The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-10-22
News of the Week.

Twenty five cases of smallpox prevail at
Mclean, n. Y.
A furniture trust, with capital of S25,
900, 900, has been formed in Chicago
Mrs. William Eachman died Monday morn
ing at Siegfeld, Pa, from being beaten on
the head by three burglars on Sunday after
noon.
The watchmakers and jewelers. tool factory
of E. S. & A. S. Stehman, in Lancaster, Pa,
was burned Monday morning. The loss is
nearly $4,000.
Occupation by the United States of the
island Of Porto Rico was completed Tuesday
by the raising of the Stars and Stripes on
public buildings and forts in San Juan.
Stillman B. Pratt, who established more
than fifty daily and weekly papers in Massa,
chusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut died
Monday, aged SO years. at Attleboro, Massa-
chusetts.
The Merchants Wooden Mills at East Ded
ham, Mass, have shut down, throwing 800
hands out of work. The mills closed few
weeks ago but soon reopened. Lack OF or
ders is given as the cause of the stoppage
Fred Meister, President of the German
Savings Bank, of St. Louis, is dead, aged u;
Mr.. Meister was born in Westphalia, and
eerved in the Mexican War, and since then
has been engaged in business in st. Louis.
Bishop Hartzell, of the Methodist Episco-
nal Church in Africa, who has been attending
a Greek Letter Society meeting in Pittsburg,
Pa, saws he is commissioned to ask the pro-
lection of the United States for the negro re-
public of Liberia.
William w. Boyington, a pioneer architect
of Chicago, died at his home there on Satur.
day. Mr.. Boyington was the architect OF
MANY notable buildings of the Central and
| Western States, and designed the Illinois
State Building for the Worlds Fair.
The police of Minneapolis Tuesday found
| S51 600 worth of Government bonds in an old
closet in South Minneapolis. They proved
| to be all but $4,000 of the bonds stolen from
| the Hardwood Manufacturing Company, some
| two weeks ago, and had evidently been Sc
creted by the thieves.
Great damage to shipping, buildings and
lands is reported from England, Cuba and
| along the Atlantic coast by the recent storm.
Lighthouses and buoys have been destroyed,
| n number of lives lost by the inrushing of the
sea. and cattle, barns and crops were des-
| troyed.
At the annual meeting of the Laurel Lake
! Cotton Mills, in Fall River, Massachusetts,
| Tuesday the treasurer's report showed that
| the mill lost S37, 900 net last year, and $25,
600 if the percentage for depreciation is in
| cluded. Ii is expected that plan of reorgani-
za,ion will be proposed. The directors ex-
pressed dissatisfaction with the report
AT Toledo, Ohio, on Tuesday, Harry Hue
mel was buried He died of II bone disease
almost unknown to medical science. In nine
weeks his lower jaw grew outward an inch,
his fingers and toes grew two inches and he
increased in height several inches. The
growth of bone was at the expense of flesh,
and he was almost a living skeleton.
Incoming steamers report unusually heavy
weather at sea. On Monday the British
steamer GolIivara, loaded with sugar, ran
into St. Johns, New Foundland, short Of
coal.g For days in succession her decks were
swept, her lifeboats, bulwarks, rigging and
deck gear being destroyed. One man was
seriously injured. The steamer was forced to
burn fifty tons of sugar and all the avail
able woodwork in order to steam to port.
William Wolf, residing near Springets, in
Manchester township, York county, Pa, met
with a painful accident last week. Whilst
engaged in building a straw stack he accident.
ally fell from the top of the stack and landed
on the horns of COW that was standing be-
low. His abdomen was badly acerated and
one of the principal arteries bursted, causing
n profuse flow of blood. 1t was at first thought
his injuries would prove fatal but his condi
ton has so far improved that hopes are now
entertained of his recovery.
Chester Shue, of Hanover, Pa, known as
p. D. Sterner, in Company G. Eighth Regi
ment. Pennsylvania Volunteers, now located
at Camp Meade. Middetown, came home or
Monday on furIough He was arrested by
| Hiob Constable w. W. Smeach, on the charge
offorgerv The alleged crime was committed
before he entered the government service
Justice Sell committed the accused soldier to
the county Jail, to await trial. Shue is al
legged to have forged the name of Jesse w
Garrett, and to have gotten the money at the
PEOPLES Bank, in Hanover.
A. Groetzinger & Sons. tanners. Pittsburg
Pa. confessed Judgment Monday for $3.50,
725. The Groetzingers also controlled the
Munson Betting Company, OF Chicago which
failed on Saturday. The Munson Company
plant in Allegheny was closed down Monday
The confession of judgment was made to Ed
ward Groetzinger, carpet dealer and brother
If A. Groetzinger. A. Groetzinger was foi
wears President of the German National Bank
one of the solid institutions of Pittsburg He
resigned on Saturday and was succeeded by
E. H. Myers, pork packer. The bankers
of the city had already met in conference and
agreed to stand by the German National un
der certain conditions. These conditions IN
cluded Mr.. Groetzinger'S resignation and the
confession of judgment On Tuesday the
bank was compelled to close. being unable tC
meet its obligations, Its deposits we're ~,
600 900.