The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-09-24
News of the Week.

burg, Ia. nave advanced TIC Pil'VH VI
window glass 10 per cent.
Negro domination is said to be imminent
in Georgia through coalition of the popu-
lists with colored Republicans.
\ report BIAS reached San Francisco of
election riots in Guatemala i'll which 300
persons were killed or wounded.
Rev. Thomas Apple, d. d., LII. d.,
prominent in the Reformed Church died
Saturday at Lancaster, Pa aged 60.
The Federal Steel Company have
filed articles of incorporation at Trenton,
n. j., with an authorized capital stock Of
5000, 900, 600
Race feeling is running high at Raleigh,
y. c.. between members Of the Second
Regiment and negroes, and several con-
ficts are reported
Revs. c. L. Mench and f. \. Oerter,
who were last week elected Bishops by the
Moravian Synod at Htitz, Pa, were con-
secrated on Sunday.
The steamer Resale arrived last week
at Seattle from Skaguay, Alaska, with
so passengers from Dawson, who brought
ont about $500. 600 in gold dust and drafts.
A plan is Oh foot for the absorption Of
the chief silverware manufacturing con-
Germs of the country into one company, to
be known as the international Silver Com
pany.
Miss Winnie Davis, youngest daughter
Of the President of the Confederacy, died
on the 18th instant at Nanagansett Pier,
r. l.. after an illness of four weeks from
gastritis.
About 20, 600 troops are now quarter
ed in camps in the South and more are
under orders to 90 there. Most Of them
are destined for service in Cuba and Porto
Rico.
The York Building, on West Park
street. in Butte, Montana, collapsed ON
Saturday, burying l6 persons in the ruins.
Several were seriously injured. but II" one
was killed
Evan p. Howell, of Atlanta, Georgia,
has accepted the President invitation to
serve on the Commission to investigate
certain departments of the army in con-
nection with the war.
A Manila despatch says that American
army chaplains have instituted Protestant
services in private buildings and that such
services had never before been held in the
history of the Philippines.
4 monument erected by the State of
Massachusetts, to the soldiers who fell at
the battle of Antietam was dedicated on
Saturday on the battle field. Governor
Wolcott delivered the Grafton.
Two earthquake shocks occurred i'll
Deering, Maine, Saturday. The first was
felt at 10. 45 Il, NJ, lasting seven seconds.
followed after an interval of eleven seconds
by IA second shock lasting five seconds
Major f. c. Farquhar, Chief Surgeon
of the Eighth Ohio. who performed almost
superhuman labors in behalf of the suffer
ing men of his regiment while they lay at
Santiago, is now dangerously i'll at his
home in GAINESVILLE Ohio.
A San Francisco despatch says that the
Scrymser syndicate secured a contract with
the Hawaiian Government, prior to annex
alton, for the construction of cable be-
tween San Francisco and Yokohama via
Honolulu.
The entire business portion of Jerome
Arizona, including over 80 residences and
% stores, etc, was burned on the 18th
instant Eleven bodies have been recov-
cred and twenty or more are said to be
missing, The property loss is estimated at
over 81, 600. 600
Indications point to an exodus Of the
negroes from Texas, owing to the fact that
many of them will not work, but gather
in towns and cities, where they live by
stealing. In several counties there is not
negro left; white people prefer doing
their work to employing them.
General Torars house at Vigo, Spain.
was mobbed on the 10th instant, by Il
crowd of people Infatuated by the sight Of
the i'll clad Spanish soldiers landed from
the steamer Leon XIII, from Santiago
Toral escaped to the steamer, which was
stoned by the mob for an hour.
Marion Grace Perkins, the young lady
Of Middleboro, Massachusetts, who was
supposed to have been the victim of the
Bridgeport murder, returned to her home
on Saturday few hours before her father
reached there with the remains which he
had identified as those of his daughter.
Postmaster General Smith has awarded
to the Plympton Morgan Company, Of
Hartford, Connecticut, the contract for
supplying the Department with stamped
envelopes and newspaper wrappers for four
years from January 1, 1899. This COM
pany was the lowest bidder for the work
In Philadelphia, Pa, last week, Rev
Hughes o. Gibbons, D. D., in an address
before the Presbyterian Ministerial AS
ISOLATION, denounced machine politics as
the cause of the unutterable suferings OF
our soldiers. In the fall, he said, Gov
ernor will be elected who represents the
machine.
At Newport News, Va, it is said that
the crew of the gunboat Eagle will prob
ably get more prize money than that Of
any other warship engaged in the war be-
tween Spain and the United States. An
estimate has been made that no member
of the converted yachts crew will receive
less than 5000.
The city of Westminster, British Col
umbia, was wiped out by fire on the It'll
instant. Some 327 buildings in the hear
of the city were burned, and also the rive
wharves, stretching for over half mile il
front of the city. Food and cloth
inc has been sent. Mayor Owens, writes
"A careful estimate places the number
homeless people at about 25OO, and tn
number Of business houses and homes des
troyed at 500. The loss will reach full