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

South Africa by the English costs So, 900
delivered.
Ephraim Wilson. colored, aged lO5
wears, died at Dover, Del, last Saturday.
His AGE was well authenticated.
Rev. Charles Beecher, aged 81 years,
died at Haverhill, Mass, on the 22d inst
He was brother Of the late Henry Ward
Beecher.
The total capital projected in new mills
in South Carolina this year is So, 005, 600,
and in charging old mills 500, OOo.
Total, S5.675, 600,
T. W Williams, of Decatur, Ala, Is
said to own the largest hog in the world,
It weighs 1924 pounds, Is 10 feet , inches
in length and Il feet high.
Gen. John c. Gilmore, Chief Of Gen.
Miles staff, continues critically i'll at his
residence in Washington, as the result ct
his participation in the Porto Rican cam
paign.
In Vigo. Sullivan and Green counties,
Indiana. 2O0O bituminous coal miners have
quit work as a result of controversy grow
ing out Of the scale Of wages for machine
mining.
Jonas Idyer,uore. of Camden county,
New Jersey. celebrated his 9Sth birthday
on the 10Th Instant lie Is in excellent
health aud enjoyed the festivities prepared
by his family.
Lompoc. in Santa Barbara county, Cal
ifurnia. grows mustard for the whole IA
ton. Ia that region 1000 acres are cul-
tiyatcd to the seed. the industry employing
about 200 farmers
\ train bearing a building IN sections
and the wurkmen to put IT together has
been sent from Chicago on its way to the
Paris Exposition. IL Is entirely complete.
The house Is for the American Forestry
Building.
The bubouie plague i reported from
Cairo. Egypt, to have made ITS appearance
al several ports on the Ret Sea. The
deaths from plague throughout India dur
ine the pas; week slightly decreased, bus
the aggregate i s,il upwards Of 1000
The lar-,=t single foreign ,hipmcn, Of
.,,ttsa cloth ever made from the South
Wa Forwarded Suuiay by the Dwight
Cotton Mil, 81 Alabama City Ala The
shipment comprised Il c-sIlaai> and Is d'>.
tine-i Cor points ia the Chinese Empire.
Considerable reduction 10 the Puee Of
steel and nail, ha- been mad" by the
Amcrlcan Steel and Wine rru>tl Com
psny. Contractors and bnilicr- vcrc ti,-i
up by the high Ipie,, and thcTe vas
no demand Tor good, ihe company were
compelled 60 cui the Frioe.
~ Clarksbur-. West Virginia. Monday
Afternoon. a seven year old s1n % james
Wi~eman was leading caw and had tel
the rope AROUND Ri. body The COW be
came frightened, nan IF lugsin. the
BODY. When picked up the boy vas dead
and every bone in his bo,iy broken.
Or William c. Brai,gei. sur,,,on If
the cruiser DyiTrat, has been decorated
With the or,isr 81 Bolivar by the Pr,-iicat
1t Venczuela, f1r his services after the
battle IL Paerto C.bello last November
when Tor twclve hoars he operated on
wuanl,-l Ncnezuelan-.
The New York Presbytery has unani-
moisly voted to urge the General As-cmb-
Is to Formulate a short cree.i On the groaud
that the oh Confession Of Faith contains
several statements which are no longer be-
Heyed by ANY one, aud that il i too cSten.
siyc = document To be Of practical use-
During funeral service Al Aughiubugh
school house, York county, Pa. on the
20th instant. William Hoffman took offence
at a remark made by Rev George Striek
lei, a Dunkarl preacher, aud Knocked him
down While four men struggled with
the pastor : aSs.,ilant. the mourner, were
in panic. and soene If widest excite
ment ensued. Hoffman WAS finally over
powered and removed, aud the service was
concluded Hoffman Is nearly siN teeg
tall, Of powerful build and - years Of age.
He Is now a prisoner IN the insane ward
Of the county alm>hou-e.
Persons who arrived a, Grand Forks.
\. D.. April -, On the Great Northern
train from Duluth brought word of terrible
forest fires raging at various points along
the iise Many families in the vicinity Of
Ecker. Solway aud Bemidj, on the Great
Northern, aud Nary. on the BFaineri aud
Northern have been burned out Settlers
from points at a distance from the railroad
came in during the day aud reported that
their homes had been destroyed and that
they hasi been obliged u fee The fires
seem to be- worst between RpSeby and Fer
ris. Forest fires are also reported in Man
itoba
The heavy rains Of the the early part Of
last week produced disastrous result. in the
Mississippi Valley particularly in the re
gions east Of the river The streams flow
ing into the Mississippi from that side are
foodin. the country they traverse, arrest
Ing travel and business to an extent never
before known. Important lines Of railway
are rendered useless, their tracks being
under water and unsafe In many towns
the streets are flooded from one to FIVE feet
deep. The destruction of property is enor-
nous. Houses, crops and timber booms
have been wrecked and there has been
considerable loss of life The food has
developed, in fact, into a calamity Of APP
palling magnitude On Sunday and Mon
day Of this week there was almost con
tinuous down pour of rain in Texas, Mis-
sissippi aud Louisiana. Streams that had
subsidized were swollen and overflowed while
the wind did much damage. Railroads
that had been repaired are in a worse con-
dition now than before The money loss
will be immense. 1t is reported that at
least 80 lives were lost.
A Sliding Mountain Spreads Alarm
in Bohemia.