The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-10-29
News Of the Week.

of Summit, Pa, raised 1900 bushels Of
corn and $50 bushels of potatoes,this year.
Colonel Waring estimates the cost of
cleaning Havana, including the dredging
Of the bay, drainage, sewerage and paving,
at $22, 900, 600.
Five men were killed, three fatally in
jured and two seriously, in freight train
wreck on the Rock Island Railroad, near
Fort Worth, Texas, on Saturday.
The First National Bank of New Lis
bon, Ohio, is closed on account of the dis
appearance of the cashier. Bank examin-
ers are in charge Of the institution.
A FIRE at pier 80, Brooklyn, n. Y, on
Monday afternoon caused loss of $500,
O00 An English four-masted ship,
which was unloading was also burned
William Byron, native of the Island
of Malta, born during fapoleon's bonn
bardment, for thirty years resident of
Lewes, Delaware, died last week, aged
100 years.
An examination of the affairs Of the
defunct First National Bank, of New lis
bon, Ohio, shows that the absconding
cashier, I. A. Childs, was SEQ, 600 short
in his accounts
Four persons have died from the effects
of drinking water from poisoned well,
near Aurora, Missouri. Mrs John
Black, son and two daughters have died,
and Mr.. Black and daughter are now
seriously ILL.,
Samuel Ball, of Lower Windsor town
ship, York county, Pa, raised the past
season 1900 bushels of corn from IA
acres, being an average of over 164 bush
els per acre. Four hands in one day
husked 425 bushels.
William A Nobel, assistant superinten-
dent of mails in the postofice in Milwau
kee, is under arrest charged with tamper
ing with the mails. Nobel acknowledges
having tempered with letters, but denies
that he ever took any money.
The Grand Lodge of kentucky Masons
has decided to have no intercourse with
the Grand Lodge of Washington, because
of the action of the latter in recognizing
negro lodges. 1t was also decided to
build home for aged and infrm Masons
President Mckinley attended the I'M
yelling at Washington, d. c., on Sunday
afternoon, of a Peace Cross, erected
by Protestant Episcopal dioceses of the
country on the site chosen for the Cathe
dral of Stss Peter and Paul, on Mount St.
Alban
At Toronto, Canada, on Friday night
Of last week, Liza Burrill became demented
and strangled her three children Ethel
aged 8; Stanley, aged 3, and Harold,
aged IL years Her husband found all
of them on their mother bed when he
came home from work She ssid she did
not want the children to grow up wicked
The Chace, Sycamore, Wampanoag,
Weetamoe and Stafford cotton mills at
Fall River, Massachusetts, shut down on
Saturday in accordance with the agree
ment of print cloth manufacturers to cur
tail production for four weeks. The mills
employed about $500 hands The day
spinners at the Hargraves Cotton Mills
left their work on Saturday, and it is their
intention not to return until the manage
ment discontinues employing night force
At Wilmington, Delaware, last week,
agents representing the "Lightning Rod
Company placed lightning rods on the
dwellings of Major Cochran, John Moore,
William Mullin, Mrs. Mary Deane and
others in the Highlands, saying, it is as
serted, that the rods were for advertising
purposes. The folks signed certificates
that the work was well done, but the Ger
tifcates prove to be confession of iudg-
ment. Major Cochran is resisting pay
ment
Rev. Samuel Splitter, a well known
minister of the Dunkard Church, died very
suddenly on Sunday night last, near Luray,
Virginia. He was addressing his congre-
cation at Mt Zion Church, near his home,
and when closing, remarked, Brethren,
I'm going away, when he fell in the pull
pit, and in few moments was dead Mr..
Splitter was IS years old He had per
formed more marriages than half the min
listers of the county and never accepted
cent for his services IF the groom paid
him fee, he would hand it to the bride,
saying, Madam, permit me to make you
your first wedding gift. = He was always
ready to join couple, and would ride
miles in all weather to do so. He was
man of strong character and was highly
respected.
Late news by steamers from China and
Japan give particulars of the recent disas-
trous typhoons, sandstorms and floods,
which have caused fearful loss of life
and property. In the district watered by
the river Feng in Japan hundreds Of
villages have been swept away and 1000
people have been drowned. Another re-
port says $50 towns are under water.
Thousands of refugees are focking to the
cities. The Ishikari river has also over
flowed, drowning over 1000 people. Seven
prefectures were destroyed. In terrible
typhoon off Formosa, happening the same
time as the floods, great damage to ship
ping was done. At Tenant eight junks
were wrecked and 100 lives lost Twelve
IuuhS were uIlN6u W SGd anu IOSI, L ne
steamer Renso Maru was piled up on
shore. Among the ships wrecked was the
American bark Comet. The crew were
saved The steamer Cowrie is partially
wrecked. The French steamer Hollow is
wrecked on the beach near Annoy The
German steamer Trinidad, formerly of the
Cunard Line, was abandoned in the open
sea. Homeward bound passengers state
that they passed through 20 miles of
abandoned wrecks, chiefly Chinese junks.
The loss of life must have been enormous.
A dispatch from Tocoma, Washington, on
the Oath instant, says-The steamship
Victoria brings the news that the overflow
ing of the Yellow river in Shanting PROV
ince has caused the most appalling disaster
of modern times in Central China. Vii
lagos were swept away by hundreds, and
1907 people are ruined and homeless,
crouchiug along the river banks in the pit
iless rain, while 1000 were drowned. The
general distress is augmented by the spoil
ing of the cereal crops by floods of wet
weather Famine will prevail this winter
in a district populated by more than l, 600,