The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1899-09-02
News of the Week.

York, Pa, is to have large piano factory.
1t will start with 40 hands.
The property of the New Orleans Brewing
Association has been sold to a reorganization
committee for SS60,000.
Six workmen were killed, and seven injured
by the fall of twelve steel arches of the super
structure of the new Colosseum building in
Chicago, Monday.
Fire on Saturday at Redding, Michigan, de-
stroyed twenty-one buildings, including eight
brick and two wooden stores, livery stable
and four dwellings. Loss, $4,000.
Four lives were lost, and a number of per-
sons injured, including several nuns. at the
burning of st. Agnes Convent and Orphan
age, at Sparkill, n. Y, Monday.
John Winterfeld, farmer, was killed by
falling rock from blast near Cedar Mills,
Grant county, w. Va, Monday, quarter of
mile from tue field in which he was working.
The second brood of potato bugs is so great
on Long Island, N. Y, that railroad trains are
stopped by them. Millions are crushed by
the wheels but the supply is so great that there
seems to be no end of them. Potato and
tomato vines are dead and the bugs are mi
grating.
During the storm off Cape Hatteras, last
week, the thermometer registered 160, when
1t was blown down it stood at l20 miles an
hour. Is it any wonder that vessels were
wrecked or that the waves from the ocean ran
into Pamlico Sound and bays with such
wind blowing?
Ex-Congressmau N. S. Peters, of Kansas,
| is promoting a combination of cattle shippers
and feeders, which it is expected will practi-
| cally control the cattle business in Kansas,
Missouri, Nebraska and the Indian Territory.
| Senator W. A. Harris, of Kansas, is one of
the prime movers in the scheme.
An official report of the loss of life on the
| Island of Porto Rico by the late hurricane
states that 2,3l2 bodies were buried, 1000
families and their houses are missing and that
| 25O,000 persons are destitute of food and
| clothing. Ii is estimated that it will require
| 25,000,000 pounds of rice and beans and A.
250,00O pounds Of Goldfish to allow of a ration
of pound day being issued until the crops
can be gathered seventeen weeks hence. The
cost of these supplies would be Sl25,00O.
J. Bean Frye, one of the oldest residents of
| Mountain Falls, Frederick county, Virginia,
| died at his home Sunday, after a lingering
illness. aged 70 years. 1t had always been
| his desire to be buried in a walnut coffin, so
| about three years ago he selected the largest
walnut tree on his farm, and, cutting it down,
| had it hauled to a sawmill, where it was prop
/ erly cut up. He then fashioned his own coffin,
/ and kept it in his house for his friends to look
at. His last wishes we're carried out, and he
was buried Monday afternoon on the mountain
| farm which has been in his family for genera
| tions.
| A destructive storm visited Mount Joy and
| vicinity, in Lancaster county, Pa, Saturday
night, causing heavy loss to property and
| the death of one mar. DIR. Andrew Martin,
near Mount JOY, was struck by lightning and
| instantly killed. He was in the cellar of his
| house at the time, accompanied by his sister,
| who was putting away provisions. Lightning
/ struck the chimney. followed the stove pipe,
/ passed through the stove and floor and enter
| ed his left side. BIS sister, who was within
| three feet of him. escaped injury. He was 66
wears of age A large barn of DIR. Blough and
/ a tobacco warehouse adjoining we're struck by
/ lightning and entirely consumed.
Az Carlisle. Pa, Sunday night there was
| the greatest raiustorm known for many years.
| 1t assumed the nature of a cloudburst, and the
| rain came dowa in torrents for hours. The
] streets were impossible, and the rain came
| into the cellars and flooded them in some sec
| tons of the town. Iuestimabe damage has
/ been done to crops aud vegetation. The
/ L. b. Church ut Boiling Spring was struck
| by lightning and badly damaged. At Mount
| Holly Springs the office building of the Mount
| Holly Paper Company was struck and entirely
| destroyed by fire. Many barns were struck by
| lightning aud burned. At Williams Grove
| much damage was caused TO the exhibits A
/ big washout occurred at Rose Garden, on the
/ Philadelphia and Reading Railroad An
emhankment ten feet high and one hundred
feet long was washed away. Big landslides
aud washouts are reported from other places
| in the county.