The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-10-13
News of the Week.

Lightning rod swindlers are at work in the
Southern part Of Pennsylvania aud Western
Maryland.
u yeIr4 Of age are engaged in industrial pur-
suits in Germany
William Brown & Sons, wool dealers, Of
Philadelphia. have failed, with liabilities Of
over 100000.
Daniel Holzapper, SO years old, the oldest
bachelor in York county, Pa. died Al his
home. in York township, last week. He had
lived III that township all his life.
Ills estimated that the cotton damage caused
by the recent floods and high water IN Texas
will reach 900 bales, worth at least $50,
600 900
1.-THE close of business on last Saturday the
banks of New York city had on deposit
SS77, 2l0, 800. and their circulation was $50
10000.
The official number of bodies recovered
from the debris at Galveston, Texas. is 5000;
beyond the city limits, and on the mainland
over 900.
A receiver was appointed Saturday for tie
Cumberland Building and Loan Association
Of Tennessee. Liabilities are stated to be
about Sl44, 900.
Winfield Townsend, negro, was burned
at the stake at Eclectic, Emore county, Ala
bama, on Tuesday of last week. He assaulted
white woman and fully confessed.
A tornado at Bfwabic, in the Mesaba iron
range of Minnesota, on Saturday, killed ten
persons and destroyed properly variously es-
timated al from $500, 900 to 100000.
The assignment of the firm of Charles NJ.
/ aafa sbn ,,.,f.. ,t,, Of
Boston and Athol, is announced. The lia5il-
tiles are placed at Sl25,O0O with assets not
stated.
A dispatch from Fort Worth, Texas. says
that the losses caused by the storms and floods
in various sections Of the State since the Gal
weston disaster are estimated at 81 zoo, 900.
The rivers are still rising.
In Chester and Montgomery counties, Pa.
small black flea is eating the wheat stored
in barns and stacks, and hundreds Of bushels
have been destroyed. Farmers are rapidly
threshing in order TO save what is left.
The Adams Mine powder house, at Eveleth
Minnesota, blew up Sunday evening, breaking
every glass window in the city. No fatalities
are reported The shock was distinctly felt
twelve miles from the scene of the accident.
Representatives of the insurance companies
believe that Marie Defenbach was murdered
in Chicago, as the result Of conspiracy to
secure ST., 900 insurance, and DIR. August NJ .
Unger, f. Wayland and Detective Frank II .
Smiley were arrested.
general strike has been ordered in the
cigar factories of Sanchez & Heya and Ar
guelles Lopez Il Brothers, Tampa, Florida.
About 1000 persons we're thrown out Of work.
The strike grew out of the employment of
three non-union men.
A. receiver has been appointed for the Mont
gomery Banking and Trust Company, of
Montgomery, W. Va, on the application of
its officers, who alleged that the cashier mis-
appropriated funds TO the amount of $62, 900,
making the bank insovent.
Nearly one half of the -four mills operating
in Minneapolis closed last Saturday night for
an indefinite length Of time. The officials re-
port the cause due exclusively to the late
marked shortage in demand for -four. The
foreign trade, it is declared, is practically dead.
Eight days al sea in an open boat, with
plenty Of food but not drop Of fresh water,
is the painful experience OF Samuel Dulton
and John Bauer. two Alaska miners, who
started out from Nome September Is to round
the cape on a prospecting trip. They were
caught in the great storm and blown out to
sea, but were finally rescued by the steamer
| Centennial.
A remarkable engineering feat is soon II
be attempted in Boston-the moving OF a siS
story brick and stone hotel building from one
site to another without taking it apart. The
ground upon which the building now stands
is of a swampy character, and $50 piles will
have to be driven around the foundations o
the structure to support the 1000 jacks upon
which it will be raised from its founda
ton prior TO its removal. 1t will be trans
ported to its new location. AZ feet away. OF
teel rollers.