The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-01-29
News of the Week

A fierce blizzard prevailed all of Sunday at Hall
fax Nova Scotia.
\ cargo of cattle, the first shipped by wateS
from Texas arrived in New York on Monday.
st. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church of Chester,
Pa. celebrated its 195th anniversary on Sunday.
A. J. Drexel, Jrs, residence near Philadelphia,
Pa, was damaged to the amount of $50 900 by fire.
Joseph Letter. who is holding II, 100000 bushels
of wheat in Chicago, says he expects to get about
Sl.2j for it.
Rev. 7. De Witt Talmage married to Mrs.
Elinora McCutcheon Collier. i'll Allegheny City,
Pa, on Saturday.
1t is reported from Birmingham, Alabama that
an English syndicate has arranged to erect ST.
100000 steel plant there.
On Monday, at York, Pa. the warehouse of the
Banner Leaf Tobacco Company was burned. Loss
on the tobacco SOS ,OOO insured.
Mrs. Seth Coffman. of New Albany. Indiana, on
Saturday, gave her infant child fatal dose of
laudanum and then cut her throat
The weavers at the Centreville, Rhode Island,
mills have struck against reduction which they
claim amounts to from IA to 20 per cent.
On Sunday, at York Pa, Rev, Joseph Martin was
locked out of the Church of God and preached in
the open air to q large crowd of people.
A fire at Versailles Kentucky, on Monday night,
destroyed the grain and hemp warehouse of Isham
Railey and other property causing loss OF s15ooO
Notices announcing a 9-per-cent. reduction in
wages have been posted in the Forestdale Mills at
Woonsocket Rhode Island to tako effect January 81
The Roman Catholic Total Abstinence Society of
Chicago has declared a boycott on all grocers who
operate q bar where liquor is sold in connection
with their business.
A houseboat, occupied by George Atkins and his
two young daughters, at Evansville, Indiana, was
swamped during the storm on Sunday and all three
persisted from exposure.
Alden, Pa, a small mining town, was burned on
Monday Eleven families are homeless and all the
stores and business places were destroyed. Loss
$4,000; partially insured.
James J. Smith and Cornelius NJ Shaw under
arrest at Binghamton, New York, charged with the
murder of Andrew j. Pepper an aged farmer of
Rush, Penna on October 10 last.
Professor NJ / Cramer, of Dickinson College, Pa,
died suddenly Sunday morning, aged Is years He
was formerly Minister to Denmark, and was n
brother-in-law of General Grant
The Great Eastern block in Spokane, Washington,
was burned Monday night The upper floors were
used for lodging purposes. Five persons perlshed
in the flames, six others are missing
Mrs. Harvey Frey, of York, Pa. recently gave
| birth to triplets. Mother and children are doing
WELL and many visitors are calling and leave sub
| stantial evidences for the children.
julius A. Brose, the clerk of the State Banking
| Company of Newark, n. j., who admitted that he
embezzled $1,000, has been sentenced to two years
and six months in the penitentiary.
| Mrs. Fannie Cunningham, of Camden, n. j.. died
at the Cooper Hospital on Monday. Her husband
was committed to the city Jail to await the result OF
| the autopsy as to the cause of death.
| Three incendary fires occurred in Mahanoy City,
Pa on Sunday night, causing loss of nearly S40,-
900. When the third alarm sounded Mrs John
Boath, aged IS years, dropped dead from fright
! One of the largest warehouses of the old Hurri-
Springs disillery, near Tullahoma, Tennessee,
was destroyed by fire on Sunday. Nearly 1000 bar
rels of whisky were burned. Loss about s73,0OO
| The Willimantic Cotton Mills Corporation, of
Willimantic Connecticut, have posted notices that
! on January 81 the wages of the employees would be
reduced 10 per cent The company employs about
! 200 hands.
portion of the east wing of the old State House,
| Philadelphia Pa, which was undergoing restora-
ton to its original condition. fell during the storm
| on Sunday night last without damaging Indepen-
dence Hail.
| The Fall River Weavers' Union has declined to
authorize a strike of the in the King Philip
Mills, the ground that the other operatives have
accepted the same cut and such a strike would
weaken the union.
The Interstate conference of soft coal mine oper
ators and miners reached an agreement at Chicago
| Wednesday, by which the miners get an advance
in wages of 10 cents per ton and all eight hour day
at uniform wages for day laber.
| Nineteen of the survivors of the suspected fill:
clustering steamer Tillie have been landed at Prov
| idence Rhode Island. The vessel probably sank
off Barnegat and four men were lost 1t is believed
| the vessel was scuttled by traitors.
| High water in the Ohio river at New Albany,
Indiana, on Sunday. undermined the support of Il
railroad trestle, with the result that locomotive
| fell into the river. Conductor John Burke and
Brakeman Harry Miller were killed.
The employees of the Wheeling steel plant in Ben
wood, West Virginia, al bout 500 in number, have
been notified of second reduction in wages within
twelve months. The present reduction affects all
employees and runs from II to e5 per cent
Mary Miles is under arrest at Black River Falls,
| Wisconsin, charged with attempting to wreck a
| Wisconsin Central passenger train because the
company refused to pay her for horse killed on
the railroad. The crime was committed in June
1894
At Wilmington, Delaware, on Monday, $1,000 feet
of lumber in the dry kiln of the Pullman car works
were damaged by fire and water. The fire started
in the centre of the kiln and there was only one
door water had to be poured through it in order to
save the contents.
While trying to pacify Frank MeManus, who haa
been given room in his lodging house at Twen-
tieth and Jones STREETS Philadaphia, Pa, on Sat
urday, John Ii. Gavin, aged 81 years. the proprie-
tor, was stabbed four timesand mortality wounded.
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