The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1899-03-18
News of the Week.

Chicago had a $500, 600 fire in its
wholesale section Saturday night.
A soap trust, with s75, 600, 600 CAPT
talization, is proposed by soap manutac-
turers of Chicago.
The wages of 5000 employees of the
Riverside Iron Works, at Bellaire, Ohio,
have been increased 10 per cent.
The American Ice Company has filed
articles of incorporation at Jersey City.
The capital stock is $50, 600, 600.
The Chicago Consolidated Traction Co.,
with capital of SIS, 900, 600, fled articles
of corporation at Springfield, Illinois.
The granite manufacturers and the cut
tiers, at Quincy, Massachusetts,, reached an
agreement Saturday morning, and the
strike was declared off.
Andrew C. Fowle, aged 72 years, died
at Newark, n J., on Saturday. He was
the first constructor of geometrieal lathe
used for bank note engraving.
1t is said that the capital stock Of the
new casket combine will be S28, 600, 600.
The trust will include lis casket eompan-
les and casket hardware factories
A terrific wind and rain storm visited
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on Saturday,
causing damage estimated at $40, O00.
Nearly 100 houses were blown down.
Dewing & Co., of Kalamazoo, Mich,
have sold tract of 10, 600 acres of timber
land to the United States Leather Co., for
5000 The land is in Randolph coun-
ty, W. Va.
A prairie fire, near the Darlington
Agency, in the Indian Territory, has
burned number of cattle, and 1t Is re
ported that an Indian woman and three
children have persisted
The Warner Brothers Company, manu-
facturers of corsets, at Bridgeport, Con
necticut, have made general advance OF
10 to 20 per cent. in wages. Fourteen
hundred hands are employed.
Two trainmeu were killed Sunday morn
ing in head-on collision of freight trains,
near Bradley Station, Connecticut, on the
Highland division of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad
Eight brick stores in Mountain Grove
Missouri, were destroyed by fire ON Satur-
day last Loss, $3.50, 600 Walter II.
LOOMS fell from the roof of the Advertiser
building and was dangerously, ifnot fatally
injured.
General Ludlow writes that there are
20, 900 persons in the province of Havana
dependent on Government rations to save
them from starvation. The condition OF
the women is said to be particularly de
plcrable.
The 600 employees of the Stevens Linen
Works, at Dudley, Massachusetts,, have
been notified that on April ! the amount
of reduction in wages, made IN 1891,
would be restored The restoration will
average about 10 per cent.
The Park Steel Company, capital $40,
600, 600; American Brick Company, CAPT
tai $40, 900, 900, and the United Electric
Company, with an authorized capital Of
$40, 600, 900, have filed articles Of incor-
poration at Trenton, \. }.
William A. Doucette, % years old was
arrested Sunday in St Cecilia Church,
Belvidere street. Boston, Mass, on
charge of embezzling 81, 600 from the col
lection-b box of the church Marked bills,
placed in the box that morning, were found
on his person after his arrest
Representatives of the Mahouins Val
lev Iron Company, Brown Bonnell Com
pany and Andrews Company arein Chica-
90 forming combidation with representa-
tives of thirty other mills west Of
Pittsburg. 1t is said the capitalization Of
the new concern viii be $50, 000, 600.
Several capitalists have formed the Great
Northern Paper Company, and will this
spring construct paper mill in Aroostook
county, Maine, having capacity Of over
1000 tons of newspaper daily. The i'm
mediate expenditure viii involve 81, 000 =
900.
At Torrington, Connecticut, the factory
of the Coe Brass Company is running night
and day with its full force of 1900 hands.
The chief product of the company is car
fridge shells, and it Is understood that the
rush is caused by large orders from the
Government and from Russia
The American Steel and Wire Company,
which has absorbed the Washburn 4 Moen
Co.. at Worcester, Massachusetts,, on Sat
urday filed in Boston copy Of its charter
and certificate, designating the eOmmis
sional corporation as agent to accept ser
vice. The paid capital is 500, 600, goo.
Jacob Decker, of Youngsville, near Nil
ford, Pa, lost hog last week in a pecu-
liar manner The hog was found dead in
the pen and upon investigation it was dis
covered that the porker had been attacked
by rats and, being unable to protect itself
from its more agile ASSISTANTS, had been
literally torn to pieces. The hog weighed
400 pounds.
The works of the Grey Iron Casting
Company, at Mt. Joy, Lancaster county,
Pa, were entirely destroyed by fire Saturday
night. The building was very large and
in it the company manufactured iron nov
elites and shelf hardware of different kinds
The company employed $50 men 1t is
believed that the loss viii reach $50 900
The insurance will not cover that amount.
In New York, last week, promoters who
make a business of organizing trusts and
monopolies to order had busy week
Some of the combinations Incorporated and
proposed were
Soap. ................-....... S75, 600 600
Swelling ......... 90, oOO- O0O