The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-04-28
News of the Week.

He was brother Of the late Henry Ward
Beecher.
The total capital projected in new mills
in South Carolina this year is So, OO5, 600,
and in charging old mills 1910, 600.
Total, S., 675, 600.
T. w. Williams, of Decatur, Ala, is
said to own the largest hog in the world.
1t weighs 1924 pounds, is 10 feet 2 inches
in length and A feet high.
Gen. John C. Gilmore, Chief of Gen.
Miles staff, continues critically i'll at his
residence in Washington, as the result of
his participation in the Porto Rican cam
paign.
In Vigo, Sullivan and Green counties,
Indiana, 2000 bituminous coal miners have
quit work as result of a controversy grow
ing out of the scale of wages for machine
mining.
Jonas Livermore, of Camden county,
New Jersey, celebrated his 9Sth birthday
on the 10th instant He is in excellent
health and enjoyed the festivities prepared
by his family.
Lompoc, in Santa Barbara county, Cal
ifornia, grows mustard for the whole ma
ton. In that region 1000 acres are cul-
tivated to the seed, the industry employing
about 200 farmers.
A train bearing building in sections
and the workmen to put it together has
| 1 G,..,rn tta m the
Paris Exposition 1t is entirely complete.
The house is for the American Forestry
Building.
The bubonic plague is reported from
Cairo, Egypt, to have made its appearance
at several ports on the Red Sea. The
deaths from plague throughout India dur
ing the past week slightly decreased, but
the aggregate is still upwards of 1000.
The largest single foreign shipment of
cotton cloth ever made from the South
was forwarded Sunday by the Dwight
Cotton Mills, of Alabama City, Ala. The
shipment comprised II carloads and is des-
tined for points in the Chinese Empire.
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steel and nails has been made by the
American Steel and Wire (Trust) Com
pany. Contractors and builders were tied
up by the high prices, and as there was
no demand for goods the company were
compelled to cut the price.
At Clarksburg, West Virginia, Monday
afternoon, seven-y ear-old son of James
Wiseman was leading a COW and had tied
the rope around his body. The COW be-
came frightened, ran off, dragging the
body. When picked up the boy was dead
and every bone in his body broken.
DIR. William c. Braisted, surgeon of
the cruiser Detroit, has been decorated
with the order of Bolivar by the President
of Venezuela, for his services after the
battle of Puerto Cabello last November,
when for twelve hours he operated on
wounded Venezuelans.
The New York Presbytery has unani-
mously voted to urge the General Assemb-
ly to formulate short creed on the ground
that the old Confession of Faith contains
several statements which are no longer be-
lieved by any one, and that it is too extern
sive document to be of practical use.
During funeral service atAughinbugh s
school house, York county, Pa, on the
10th instant, William Hoffman took offence
at remark made by Rev. George Strick-
Ter, Dunkard preacher, and knocked him
down. While four men struggled with
the pastor assailant, the mourners were
in panic, and scene of widest excite
ment ensued Hoffman was finally over
powered and removed, and the service was
concluded Hoffman is nearly six feet
tall, of powerful build and As years of age.
He is now prisoner in the insane ward
of the county almshouse.
Persons who arrived at Grand Forks,
N. D., April %, on the Great Northern
train from Duluth brought word of terrible
forest fires raging at various points along
the line Many families in the vicinity Of
Ecker, Solway and Bemidji, on the Great
Northern, and Nary, on the Brainerd and
Northern, have been burned out. Settler.
from points at a distance from the railroad
came in during the day and reported tina
their homes had been destroyed and that
they had been obliged to flee. The fires
seem to be worst between Roseby and Fer
; ris. Forest fires are also reported in Man
itoba
The heavy rains of the the early part o
last week produced disastrous results in tn,
Mississippi Valley, particularly in the re
gions east of the river. The streams flow
7 ing into the Mississippi from that side ar
flooding the country they traverse, arrest
t ing travel and business to an extent neve
7 before known. Important lines of railwa,
are rendered useless, their tracks bein,
) under water and unsafe. In many town
the streets are flooded from one to five fee
deep. The destruction of property is enor
nous. Houses, crops and timber boom
have been wrecked and there has beer
considerable loss of life. The flood ha
developed, in fact, into calamity of ap
palling magnitude On Sunday and Mon
day of this week there was almost con
r tinuous down pour of rain in Texas, Mis-
, sissippi and louisiana Streams that hat
subsidized were swollen and overfowed, Will,
the wind did much damage Railroad
that had been repaired are in worse con
dition now than before. The money los
will be immense. 1t is reported that a
least 30 lives were lost.