The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1899-05-27
News OF the Week.

In Sussex county, Del 5000 person,
are picking Strawberries
1lrs Margaret Linton died in Lancaster
county Pa last week. aged 100 years.
An awful epidemic Of cholera bas fol.
lowed the plague at kurracheo, Northwest
India.
The Edwin :. Piper Company, dealer,
in dry goods, at New York. has made an
assignment assets, SIP. OPS, liabilities,
s77. 1875.
The johnson Steel Company, of Larain,
O, will spend $500, 600 on homes for IT.
working men, office employees and officer
of the company.
At Binghamton. y Y, on the l9th
instant. james Crawford a bachelor, aud
Miss Edith johnson were married They
are each 90 years Of age.
The Auditor Of Kansas reports the az
gre.ate valuation Of all railroad property
in The State at $50, O22 $50. an increase
Of 1894. $50 over last year.
The Toledo Traction Company has an
nounced a , per cent increase TO all em-
ploye> This advance l. | per cent high
er than the union demands Nearly soc
men are benefited
The steamer Tees, at Victoria ON sun
day from Skaguay. brought news Of a con
aagration at Dawson City. Alaska, which
wiped out the entire bushes, centre Of the
town. The losses will aggregate 81 oon
000.
A disastrous TIRE swept large part Of
the business portion Of jerome, Arizona
on Saturday. IL destroyed the Leland Ho-
tel. the Ryan House, Scott 4 Moore
livery stable aud ten dwellings los,
$50, O0o.
Mrs LYDIA Bradley, the founder and
patron of the Bradley Polytechnic Ias,i
tute at Peoria, H.. has placed on ile deeds
Of property for the endowment Of the cul-
lege valued at 81 600, coo Last year
she gave The institution half a million.
The employees Of the Saco and Pettse
machine shops at Biddeford, Me. who
struck, threaten trouble il demands, made
by the gard hands, furnace meu and ware
dresSer,, are no, complied with The
maehinis,s have received raise of two
cents an hour
At Hanover, Pa, on Saturday last
Elizabeth and Daisy Woodward. Of Gettys
burg, were arrested as they about to
board train for Baltimore The Misses
Woodward are charged with theft, on in
formation Of Elizabeth 5 employer DR.
Henry Steward.
The Wheeling, West Virginia, Iron and
Steel Company, which Is combine OF the
Belmont and Benwood Torn and Nail Com
panies, viii begin the erection in that city
of tin plate mill and wrought iron and
steel pipe and tube works, to be operated
in opposition to the Tin Plate Trust
Illinois coal operators have decided TO
raise defence fund Of 81 600, 000 To
protect the members Of the organization in
future trouble with the labor unions Il
Is said that 5000. 600 OF the fund has been
raised, and he remaining $500, GOO will
be paid in before the next settlement
The National Steel Company, which has
two furnaces and two steel mills at Mingo
Junction, West Virginia, has bought 10
acres Of land, on which two furnaces Of
500 tons daily capacity are to be erected,
besides another steel plant and finishing
mill for bars, sheets and merchant iron.
The improvements, including real estate,
will cost nearly 81, 900, 600.
The losses by fire in this country during
the first four months of this year amounted
in round numbers to $50, 600, 600, against
about S38, 900, 600 for the corresponding
period of 1898. \ like rate Of destruction
continued during the year will bring the
figures for 1899 to the enormous total Of
$3.50, 900, 900, or ten times as much as all
our battle ships together cost to build
Lucy Bullock, colored, aged III years,
died in Richmond, Va. last week Her
parents belonged to the late VIM Gait.
and at 4 years of age she was transferred
to the Aliens, of Goochland county. with
whom she remained until set free by the
civil war Her wants were supplied by
the children of her former owner, aud
every thing was done to make her declin-
ing days comfortable.
The American Line steamer Paris. from
Southampton and Cherbourg, for New
York, struck on an outlying ridge of the
Manacles during dense fog early Sunday
morning, at point half mile from the
wreck of the Atlantic Transport Liner
Mohegan, and five miles from Falmouth,
England The Paris, which is said to
have been running at rate of Is or 10
knots, struck the rocks when the tide was
within an hour of the food, and this proved
insufficient to raise her. The sea was per-
feetly calm and there was no panic among
the passengers, who were transferred in the
steamer boats to tugs and taken to Fal-
mouth Lighters were sent to the vessel
and considerable cargo taken off, in the
hope of floating her at the next tide. The
British naval authorities at Plymouth des-
patched several vessels, including gun
boat, to the stranded steamer to give any
assistance that might be required. Later