The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-10-15
News of the Week.

News of the Week.
Leonard Ware 4 Sons the largest and
one of the oldest oil firms in Boston, have
failed.
Baker Bres.. lumber dealers of Platts
buroh. y. Y. have failed; liabilities
S125, 900.
The majority in favor Of prohibition
throughout the Dominion of Canada is
about IS, 900.
The new smokeless powder works at
Santa Cruz, California, is now turning out
5000 pounds of the explosive daily.
The guns which Naval Constructor Hob
son has so far saved from sunken Spanish
warships are valued at $500, 900.
Forest fires near Wichita, Kan, drove
clouds of insects and birds from their hauEts
in such vast numbers as to darken the sky.
w. j. Haldeman, of Glendale, Ohio,
who shot his partner, ex-senator Richard
son, has disappeared from Chicago, ILL.,,
where he had been staying.
In the parade of the knights Templar
at Pittsburg, Pa, on Tuesday, there were
over 25. 900 men in line, and the city was
handsomely decorated for the occasion.
At Buffalo. n. Y, the John L. Noye
Manufacturing Company, makers Of Hour
mill machinery and steam engines, have
gone into the hands of receiver; liabili-
ties, $50, 900.
A fire at Colorado Springs, Colorado,
on Saturday afternoon destroyed the Ant
lers Hotel, several large lumber yards and
two blocks of business houses. The losses
are estimated at 81 900, 600.
Losses by the recent hurricane at Bar
BADGES, West Indie; amounts to over
sl85, 600 to poor people alone. About
1927 laborers' houses were destroyed,
and 1, GA damaged.
A Pittsburg, Pa, company is said to be
negotiating for land on the banks of the
Manchester Ship Canal, England, for the
erection of factory, which will employ
1000 men.
The monthly statement Of the public
debt shows that at the close Of business
September 30, 1898, the debt, less cash
in the Treasury, amounted to $1,O67,-
479, 205, an increase for the month of
$54, COS, 1873.
1t is stated that deal has been con-
Guided by Delaware Indians for the pur-
chase of 555, 900 acres of land in Mexico,
and that as soon as they secure settle
ment with the United States and the
Cherokees, they will remove there.
The comparative statement of the Gov
eminent receipts and expenditures for Sep
TENDER shows the total receipts to have
been $50, IT'S, 070, and the expenditures
$54, 223, 921. This statement takes no
account of the receipts from the war loan.
Mrs. Catharine Watts, of Scllersville,
Pa, was 1O2 years old last week. OF ten
children seven are living, the youngest is
20, and there are nearly 80 grandchildren,
2O5 great grandchildren and about 20
great-great- grandchildren.
Mrs. Annie Il. George, who is suspect
ed of the murder of Mrs. Mckinley's
brother, George D. Saxton, at Canton,
Ohio, on Friday afternoon of last week,
was remanded to Jail on Saturday. There
are no new developments in the case.
The monthly statement of the Comp
troller of the Currency shows that at the
close of business, September 30, the total
circulation of national bank notes was
1926, 356, $50, an increase for the month
of So, 179, 1876, and an increase for the
year of 81, 631, 459
Gen. John NJ. Bacon and two compan-
les of the Third Infantry had sharp fight
with Pillager Indians at Lsech Lake,
Mimi, last week Soldiers were killed,
and late at night there were reports that
the entire command had been massacred.
Reinforcements are being hurried
Dun's Review says 1.-The final re-
turns of failures for the third quarter of
1898, number in all 1855, with liabilities
of $32, COS, 214, and of commercial fail
ures 2,54O, with liabilities of $25, 1O4,
77S." No failures, as rule, under S.,
900 are reported.
A 1O-year-old daughter Of Lewis Del
linger, of Alum Spring, Shenandoah coun-
ty, Virginia, on Wednesday of last week,
while visiting her grandmother in Hardy
county, West Virginia, was horribly as
saulted by negro man. The child can
not recover.
At Gainesville, Tenn, ON Wednesday,
of last week, the Grange tobacco ware
house was burned, together with $780,
900 worth of tobacco; insurance on build
ing and contents $500, 900. Il was the
largest tobacco warehouse in the world,
having floor space of over FIVE acres.
Several other buildings adjoining were
either burned or damaged.
A West Indian cyclone prevailed at Sa-
vannah, Georgia, Sunday, and for Is
hours the wind blew steadily from 80 to
20 miles an hour The lowlands for miles
around Savannah are submerged. The
city escaped with comparatively little dam
age. The loss of property among the Sea
Islands Of the Georgia and South Carolina
coasts is very heavy, and there has been