The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-01-22
News Of the Week

week.
The Flint Bottle Manufacturers Association
have decided 10 advance the price of their product
II per cent.
Only eighteen of the counterfeit 500 silver GER
tificatcS have been discovered by the Treasury an
thorites thus far.
Louisa Wells. colored, widow of the late Rev.
Ezra Wells died in Lebanon, Pa on the 18th in
slant, aged los years.
Recent heavy rains have caused disastrous floods
throughout Spain. Many houses and much stock
have been swept away.
The town hall at Nyir Bakta, Hungary, has been
partially destroyed by an incendiary fire. Many
arrests have been made
Chicago syndicate is said to have bought the
Lopez ranch, in Tamaulipas, Mexico, comprising
200 900 acres, for S300.OO0.
Six Lapanders and III reindeers on the way
to the United States from Copenhagen. They are
for use in the Yukon Valley.
few people were injured and church and
several buildings were wrecked at Argenta, Italy,
on Monday by earthquake.
Thomas A. Edison has discovered new metal or
alloy, which, admixed with iron, renders cast iron
us tough and strong wrought iron
Archey Lockely, coored, hanged at King
and Queen Court House, Virginia, the l4th, for
the murder of three persons i'll October last.
Fire destroyed S5Go,nJO worth OF clothing, dry
goods &c, in Chicago on Monday. several fire.
men were injured by falling walls and timbers.
Truman +. Handy, is probably the oldest banker
III the United States, having been actively engaged
for CT years, celebrated his DIST birthday OH Nom
day.
\ fire occurred i'll cullcry at Zaborze, Prussian
Silesia, on Monday. OF The u men brought t" the
surface seven died 1t is feared that - Others have
persisted.
! Mrs. Plus Lohr says the Hanover. Pa Record,
has water melon, seven pumpkins and some to-
matoes, all solid and sound. thai she raised i'll the
/ summer of 1896.
An inventory of the estate of the late George NJ.
( Pullman has been filed in Chicago. The personal
property is estimated >s.ooo,tn0 and the real Is
/ tate ut >2,OOO,OW.
1 sir Michael Iicks-Bc Beach has declared that his
I Government was determined. even AT the cost Of
! war; that the door OF Chinese commerce should not
| he shut To Great Britain.
/ The orange crop of southern california, now be-
/ ing harvested, is i'll prime condition. Although
/ there was unexpected fall Of snow last week
the fruit not damaged.
The capital of AmboyIul, of the Moluccas
Islands, visited by an earthquake last week.
Three hundred persons We're killed 300 injured ami
there great destruction OF property.
Adam Earle died i'll Lafayette, Indiana, on sat
uriay. aged IS years. He the first President OF
the Lake Erie and Western Railway Company, and
ALSO what is the Big Four Railway Company
Frank Morse and Daniel Pierce have been arrest
ed at Mobile, Alabama, for passing counterfeit $40
silver certificates Twenty three hundred dollars
OF the spurious notes found in their posses
sion.
Alfred {. ttreeucti, IL boukkecpcr committed
suicide in Chicago saturday by jumping from
the sixteenth floor of the Masonic Temple. lie had
been out of employment for some time ami was de
SpOndcnt.
ON December n, Japanese transport steamer
struck unknown rock while on her way To the
Peccadore Islands, and sunk over 50 persons were
drowned, only five of the passengers and
were saved
despatch from the city of Mexico says thai four
Americans have been arrested there and are rigor
ousIy lncommunic,oio, being suspected of compli-
city in robbere> OF great magnitude. The gang
numbers twelve men.
An accidental fire i'll Yokohama, OH December "A
destroyed large number of warehouses, &c.
While the fire raging band of robbers looted
the warehouses of goods valued at over Il lO0o,WW
ycnS. \ yen is equal to 81 cents
Right Hon Charles Pelham Viliers, member of
Parliament from South Wolverhampton, gland,
and known the Father of the House of Com
mons, having sat continuously in the House since
lSij died at O'Clock on Sunday night
Charles NJ. McCurdy assistant cashier of the
gettysburg Pa National Bank, has resigned to
accept the cashiership of the First National Bank
of Bclleonte. Edward NJ Bender, eX-clerk of the
courts. has been chosen IL teller in the bank
The grand jury at Doyestown, Pa, have return
ell seventeen indictments against Chauncey Arnold
and his accomplices, Charles Harris. Lafayette
Young and James Williams for burgares Harris,
Young and Williams pleaded guilty TO eight bills.
Internal revenue officers raided alleged lille it
disticry on Bruner street, Ncetown, Philadelphia,
Pa and seized the apparatus and - barrels of
whskcy in different stages of manufacture.
Samuel Goldberg, the reputed prophet or and two
alleged assistants were arrested.
The supreme Court of United states hats decided,
III the case of \. Howard Ritter, executor of Will
liam NJ. Runk, vs. the Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany of New York, that the heirs Of an insured
person committing suicide when of sound mind
could not recover upon his policy.
Edward \. Knight, confidential clerk for DR.. J.
F. Canning, banker and broker, Boston Mass, is
missing, and with him are supposed to have gone
diamonds, jewelry set with precious stones and
81 100 in cash, the total value of the property being
somewhere between S3O,O0O and $4,000.
\ fight on sandy Fork, Leslie county Kentucky,
between Il lot of negroes began on Friday morning
of last week and continued until late h our.
Eight men were killed, four fatally wounded and
several others severely wounded. dispute arose
over game of cards and resulted as above.
AS the result of information given after quarrel
Harrisburg Pa, officials have searched several
houses and found stored there an almost incredible
lot of things stolen from the State arsenal There
were wagon loads of tents boots, uniforms blank
cts and other supplies of the y. G. ?. recovered.
The body of 5-yearold Percy Lockyer was found
i'll Il small creek 59th street and Baltimore
avenue Philadelphia, Pa, with stab wounds on
on the face and in the chest. Samuel Henderson,
Il 15-year-old playmate, who admits stabbing him
and throwing his body into the creek is locked up.
On SUNDAY night terrible tornado, accompanied
by heavy rain and hail. passed across Pottawa-
tonic county OklOhama Territory, near Maude
Postoficc. The path of the storm was about half II
mile wide, and timber was blown down and broken
Off so as to almost completely block the roads. No
one was killed.
J. c. McKbben, charged with having made coun-
tereit s. bills while in the United States penien-
tiary of Lcavenworth, Kansas, has been taken to
Topeka. When his term expired in the peniten-
tiary on Thursday of last week. he was at once
rearresed on the charge of making counterfeit
money i'll prison.
Jefferson county, Wisconsin, wherein the city of
Fort Atkinson is situated with an area of 76 square
miles and a population of 36317. has $1,000
cows 81 creamerieS and four cheese factories The
value of the total dairy product is about 81
annually This county also boasts of having the
finest creamery in the world.
President Dole, of Hawaii landed ut san Fran
cisco Monday morning and subsequently
the recipient of formal call from General Shafter
and his staff. In a talk to reporters Mr.. Dole said
he did not come here to lobby for annexation, but
was ready TO give information to the Government
when called upon. He will be received i'll Wash
ington with full official honorS.
4 number of "bucket shops'' have been closed by