The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-05-19

MOVIE "a h44o w 49,
Camden, N. j., had a $500, 900 FIRE
on Sunday.
More than 5, 600, 600 persons are being
relieved in India
According to the National Underwrit-
ers' Review the fire losses in this country
for the year ending May |, were 1888,
597, $50.
In Delaware county, Pa, wheat fields
are nearly all killed by the ay. All wheat
seeded before October will not pay for the
cutting.
By vote of % to Is the Presbytery
of Washington city has decided to over
ture the General Assembly to prepare a
brief evangelical creed.
j. L. Hill, of Adams county, Pa, has
planted SO acres in potatoes. It required
225 bushels of seed potatoes and he used
$500 worth Of fertilizer.
One of the big Steel Trust mills at Terre
Haute, Indiana, is to be closed down in
definitely on June L. In addition the en-
tire Office is to be laid of.
In Clearfeld county Pa. court Mil
lard F. johnson has confessed that while
Jury Commissioner last year he placed
names fraudulently in the jury wheel.
1t is estimated that during the past four
teen months upward of 10, 900 wolves have
been killed in Wyoming, in addition to
mountain lions, wild cats, lynx, bear and
coyotes.
The Northumberland county, (Pa. }
grand jury have indicted number of
councilmen and x-councilmen of Shamok-
in, on the charge of conspiracy in connec-
ton with street paving contracts.
A new shell has been invented by an
American naval officer, which, in the re-
cent tests made at Indian Head, penetrated
and split every kind of armor now manu-
featured in any part Of the world.
At Fargo, N. D., Saturday was the
warmest May day, with one exception, in
twenty years, and the warmest ever re-
corded at this early date. The tempera
ture ranged from SO to 100 degrees.
At South Omaha, Sunday, Mrs Lena
Anderson and Mary Olsen, the latter aged
8, were burned to death, and Axel Olsen
probably fatally burned. Mrs. Anderson
had used gasoline for starting the fire, mis-
taking it for oil.
The water in the St. John river and its
tributaries is unusually high, the immense
quantity Of snow in the woods of Northern
Maine, Quebec and New Brunswick hav
ing thawed rapidly. The lower sections
of St. Johns are flooded.
The proprietors of a number of Canadian
newspapers have waited on the Dominion
Government to ask that the duty on news
paper print paper be removed, owing to
the scarcity and increased cost of iG in
Canada, caused by the destruction of the
Eddy Mills, Ottawa, and the Laurentide
Mills, Quebec.
Chief Wilkie, of the Secret Service, has
found the plates for the counterfeit $50
bills buried at spot described by their
makers, Bredell and Taylor, as well as
tinfoil moulds for electrotypes of them,
which we're buried in Paramount Park,
Philadelphia, Pa.
A national record was broken by the
New Orleans Mint during the last month
In that period 1000, 900 standard silver
dollars were turned out, that being more
than were ever before coined at the New
Orleans Mint or at any other institution
throughout the country.
In Philadelphia, Pa, there is a. shot
time between John Wanamaker and
Mayor Ashbridge and Director Of Public
Safety English. In the meantime petit
ton has been presented to the Mayor by a
number of business men, asking for the
suspension of English. Before the crack
ct is over the fur will fly.
Unusually high temperatures prevailed
last week in the Northwestern States, with
maximum readings 80 degrees in Bismarck
and Williston, N. d. The weather con-
tinues very warm in Arizona, where a
maximum of 104 degrees on Wednesday
and 100 degrees on Thursday was noted
at Phoenix. In the Eastern and Southern
States the temperature was five to ten de-
grees below the seasonal average.
By the negligence Of Frank Lantell, a
Baltimore & Ohio signal tower operator,
who went to sleep at his post, was declared
to have been responsible for the disastrous
collision in the Twenty fifth street tunnel,
late on Friday night of last week. The
accident was much more serious than was
at first supposed, and in addition to the
two lives known to have been lost, it il
probable that five unknown tramps were
also killed in the crash. A number Of
iremen were injured, and, in addition t.
the destruction of the trains and their con
tents. the tunnel was SO badly damaged
that portion will have to be rebuilt, the
total property loss being estimated at SlS5,
900. Immediately after the crash Oper-
ator Lantell disappeared, but subsequently
gave himself up to the Philadelphia au
thorities
Maryland Affairs.