The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-03-31
News of the week.

| d. Appleton & Co., the well-knowr
publishers of New York city, have failed
Strikes have greatly delayed the com
pletion of the Cars Transsiberian Railway
Thirty six bicycle factories have beer
closed for lack of business in Germany il
a year.
Sarah Paxson, aged 81 years, died Mon
day, near Lambertville, N. j., the result
of fall
From 1870 to the close of 1899 there
were 9,575 lives lost in and about the
coal mines of Pennsylvania.
An official estimate of the damage to
property in Prussia last year from food
shows an approximate total of 81, 900, 900
marks.
Two savings banks at Keene, n H.,
have been placed in the hands of receivers.
One owes 81, 449, 05S, and the other
S71S,S73.
The Bachman Planning Mill at Column
bia, Pa, owned by the Columbia First
National Bank, was burned Monday; loss
SIS, 900.
Miss Dunning, the daughter of rich
tobacco merchant of Paterson, N. j.,
married'one of her fathers delivery wagon
drivers on Saturday last.
After quarrel with her lover in Pater-
son, N j., on Sunday Miss Anne Volande
laid her head on railroad track and al
lowed train to decapitate her.
The Merchants National Bank of Rut-
land, VT, has closed its doors, and its
cashier, Charles W. Nurse, arrested on
the charge of misrepresentation of funds.
As result of a conference at Chicago
few days ago of manufacturers of wagons,
carriages, ect., an average ADVANCE Of 20
per cent. over the old scale is now in effect.
Thirteen young girl students of the
Western Seminary for Girls, in Oxford, o.,
have been suspended for indecorous con-
duct in holding an initiation in cemetery
vault.
The several Mormon colonies in Chihua
hua, Mexico, have been increased in pop
ulation by the arrival of over 5000 Nor
mon immigrants from Utah during the last
two months.
Robert Baldwin Davidson, the oldest
alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania
and the oldest member of the Philadel-
pbia, Pa, Stock Exchange, died Monday,
aged 81 years.
Charles Scott nearly killed his wife and
her mother by gashing them in the head
and lace with a chisel at their home in
Owosso, Mich, Sunday night, and then
committed suicide.
The plant of the Hanover Pa. Fouu
dry g. Machine Company has been leased
to the Automatic Packing & Labelling
Company, of New York, which will soon
begin operations with so hands.
The Berwind- White Coal Mining Com
pany, at Windber, Pa, has increased the
wages of its 10, 900 employees 20 per cent,
which makes their earnings the highest
received for mining in 80 years.
The Delaware Railroad has notified its
agents not to receive for shipment any OF
the bids to be killed by Milford people
under contract to furnish New York mil.
liners with 1000 crows and blackbirds.
In order to prevent futher exposure, the
Frick- Carnegie Company have settled and
a new reorganization charter has been
signed by the thirty-six parties interested,
who subscribe to S160, 900, 900 of the
stock.
The Comptroller of the Currency says
that 400 national banks are in process OF
organization under the provisions of the
Financial bill, approved March IA, 1900.
With the exception of 10 or IL each will
have capital of s25, 600
Spreading rails wrecked the fast mail,
south bound, on the Atlanta and West
Point Railway, near Cusetta, Alabama,
Monday. The express messenger was
killed, baggageman fatally injured and
several passengers hurt.
The clockmakers of the Black Forest,
Germany have taken preliminary steps to
turn the entire industry there into large
company, with capital supplied by Berlin
financiers, and to devote especial attention
to the manufacture of American clocks.
Germany, for the first time in its history,
is unable to employ about million toilers,
not for lack of work, but because of lack
of fuel and raw stuffs. The Austrian coal
strike is partly responsible for this, and all
the industries are overcrowded with or
ders, the iron industry being the most at
fected, the Prussian Government alone
having recently placed orders for 600
locomotives and $500 cars.
| James Dunlap, one of the most noted
safe blowers and bank robbers in the coun-
try. was arrested in Chicago Saturday
evening with satchel full of safe blower S
tools in his hand. He is best known in
police circles for having helped to rob the
Northampton National Bank, of North
ampton, Mass, in 1876, He served
about twenty years for that robbery, then
went to Chicago and opened saloon.
The contest over the will of the late
Governor Charles Polk, which has been
in the Probate Court of Kent county, Del
aware, for forty years, was decided Satur-
day last, by Register Harrington. The
late Governor will in 1853 disposed of a
farm on the Delaware Bay Shore of HOO
acres. William A. Polk. the executor,
died before fully settling the estate. and a
contest arose between Theodore Polk, a
descendant of the Governor, and Mrs. Jo-
seph S. Truitt niece. The decision OF
Register Harrington grants Mrs. Truiti
letters of administration.