The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-08-11
News of the Week.

Seventy warships are now building OIL
authorized at cost of $50, 000, 600.
John Clark Ridpath, the historian, died
in New York last week, after long illness.
The annual report of Pension Commits.
sioner Evans shows total of 993, 529
pensioners.
The capital invested in orange growing
in the State of California is estimated al
s44, 900, 600
For 20 consecutive years rain has al
ways fallen at Wakefield, Lancaster coun-
ty, Pa, on July &c.
Damage to the extent of 81, 900, 600 is
said to have been done to the Illinois broom
corn crop by the storm on the 1st instant.
At Joliet, Illinois, the wages of 1000
men employed by the American Steel and
Wire Company have been reduced Is per
cent.
lehman & Siegal, Boston, Mass, dealers
in building materials, have asked for bank
ruptcy proceedings; liabilities over 800,
900.
west has caused the owners of big wheat
fields to appeal to the railroad companies
for help in obtaining men to harvest.
At Ashland, Wis, on Saturday last, a
million dollars worth of property was de-
stroyed by fire in the lumber district The
flames were checked after three hours
struggle.
The amount of gross gold in the United
States Treasury on the LIST instant reached
s631, 40, 1854, which is the highest
amount in the Treasury in the history of
the Government.
An east bound Union Pacific passenger
train was held up by two men, near Hugo,
Colorado, early last Sunday morning. The
passengers in the sleepers were robbed, and
one, who resisted, was shot and killed.
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at the close of business
July 81, the debt, less cash in the Treas
ury, amounted to 81, 100, 346, 40, an
increase for the month of 81, 635, 452.
The cotton mills of the Pepperell Man
ufacturing Company, at Biddeford, Maine,
half of whose product goes to China, were
shut down from August | to resume Sep
TENDER a. About 5000 hands are af-
fected.
A strike was declared on the Sd instant
on the Canadian Pacific railway by the
machinists, blacksmiths, boilermakers, fit
tiers, laborers and locomotive painters. The
trouble extends from Lake Superior to the
Pacific coast.
John Lockard, aged lob years and 10
months, died at Wadesville, West Virginia,
on the 4th instant. He was never sick
until the day previous to his death, and
was the strongest man in the county up to
a few years ago.
The Minneapolis Times declares that in
the year 1899 there were manufactured in
the city of Minneapolis IA, 300, 900 barrels
of -four This would require over 20,
900, 900 bushels of wheat, or nearly 200,
900 bushels for every day in the year.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company is
about to begin the construction of new
line between Evanston, Wyoming, and Salt
Lake City, eliminating the steep grades Of
Echo Canon. The new road will not touch
Ogden, which will be on branch line
The mill of the Independent Joliet Wire
Company, at Joliet, Illinois, resumed
operations last week, after long period
of idleness. Reorganization was recently
by the minority stockholders, who
broke in the doors of the mill and ousted
the old officials
A dispatch from Huron, 5. D., last Sun
day says ga week of unprecedented
hot weather has terminated with heavy
rains, and cloudbursts at some points. The
for seven days had vibrated
between 100 and LOG in the shade Work
in harvest fields was suspended during the
hottest portion of the days Within
radius Of fifty miles the downpour of rain
was from to 5 inches
Last week the National Apple Shippers
Association was in session at Cleveland,
Ohio. During the session letters and tel
egrams were received from every fruit
growing section of the country, and from
,hese 1t is estimated that the apple crop
his year will be the largest in the history
IF the United States, exceeding that of