The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1899-04-15
News of the Week.


Executive Council dropped dead in Boston
Sunday.
The Churchill House at Alpena, Mich
igan, was burned on Saturday 1t was
remodelled eight years ago at cost of
s75, 600.
Justice Stephen j. Field (retired), of
the United States Supreme Court, died in
Washington, D. G., Sunday evening, aged
over 81 years.
During January, February and March
there were ZIP failures in the United
States; assets SIS, HI ,9O3, and liabilities
S27, 1872, OBI
The search for bodies in the Windsor
Hotel ruins, New York, has been stopped
The death list numbers IS, and several
persons are missing.
b. II. Easton, ex-President of the
First National Bank Of DEBORAH, Iowa,
has been sentenced to FIVE years in the
penitentiary for fraudulent banking.
A famine is feared in Eastern Russia
Many of the peasants are eating garbage
and owing to their weak condition typhus
and other low feyers prevail.
Two men were probably fatally wounded
and another less seriously injured as a re-
suit of u shooting atfray at the races in
Memphis, Tennessee, on Saturday after
noon.
The great Sierra de Mercedi a noun
tain Of iron), near Durango, Mexico, has
been bought by c. p Huntingdon, and
steel works to cost $500, 600 will be built
there
Walker Fearn died on Friday of last
week in Richmond, Virginia He served
in The Confederate Army, and was Minis
ter to Greece, Roumania and Servia under
President Cleveland.
All the mines at Ishpeming, Michigan,
are idle as the result of 'walk-out" of
the employees Nearly 1000 men were idle
in consequence of action of the union men,
who desire them TO join the union.
The county hospital near Virginia, Ne
yada. was burned on Saturday morning.
Two of the patients were seriously injured
by an explosion. and the body of another
was found in the ruins Loss on proper
tv. $50, GOO
The Slater Cotton Mills at North Smith
field, Rhode Island, have been closed by
the strike of $50 weavers for an increase
of wages The strikers ami Others have
joined branch of the Socialistic Trade
aud Labor Alliance
The American Smelling and Refining
Company, capital 500, 600, 900; the Con-
tinental Cotton Oil Company, capital SO,
geo 600, and the Il J. Reynolds Tobac-
co Company, capital s., 900, 600, have
been Incorporated at Trenton, n. j.
Charles Wilkesson, a Chesapeake and
Ohio yard conductor, was shot and ser
iously wounded in fight with Ben Bates,
Fort Monroe bugler, at Newport News
early Sunday morning. About a dozen
friends Of the principals fired at each
other during the fight
The wife aud daughter of John Car
riugton, farmer, living about 5 miles east of
Needcrsburg Indiana, were killed by a
( dynamite explosion, Saturday last, which
wrecked their house Darlington had
( placed about 3 pounds Of dynamite under
/ the stove to thaw and then left the house.
4 battle lasting nearly an hour was
/ fought at Highland Falls, New York, on
( SATURDAY between candidates for admission
\ to West Point and boys Of the village,
I where the candidates are attending the
preparatory schools. Several on both sides
were injured t. s Grant Sd the most
seriously.
John Sullivan and his daughter, Mrs.
/ Minnie Dunn. were found dead in their
house in St Louis on Friday of last week,
and his wife and nephew, named Christie
[ Dunn. were found seriously ILL., Mrs. Sui
I Ivan recovered sufficiently to tell that the
family went 10 sleep with the pipe off the
coal stove in which a fire burned.
About $50 weaverS and wool spinners
at the Burlington woollen mills, in Winoos-
Ii. Vermont, are on strike in support of a
demand that the company discharge the
foreman Of the weaving department. The
mule spinners at the Burlington, Vermont,
cotton mills, have also struck They de
mand that they be paid uniform wages
instead Of working by contract as hereto
fore
The steamer Belgica, of the Gerlache
Antarctic expedition arrived last week at
Punta Arenas, Patagonia, after having
wintered south of the Antarctic Circle. A
dispatch from DR. Frederick A. Cook,
surgeon of the expedition, says it has been
a complete success, Much new land in
Weddell Sea and open water to the far
south discovered. Active volcanoes were
also seen The expedition ''lost two men
by accident, but none by disease. -
Mrs. J. 4. Stewart was found muir
dered in her barnyard, one day last week,
at Chester. Tennessee. Several weeks
AGO her husband was found in his field,
/ murdered One of his sons was arrested
at the instance of his brother in-law, Dan
iel Foster. charged with the murder of the
father. While young Stewart was in Jail
Foster committed suicide by shooting him
self through the head. The boy was
alterward released.
BY the burning of the dwelling of Wal
lace c. Andrews ut the corner of Sixty
seventh street and Fifth avenue, New
York, at 3 a m. Friday of last week, Mr..
/ Wallace and all the members of his family
and servants, twelve in ALL lost their lives.
FLYING embers set fire to the house of Al
bert J. Adams, two blocks away, and it
was partly burned. One servant lost her
life there, also. The fire is said to be due
to a quarrel among the servants whC
wanted one discharged, but Andrews re
fused and the dwelling is said to have
been fired by the butler
An ice gorge in the Yellowstone rive
at Glendive, Montana, caused that stream
to overflow Saturday night, drowning fou
persons. Eight others are missing. Three
spans of the steel bridge are washed out,
causing loss of S25, 900 The Northern
Pacific tracks are inundated and possibl
washed away for some distance, and tn
loss to live stock by drowning will involv
large sum. The dead persons are :
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