The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-08-18
News of the Week.

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Delong, S UnionC Church, in Berks county,
Pa, was burned Saturday evening. The
building cost SIS, 900.
Fifty cases of yellow fever are now under
treatment in Havana, and the disease is on
the increase in Pinar del Rio.
An incendiary fire, Saturday morning,
caused loss of SIC, 900 in f. NJ Ems
nlinger's lumber yard in Harrisburg, Pa.
A fire at Glen Falls, New York, Sun
day morning destroyed several factories and
hotels and caused loss of over 500, 900.
Twenty nine families in Turbotville, Pa.
were on Saturday made homeless by fire
that destroyed property valued at s75, 600.
A Boston despatch says that many Of
the New England cotton mills are idle, and
that others viii eurtail production later in
the season.
Gen. Zebulon York, who was Colonel
Of the Fourteenth Louisiana Regiment
during the Civil War, died at Natchez,
Mississippi, last week.
The General Hospital at the Preside
contains about 500 patients, all being
soldiers returned from the Philippines.
Many are convalescents.
The Republic Iron Company, at Muncie,
Indiana, has posted notices in its nut and
bolt works that the wages of skilled labor
ers will be reduced Is per cent.
Col. William r. Aylett, who command
ed the Fifty-third Virginia Regiment,
Pickett division, at Gettysburg, died at
Ayletts, Virginia, last week, aged 81 years.
A curtailment of production is announced
by the Great Falls Manufacturing Com
pany, Somersworth, New Hampshire
Three hundred operatives will be idle for
some weeks.
John Peck, of East Fallowfeld, Chest
er county, Pa, became crazed on the sub
ject of the war in China and went cunning
for preachers because he believed they were
responsible for the trouble.
Marshall Z. Smith & Bro, PhiIadel-
phia, Pa, dealers in sporting goods and
mems furnishings, have filed voluntary
petition in bankruptcy. Assets $50,
$50. 73; liabilities S73, 130. so.
Mrs. Julia B. French, of Boston, widow
of Benjamin w. French, the millionaire,
has been arrested in Pueblo, Col, on the
charge of perjury, and was sued by her
former counsel on the charge of perjury.
Owen Robinson, former slave on a
plantation near Baltimore, Nd, died neal
Gettysburg, Pa, last week aged 95 years.
According to his "freedom paper" he was
set free in 1917, at which time be was | =
years old.
Chicago meat packers have been asked
to furnish 1900, 1000 pounds of meats
within thirty days for the American sol
diers in the Orient This is said to be
the largest requisition ever issued by the
Government.
Apassenger train on the Lehigh and New
England r. R. last Sunday night struck al
omnibus containing 25 persons at Benning-
ers Crossing, Pa, and 1 of the passenger
in the bus were instantly killed, number
of others being fatally injured.
Laurel. DEL, and vicinity was struck
by terrific cyclone last Sunday night.
Buildings were unroofed, orchards blown
down, horses and cattle killed by falling
trees, and several business places crushed
in by trees being blown against them.
Sweets Steel Company, Syracuse, N.
Y, has made cut in wages averaging
about II per cent. Depression in the
steel market was given as the cause. The
men had conference with the president
of the company, and the greater number
refused to work.
A despatch from St. Johns says that
the fishery outlook is the most unfavorable
known there in recent years. Owing to
the ice blockade off the Labrador coast the
catch of cod shows decided decrease,
which it will not be possible to Offset during
the remainder of the season.
B. j. Clifford, of Jasper county, Indiana,
has 5000 in corn, and has. just finished
harvesting 6, 500 acres of oats. The farm
consists of 33, 900 acres of reclaimed marsh
land Last year he gathered 250, 00C
bushels of corn, $50, 900 bushels of oats,
other kinds of grain, 25, 900 bushels, $50,
600 bushels of onions and so, 900 bushel.
fpotatoes.
r. H. Ferrell, former employe of the
Adams Express Company, was arrested in
Columbus, o., Sunday and confessed tc
the murder of Express Messenger Lane
and the robbery of the safe On the Penn
sylvania eastbound train Friday night pre-
vious. One thousand dollars of the money
was recovered.
Owing to the.intense heat last week the
death rate of the large cities greatly in
creased, especially among children and old
people. 1t was the longest continued spell
of hot weather known to the Weather
Bureau; the mercury ranging from 80 to
10 in the shade, with hot, drying winds.
Over 1000 horses died in Chicago, 500
dying ON the 10th instant.