The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1899-01-14
News of the Week.

Fifty restaurant and boarding house
keepers of Manchester New Hampshire
have been indicted for violating the Oleo-
margarine law.
Swift Il Co. Of Chicago have filed with
the Illinois Secretary of State a certificate
of increase in capital stock from SIS, 600. =
900 to s42, 600, 600
The various steel and wire interests of
the country, it is announced from New
York. are to be combined into one company
having 500, 600, 600 capital
The Kynoch Company, of Birmingham,
England, has begun the making Of TO-,
900. 600 cartridges for the United States,
at the rate of l 900, 600 weekly.
Rev. Geo. R. Harbst, pastor of st.
Paul German Lutheran Church, Bayonne,
\. J. +. has been dismissed by the consistory
because he smoked, read papers and
gossipped at the grocery store.
Ida Price was fatally burned in Cincin-
natl on Saturday. William Kennedy is
under arrest. charged with having thrown
oil over her. set fire to it, and locked her
in her room to prevent her escape,
The Lima, Ohio, Paper Mills were al
most totally destroyed by fire on Friday of
last week The plant was the property Of
the American Straw Board Company
The loss is Sl25, 600; insurance, S70, 600.
\ Cleveland despatch saws that the
Cleveland Rolling Mills plant has been
bought by the american Sheet and Wire
Company. 1t Is said to be valued at s., P
GOO, 600, and employs from 1000 to 5000
men
1t Munfordvilie. Kentucky. on Satur-
day Professor J W Mcclure indicted
with the Rev Gregory DOYLE for the muir
der Of Miss Lydia Bracher was convicted
and given life sentence Doyle l. yet to
be tried
Last week the entire first class Of the
Lexington Virginia. Military Institute
were dismissed Tor a breach of discipline ON
New Years eve in the face of special
warning Twelve States were represented
in the class. which numbered b students
1t is admitted by officials Of the inter
ested company that what l. known a the
Whitney syndicate in New York has Oh
tanned control Of the Edison Electric Hum
mating Company thus giving 1t a practical
monopoly Of the electric lighting. heating
and motive power for that city.
The aggregate amount alleged to have
been obtained by David Ru,hchild the
Cincinnati bar-hNture manufacturer. by
passing worthless notes upon hanks in New
York Chicago Cincinnati and Cleveland
i sand to be about $500. 0uo Bothchild 5
bail was increased To $4,000 at New York
Obcd Thonton. the olde-, man in
Wyoming county. and one Of she oldest in
the State. died la, week at Arcade. y
Y. aged l0j He vas born January 80.
1894. in Richmond. y II aud became
the father 81 twelve children, ef which
three only survive He was Democrat,
aud had voted tor every Democratic Pre-
ident from Mouuoe down.
William n schultz llcl last week iu
Wilmington. bel in his at,h year tie
va, born ia Bremen. and came e. thi.
country in hls twenty seventh YEAR lie
was q mechanic. aud 40 ancr became iden
tilted with the huiltiag 81 locomotives and
ran engiueS IN shi> country and Germany
aud Russia lie va employed BY the
Governments II the two forcigu countries
He n'ade number = important inFen-
tlogs, relatiH. &C. locuwolircs inctuslin. The
lap valve now IN general u~s
The monthly statement ct the 'aiiel
States public deb, -hov, that AZ the el,~e
Of business December 81 the debt. le-.
cash IN the lrvasary, uaS ; TO l76. 3S6
an increase during the month e.; 81 502
200 The treasury receipt, iu i,.ooHlteT
were Sll tp4 100. - oomparei vth
$50 6l6 SOS in December. lS97 The
last amount however, included aboot
sci zoo 000 II Pacific Railway n-uey
The disbursements IA Dycemi,yF, lS9~
we're oaly S46O. QUO rs excess 81 the rc-
oeip,,
Oyc. 1000 ducks and 1000 chickens. as
well a. / ; COWS. were Destroyed bv the SIRE
which consumed the buildings GA the farm
If Patrick McAvoy near TrcntpH, y !.
on saturday McAYoy make, a speciality
st raising ducks aud chicken, for the Nes
York and Philadelphis markets. anl bsi
buildings adapted for that purpose The
origin q the fire Is unknown, bui il !, hc
hSyed 10 have started from the boiler in one
Of the building Considerable machinery
was also destroyed The total los i abou,
SIS. GOO on which there J. partial in
surnce
The explJratioa company q the Anariu
Campanhia ESphlTo,iora de ma51nas has
been organized under the law, IT the STATE
Of Virginia, with au authorized capital Of
$40, u00 600, with the power Ia purchase
rubber lands aud concessions ia foreign
countries II j. said that number ct the
leading rubber manufacturers Of the nitei
States are interested in this corporation.
with the idea Of obtaining their rubber re
quirenlcnts through the ownership Of rubber
lands. Richard + Scar has arrived FROM
the Amazon with options on several impoT
tant producing districts