The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-08-18
News of the Week.

damage III parts OF New jersey on TUESDAY.
Delong. .sUnionChurch, in Berks county,
Pa, was burned Saturday evening. The
building cost S15, 900.
Fifty cases of yellow fever are now under
| treatment in Havana and the disease is on
the increase in Pinar del Rio.
An incendiary fire, Saturday morning.
caused loss Of SIG, 900 in L NJ. Ems
minger's lumber yard in Harrisburg, Pa.
4 fire at Glen Falls, New York, Sun
day morning destroyed several factories and
hotels and caused loss of over S100, 600.
Twenty-nine families in Turbotyile, Pa !,
were on Saturday made homeless by fire
that destroyed property valued at S75, 900.
\ Boston despatch says that many Of
the New England cotton mills are idle, and
that others will curtail production later in
the season
len Zebulou York, who was Colonel
of the Fourteenth Louisiana Regiment
during the Civil War, died At Natchez
Mississippi last week.
The General Hospital at the Preside
contains about 500 patients, all being
soldiers returned from the Philippines.
Many are couvalescents.
The Republic Iron Company, at Muncie,
Indiana, has posted notices in Its nut and
bolt works that the wages of skilled labor
ers viii be reduced 10 per cent.
Col. William r. Aylett, who command
ed The Fiity-rhird Virginia Regiment,
Pickett division, at Gettysburg, died at
Ayletts, Virginia, last week, aged 81 years.
\ curtailment Of production is announced
by the Great Falls Manufacturing Com
pany, Somersworth, New Hampshire
Three hundred operatives win be idle for
some weeks
John Peek, Of East Fallowteld, Chest
er county, Pa. became crazed on the sub
jeot Of the wiz in China and went cunning
for preachers because he believed they were
/ responsible for the trouble
. Marshall Z. Smith i Bro, Philadel-
I phia, Pa, dealers in sporting goods aud
men furnishings, have filed voluntary
/ petition in bankruptcy Assets 500,
/ S56 -, liabilities s773, 1870 so
/ Mn. Julia Il. French, Of Boston, widow
Of Benjamin W French, the millionaire,
/ has been arrested in Pueblo, Col, on the
charge Of perjury, and was sued by her
former counsel on the charge Of perjury.
Owen Robinson. former slave ON a
plantation near Baltimore. Nd died mean
Gettysburg, Pa, last week aged - years.
According TO his freedom papers he was
set free in lSl7, a, which time be was | :
years old
Chicago meat packers have been ask
to furnish :, 600, GOO pounds Of meat,
within thirty days for the American sol
diers in the Orient This Is said to b5
! the hr-c-. requisition ever issued BY The
Governments
Apassenger train on the lehish and New
England K r. last Sunday night struck an
omnibus containing % persons at Benuiug-
er, Crossing, Pa. and | Of the passenger.
ia the bus were instantly killed number
of others being fatally injured
Laurel. Del, aud vicinity was struck
hy a terrific cyclone last Sunday night,
Buildings were uurooled orchards blown
down. horses and cattle killed. by falhn.
tFccs, and several business places crushe,
ia hy trees being blown against them.
Sweet Steel Company, Syracuse, n
T. Ia. made cut in wages averaging
about II per cent Depression in tht
steel market was given as the cause The
men had a conference with the president
a the company aud the greater number
refused q work
\ despatch from st. John says that
the fishery outlook Is the most uniavorablt
known there in recent years Owing to
the lee blockade off the Labrador coast the
catch Of cod shows decided decrease,
which it viii not be possible TO offset during
the remainder of the season
B. J Clifford, of Jasper county, Indiana,
has ;, 600 10 coEn, and has just finished
harvesting G, 500 acres Of oats. The farm
consists Of 33, 600 acres of reclaimed marsh
land Last year he gathered 250, 00C
bushels Of corn, | 80, 600 bushels of oats,
other kinds Of grain. -, 600 bushels, so,
900 bushels Of onions and 30, 900 bushel
II potatoes
X. IL Ferrell, a former elnploye of tn,
Adams Express Company, was arrested il
Columbus, o, Sunday and confessed t,
the murder Of Express Messenger LANE
and the robbery Of the safe on the Penn
Sylyania e,stbound train Friday night pre-
yious. oue thousand dollars Of the money
was recovered
Owing 10 the intense heat last week The
death rate Of the large cities greatly in,
creased especially among children aud old
people |, was the longest continued spell
Of hot weather known to the Weather
Bureau; the mercury ranging from 80 tC
F.. ll0 in the shade, with hot, drying winds.
Over 2000 horses died in Chicago, SOC