The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1899-06-10
News of the Week.

hours for nine hours work, an increase OF
10 per cent
Mrs. S. Jewett. of Toronto Junction,
Canada. last week killed her months old
baby with an axe and then drowned herself
in a creek. Temporary insanity is given
as the cause.
John H. Henderson, accountant OF the
Union Bank, of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada,
who disappeared recently, is reported by
the inspector of the bank to have absconded
with SIS, 900.
James Kell, one of the oldest members
of the York (Pa.) Bar died Sunday
morning. He was one of the Republican
leaders in York county during the days Of
Simon Cameron.
The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
Company, at Birmingham, Alabama, an
nounced on Saturday an advance in the
wages of its miners of ,! cents per ton,
Six thousand men are affected.
The law prohibiting the expectation Of
horses from the Turkish Empire has been
revoked, and horses for export to the
United States will simply be subject to an
export duty of FIVE Turkish liers.
A French cruiser has been ordered to
proceed to Devil Island and transport
Captain Dreyfus to France His military
rank has been restored, and on the voyage
he will be allowed comparative freedom
The employees Of all the sewer pipe fac
tories and clay works at Toronto Ohio,
are on strike. They demand 20 per
cent, advance in wages, The plants are
idle, although they have biz orders ahead.
Casimir Baptiste the Indian who while
on a spree, murdered Philip Walker on
April Is, was hanged in the Jail yard at
Kamloops, British Columbia, on the ID
instant, and advised Indians TO leave whisky
alone.
A Union Pacific west bound train was
held up by robbers near Wilcox, Wyom-
ing, early on the morning of the ID IN
slant. The express car was shattered with
dynamite and the safe fifed, the robbers
escaping to the mountains.
Charles Turney, aged - years, Is under
arrest in New York city charged with
washing internal revenue and postal
stamps. About S25, 000 in stamps were
in his possession. and his room was thor
oughly equipped for the work.
Between 400 and 500 men in the five
large sewer pipe plants at Fast Liverpool.
Ohio, are out on strike They have been
receiving 81 25 day, and want an increase
of % cents. They were offered a com
promise recently. but refused it
Mrs. Jane Shipley, a young married
woman of near Spartanburg, South Caro-
lima, on Sunday last climbed a cherry
tree to pick some fruit She lost her bal
ance and fell her feet catching between
two limbs She made no cutlery, aud was
dead when found hanging in the tree.
A sharp advance has taken place within
the last few weeks in the prices Of all kinds
of building materials. \ prominent builder
said Saturday that there Is hardly single
article that enters into the construction Of
building that has not been advanced from
10 per cent. to % per cent Lumber,
structural iron, nails, cement, bricks and
paint have all gone up and the indications
are that there will be still further advances.
The Christian calored people Of Knox
vile. Tennessee, observed June ID a a
season of fasting and prayer. Supplica
tons were offered for freedom from mob
violence and the lessening Of famine
throughout the land There was nothing
said about protecting the white women
from the rayisher, nor about the thieving
men and worthless women who viii not
work except when actual necessity eompels
them
Johann Strauss, the Waltz King
died in Vienna. Austria, on Saturday
His death Is a loss not merely to the people
of his own land, but TO the entire music
loving world For years he held q supreme
place in the popular heart which no other
composer has succeeded in reaching His
sovereignty as a musical king was won en-
tirely by his mastery over the forces Of
rhythm, which he expressed in his roper
toire of matches waltzes.
Following the action Of the French
Court of Cessation in ordering new trial
for Dreyfus there was a violent outbreak
in Paris Sunday, leading TO an attack on
President Loubet while driving to the
races at Auteuil On the grounds the
demonstrations grew more exciting. and
Count Christian aimed blow at the
President, striking his hat Further at
tempts at violence were prevented by the
guards, and many arrests were made.
The dwelling house Of Henry Rife, a
farmer residing in Conewago township
Adams county, Pa, was burglarized on
Wednesday night Of last week, and 81 00O
in money and lot Of valuable private
papers were stolen. The thieves located
their booty in a chest on the second story
of the house and gained access thereto by
means of a ladder Mr. Rife aud wife
occupied apartments ON the lower story and
were undisturbed by their visitors. Nearly
every farmer in Conewago township ha,
suffered recently from raids on his chicken
COOP and they believe an organized gang
is operating in the neighborhood
Unless the snow in the Rocky Mountain
region melts gradually the indications art
for the worst food in the great Mississippi
Valley that has occurred for years The
snow fall the past winter was heavier thar
for so years. On June ! the reports from
Western weather bureaus indicate thai
there is sufficient snow in the mountains t
set new high-water mark from the heaC
waters of the Missouri and its mountain
tributaries even down to New Orleans anC
the gulf. Pioneers of the Rocky Noun
tains prophesy dire things to the people
who live along the lower waters of the Mis-
souri,, the Platte, the Askansas and Mis-
sissippi rivers. They say the most de
structive floods of the century may reason
ably be expected this summer. This cover
of snow extends from the head waters Of
the Missouri and its mountain tributaries
down even beyond the source Of the Ar
kansas. For hundreds of miles the snow
is believed to range in depth from > to
more than 100 feet. Boreas, Colorado,
the highest postofice town in the United
States, is buried perhaps 50 feet under
snow banks. Here. as in many other