The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-08-25
News of the Week.


by fire damp.
Henry D. Stringer, New York city, real es-
tate dealer, has assigned. Liabilities, $780,
210; assets, $45.
GernIany's exports of war material TO China
last year aggregated S,150,OOO marks, as
against 3,430, 900 for 1898.
The International Packing Conpany's plant
at the Chicago Stock Yards have closed,
throwing 1000 men out of employment.
At Alexandria, Indiana, the largest axe
manufactory in the world was burned Sunday
night. Loss $500. 600; 1000 men are thrown
out of work.
Germany produced 1,5s0,0 tons of war
sugar during the twelve months ending July
81, as against $4,000 tons the previous
twelve months.
On Friday night of last week Morganstown,
West Virginia, and vicinity, was struck by a
terrific storm, causing a loss of $125,00O to
timber and coal oil rigs.
Owing to heavy rains most of the steam
shovel and open pit mines at Mckinley,
Minnesota, have been compelled to suspend.
the mines being flooded.
franklin J. Moses, governor of South
Carolina, during the "reconstruction" period,
was arrested and sent to Jail in Boston, Mass,
last Saturday, for stealing So.
Incendiary forest fires prevailed in Colo
RADIO, last week, extending from TO 30 in
width and several hundred miles in extent
The loss will run into millions of dollars.
Ex-Secre.ary of State Caleb Powers, who
was tried for completely in the murder of Gov
Gobel of Kentucky, was found guilty on Sat
urday last and sentenced to the penitentiary
for life.
Owing to the great heat and prolonged
drouih the Kansas coni crop has been cut
down about As. 600, 900 bushels. The crop, it
is thought, will not be more than $4,000, 900
bushels.
An application in involuntary bankruptcy
has been filed at Houston, Texas, against I.
NJ Richardson & Sons, lumber dealers. The
assets and liabilities of the firm will exceed
half a million dollars.
The carpenters, the strongest organization
of artisans in the Chicago Building Trades
Council, have decided to withdraw from that
body, aud most of the men probably will be
at work within two weeks.
In view of the fact that numerous murders
have been committed in Berlin, Germany,
of late without successful investigation, a re-
organization of the criminal division of the
police force has been ordered.
The pecan crop Of Texas promises TO be
the largest known in many years. Last year $
crop was small one, caused principally by
the floods in the Brazos Valley, but this year
the trees are loaded with nuts.
1t is reported in Chicago that transconti-
mental freight rates have gone to smash IN the
scramble for contracts Tor carrying Govern
ment supplies 10 San Francisco and general
rate war is regarded as imminent.
Sheep roaming over the hills in Morgan
and Summit counties, Idaho, have siampeded
swarms of squirrels from their usual haunts,
and the little rodents have descended on the
farmers crops of cereals and vegetables.
Rev Richardson Graham. a retired priest
of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and who
is said to have been one of the first American
missionaries TO enter China, died in Phila-
delphia, Pa, last week, aged 80 years.
Wind and hail storms of unusual severity
visited Nebraska on the 10th instant. Crops
were ruined by the hail, and in some cases
small buildings were wrecked. The damage
10 crops will amount to more than 100000.
The trustees of the Des Moines, Iowa,
Baptist College have Just been notified by John
d. Rockefeller, the coal oil baron, that he
will give the institution $50, 900 on condition
that a like sum is raised by the trustees them
selves.
Two thousand vest makers in the New
York sweatshops are on strike for The pay
ment of the same scale of wages which was in
force last year, for ten hour day and for
weekly payments. The Brooklyn vest makers
are also on a strike.
The United Hatters of North America on
Tuesday ordered strike of union men in the
hat factory of Eugene " Connect d Co., at
Orange, New Jersey. The strike is for the
purpose of making the factorya "fair' instead
of an "openn shop.
The Hamburg American Line steamer
Deutschland, which sailed from New York
for Plymouth, England, made a new record
for the eastward passage, and the fastest time
ever attained by any ocean steamer, oil days
II hours and 45 minutes.
Lehigh, Lebanon and Delaware counties,
Pa, were swept by disastrous storm on Sat
urday afternoon last. The loss to crops and
buildings is immense. while the destruction of
ornamental trees and plants has swept out the
results of an ordinary life.
A Victoria despatch says that the money
for Mackenzie and Mann's railway from the
Great Lakes TO the Pacific, with II branch
line to Dawson, has been subscribed in Lon
don. The Pacific terminus will be on the
Northern coast of British Columbia.
Elijah Crosby, formerly tax collector of
Winthrop, Massachusetts,, has pleaded guilty
to a charge of emhezzlement from the town of
sums aggregating $5125. There were teD
counts against Crosby, involving $l1,395
He pleaded guilty to only two counts.
A sale of short, horns was held in Chicago
last week. Mayhower ", red heifer calf,
brought $1,000, said to be the highest price
ever paid for q short-horn calf in the history
,of the live stock world The mother of May
sfower brought $2050 Other sales, 60 in
number, aggregated SCI, $50.
The three leading hotels ofColumbus, o.
the Chittenden, the Great Southern and the
Neil-which have been operated by the
Columbus Hotel Company, familiarly known
as the columbus Hotel Trust" have been
placed in the hands of James o. Loren and
Henry G. Pirrung as receivers.
The largest coal deal ever transacted in
Eastern Ohio has been closed, and $4,000
acres of coal lands in Warren, Wells and
Smithfield townships pass into the hands of
Cleveland capitalists. The options were taken
by II. L. Willard. Extensive mines will be
opened, and about $500, 000 will be paid into
the hands of land owners.
The list of the awards to American exhibi-
tors at the Paris Exposition has been made
public. The United States, in all, secured
1881 awards. OF these, 220 were grand
prizes, 4s6 gold medals, 5Ss silver medals,
422 bronze medals, 270 honorable mentions
and a long list of gold, silver and bronze med
ais for colaborators.
Narraganseit Pier, R. l., was a pande-
moniun on Sunday, because Newport has
been made a ..dry city," by the Police Com
missioners There were large number of
toughs and yachtmen from the latter place,
and reign of terror prevailed. Ladies and
children were grossly insulted, all manner of
gambling was openly conducted aud all law
defied. And this, too, in the land of STEADY
habits'' and on Sunday.
The Governor of Georgia on the 17th in-
slant ordered militia company 10 quell an
uprising of negroes in Liberty county. in the
southeastern portion Of the State, where
the blacks outnumber the whites three 10 one.
One white man and two negroes have been
killed. On the 10th instant two TOWNS we're
fred by the negroes, railroads torn up and
telegraph and telephone wires cut.
An incendiary attempt was made TO burn