The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-12-08
News OF the Week,

Allentown, Pa. silk mills have assigned
made ribbons only.
At Paterson. n j., the Rogers Locomotive
Works have closed.
schools IN Woodbury.. \. j., are closed on
account of diphtheria-
Valuable deposits OF coal have been found
along Chignak Bay, Alaska,
James Z. Paye. Sasquehanna. Pa. livery
man has failed. Liabilities So, 400, assets
$50.
Floods following the recent heavy rains in
California have caused $3.50, zoo damage 10 The
crop ol celery.
George Gritilhs. recently deceased, iaie
clerk aud treasurer Of Board Of Education oi
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Is short ia his accounts
100000
Newfoundland was swept BY terrible biz
zard ON Wednesday of last week Railroads
we're blocked b. heavy snow drifts, and much
suffering is reported.
r. d. Lukenbil, a former agent of the
Seaboard Air Line Railroad, al Fernandina,
Florida, is $50. 600 detaulter. His friends
will pay aud the railroad will not prosecute.
Al West Haven, Conn, Cornelius Flame,
aged IA years, is in Jail for poisoning. Just for
spite, ls5 chickens, pigs, geese, aud cut.
uug the throafs of IS turkies aud geese owned
by Thomas Cronin.
The auxiliary craiser Yosemite was wrecked
by u typhoOn at the island OF Guam on No
vember Is. Five of the crew were drowned.
Great loss OF life and destruction Of property
Is reported: on the island
Word has been received in San Francisco
that overdue schooner Gar, OF that city, has
been wrecked off the Mexican coast. Her
crew, composed of Captain Wagner and eight
men, were probably drowned.
Mrs. Hiram Hiusdale, who distinguished
herself by her heroism daring the Civil War;
and rendered valuable service 10 the Govern
ment AS a spy, died November "a at st. Mary S
Hospital, in Chicago, at the age of "a years.
Edmund j. Bell, postal clerk, aged 10
years, is in New York jail for robblng the
mails Of S220l. His action as a high roller
attracted attention, and shortly after an in
vesiigaliou showed he was robblng the mails.
After being closed down eight months, the
South Rolling mill in Terre Haute, Indiana,
owned by the Republic Iron and Steel Com
pany resumed operations IN all departments
Monday The mill will run double turn, Civ
ing employment to 300 men.
An indictment was returned by the Grand
Jury at Chicago against David II. Stuhr, pro-
prletor OF the dawkeye draln Elevator, at
West Hammond, Illinois, and two employees,
charging them with violating the law forbid
ding the fumigation of grain for the purpose
of changing its color, quality or germ.
An Indianapolis dispatch says that the EN-
ployees of the Big Four Railway Company
have formed one of the strongest labor organ
ization ever known in the Middle West. The
intention of the employees is to organize fed
Grafton making the grievance of one depart.
ment the grievance of all others.
As Charles Tolles was riding his wheel on
Tuesday night November y, at Southington,
Conn, he heard rushing sound, felt scorch-
ing heat and saw binding light. A second
afterward he discovered that his mustache aud
beard had been burned off tsa close shave.
An investigation resulted in the discovery
that falling meteor had caused the trouble.
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