The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-07-07
News of the Week.

A St. Paul despatch says that the ex
istisg drought will mean loss Of million
Of dollars to the dairy and butter industrie
of Minnesota.
The Pacific Coast Borax Works, con
trolIed by ''Borax King" Smith, hav,
been shut down indefinitely, throwing lO(
men out of employment.
Aaron Halle, the bartender, who oil
May II shot and killed Mary Brannigar
in New York dry goods store, has beer
sentenced to death in the electric chail
August 6.
At meeting of the National Founders
Association, at Cleveland, Ohio, June 80,
it was decided to reject absolutely the de-
mand of molders for an advance Of % cents
per day in wages.
The people of New York buy daily the
milk produced by 1000 COWS. 1t i:
brought from farms in New York State,
New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts
and Pennsylvania.
Postmaster Henry W. Marts, of Wild.
wood, N. j., is short in his accounts to
the amount of s55693 He was com
mitted in default of $1,000 bail Marts
acknowledged his guilt.
A tornado passed over Eutaw, Alabama,
Monday, and did a great deal of damage.
The Baptist church was demolished and
the Presbyterian church and female acade
my were badly wrecked.
Frank Wennerholm, convicted of muir
der, has been sentenced to be electrocuted
at Auburn Prison during the week of July
30 He killed his fiancee, Emily Alolph-
son, at jamestown, New York, last fall.
The Detroit plant of the Continental
Tobacco Company, which was recently
closed down, has been purchased by 0ren
Scotch, in behalf Of new independent
tobacco manufacturing company, for 5000,
900.
A Cincinnati despatch says that large
tool works company in that city has receiv-
ed an order by cable for tools to be shipped
at once to Yokohama. The tools are such
as can be used in repair shops and in naval
| stations.
Jack Thomas, negro, who attempted
an assault on Mrs Keenan,, in Suwanee
county, Florida, was taken from the sheriff
by mob, near Live Oak, Monday, hanged
to a tree and riddled with bullets He
made confession
d. H. johnson, United States Pension
Agent at Memphis, Tenn, has been ar
rested on United States warrant, charging
him with unlawfully obtaining $500 from
colored woman johnson claims he bor-
rowed the money.
Brigadier General Joseph Wheeler has
assumed command of the Department of
the Lakes at Chicago, relieving General
James F. Wade, who will return to his
former post at st. Paul to direct the affairs
of the Department of the Dakotas.
The Indiana Iron Mill, at Muncie, closed
down last Saturday night indefinitely.
The uncertainty of the wage scale and a
desire to invoice are given as the causes
The mill is owned by the Republic Iron
and Steel Company. Nearly 1000 men
will be thrown out OF work.
The Postmaster General has issued an
order removing from Office Estes g. Rath-
bone, who was until his recent suspension
Director General of Posts of Cuba, and de-
failing Martin c. Fosnes. an inspector in
the postal service, to perform the duties of
the office until further orders.
Judge Weiss, at Harrisburg, Pa, has
granted IA rule on officers of the Junior
Order United American Mechanics, COM
manding them to show cause why they
should not be Imprisoned for contempt in
disregarding an order of the Court restrain
ing them from imposing per capita tax.
John Weeks, of 46 Herkimer street,
Brooklyn, N. Y, negro, who has been
employed as clerk in the postoffice for
nine years, was arrested last week by post
Office Inspectors while he was at work in
the newspaper department, where fourth
class mail matter is sorted. He was lockedup.
At Biggs, California, on June "a, DIR.
Bennett Bussey, the oldest physician in
the state, died at the age of SO. He was
graduated from the medical school of the
University of Maryland April 7, 1928.
He went to California in 1876. He was
prominent Democrat and was an ex-Sen-
ator of Maryland and ex-Collector of the
Port of New Orleans.
A tornado passed over Beaver county,
Oklahoma Territory, formerly known as
No Mans Land, Sunday night Three
men were killed and two fatally injured
The storm swept the country for 60 miles
Thousands of cattle were stampeded, and
many killed and injured Several houses
were destroyed. The home of George
Nebb, ranchman, was carried 200 yards,
and Is ranchmen, who were taking refuge
in the house, were injured
Two hundred persons are believed to
have lost their lives, and over 800 more
were injured, in the fire which destroyed
the North German Lloyd Steamship Com
pany's piers in Hoboken, New jersey, last
Saturday afternoon The flames spread
with great rapidity, and set fire to the
steamships Saale, Bremen and Nam, which
were destroyed. The Phenicia, of the
Hamburg American Line, was badly dam
aged, while the monster Kaiser Wilhelm
der Crosse was lowed into midstream, badly
damaged. The property loss is estimated
at $40, 900, 900.