The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-09-08
News of the Week.

Chicago plumbers union have called off
their strike and 400 men are at work.
At Fall River, Mass, the wages of $4,000
mill hands are TO be reduced 10 per cent
At Havre. Montana, on August 81, the
mercury registered "a degrees and there was
a heavy frost.
On Saturday the postoffice at st. Joseph,
Missouri was robbed of money, stamps. NC,
to the amount of $4,000.
Samuel C. Jacobs has purchased the farm
of the late Solomon Jacobs, in Adams coun-
ty, Pa, containing 1872 acres, at $50 per acre
Edward C. Utz's barn and adjacent build
ings and contents, in Mannheim township, York
county, Pa, was burned last Sunday night.
Small insurance.
Ten square miles of forest reserve in the
San Gabriel Reservation, California, have al
ready been swept by fire, and still the flames
are destroying the timber.
For the past six months the net earrings of
The American Steel aud Wire Trust was &c.
800, 900, notwithstanding the overproduction
and a falling demand for their output.
John Wanamaker, who bought the Epiphany
Episcopal Church property, at Fifteenth and
Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, Pa, in 1896
for 5000, 600, has sold it to a syndicate for
81, 000,0 900.
The forest FIRE that has been raging in the
Yellowstone National Park has been eXtin-
guished. The fire was confined mostly to
dead aud down timber, and the loss or area OF
the couflagration is not known.
Notices were posted on Saturday at the
Woonsocket Mass. mill of the Valley Falls
Cotton Company announcing that 10 per
cent. advance in wages upon all grades of fine
goods would go into effect next Tuesday.
Topeka Joe" Rapley, alias Evans, the
noted bank burglar, who formerly lived IN
Baltimore, Nd. broke Jail at Richmond, Va,
Monday The local detectives are on the
lookout for him. He was awaiting trial for
burglariziug a Virginia bank and stealing
$1,000.
Alloy Mills, negro, was lynehed at Forest
City, North Carolina, last week, for the
murder of a white man named tiack- The
trouble arose over the theft of some peaches
by the negro. When accused the negro shot
Flack. Mills was known rs bad man, while
Flack was one Of the most popular men ~ the
county.
Strong opposition is being encountered by
those cotton mill men at Fall River, Mass,
engaged in promoting the plan for reduction
in wages September II. Treasures OF some
mills decline to go into an agreement to re
dlce wages unless ordered to do SO by their
directors, and it is believed that the plan CON
not become operative unless two-thirds of the
spindles can be pledged.
Simon p. Kase, who built the Reading aud
Columbia Railroad aud other lines, and who
was the first man to introduce thrashing ma
chimes in the West, died at his home IN Phila-
delphia, Pa, last week. He was born IN
Danville, Pa, in 1914, and began his business
career at the age of 20, He was engaged in
the manufacture of thrashing machines IA Le-
banon. Pa, in 1885 and later went 70 New
York to engage in railroad iron supply bust.
ness.
Mrs. Phoebe Crabbe, Of Norwaik, Conn,
aged I0S years, died last week. Until
few weeks ago the old lady retained her fac
ulties. She could see to read without glasses
and never had false teeth She was born in
Stamford, Conn, on Aug. 3. 1877, aud was
daughter of Elizabeth Curtis and Ebenezer
Weed. She was the second Of a family of
seven children and survived them all. Ouly
one Of these children died under 80 years OF
age, and that was through accident