The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-01-08
News Of the Week

| J. Hoge Tyler was inaugurateu oo''
sinia at Richmond on Saturday
Exeter and other towns in New haihPsii
were shaken by an earthquake OIL su'''"N'
Winooshi, Vermont, had 100000 fire Oh S''"r-
day, Many laborers are thrown out oil WORK
The European Hotel and The City National Bank
at Cairo Illinois, was destroyed by hre Oh sal"r-
| day.
. rnceiyer has been appointed at Phoenix Tor the
,rizona Canal system and Arizona Improvement
Company
. blizzard ragged on the night of the 3lst ultimo
in the AdirOndacks and the Champaign valley
| New York.
The wholesale grocery of Lewis Hubbard * Co..
at Cha rleston West Virginia. was burned Monday;
loss. $4,000.
Goetter We'll l. Co.. dry goods merchants of
Montgomery, Alabama, have assigned. Liabilities,
S250OOO; assets, $780, 600.
John Doering, aged 20 years, wealthy resident
Of BeleviIle, Illinois, murdered by robbers on
! Friday night of last week.
Farmville Virginia, had S150,0O0 fire on Mon
dav Many buildings were burned, also about l.
| 900 900 pounds of tobacco.
The new wage schedule, 10 per cent below
that of the past three years, has gone into effect i'll
the mills of Fall River, Mass
Peter French, said to be the largest cattle owner
in Oregon was shot and killed last week at Canton
City, i'll that State, by a man named Oliver
A receiver has been appointed in Indianapolis
| for the Krag- Reynolds Wholesale Grocery Com
pany Liabilities, S3O0,OO0 and assets 100000
Negaunee, Michigan. dispatch says that the
Queen mine closed down on Monday for an indet-
| mite time throwing 30 men out of employment
4 fire in Lebanon, Tennessee, on the 3lst OF De-
cemher destroyed eight of the principal business
houses in the town. The losses aggregate Sho,OuO
| A heavy snowstorm prevailed on the 3lst of De-
ccmber throughout the central and western parts
of Pennsylvania. From ten to fifteen inches OF
SNOW fell.
The pepperrel and Laconia Cotton Mills, Bidde-
ford Me- announce reduction i'll the wages OF
their employees of about 10 per cent, to take effect
on the 18th instant.
The Thomaston, Maine Lime Manufacturing
Company of Burgess, O'Brien Il CO., has MADE an
assignment for the benefit of creditors The li"hil-
tiles are said to amount to 100000
A Fowler Indiana. despatch says that James
kirkley treasurer of Benton county, who was
found dead in his office last week. committees sui
eide. 4 deficit in his accounts is suspected.
Five hundred Italians employed by Beckwith Il
Little Falls and Mohawk, New York, have struck
for an advance in wages from II to II cents an
hour.
4 destructive wind. followed by heavy snow,
visited Chattanooga Tennessee, on the 3st ultimo.
| \ large frame church and a tWo-story dwelling
were demolished and numerous other minor dam
ages done.
| In accordance with the notices posted last week
in the plant of the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Mills,
SALEM Mass, the reduction of 10 per cent i'll wages
went into effect this week. About LOO employees
are affected.
The owners of the cotton cloth and weaving mills
! in New Bedford Massachusetts have voted 10 post
notices offs 10 per cent reduction in wages to take
effect January H. The cut will affect nearly 10000
operatives.
Operatives in the Amoskeag Corporation, Man
| chester. H., began work this week on 10 per
cent reduction in wages. At the Stark and Armory
mills the reduction will not go into effect until
next Monday.
\ bond issue of the city OF Boston amounting 10
81 Sol, 900 has been awarded to Nermilye X Co.. OF
New York at SIO5.S9 The rate was 80 per cent,
and the bonds run in different periods of five,
| twenty. thirty and forty years.
Jim Jones' colored who burned IL widow house
about fifteen miles south of Macon, Mississippi
guard of Il constable when a mob Of forty men took
him To the weeds and shot his head off
A freight train on the Monon into a carriage
at Terhune Indiana. on Sunday. OF the the occu
pants Miss Clara Brattain was killed and Mrs. John
Moore fatally and Mr.. Moore slightly injured. The
Moores had only been married three days.
| The sash and door plant and planning mill of the
G. J. Hamilton Company, at Buffalo, New YORK
employing $50 men, was practically destroyed by
fire Sunday night, together with large amount OF
made-,Ip stock. The loss will reach S120,0OO.
An electric car i'll Providence Rhode Island ran
wild on Sunday down the Olney street hill and
crashed into frame building at the bottom. The
conductor and two passengers were injured, but
the motorman, who stuck to his post, escaped
Notices of Il reduction of wages have been sent &c
| the cotton mills of the GOddardS Knights, LlpplttS
Providence K. l.. and those operated by the smaller
corporations in that State have been posted. The
onrratiycs will offer no resistance to the reduction
The Attorney General of Nebraska, at Omaha
| has brought suit against the Omaha National Ban k
to recover S20l 000 the amount of money paid over
on the check for which State Treasurer BARLEY is
!. now under sentence of twenty years pena! servi
tude.
At CouAcil Bluffs Iowa on December 20, the Chi
cago and Northwestern Railway filed mortgage
for SlG 600 900 in favor of the United States Trus
Company of New York 1t covers all the propert!
of the company, and is given for the purpose o
! cXtinguShing outstanding bonds.
The agents of all the cotton mills in Lewiston
and Auburn Me-. have received directions to make
a general reduction III wages and after Januar!
: H. Notices in accordance with these instructions
have been posted. The reduction of wages included
the Lewiston Beachery and Dye Works
During a private theatrical performance in Il hal
in Cedar Point Kansas. on Thursday night of las
week. the flooring gave way, precpitating fifty
people Il distance of twenty feet. One man had {
leg broken. another his ribs crushed, and abou
thirty others were scratched and bruised.
= DISPATCHES from France and Spain, on Monday
state that violent weather has prevailed \ cloud
burst near Toulon has done much damage. Sew
eral persons were injured. y number of vessels
have gone ashore, and the promenade of San Sebas
ton has been washed away in several places
The weayers of New Bedford, Mass, mean t,
make a stand no less decided than the spinners ant
the operatives are almost unanimous i'll favor of
firm resistance to the proposed reduction of wages
and at the time strike against the filming Sys
tenn. which it proposed to fight in March.
AdoIph Reich, aged II years, his wife, Emma
and their four children Tile - years old; Ida,
years. Albert, II years, and Gustav, s years. los
their lives in !. fire in their home in Jersey City
New Jersey, early Sunday morning. Another son
: Sgsmund aged 10, was probably fatally burned
The Director of the Philadelphia Mint estimate:
that the worlds product of gold for the calendar
year 1897 will approximate if not exceed, $40 900,
600, an increase of nearly 20 per cent over 1896
The gold product of the United States for 1896 was
SIS 900 O0O for 1897 it will approximate SCI 900
an increase of SIS, HOO 900
The British Hosiery Company at Thornton Rhode
Island is SAID to be making preparations to remove
part of its business to the South. cotton mill is
to be established at Nashville, Tennessee, and &
number of the operatives from Thornton will sOoI
leave for that State, where they will be used in
structors to the new and inexperienced Southern
colored employees