The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-02-19

| The steamer Marabella was sunk in Hul
Roads, England, on the 10th instant, by col
| lision with the British warship Galatea
Forty race horses were lost. The passenger
and crew were saved.
The Summit Silk Mill, ofSummit. New Jer
sey, has suspended operations, and $50 EN-
! ployes are thrown out of employment The
suspension is due to the fact that about 100
weavers struck against a reduction of = cents
per yard.
About 800 men gathered at Wheeler ship
yards, at Bay City, Michigan, Monday morn
ing, expecting that nearly all the gangs OF
striking riveters would return to work bat
they were disappointed. The riveters say
they will sign an agreement with the compan,
as a union, but not as individuals.
Mrs. Caroline Lang, So years Of age, dieC
at the County Hospital in Chicago on Satur
dav night Of starvation, and her husband.
Cornelius Lang, IS years old, is in the SAINT
institution dying from the same cause. When
the police discovered them they had been
three days without food and week without
fire.
r. Wesley Dunn, of Watersville, Maine,
has filed petition i'll insolvency. His paper
is scattered among twenty national and say.
ings banks Of Maine. The total liabilities
exceed $l43, 900. The assets are about S43.
900 in the Petit Menan Land Company and
Sl4, 200 in the United Machine Company OF
Oakland.
David McCleary a Democrat. of Quincy
township. Franklin county. Pa. dropped
dead at the polls Tuesday morning. lie had
driven to The voting place, mile from his
home, in his carriage and fell over dead
while alighting. He was 60 years of age.
leaves IL large family and was we'll known in
that section of the state.
A statement of the liabilities of Henry
Sherry. the Milwaukee lumberman who failed
some time ago, and the six companies il
| which he was interested, gives the anlout a
81, $50, 900, with nominal assets at 500, 600
Mr.. Sherry personal liabilities are S62S, 900
and, in addition to this, he has endorsed the
paper of his corporations for $3.50, 900 more
| The assets to meet this are now estimated to
be worth S350,000.
William r. Foster, Jr., who disappeared il
1888, taking with him, it is alleged. Sl93, OOC
gratuity fund, and who was arrested in Pari:
October % last. was brought back on Mon
day, on the steamer Normandie. Foster wa:
a member of the firm of Foster & Wentworth
and was the special attorney for the gratultN
| fund. The Produce Exchange offered S5,OOt
reward for his arrest. He is - wears old.
Rt. Rev. Charles Todd Quintard, Prot
estant Episcopal Bishop of Tennessee ant
one of the founders of the University of thu
South at Sewanee, Tenn, died on Tuesday Il
Meridian, Ga Bishop Quintard was known
to Protestant Episcopal churchmen all over
the country. and was often spoken of us tho
! founder of the University Of the South, al
Sawanee, Tenn, although he was in realil,
| the second founder of that institution Bishop
| Leondas Polk having been the first to put il
operation the plans for the university. Be
fore entering the church, Bishop Quintar(
| had promising career as Il physician. III
was born in Stamford, Conn. December -
| 1924. and was graduated doctor of medi
cine from the University of New York il
| 1876 The next year he was appointed physl
can of the New York DispenSary, in 1851 be
came professor of physiology and anatomy il
the Medical College at Memphis, Tenn. Sool
after his removal to Tennessee he gave III
the medical profession and began the study o
theology. During the late war he was
chaplain in Il Southern regiment.