The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1899-02-25
News of the Week.

were burned Monday.
An exceptionally severe epidemic of in
fuenza or grip prevails at Copenhagen,
Stockholm and Christiana,
On February II there was hot wave
in California, the mercury standing at 20
and above. Rain is needed fer vegetation,
The Houlton Hill winery, at Cloverdale,
California, has been destroyed by fire, with
200, 900 gallons of wine Loss over
S75, 600
Roanoke, Virginia, is making bic prep
aration to entertain the German Baptist
yearly meeting, which will be held there
on May 26.
The bodies of Frank and John Valdez,
brothers, have been found near Floresville,
Texas, the indications being that they were
murdered by robbers.
Captain George R. Talcott, United
States Engineer in charge of the james
river improvement work at Richmond, Nir-
ginia, died suddenly Saturday.
The factory of the National India Rub
Der Company at Bristol, Rhode Island, has
been shut down, owing to a shortage Of
coal and raw material About 1000 hands
are idle
Near Brussels, Belgium, on Saturday
last. an express train collided with sta
tionary train, ewing to dense fog, killing
81 persons and severely wounding about
100 Others.
Enormous frauds have beentound in the
water distribution of Havana, fully one
fifth the householders having been stealing
the supply from the city in connivance with
the officials
A committee was appointed by the t'ah
Legislature on Saturday to investigate
charges of bribery in the interest Of Me
Cune, one of the candidates for United
States Senator.
An amendment to the constitution OF
North Carolina, limiting the suffrage, has
been adopted by the Legislature Of that
State. The object Is to eliminate the
ignorant negro vote.
Spotted fever or spinal meningitis l.
epidemic in Butler county, Kentucky, aud
old and young are dying rapidly. Schools
aud courts are closed, business is paralyzed-
and the people are leaving.
At Huntingdon, West Virginia. SIX ae-
complshed burglars are in Jail One has
..peached and states that they have heen
working the river towns from Louisville
up; he also told where some Of the plumber
was to be found.
A despatch from Cape Charles, Virginia,
saws that fifty oyster sloops and schooners
have been carried ont 10 sea by drifting Ice
from Masothy Bay 1t Is believed many
are manned, and the crews may suffer from
exposure and hunger.
At Rockland, Maine, on Saturday last.
Albert Heysler cut the Threats Of his wife
and 16-year-old step-daughter lie was
much in love with bis step-daughter, who
repulsed him, which made him angry and
be closed the matter by cutting their
threats.
Bradford Knights, aged "A, i under
arrest at Gardiner, Maine, charged with
numbering his sister-in-law, Miss Mamie
Small. AGED %. in the street on Friday
evening Of last week. 1t is alleged that
Knights was very jealous Of the girl. who
had repealed his attentions.
Roanoke, Virginia, has business boom
now. Several Of the large furnaces there
and in that vicinity have started, extra
force is employed in the machine shops,
and the Norfolk and Western Railroad
have ordered 900 coal cars, with q ca
pacity of 100, 600 pounds each.
Senator Mcmillan on Saturday gave no
tiee of an amendment he win offer to the
Naval Appropriation bill, providing for an
appropriation of 5000, 600 for the manu-
facture Of smokeless powder The amend
ment requires that the powder shall he
made at the Government own factory.
Captain C. Shirley Harrison, aged 81
wears. committed suicide at his home,
Upper Brandon, Virginia, on Saturday.
He was bachelor, well-known throughout
the South, was promoted for bravery dur
ing the war between the States, was cap
tured and sent 10 johnson : Island, aud
was not released until the close Of the war.
The Cunard steamer Pavonia has reached
the Azore Islands in tow Of the steamer
Wolviston, whose crew worked herolcally
to save the Pavonia The latter was dis
abled by her boilers breaking their fasten-
ines. and her crew worked for three days
TO secure them, in imminent peril Of being
crushed by the boilers as they dashed about
the hold.
A Manila despatch says that the Cali
fornia volunteers abandoned Guadalupe
Church at ) o clock Sunday morning,
which had been set on FIRE, and retired %
San Pedro Macati The rebels still hold
the country in the vicinity of Guadalupe,
Pasig and Patero. despite the efforts OF the
gunboats to dislodge them from the jungle
on both sides Of the river
Senator Penrose on Saturday introduced
a concurrent resolution authorizing the
Secretary of War to ascertain the cost Of
securing control of the Albemarle and
Chesapeake, the Chesapeake and Delaware
and the Delaware and Raritan Canals for
che Government. The resolution recites
that the canals constitute connecting links
between the Albeuiarle and Long Island
Sounds.
The printing paper trust company last
year cleared over 81, 600, goo ON their out
put of paper. Congress should repeal the
tariff ON foreign paper and wood pulp,
which is Sc on one and 81 67 on the other
1t is said the contracts with the large jour
mails will end in April and May, and then
the price will be advanced so that pub
fishers will have TO raise their price or give /
their readers very inferior quality Of
paper.
The Manitoba Hotel and the Northern /
Pacific Railroad offices were completely
destroyed by fire on the 18th instant
The building was crowded with guests,
owing to the Bonspiel then in progress
The St. Paul and Duluth curriers' were
making the hotel their headquarters but /
none were hurt. The hotel was seven
stories high, accommodating four hundred
guests, and was the finest Canadian hotel |
west of Montreal 1t was built in 1891 !
hv the Norfhern Pacific. and cost over