A. S. Livermore. manufacturer of p,;rca
meat at Chicago, has made an assignment.
j. H. Blumenthal & Sons, clotbiers of
Montreal, have assigned Liabilities, $3.50.
600.
Triggs, Aitchison & Co., Chicago, Illinois
wholesale fish dealers, have confessed iudg.
ment.
George L. Brett, of G. E. Brett & Co..
Mankato, Minn., has made personal assign.
ment.
Il. 5. Green, manufacturing jewellery.
Roanoke, Virginia, has failed liabilities SIG.
3S11O.
The intense cold of January and greatly
injured the fruit, tobacco and vegetable crop
of Florida
Muller & Smith, Charleston. S. c.. dealers
IN dry goods and notions, have made an as.
signment.
Henry Setz, aged rs years, ex.cashier of
the Glen Rock, Pa, National Bank, died on
the I'd instant
Application has been made at Cinncinnati,
Ohio, for a receiver for the Hockett- Pun
tenny Piano Company.
Fire at Manchester, New Hampshire. Sun
day, did S25, 600 damages in the U pton Block
and the new City Hotel.
The Standard Fibre Ware Company, of
Mankato, Mimi, has made an assignment.
Assets, S25, 900; liabilities, $40, ,00O
Contracts have been made for a beet sugar
factory, with daily capacity of 700 tons, and
to cost 100000, to be erected at Ogden.
Utah.
Williams Wooen Mills, near Winchester
Virginia, were burned on Tuesday from spon-
taneous combustion. Loss $25 600; insurance
$1,000
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company
carried last year 10000 passengers to and
from China and Japan, an increased traffic
over 1896 of 25 per cent
Otto Willig was sentenced IN St. Louis, last
week, to 25 years Imprisonment for the mur-
der of his sweetheart, Pauline Rosenthal, be-
cause she bleached her hair.
The employees of the ten-inch mill of the
Carnegie Company, at Homestead, Pa, re-
fuse to accept the new rate of wages, and the
mill has been closed indefinitely.
Pollard. Hoare & Co.'S hardware store and
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DenisOn. Texas, were burned Saturday night.
Loss $500, 900; partially insured.
Officials of the Adams Express Company
opened an ill-smeIling box at Charlton,
Iowa, on the 7th instant, and found the re-
mains of human body cut into bits.
Pension Agent Mulholand, of Philade.
phia, Pa, says there are 62, SAT names of pen
soners on the list of the Philadelphia agency.
of which over 1000 are non-residents.
NJ. G. Willard, brother of the late John
Willard, and interested in manufacturing en-
terprises at Mankato, Mimi, has made an as
signment. Liabilities about S125,O
W. C. Rogers & Co., bankers of Jordan
N. Y, have assigned. The bank is said to
be solvent but an assignment was necessary
on account of the death of W. c. Rogers.
United States Secret Service officers have
arrested Henry Luce and Dr. Alexander
Thompson, residents of Paulding county,
Ohio, charged with passing counterfeit half
dollars.
Orrin H. Lumbert, former president Of the
| Syracuse Industrial Benefit Association. in
| Syracuse, New York, has been sentenced to
! three years and seven months Imprisonment
/ for grand larceny.
About 100 postohices throughout the coun-
try were assigned to the money order class on
January g. This makes, approximately, 2j,-
! 600 postefiices at which money orders may
now be obtained or cashed
| A deed of assignment has been made by
! Clayton +. Bucher and Chas A. Bucher. Of
! Littlestewn, Pa, conveying the partnership
and individual property Of the assgnors to
| VIM. H. Sharretts for the benefit of creditors.
Rev. Dir. John Hall on Sunday announced
to the congregation of the Fifth Avenue Pres
byterian Church. New York, his retirement
as their pastor. Dir. Hall has been AZ years
in the ministry, 80 years of which he spent as
pastor of the Fifth Avenue Church.
The Illinois Secretary of State have
licensed the Incorporation of the American
Steel and Wire Company of Chicago. The
capitalization of the company IS $87, 100000.
the Incorporating fee for which was $87, 800,
the largest ever paid in any similar proceed
ing.
Ororo Savings Bank at Bangor, Maine,
has decided to close Many of the securities
which the bank holds have been deprecated
in value, through losses in the West. Sew
eral Arkansas bonds, which were sold day
or two ago, brought S51 each Their face
value was 81 800.
Fall River despatch says that notices of
a reduction equal to that recommended by
the Manufacturers Association have been
posted in the Durfee and Fall River Iron
Works mills, took effect last Monday.
This leaves only the yarn and gngham mills
to run on the old schedule.
Chadwick Marshall, the suspected mur-
derer of young Hayden, near Pennington, on
the night of October %. was taken from Jail
by a mob at Cofax, Washington, on Satur-
day morning, and hanged to the west wall OF
the courthouse The authorities made no re-
sistance Mcdonald, another prisoner, bar
ricaded his cell and escaped, and on Sunday
he was taken to Wala Walla for safe keeping.
By a recent investigation there are 20 per-
sons carried on the pay rolls of the Phia-
delphia, Pa, postoffice that render no SER
vice. Says the Ledger of that city:-MaDy
of these persons had been carried for years
and some of them were professional men
whose time was taken up entirely by their
| professional business and who made no pre-
| tence of performing service for the Govern
ment.
! On Friday night of last week two Seminole
Indians, j. Marcus McGeisey and Palmer
Simpson. who had brutally assaulted and then
murdered the wife of James Simmons, were
| captured and confessed their crime. The
| friends of the family then tied them to a tree
and burned the scoundrels alive. McGelseys
| house and contents were burned. A horrible
| crime expiated in like manner Trouble,
| it is said may follow in the Oklohoma Ter
ritory. as the comrades of the men swear
vengance.
A dispatch from Queenstown, Ireland,
| January 8. says:-The Norwegian bark How
ding, Captain Reynolds, which arrived here
Yesterday from Pensacola, was terribly bat
tered by hurricane December 20. She was
submerged for time and the wheelman
drowned Afterward huge sea washed off
the captain. One of his legs caught III the
spanker sheet, and he was dragged in the boil
ing surf. few minutes later another wave
washed him on deck. The flesh was torn off
his leg. The cabin was gutted, and the charts
and compasses we're destroyed. Several of
the crew were injured.
William Henry Theodore Durrant was
borrad of San Onentin. California. on the