The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-03-31
News of the Week.


D. Appleton & Co, the well-knowl
publishers of New York city, have failed
Strikes have greatly delayed the com
pletion of the Gar Transsiberian Railway
Thirty-six bicycle factories have beer
closed for lack of business in Germany il
a year.
Sarah Paxson, aged 81 years, died Mon
day, near Lambertville, n J., the result
of fall
From 1870 to the close of 1899 there
were 1915 lives lost in and about the
coal mines of Pennsylvania
An official estimate of the damage tc
property in Prussia last year from flood
shows an approximate total of p, 900, 000
marks.
Two savings banks at Keene, n. H.
have been placed in the hands of receivers.
One owes 81, 449, O5S, and the other
Sis, S73.
The Bachman Planning Mill at Column
bia, Pa, owned by the Columbia First
National Bank, was burned Monday; loss
SIS, 900.
Miss Dunning, the daughter of a rich
tobacco merchant of Paterson, \. j.,
married one of her fathers delivery wagon
drivers on Saturday last.
After a quarrel with her lover in Pater-
son, n j., on Sunday Miss Anne Nolande
laid her head on a railroad track aud al
lowed train to decapitate her.
The Merchants National Bank of Rut-
land, Vt, has closed its doors, and its
cashier Charles W Mursee, arrested on
the charge of misappropriation of funds.
As result of conference at Chicago
few days age Of manufacturers Of wagons,
carriages, ect., an average ADVANCE Of 20
per cent over the old scale is now in effect
Thirteen young girl students of the
Western Seminary for Girls, in Oxforl, @.
have been suspended for indecorous cou-
duet in holding an initiation in a cemetery
vault
The several Mormon colonies in Chihua
hua, Mexico, have been increased in pop
ulation bv the arrival Of over 5000 Nor
mon immigrants from Utah during the last
two months
Robert Baldwin Davidson. the oldest
alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania
and the oldest member Of the Philadel
phia, Pa. Stock Exchange died Monday.
aged 81 years
Charles Scott nearly killed his wife ard
her mother by gashing them in the head
and face with a ehisel at their home in
OwoSso, Mich, Sunday night, and then
committed suicide.
The plant of the Hanover (Pa-) Fouu
dry i Machine Company has been leased
to the Automatic Packing 4 Labelling
Company, of New York which will s.'on
begis operations with 50 hands
The Berwind White Coal Mining Com
pany, at Windber, Pa. has increased the
wages Of it, 10, 00o employees 20 per cent
which makes their earnings the hjghrs.
received for mining in 80 years.
The Delaware Railroad has notified its
agents not to receive for shipment any Of
the bids to he killed by Milford people
under contract 20 furnish New York mil
liners with 2000 crows aud blaekbiris
In order to prevent tuther eNp'~are the
Prick Carnegie Company have settled aud
a new reorganization charter has been
signed BY the thirty six parties interested.
who subscribe to sl60, coo, 600 Of the /
stock.
The Comptroller al the Currency say /
that 400 national banks are IN prpoc,s 81 I
under the provisions of the /
Financial bill approved March Is. 1909 /
With the exception Of 10 or y each will .
have a capital Of So 600
Spreading rails wrecked the fast mail.
south bound. on the Atlanta aud West +
Point Railway, near Cuseita, Alabama, .
Monday. The express messenger was +
killed. a baggageman fatally injured and .
several passengers hurt,
The clockmakers of the Black Forest. F.
Germany have taken preliminary steps TO
turn the entire industry there into large
with capital supplied by Berlin
inanciers. ADD to devote especial attention
10 the manufacture Of American clocks
Germany for the firsl time IN it, history.
i unable to employ about million toIiers. .
not for lack Of work. but because Of lack
If fuel and raw stuff.. The Austrian ogal /
strike Is partly responsible ior this and all
the industries are oyercFowded with or
lers, the iron industry being the most az
fected, the Prussian Government alone
having recently placed orders for coo
locomotives aud 5000 cars,
james Dunlap, one Of the most noted
safe blowers and bank robbers IN the couu
iry. was arrested in Chicago Saturday
evening with satchel full If safe blower
tools in his hand lie Is best known in
police circles for having helped to rob the
Northampton National Bank, Of North
ampton, Mass in 1916 lie served
about twenty years for that robbery then
went to Chicago aud opened a saloon.
The contest over the will Of the late
Governor Charles Polk, which has been
IN the Probate Court of Kent county, Del (
aware, for forty years, was decided Satur
lay last, by Register Harrington The
ate Governor viii in 1853 disposed Of
farm on the Delaware Bay Shore Of 100
lcres. William 4. Polk. the executor,
lied before fully settling the estate, and
contest arose between Theodore Polk, a
descendant of the Governor, and Mrs. 10
,eph S. Truitt, niece The decision Of
Register Harrington grants Mrs. Truitt
etters of administration