The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1899-05-13
News of the Week.

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Fruit and grain were greatly injured by
the hail storm of last week in Franklin
comfy, Pa. Much damage was also done
by the high wind and lightning.
Timothy Robinson, negro is under ar
rest at Maria, Texas, for attempting to
murder and rob Oliver S. Humes, in Phil
adelphia, Pa, on July %, 1895.
The complete skeleton of mastodon
has been exhumed near Roxbury, Virginia,
and the authorities of William and Mary
College have taken steps to secure 1t.
Rudolph Meyer, salesman of New York
city, is under arrest, without bail, Tor
passing 50 and So counterfeit bills. He
is believed to belong to a gang of counter
feiters.
The Pottsville Water Company powder
MILL in Schuylkill county, Pa. was wrecked
Saturday by an explosion, caused by IN
eendiaries firing the magazine. The loss
is $40, 600.
The nitro -glycerine house Of the Cali
fornia Powder Works, at Pinole, Calitor-
MIA. exploded on Saturday, and Foreman
! Arthur Graves and l.. J. Wilkinson We're
killed and several persons injured.
Bernard Colling attempted to shoot his
wife, from whom he was seeking divorce,
at Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Saturday
/ firing at her twice, but missing her, and
then sending bullet through his head,
| Burglars blew open the safe in the Rid
! lev Park pa } postoffce, Saturday morn
inc last. and shot at the officer, who, at
tracted by the report, arrived on the scene
in time to prevent them obtaining any
booty.
Edward Lowery, nephew of Henry
Berry Lowery, the notorious outlaw Of
Eastern California, shot and killed Tucker
Dial in quarrel at Scuffletown, North
Carolina, on Friday of last week. Lowery
escaped
FOR the third time in the present year
the wages Of 5000 coal miners Of the Ten
nessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
+ have been advanced. and other Southern
/ mines may follow suit, giving better pay to
6000 more men.
\ mob Of 2t00 strike sympa;hizers
made it practically impossible to operate
street ears with safety in West Duluth.
( Minnesota. Saturday, and they were aban-
doned Considerable glass was brokeu,
and two arrests were made
The German Evangelical Lutheran
/ SYNOD. at st. Louis, Missouri, has adopted
resolution complimentary 70 Rev III.
II. c. Schwan, for twenty one ysars ser
I vice a President, and bestowing pension
/ Of $1,000 year on him for life.
The Hoover L Allison Cordaec Com
panv. Of Neuia, Ohio, has announced an
+ increase of 10 per cent in the wages OF
/ Its employees The Syracuse, New York,
! Stove Works has made an advance Of 10
per cent in the wages Of It's wolders.
The Monticello Club, Of Chicago. has
adopted resolutions protesting against what
was termed the inhuman and utterly bar
barous struggle over the Philippine Is
lands. and demanding that measures be
taken at once BY the President Of the
United States to stop it.
Bernard MeClcy, deserter from the bat
tle ship Texas, Who was arrested Al Lanes
vile. Ohio. charged with assaultins Mr.
Effe Smith. Of Coldwater. Michigan, IN
1897. was arrested theirs on Saturday and
Mrs. smith picked him out from among a
dozen men.
At 81, Louis, Missouri, on Saturday
I last six building. savings and loan eompan
ies made an assignment. George A. {.
/ Woollev Is president and William NJ. Pat
,ersou. secretary Of the companies invoiv-
ed which are the Bankers Savings and
I Loan Association; st Louis National say
ipgs and Loan Company; Springfield Guar
antee Savings and Loan Company. Peo-
pies Savings and Loan Company tniYer
al Savings and Loan Company, and Farm
ers and Mechanics Savings Company.
According TO DIR. II ". Wiley, chief
! chemist Of the United States Department
Of Agriculture, who was called 10 the stand
to testify before the senatorial pure food
/ investigating committee now in session IN
| Chicago. stated that fully 80 per cent. Of
the articles Of food and drink manufac-
tured and used in this country are frauds
/ All kinds Of dairy products, he said, -
well a. nearly every variety Of condiments,
including even coffee in the berry were
adulterated
The findings Of the Wade Court Of In
auiry we're made public on Sunday In
/ brief. the Board finds that the evidence
/ was insufficient TO sustain the charge Of
/ chemical treatment Of beef, but that the
canned roast beef was not a fit ration for
the army in the manner and extent to
/ which it was supplied The enormous
purchase Of this article by the ComniSsary
/ Department j. described as a colossal err
/ ror. for which there Is no palllatlon,
The failure Of General Miles and other
officers to promptly report to the War De.
partment the defects in the rations Is crit
/ ieised. II Is recommended that for the
GOOD of the service no further proceeding
/ should be taken,
Mrs. VIM. c. Whitney died on Satur-
day last at her home in Westbury, Long
Island. \. Y, after II months illness
In an accident in February, 1898, at
Aiken, ;. c., her spinal cord was injured
BY being thrown from her horse while FOX
hunting. her head having struck an over
head bridge under which she tried to ride.
From that time on she been had undergoing
treatment. She was completely paralyzed
from the neck down Mrs. Whitney was
the second wife of -.Secretary Of the Nav!
Whitney, and he was her second husband,
her first husband having been Capt. Ran
dolph, of the British army, Her nader
name was Miss Edith May She was the
daughter of DR.. Frederick May, of \. \
BY her first marriage she had two daugh-
tiers, the eldest of whom is now II year
old.
Tornadoes Sweep Oklahoma.