The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1899-12-30
news of the Week.

News of the Week.
A 81, 900, 600 syndicate proposes to
combine all the canneries in California.
Forty school children we're drowned by
the ice on the river Lys, at Frelinghem,
Belgium, giving way, on the 22d instant.
The big ice house Of the Spring Lake
Ice Company, near Grand Haven, Mich,
was burned last Sunday. Loss over 500.
900.
A marvellous quartz find is reported from
Dawson. Assays run as high as $500
ton, it is said, and the lode is mile in
width.
In the West Virginia coal fields there
we're produced during the last fiscal year
Is, 600. 00e tons of coal and 1000, 600
tons of coke.
]. Fivecoat, his wife and two daughters,
of Findlay. Ohio, we're probably fatally
poisoned on Saturday last by the coloriag
matter on Christmas candy
Hubert Hoffman, charged with making
and passing counterfeit money, at Franklin
Mills, Fulton county, Pa, has been COM
mitted to Jail at Bedford for trial.
J. w. Thomas, one Of the best known
coIored lawyers in Chicago, and the frst
colored man to be elected to the Legisla
ture of Illinois, Is dead, aged 50 years.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany has purchased for s6. 600, 600 the
Monongahela River Railroad, which runs
from Fairmont to Clarksburg, in West
Virginia.
The cid building and dormitories Of the
Georgetown Convent, at Washington, were
destroyed by fire on the I'D instant All
the inmates and employees escaped. Loss,
$40, coo.
After binding Andrew Lockwood and
his wife, near Mt Carmel, Pa, last week,
and By torture compelling them to reveal
the hiding place of money, masked burg
lars took their savings, 1915.
The weather was intensely cold through
out Germany, last week, varying from 10
to Is degrees below zero. Heavy SHOWS
have fallen amid the Sudeten Mountains,
and lie from to ) feet deep.
Six little girls we're burned to death,
four probably fatally injured and eight
other persons seriously burned during re-
hearsal Of Christmas exercises at ST. Fran
els School, at Qainey, Illinois, on the 22d
instant.
A great mass Of rock at Amalf. on the
Gulf Of Salerno, Italy, felI on the ed Ia
slant, carrying with it two hotels, Ca
puchia monastery and several villas and
crushing four vessels II is supposed the
loss of life is very heavy.
Judge Taft, in he United States Circuit
Court at Cleveland, Ohio, has decided chat
stock 10 national banks must be listed for
taxation at its full tax value, disallowing
the customary deductions 10 the amount Of
the indebtedness Of the holders.
Hugh Lupus Grosyenor, Duke Of West
minister, England, and reputed to have
been the richest man in the world, died on
the 22d instant His estate amounted 10
over Sl75, 600, 600, mostly in land, and
an his tenants were devoted 70 him
An explosion Of gas, caused By naked
lamp, in the Baznea coal mine, near
Brownsville, Fayeite county, Pa, Satur-
day, was attended By frightful loss Of life,
the number Of dead being estimated at 40
Sixteen bodies have been recovered.
The body Of A. W. Peterson, county
treasurer Of Yankton county, South Da-
kota, who fed from Yanktou November
16, charged, with being short in his ae-
counts was found floating in the Mississippi
river, at st. Louis, on Saturday last,
Abraham L. Allen, member Of the
Legislature from Philadelphia, Pa, is
defaulter and refugee from justice. He
wanted to be a high flyer, and after
borrowing all he could he took over $4,000
in taxes, he had collected and left for parts
unknown
Five Thousand people were killed in a
severe earthquake that shocked the ia
panese coast and the islands adjacent dur
ing November In one town Of over 1900
persons only 40 escaped death A tidal
wave moved over trees 80 feet IN height.
Upward of ?, 500 seamtresses have been
thrown out of employment by the closing
of most of the departments at the Schuyi-
kill arsenal, at Philadelphia, Pa. The
order went into effect this week, and the
tent making department is the only one
working.
The coal properly of the General Min
ing Association, Of North Sydney, G. B.,
has been sold to syndicate of american
and Canadian capitalists. The new owners
will establish steel shipbuilding plant
there. These mines are the oldest in No
va Scotia.
A severe earthquake shock was felt
throughout Southern California, San ia
cinto and Hermit suffering the most severe
", on Monday morning. No lives were
lost. A tidal wave struck San Diegos
tourist hotel at San Jaeinto and large
number of buildings were wrecked.
NJ. J. Meagher, known as Patsy Fore
paugh, Of Philadelphia, an elephant train
er in the employ of Sells Bros. show men,
was killed BY an elephant near Columbus,
Ohio, last week, one of the animals tusks
piercing Meagher's body The animal
knocked him down with his trunk and
then kneItdown on him.
Ex-JudgeCharles Pipetef NiagaraFalls,
New York, has been arrested on charge
of subornation of perjury, and gave bail in
$1,000. He is accused Of encouraging
Eugene Ramstein, executor of the Grand
colin estate, to make false statement to
the Surrogate in accounting. Ramstein is
in Auburn prison on his own confession.
Allegations Of fraud are made against
the Michigan Military Board, as result
Of an investigation by the Lansing Grand
Jury. The Board is alleged to have sold
good equipment for SIC 500 to a fake con-
Germ in Chicago, and when the material
was shipped to that city it was returned to
Michigan and most of it sold to the State
on 500, 900 order for new goods.