The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-04-09
News of the Week.

Prince Bismarck was 80 years old on
the LIST instant.
After a thorough Investigation it is
found that there are over 80, 900 Illegal
voters on the registry Of Chicago
The California Northwestern Railway is
to be extended so as to open the immense
redwood forests of Mendicino and Hum
boldt counties.
Reports from various places in Virginia
indicate that all the early fruit and truck
has been killed by the cold of Saturday
Sunday and Monday.
Mrs. George Whiting, of Summit Point,
W. Virginia, hung herself ON Friday of last
week. She was 45 years old and leaves
husband and six children.
At Evanste Wyoming last week
Charles Rathbun aud George Miles pur-
chased between 5000 and 10, 900 head of
sheep from Geo. Beckwith for 81 per head.
Lawton & Co., composed Of George aud
Joseph Lawton, who have been conduct
inc a crockery house at Louisville, Ken
lucky, for many years, have assigned to
/ Thomas Lawton.
Announcement is made of the reor9an-
ization of the johnson Steel Company, at
Cleveland, Ohio, with capital of Sill
! 900, 600 to be known as the Lorain Steel
Company.
In Brooklyn, \. Y, nine officials are
under Indictment for defrauding the city
out of $50. 1000. Several have held high
federal positions; one confessed and gave
the information leading to the arrest of the
others.
Pension frauds amounting to over 500,
600 have been discovered in Providence,
Rhode Island Persons were drawing the
money due dead pensioners and signing the
necessary papers through the connivance of
Il pension agent.
\ fire which caused loss Of $50, GEO
and which, from evidence discovered by
the Fire Department, was started in five
different buildings by an incendiary. oc-
Cured at Nantasket Beach. Massachusetts.
early Friday morning Of last week. The
! Hotel Standish was one of the properties
destroyed.
\ wear ago when the HIetz Glass Com
pamv. st. Louis. failed and the works shut
down. the pot was left full Of molten
glass. Recently the property was pur-
chased. and now it is found that the pot
contains Il solid piece of glass &C feet long,
- feet wide and ) feet thick. estimated
to weigh almost 600 tons.
Noah Raby, of New Brunswick y. j..
was % years old ON April l. He has
been an inmate of the almshouse for over 40
wears He is a native Of Eatontown Gates
county, n. G. His mother was South
| Carolinian and his father Il North Ameri-
can Indian. He has an excellent mem
ory. but is partially blind He sleeps
well. is strong. and enjoys good health.
The Secretary Of the Interior has sent
to the House an estimate calling for APP
preparations of over IS, 600, 600 to meet Il
deficiency in the pension funds. OF this
amount So. 600, 600 is credited to the lack
of last year appropriations, and the other
Sc. 900. 900 to large increases reStoratinnS
and new pensions granted.
The personal property at the Clover
Dell stock farm of A. H. Moore. near
Colmar. Montgomery county. Pa, includ-
ING much blooded stock. has been levied
on by the sheriff III order that the question
of ownership may be tested. The property
is valued at more than $500, 600 and the
executions aggregate $40. 200.
William \ . Lamon, Il merchant; &. W.
Gaines. agent of the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas Railroad, and Laton Sarp, il section
hand. all of Gibsol Station Indian Terri
tory. have been indicted by the Federal
Grand Jury at Waggoner, Indian Terri
tory. for numbering +. p. Chalmers and
his wife. who were killed by the mob on
the 10Th of March, near Wybark.
On Friday of last week at York, Pa,
the Hubley Printing Company electo-
tipping plant. in the York County National
Bank building, was destroyed by fire.
The tiremen saved the main bank build
ing. The loss is about IS, 600 The
destroyed plant was owned by George 5.
Billmeyer. Chas. II. Mayer and Henry G.
Niles