The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-02-17
News of the Week.

| In the state OF view IOIk ~, UVV PcoPic
are injured annually in the factories.
It is estimated that half of the suicides
in Paris are due to losses at the races.
The coal famine due to the strikes in
Germany is assuming threatening aspect.
The total candy output of the United
States last year was at least $75, 900, 900.
| William Kite, prominent minister of
the Society of Friends, died in Philadel-
phia, Pa, Saturday, aged 80 years.
Heavy snow falls throughout Germany
and England have greatly interfered with
railway and telegraph communications.
The wheat harvest of South Australia is
estimated to average six bushels per acre,
leaving an exportable surplus of 1876, 900
tons.
South Carolina last year made more pro-
gress in cotton mill building than any other
State, and now stands second in that in
dustry.
Joshua Gregg & Co., dealers in furni-
ture in New York, have assigned for the
benefit of creditors The amount involved
is about $500, 600.
John Wagner, the Oldest citizen of
Bellefonte, Pa, aged "a years, died last
week. He accumulated a fortune of
500, 900 by farming.
DIR. j. J. Henna, native of Puerto
Rico, now in Washington, says that there
are 29S, 900 beggars out of a population of
1, 900, GOO in that island.
The influenza, which has spread through
out Germany, now numbers 60, 900 VIC
tins in Munich In Berlin every bed in
every hospital is occupied.
Herr Sternberg, Berlin Germany
banker, has been arrested on the charge of
fraudulent practices. He furnished bail
to the amount of million marks
Fruit jar manufacturers of Indiana, Ohio
and Pennsylvania, representing the entire
production of the country" have formed
combine, and have advanced prices %
per cent.
Six employees of the Columbia Fire
Cracker Works at Fostoria, Ohio, were
injured by an explosion in the powder room
last Saturday. A large part of the factory
was wrecked
The mortality from the plague in Bonn
bay, India, last week was unprecedented.
| There was a total of 408 deaths on Tues
day, and the situation is aggravated by the
famine refugees.
Near Newtown, Ohio, live Mr.. and Mrs.
Uriah Burdsal They were both born,
christened and welded on Christmas Day,
are both 81 years of age and have been
married 6S years.
Five hundred miners at the Bryson Coal
and Coke Company mines, near Tazwell,
Tennessee, walked out Saturday, after a
day notice of demand for 10 per cent.
increase in wages.
Two thousand dollars has been added to
the Chicago hospital corps fund, for the aid
of the Boer sick in South Africa, made
through the Ancient Order of Hibernians,
making the total amount about s12, 900.
Henry A. Holcomb, New Bedford,
| Mass, yarn manufacturer, has fled petit
ton in bankruptcy in the United States
District Court in Boston. The liabilities
are placed at 81, 351, 43s, and there are
| no assets.
Owing to the unusually heavy rains in
Georgia, the Chattahoochee river was
higher on Sunday than at any time within
the past 25 years. At Atlanta and Co
lumbus much damage has been done and
more is feared
Miner, Beal & CO., clothing dealers ard
manufacturers, Boston, Mass. have failed !;
liabilities S45O,O0O. Ely & Bell, real es-
tate dealers, Buffalo, N Y, have as
signed; liabilities $50, 527. Ely's liabili-
ties S176, G59
.tBilT Cook, who was sentenced in
1895 to forty five years imprisonment in
the Albany, New York, Penitentiary, died
there last week from consumption. He
was once one of the most noted desperadoes
of the Indian Territory.
| Last week the Philadelphia, Pa, Ledger
published the names of 16 persons, men
and II women, who had lived over 80
years. Among them were Sarah Barrett
and Elizabeth Newell, each 90; Catharine
p Anderson, 81; Susanna Smith, 95;
Maria johnson, SO.
The National Executive Board of the
United Mine Workers of America has
levied an assessment of 25 cents monthly
for the support of the strikers in the South
west, who for nearly year past have been
fighting the Big Four Coal Company for
an advance in wages.
The charred remains of what are sup
| posed to have been the bodies of nine of
the victims of the Chicago and North
western wreck, which occurred at Ford
River Switch on Friday of last week, have
been taken to Escanaba, Michigan. All
but two were identified.
Robert E. Spencer, cashier of the bank
ing firm of r. d. and Robert E. Spencer,
of Thompsonville, Connecticut, which fled
petition in bankruptcy in the United
States Court at Hartford, with liabilities
of about S105, 900, has been arrested on a
charge alleging the misappropriation of
funds
The Pressed Steel Car Company of
Pittsburg, Pa, have shipped number of
steel hopper cars to the Furness Railway,
in Lancashire, England, the first sent to
that country, These cars have capacity
of 100, 900 pounds. The same company
has received an order from the Reading
Railway Company for 500 box cars of 60,
| 900 pounds capacity.
| Judge John I. Lowell, editor of the
Warren, Va, Sentinel, died last Saturday
night at the residence of E. A. Jones,
where he had been boarding for the past
six months, death resulting in Is minutes
from an attack of paralysis of the heart
The deceased was one of the most promi
nent and influential citizens of that county,