The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-11-05
News of the Week.

Three slight earthquake shocks were felt
atGleveland, Ohio, on Saturday morning.
Hhe Second National Bank of Spring
field, Ohio, has decided to go into volun-
tary liquidation.
Executions amounting to SIT, 600 have
been filed against Edwin Lauper, mer-
chant and real estate agent of South Beth
lehem, Pa.
The failure is announced of H. S.
Nichols, London, England, the well-known
publisher Of rare and curious works; liabil-
tiles, $500, 900,
Macedonia has been swept by terrific
storms, and a caravan, consisting Of AZ
persons and 100 horses, was engulfed in
the River Galice, and all were drowned,
A lot 379 by % feet, improved by a
four-story house, corner 42d street and
Madison avenue, New York city, has been
sold for $160, 900, or $152 per square foot.
L. H. Fielding & Co., dealers in sta
tionery and art goods, at Kansas City,
Mo-, have assigned, with liabilities of
500, 1000, and assets estimated at S120, =
900.
George A. Steel and the George A.
Steel Company, of Portland, Ore, have
petitioned to be declared bankrupts. The
assets are $3.50, 600 and liabilities Sill,
900.
OF the So, 200, 600 needed by the Chi
cago University in order to claim the ad-
ditional $1,000, 900 offered by John D.
Rockefeller, $1,000, 600 have already
been secured.
Nearly the entire business portion of
Tuskegee, Alabama, including thirteen
business houses, the telephone exchange
and opera house, was destroyed by fire on
Saturday Loss, 100000.
Edward Groetzinger, carpet dealer,
Pittsburg, Pa, has asked for bankrupt
proceedings; liabilities 1925, $50 His
failure is caused by that Of his brother
for whom he was a heavy endorser.
The Folts Institute at Herkimer, New
York, missionary training school, was
presented to the Woman Foreign Mis-
sionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, at Indianapolis, on Saturday.
Miss Florence, daughter of the late
Ambassador Thomas F. Bayard, of Will
mington, Delaware and VIM. S. Hilles,
of New Castle, Delaware, were quietly
married on Saturday last at the bride
residence Miss Bayard has a large circle
Of friends both in this country and Eng
land, where she assisted her father in his
social duties.
Col. Cabell testified before the War In
Vestlgatlng Commission last week that in
June last the hospital of the Second Divi-
sion of the Third Army Corps was in IL
horrible condition. He had seen one sick
man lying in the rain without the protection
OF even tent fly, and was informed that
several others had been left in the same
way. Mule drivers had been used for
nurses, and he had been reliably informed
that many of them were in the habit of
getting drunk, and on this account ne
elected their patients
The London, England Standard, of
October 81, in its city article says that be-
tween now and the end of the year many
millions of pounds sterling borrowed in
London and Paris for use in sustaining
German industrial and commercial specula-
tions may have to be paid back. This will
put severe pressure on all German credit
institutions. There may be no break
down, but the end of the year will be Il
trying time for Germany The article
urges the great joint stock banks to help
the Bank of England by keeping heavier
balances idle than is their habit 50 as to
keep the money market firm.