The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1899-07-01
News of the Week.

The second pair of twins in less than )
months were born June n to William
Martin, of Lancaster, Pa.
VIM. Galloway's terra Gotta works,
Philadelphia, Pa, were burned Sunday
night; loss 500, 600
Boston had a $3.50, 600 fire on Sunday
night. 1t started in a book bindery. 300
hands are thrown out of work
An English Syndicate, with a capital
of 500, 600, 600, are purchasing Texas
cattle with view of cornering the cattle
market
The Trans Caspian region of Asiatic
Russia, is threatened with famine owing
to the prolonged drought and plague of
locusts
John Keagy, of Conewago township,
Adams county, Pa, sold load Of new
wheat to the Hanover Milling Company
last Saturday.
The 10Th Saengerfest of the North
American Saengerbund was held in Cincin-
natl this week. The citizens committee
raised over sIOO 0O0 for the event.
Rev Robert W. Oliver d. D.. rector
of st. Luke Protestant Episcopal Church,
at Kearney. Nebraska. died in the Epis-
copal Hospital Philadelphia. Pa. June
%, aged s. years.
Colonel Evan Miles, First Infantry. who
has been in bad health since his return
from Cuba last year. has been ordered to
report to a Retiring Board, of which Maj
f. General Shafter Is President for eXanina-
ton for retirement
Professor Thomas F. Chrostwaite. of
Z Boston. was on Saturday elected Supervis-
i'm Principal Of the public schools Of Han
over Pa. at a salary Of SlO5O, an increase
over the salary paid the retiring Super
inteudeut. Prof \ J lIarbaugh
At noon on Monday FIRE entirely de>-
troyed the Michigan Central freight house,
partially destroyed the Cincinnati, Hamjl
ton and Dayton freight house burned Toe
loaded cars, the aggregate ln>, amounting
To over S3o0, GOO, very small part OF
which i covered BY insurance Two men
were seriously injured
/ John Shields. an East Side New York.
>alooukecper. was the victim early SUNDAY
morning Of three clever thieves who not
[ only robbed him uf his watch aud the con
tents of his cash bux. but left him locked
/ securely in the lee box in his saloon That
he did not slowly freeze tn death was owing
Ia the chance arrival Of a man. who heard
his shouts for help aud liberated him
Joshua DAVIS an insane patient az Mad
i~on Wisconsin. informed the doctors tha,
he had At different interval, swallowed
nail, wire. etc and begged % them o.
remove them aud relieve his suffering 4.
they proceeded with the operation they
. found imbe,ided in the stomach aud ints-
tines half a pound Of nails of al Sizes tEo
I prgketknifc blades and several picc,s q
twisted wine.
The Danish Steamship Alexandra. ,ailci
. from Newport News Sunday morning for
Copenhagen. Denmark. having aboard the
twenty locomotives buli; foT the Govern
ulcut Of Sweden by the Richmond Nir- .
. ciuia Locomotive Works This order
was all,-l ia a few months after given and .
+ !, ut especial interest as the largest CON
. .isuueut ii American bull; engines ever .
sent abroad
I. u Tanner. aue uf the taremae, Red .
sl,u in the ruit,-l State va, arrested AZ .
( Ea.,ou. Pa. june -. 90 a charge Of
1 cuibeEzling 81 10, &C the funds gf she .
I Sarauac Tribe. II EA,t1n. Tanner j. a
uleu,l.,r If the Grta, Council II the I njiel
\ States and was far YEAR IT, journal clerk
\ lie 8 an authority ga Rel Men work
Z and known from the Atlantis ,a che Paei.
. e. coast Bal wa 6xci az 81 0oo
Charly- \ Pilsbary. Il Minneapolis,
Mimi, say- the winter wheat crop l. a
failure - far IS the Northwestern spring .
. wheat area i cssnccrne,i the crop j. laak I
T ins aud DOING fairly well In some bow .
T PLACES there may be slight damage from .
to- much rain. bat on the whole. with "a
( yurable weather conditions from this time .
. forward. there ought no, ,o be any reason .
. vhy We should no, have up here a reason F..
ably abundant crop
IN angry m,.le a, Atlanta. Macon o5un- +
T ~. No. pat the entire police force ui the
town g. flight one day last week and killed .
T one horse aai severely injured another be .
+ fore il "a, despatched with . club. The .
mule belonged to an cid dATky In the .
mornin. it lot its temper over something .
and proceeded IL arouse the town sufficient
I Is to call ou, the police foroe During
I the lirst assault the ofhcers used hrckbats .
7 Then the mule charged, aud one 81 this .
1 officers Of the law saved himself by crawl .
\ ing unier 3 house. The mule had things
I pretty much lis own way for halt an hour,
I but presently the arm Of the law reached .
out and gathered 1t in.
About | Il a. M last Saturday, a IRE .
WAS started in a pool room al Laurel, Del .
I The town has no water aud Al least loo /
I dwellings stores, 6e., were burned As .
sistance from Wilmington, Del and SAILS
I bury, Md. checked the FIRE before the town .
vas wiped out. Loss over $500, 900, IN
surance $50, 600, owing To a lack of n water
supply Laurel has 3 000 population
Is largely engaged in basket and box .
making and Is on Laurel river The fire
is supposed to have been started in order
to hide murder in the pool room, a
several shots were heard just before the
| fire alarm was given Many Of the stores
and dwellings were looted BY negroes du-
ring the fire
When the American liner &, Paul
reached her dock in New York city Satur-
day the baggage Of Mn. Phyllis +. Dodge
of New York, saloon passenger, was
seized on the charge that they contained
struggled jewelry and wearing apparel.
The jewelry found Is valued at 500. 900,
and the wearing apparel at $40, 600 y
handbag which she carried had diamonds,
pearls and other stones made up in various
articles Mrs Dodge went from that city
| to Europe some time ago, and, it is said,
became well known in Paris About a
month ago she disappeared from the boule
wards and the resorts which she had fire.
quented, and the customs authorities at
this port, who had received some impor-
tant information reuardiDu her extensive