The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-11-03
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News of the Week.

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diphtheria.
On Monday night, at s o clock, snow
was Falling in Utah.
In New York city there were CAB, $50
voters registered this year.
At Lacrosse, Wis.,, on Sunday, seven
inches of rain fell, aud great damage was
done.
The fall term of the Circuit Court in
Kansas City, Mo-, opened with 300 suits
for divorce ON the docket.
The Lorain plant of the Federal Steel
Company at Lorain, Ohio, has been closed,
throwing 5000 men out of employment.
The Lancaster, Pa, Shoe Manufactur-
Ing Company has made IN assignment; as
sets SIS, 200 and the liabilities Sl3, 00O-
Quail are destroying the crops OF the
Colorado farmers, and have been declared
nuisance by various town and county
boards.
Seven passengers were killed and TWEEN
ty injured in wreck on the Northern
Pacific Railroad at De Hart, Montana, On
Sunday night.
Postmaster General William l.. Will
son died Wednesday of last week at Lex
inston, Virginia, after lingering illness,
aged 81 years.
A receiver has been appointed for the
Richmond Coal Mining and Manuiactur-
ing Company, operating coal mines at
Gaydon, Virginia.
The converting and finishing depart
ments of the Illinois Steel Works, at South
Chicago. are closed and $500 men thrown
out of employment.
Joseph Miller. colored. a trusted night
clerk in the Norfolk, Va, postoffce for
ten years, was caught robbing the mails,
and is in jail When detected he fought
desperately.
A severe earthquake occurred at Ca
racas, Venezula, Monday, killing fifteen
persons, injuring many Others and doing
great damage to property. President
Castro was among the injured.
The Fire Department of Galveston, Tex
as, has commenced burning the immense
drifts of wreckage from the hurricane Of
September s. Hundreds of bodies and
thousands of dollars worth of valuables
will be cremated.
In the New York Central service twenty
years ago the aggregate proportion OF men
discharged for drunkenness was 20 per
cent. but now, with 30, 900 men in the
employ of the company, less than | per
cent. is dropped from the rolls for that
Cause.
About two weeks ago Wilbur Ridgeway,
a deaf mute, was released from New Cas-
tie, Del, jail where he had been confined
for stealing trunks; he had also been slight
ly whipped Last week he was arrested
for a similar offence, and on Saturday last
he was severely fogged and turned lose.
Washington advices state that the great
nations of the world are practically in ac-
cord as to the indemnity demands to be
made on China, and that the amount
agreed upon is $500, 600, 900, the largest
sum ever demanded by one nation from
another. II is expected that China will
agree to the punishment oil the guilty lead
ers in the late lnsurrectlon.
According to the figures given by the
Viceroy of India, rough estimate of the
cost of the famine in that country would
not fall short of $500, 900, 900. And
this is only the first cost, for 2, 900, 600
people are still receiving relief and mil
lions more must be helped to restock their
farms and be fed until they can reap their
new crops The famine has been equal
to a devastating war; but such war would
mean peace in the contending countries fol