The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-09-01
News of the Week.

r. G. Dun 4 Co. s Review, for August 25,
says: Liabilities of failures in three weeks of
August were s5,S6s,ss4, against $4,075, ls4
last year.
On last Monday afternoon Sedalia, Missou-
ri, was struck by q high wind storm and much
damage resulted, especially from the heavy
fall of rain.
The cigar makers who are locked out and
on strike in twelve New York factories have
rejected the terms of settlement offered by the
manufacturers.
The steamer Mariposa, which arrived at
San Francisco Friday Of last week, brought
over $G,000,O00 in specie from Sydney, Aus
iralia, consigned 10 local banks.
William Henry Lawrence, one of the first
original negro minstrels of the United States.
died at Chicago of B,ights disease, aged SO
years- He was noted as a tenor singer.
Owing to the general duIlness of the mark
ct, the Naumkeag Cotton Mills, at Salem.
Massachusetts, viii shut down for one week
beginning August %. They employ about
| 1900 hands,
| ii is said that over 500 acres of first class
tobacco were destroyed by the storm in Lar
caster county, Pa, last Saturday, together
with large quantity of corn. The loss is
over $500, 900.
"A hail, rain aud wind Storm, at GAINESVILLE,
Wisconsin, on the 24th sultimo, caused o loss
of more than 500, 900 to standing leaf tobac-
co. Similar losses are reported near Kenosha,
from high water.
There was terrible storm at Nome, Alaska,
on the 7th of August, as a result of which
many lives were lost Over 130 vessels are
said tn have been stranded and 30 bodies have
been washed ashore.
The Journeymen Plumbers Union of Chi
cago ordered general strike on Wednesday.
| The action was taken TO put an end TO the
dilatory methods now being used and begin an
aggressive fight on the contractors.
At Palestine, Texas, on Monday Walter
Wilkerson was convicted of participation in
the Humphries lynching, which occurred in
Henderson county in May, 1889. Three other
men have received life sentences for the of
| fence.
Judge John Cromwell 0rrick, ex-Speaker
of the Missouri House of Representatives, who
was chiefly instrumental in restoring the bal
lot to seccssionisfs in Missouri without com
pelling them TO take the oath of loyalty, died
in ST. Louis last week
Judge Cantrill, at Georgetown, Kentucky,
being satisfied that Henry Youtsey is not in
physical condition TO stand trial for alleged
completely in the Goebel murder has continued
the case until October. The cases of Combs,
Whitaker und Davis were also continued.
South Carolina crops have suffered disas
trously from the present hot spell. combined
with the drouth. Recently few showers have
fallen over very limited areas, but otherwise
there rain in August. The loss is esti
mated at 81, 100000.
Orders were received at Dunbar, Pa, last
Saturday from the officials of the Cambria
Steel Company, of Johnstown, to shut down
all their works there for an indefinite period
The shutdown is attributed TO n surplus of
coke. Over $50 men will beidle.
On Saturday. during a heavy wind storm at
Havana, Illinois, the wind broke limb from
a tree in the Court House Square. The fall
ing limb carried down an electric light wire,
aud the wire, striking seven horses that were
hitched under the trees, killed them all.
The Capitol at Austin, Texas, has become
infested with centipedes of great size. A few
days ago one was seen in the Governors pri-
vaie office, and was killed. II measured u
inches long, and is the largest eentipede ever
seen in that part of Texas.
The Building Trades Council, of San Fran
cisco, representing % trade organizations, has
ordered general boycott of all the goods
turned out by nine hour planning mills The
action is the result of mill owners, who will
not consent TO arbitration, or accede to the de
mauds of the employees for eight hour work
day.