The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-10-22
News of the Week.

Twenty-Five cases of smallpox prevail at
Mclean, n. 7.
A furniture trust, with capital of S25,
OOO. 900, has been formed in Chicago.
Mrs. William Eachman died Monday morn
ing at Siegfeld, Pa, from being beaten on
the head by three burglars on Sunday after
noon.
The watchmakers; and jewelers. tool factory
of E. S. & A. S. Stehman, in Lancaster, Pa,
was burned Monday morning. The loss is
nearly $4,000.
Occupation by the United States of the
island Of Porto Rico was completed Tuesday
by the raising of the Stars and Stripes on
public buildings and forts in San Juan.
Stillman B. Pratt, who established more
than fifty daily and weekly papers in Massa.
chusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, died
Monday, aged 60 years, at Attleboro, Massa-
chnsetts.
The Merchants Wooden Mills at East Ded-
ham, Mass, have shut down, throwing 300
hands out of work. The mills closed a few
weeks ago but soon reopened. Lack OF or
ders is given as the cause of the Stoppage.
Fred Mester, President of the German
Savings Bank, of ST. Louis, is dead, aged II;
Mr. Meister was born in Westphalla, and
has been engaged.in business in St Louis.
Bishop Hartzell, of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church in Africa, who has been attending
IA Greek Letter Society meeting in Pittsburg,
Pa, says he is commissioned to ask the pro-
lection of the United States for the negro re-
public of Liberia.
William W. Boyington, pioneer architect
of Chicago, died at his home there on Satur-
I arnhI n
many notable buildings of the Central and
Western States, and designed the Illinois
State Building for the Worlds Fair.
The police of Minneapolis Tuesday found
SOL 200 worth of Government bonds i'll an old
closet in South Minneapolis. They proved
to be all but $4,000 of the bonds stolen from
the Hardwood Manufacturing Company, some
two weeks ago, and had evidently been Sc
creted by the thieves.
Great damage to shipping, buildings and
lands is reported from England, Cuba and
along the Atlantic coast by the recent storm.
| Lighthouses and buoys have been destroyed,
number of lives lost by the inrushing of the
sea, and cattle, barns and crops were des-
troyed.
At the annual meeting of the Laurel Lake
| Cotton Mills, in Fall River, Massachusetts,
Tuesday the treasurer's report showed that
the mill lost $37, 600 net last year, and $685.,
600 if the percentage for depreciation is in
! cluded 1t is expected that plan ofreorgani
cation will be proposed. The directors eX
| pressed dissatisfaction with the report
At Toledo, Ohio on Tuesday, Harry Hue
pei was buried. He died of bone disease
| almost unknown to medical science. In nine
weeks his lower jaw grew outward an inch.
| his fingers and toes grew two inches and he
! increased in height several inches. The
| growth of bone was at the expense of flesh,
and he was almost a living skeleton.
Incoming steamers report unusually heavy
weather at sea. On Monday the British
steamer GolIivara, loaded with sugar. ran
| into St. Johns, New Foundland, short of
coal. For days in succession her decks were
swept, her fifeboats, bulwarks, rigging and
deck gear being destroyed. One man was
seriously injured. The steamer was forced to
burn fifty tons of sugar and all the avail
able woodwork in order to steam to port
William Wolf, residing near Springets, in
Manchester township, York county, Pa, met
with a painful accident last week. Whilst
engaged in building straw stack he accident
ally fell from the top of the stack and landed
on the horns of COW that was standing be-
low. His abdomen was badly lacerated and
one of the principal arteries bursted, causing
a profuse flow ofb blood. 1t was at first thought
his injuries would prove fatal, but his condi
ton has so far improved that hopes are now
entertained of his recovery.
Chester Shue, of Hanover, Pa, known as
P. D. Steiner, in Company G. Eighth Regi-
ment Pennsylvania Volunteers, now located
at Camp Meade, Middletown, came home on
Monday on furough. He was arrested by
High Constable w. w. Smeach, on the charge
offorgery. The alleged crime was committed
before he entered the government service
Justice Sell committed the accused soldier to
the county Jail, to await trial. Shue is al
legged to have forged the name of Jesse W.
Peoples Bank, in Hanover.
A. Groetzinger & Sons, tanners. Pittsburg,
Pa, confessed judgment Monday for $3.50,
725. The Groetzingers also controlled the
Munson Betting Company, of Chicago, which
failed on Saturday. The Munson Company's
plant in Allegheny was closed down Monday.
The confession of Judgment was made to Ed
ward Groetzinger, a carpet dealer and brother
of A. Groetzinger. A. Groetzinger was for
years President of the German National Bank,
one of the solid institutions of Pittsburg. He
resigned on Saturday and was succeeded by
+. ii. Myers, a pork packer The bankers
of the city had already met in conference and
agreed to stand by the German National un-
der certain conditions. These conditions in
cluded Mr.. Groetzinger's resignation and the
confession of judgment. On Tuesday the
bank was compelled to close being unable to
meet its obligations, Its deposits were ST.
100000.