The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-11-17
News of the Week.

| lSaac IHOupSon, aScu LUZ yStie, WV
at Wilkesbarre, Pa, last week.
| The Anglo California Bank has abou
50, 900, 900 on the way from Australia.
The Salt Trust has advanced the pric
of table salt from s1.1O per 100 pound
to $3.50.
| Captain Lawrence NJ Murray, VIII
commanded the famous Confederate cruise
Nashville, died at Maiden, N. Y, Monday
The McKenna Rolling Mills at Joliet
ILL.,, closed on Saturday for an indefinite
period. About 300 men will be affected
Henry Willard, the railroad magnat'
and financier, died at his summer residence
at Dobbs Ferry, in New York State, Mon
day.
Miss Catherine Lovnie has. been sen
fenced in Elmira, N. Y, to four years
imprisonment for forging signatures to title
deeds.
A visitor to the Willard Home, the or
phanage established in Ocean City, N. J.
by Rev. DR.. Wharton, found the inmate,
starving.
Syracuse University is given 500
and the Presbyterian Home Missions 81,
600 by the will of Jacob Grouse, of SYRIA
cuse, New York.
Two Mexicans have been arrested il
New York on the charge of smuggling int
this country some of the famous jewel,
once worn by Empress Carlotta.
| A statement from Nome bakers gives
the gold output of that district on the 9th
instant at SIS, 900, 900 for the past season,
as compared with $4,000, 900 for 1899.
In fight over game of crap at Bill
oxi, MIST, on the 9th instant. betwe Ell
some negroes, 100 residences were burned
Loss $500, 900, insurance Sl25, 900.
The car barn, powerhouse and 60 car
of the Norfolk Va. Railway and Electric
Light Company were destroyed by fir
Sunday morning, The loss is $3.50, 600
An explosion of gas on the 9th instant
in the Buck Mountain colliery, near Ma
hanoy City, Pa, killed James Griffith, ;
miner, and injured 26 men and boys, sew
e,sl perhaps fatally.
Gustave Erickson, Worcester, Massa
chusetts, carpenter, was dragged from hi
bed and killed by an unknown assassin las
Saturday. Erickson received knife
thrust in the heart.
The striking boiler makers in the shop
of the Boston and Albany Railroad il
West Springfield, Mass, threaten to tie
up the entire Vanderbilt system if theil
demands are not granted.
The Knapp-Stout Lumber Company, o
Menominee, Wis, last week transferred
to the Wisconsin Land Company so, 00t
acres of land near Rice Lake, Wis. The
land went for 50 so per acre.
The wheat crop of Pawnee county
Kansas, is said to be greater this year thar
the entire crop of Indiana Hundreds OF
machines are thrashing, but the job is moi
likely to be finished before the middle Of
December.
The directors of the Standard Oil Com
pany have declared dividend Of 10 PEE
cent, payable to stockholders of recorC
of November 15 This makes IS PEI
cent. in dividends paid out by the
Standard Oil Company this year.
Max Shinburn, who escaped 50 year
ago from the New Hampshire State prison
where he had been committed for II
years for robbery of Il bank, has been re
turned to the prison to serve the remain
der of his sentence. He was captured ii
Plattsburg, New York.
Mrs. Mary Kuhns, of Littlestown, Pa.
widow of Joseph Kuhns, has donated
$40, 900 to St. Aloysius' Catholic Churcl
of that place, to be used for school pur
poses The gift is made as a memorial Il
her daughter, Jennie Kuhns, who died
few weeks ago.
The number of known victims of TIN
steamer City of Monticello, which wen
down in gale off Cape Yarmouth. N. 5.
last Saturday, is 81. There are four sur
vivors Twenty five corpse, horribly man
gled by the surf. have been cast ashore.
William Daniels and Ross johnson hav,
been convicted of murder at Lake Charles
La, and sentenced to the State peniten
tiary for life. They were members of /;
mob of lynchers, and killed a deputy sher
if who resisted them.
Marcus DAILY, the copper king of Mon
tana, whose political feud with Clark ha
been one of the most remarkable incidents
in the history of the state, died at thu
Hotel Netherland in New York, Monday
The plant of the Great Northern Pape
Company, at Millinocket, Me-, said to b.
the largest of It's kind in the world, ha
begun operations. This plant cost abou
81, 600, 900, and its capacity is about 25(
tons of white newspaper a day.
r. G. Dun, head of the mercantile
agency firm of Il. G. Dun & Co., died in New
York city on the 10th instant, of cirrhosi
of the liver. Mr.. Dun was born in Chill
licothe, o., in 1926. He had been suf
fering since the early part of last summer
He began his business career at the age o
6 in a country store.
According to London agricultural jour
nal Greece and the Ionian Islands are in
serious state, owing to the failure of tn
currant crop. Instead of the yield beini
100, 900 tons, it will not exceed 80, 90,
TONS Against this, it is stated that tn
United Kingdom requires for use on Christ
mas day alone II, 500 tons, while betwee
now and Yuletide some $4,000 tons ar
usually used.
The New England Brick Company ha
| - / =. d.