The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-06-30
News of the Week.

Edward Dinner a merchant Of Dayton,
Ohio, has filed a petition in bankruptcy
Liabilities, sos, 900; assets none.
On Monday last the heat was intense in
Northern Minnesota and North Dakota,
the mercury registering l07 in the shade.
The Grand Rapids, Mich. Bicycle Com
pany has discharged most of its 80 woIk-
men BY August the plant will be
abandoned
Work has been resumed at the Rock
ford Illinois, plants of the Glucose Sugar
Refining Company after several weeks
idleness. Two hundred and fifty men are
affected.
Major Charles NJ. Schaeter, late of the
Fourteenth Minnesota Volunteers, was
found dead Sunday with bullet wound in
his head in a cemetery at New Prague,
Minnesota.
\ passenger train ON the Chicago aud
Northwestern, loaded with excursionisls
for the Saengerfest at Green Bay, Wis
ran into freight last Sunday. Six pas
sengeTs were killed, one is missing aud 81
were injured.
Thieves ON Sunday night robbed the
large Elsesser cigar factory. in East Berlin,
Pa, and set it on fire The entire build
ing and contents were destroyed, causing a
loss of about So, 000. partly covered by in
surance. Great numbers of cigars and
cigar boxes were found scattered along the
road leading to Spring Grove, which had
been dropped by the robbers ia their fight.
\ passenger train on the Macon branch
OF the Southern Railway ran into 4 wash
cut ! 4 miles north Of McDonough. Ga
last Saturday night and was completely
wrecked The wreck caught fire and the
entire train, with the exception Of the
sleeper. was destroyed Every person on
the Train, except the occupant, Of the Pull
man car peri-hed Not member of the
train crew escaped Thirty five people IN
all were killed
Indications are that the Birmingham
Ala } district l. o. witness . general cual
miners strike on July l. Such strike
would involve 10. 600 miner, directly, and
the gl,siug down Of the mines wuuld throw
nearly la. unu other men uut If work
The State Miutr, Convention has been In
session since several DAYS. formulating the
miurrs demands, including a new wage
scale, aud q conference between the miners
ana ,,..y,tar- sviI l.. hyh
\ dispatch from scranton Pa. June
-. says the Of the most llaholical Of
plots ta murder was uncovered to-day in the
arrest and Imprisonment ii Edwin T. Ever
hart. aged - years, >pu OF pr. / +
Eycrhart, Que u scranton wcalthIest
riuten. heading physician. The arrest
sas made 1t the instance of the father,
bui ouly after detectives had secured the
ulo-t cuuyinrin. r,rruburagiye eyideuce that
such plp, existed. The man ho revealed
It was Frank II Lewis whu has associated
with the Younger Everhart recently For
b.. part IN III, tragedy he was to rSeeiye
$4,000, aui t. -,cs,r,. the payment st thi-
H,s.d money the ~un gave him a one day
Judgment note
Il was discovered h,t Sunday that
,~arms oi grassbopperS are destroying the
wheat aud other grain on thousands "f
acres IN the Floyd River Valley Of north
western IDwa Already the fields ara
turning brown As a result # th, Tavagt, oi
the pests which ia 1870 brousht such
~ufrrin. 10 the rural districts ii Iowa
For 6yg miles up the valley the prospect,
are that the crops will prove almost total
failures Previous reports have been that
the crups although measry IA the blkoJas,
would b. up tn the normal near here aud
another prosperous year has been expected
The gTa-ehoppery found in such numbers
arr small aud young, aud 1t is = que--
tian whether they will increase ia sufficient
numbers ia damage crups as badly As in
1870
The New York sun ct Saturday last
saws -.. Internal Revenue Agent Thomp-
,,n and hi. staff yesterday broke mp the
nee, complete and prosperous mconshine
Whiskey distillery ,hat ha> been discovered
in the ucighborhood II this city for a long
time. Il was IN au oll fashioned house in
Mount Vernon that until yesterday was
supposed by the neighbor, to be a board
ing house occupied by city people who had
Ia 20 to their work very early every morn
ins. and who did not come back until late
at night The revenue officers believe
that they have found the headquarters Of
a crowd Of moonshiners who have been
selling their product in the tcnements on
the East Side Of New York to the great
pro6, Of themselves and Of the saloon
keepers who have dealt in it And this
in New York : We had been led To be
heve. heretofore, that moonshine wbiskey
was only made in few Of the half-ciyi
ized Southern States by the purists %
north of Mason and Dixon l.iue.