The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1899-07-29


escaped Loss $50, 900.
By the explosion of gas and fire damp
in the mine of the Redstone Coal, Oil and
Gas Company, at Grindstone, near Brauns-
vile, Pa, Monday, seventy men we're en-
tombed. Three were killed.
One negro was lynched, and the bodies
of four others found, near cambridge, Ga,
Monday. They belonged to a gang OF
escaped prisoners, who had been terroriz-
ing Decatur and Early counties.
Two more Cleveland street cars were
blown up by strikers or sympathizers,
Monday and several passengers were III
iured. A non-union conductor shot and
killed Henry Cornweit, aged 10 years.
The British Colonial Office announces
that the bubonic plague has spread from
Hong Kong and Mauritius to Reunion.
There were Sc cases at Mauritius during
the week ending July 20, of which %
resulted fatally.
The advance in the pay Of skilled tin
plate workers, announced from Anderson,
Indiana, is equal to ID per cent. and it
will affect 10, 600 men throughout the
country, whose aggregate increase will be
about 81, 900, 00O.
The United States District Attorney at
Jacksonville, Florida, has been warned
from Washington to beware of hibustering
expeditions from the Florida coast against
Honduras, Nicaragua and other Central
American countries
Wheat in Russia Is reported to be at
least 100, 600, 900 bushels short compared
with last year; Spain and Italy report a
shortage of 81, 600, O00 Hay, potatoes,
grain are all short in Russia. owing to the
continued cold in the spring.
The Pressed Steel Car Company has
contracted with the Carnegie Steel Com
pany for 30, 600 tons Of steel plates
monthly for period of ten years, to meet
which the Carnegie Company viii erect a
So, 900, 900 addition to its plant.
Although the average rainfall in July at
Manila is AZ inches, the precipitation for
the last twenty days has been II inches
General Otis reports that the whole coun-
try is flooded and that the troops on the
outposts have suffered in consequence.
John J. Eberle. well known Baptist
preacher of Pottstown, Pa, observed his
10th birthday anniversary on the 2lst in
slant. Owing to falling health he in
1856 began to eat only one meal a day.
and for 43 years he has continued it. He
is in good health
Thomas MeDougall, Of Cincinnati, was
found dead in his bed at his home, near
South Salem, Ohio, Tuesday night Of last
week Mr. McDougall was famous A. a
lawyer, and took prominent part in the
heresy trial by the Presbyterian General
Assembly of Professor Briggs.
The officers of the National Federation
Of Colored Men of the United States have
called convention of that body TO meet
in Cleveland, Ohio, August / 0 to consider
the questions Of vital Importance 10 the
eolored race. The call asks every State
in the Union to send delegates TO the Con
vention. Women delegates viii be ad
mitted
Notwithstanding the presence Of militia
at Cleveland the street violence following
the strike of trolley men continued Sun
day. The company declined to discuss
arbitration with the strikers, declaring that
the men who went out week ago were
no longer in its employ Cars were being
operated, but some of the tracks were eb
structed, windows Of the trolleys smashed
and the rioters showed fight May ar
rests were made.
Frederick Knapp, of near Wellsboro.
Pa, met singular death recently.
While peeling bark in the woods he was
bitten by mosquito in the temple, which
became swollen Soon after he wrestled
with a companion, whose head bumped
violently against the sore, and from that
time it increased in size. Knapp suffered
intensely before be died with symptoms
ike those of hydrophobia, and it required
four men to hold him in bed
Elevator b of the Cincinnati, Hamilton
and Dayton Elevator Company of Toledo,
Ohio, was burned Sunday evening from
dust explosion which seemed to fire in
stantly the building in every part The
loss amounts to over 81, 900 coo More
than 900, 600 bushels of wheat were burned
in the building, valued at S642, 900, and
more than one hundred cars of grain in the
surrounding yards were destroyed The
grain loss was well covered by insurance.
Nearly every large grain dealer in Toledo
is affected to some extent. The building
was of moderate construction, and was
built in 1895 on the site of one nearly as
large, destroyed by fire that year. 1t cost
$500, 900,
Mrs. Paul Thoman, residing near Pen
Grove camp ground, York county, Pa,
Tuesday evening of last week, took her
daughter, Il years old to the barnyard
with her In order to prevent the child
from being hurt while she was milking,
left it on the outside of the gate The
child wandered to the hog pen, in which
there were some shoats, and put its left hand
between the boards and it was Immediately
seized by one of the shoats and terribly
laeerated. The screams of the child caus-
ed the mother to rush to its rescue. When
she reached the pen another shoat had
seized the wrist, and both were chewing
at the same time Mrs Thoman seized
stick and beat the animals off, and took the
child home. The hand had to be ampu-
tated above the wrist. The child will re-
cover.
A despatch from Tallulah, La, July
%, says five Italians were lynched there
last night. Yesterday DIR. Hodges, a
prominent physician of Tallulah, quarreled
with an Italian The latter secured a shot |
gun and MORALLY wounded DR.. Hodges.
The shooting created intense excitement. !
A mob captured the assassin and four of
his friends, strung them all up to trees and
filed their bodies with buck-shot. Tallu-
lab is a small town in Madison parish, |
seventeen miles away from the river, in the
heart of the cotton producing section of the
State Many men prominent in State af
fairs are residents there and on the sur
rounding plantations. The Italians lynch
ed were Charles, james and Frank Difatto,
S. Fudoco and John Ceranao. A major
;tv IF tba naonla condemn the lvDchinO