The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-03-10
News of the Week.

About 5000 granite cutters in New England are on
& strike for hours work and s. per day.
Smallpox has broken out in Jersey City and Nor
ristown, N j., and is spreading to other towns
At Rochester. N. Y, last week. 49, inches of snow
fell in GO hours according to the Weather Bureau
report.
soi 900 900 in commissions stock sales alone not
counting the bond business
James Manson is dying in Putnam, CT. from mer
curial poisoning. There some mysterious cir
cumstances connected with the case.
Six persons were burned to death and two were
injured Sunday morning in fire in the seven story
odging house. "a to 4s Bowery, New York.
Joseph Clean, a farmer living near Bluefeld
West Virginia, killed his daughter and her lover
and then cut his own throat one night last week
Charles Ingersot. ex-treasurer of Tompkins
county, New York, charg d with embezzling
county POUNDS. has been arrested in Lola. Kansas
Albert Hoskins III Kansas City pleaded guilty to
"holding up street car conductor last September,
and was sentenced to 70 years in the pententiary.
The firm of Simpson & Co., glovers and matters, oil
Boston, has made assignment The failure is at
tributed to the collapse of the Globe National Bank
Mrs Bertha Boyce Landlord, who divorced one
husband and killed two who had been uniaithful
to her. died ut her home In Dallas. Texas Saturday.
dispatch from Chihuahua, Mexico, says that
American cattle buyers have contracted for 30 900
head of beef cattle in that State for shipmcn to
Cuba.
Incendiary attempts to burn the house of Rev.
Cornelius Illyasevils, of st. Paul's Unitel Greek
Church. in wilkesbarre, Pa, drove the minister in
sane.
Some unknown person mixed acid with the
holy ashes in St Roses Catholic Church. MeriIen.
Ct, last week. and the worshipers were badly
burned.
President Jordan, of Leland Stamford University,
in lecture in Chicago expressed the opinion that
the century would witness the downfall of Great
Britain.
| Howard o. Groves of Chicago has ofiersd to
that city the cycloramic painting of the Chicago
fire. provided suitable building is provided for its
free exhibition.
George Williams, negro killed his mother while
they were following the corpse of her husband to
the grave. near Pleasant Hill, Georgia. on Tues
day of last week
The extensive anvil plant Of the Hay-Budden
Company, occupying three buildings IN Brooklyn,
N. Y. was destroyed by fire Sunday night, the loss
being about $4,000.
The monthly statement of the collections of inter
nal shows that the total receipts for Janu-
airy, 1900, amounted TO S230ls $50, increase as
compared with January, 1899, of s., 206,672.
The War Department has received a tabled state
ment showing that the t,tal receipts from the
Philippine Islands for February 1900 were si26, l
of which amount si57 00) was derived from customs
Ladies purse and bag snatchers are terrorizng
Philadelphia. Pa Scarcely day passes without
complaint being made at some Of the police sta
tions by ladies' who have had purse or handbag
snatched from their hands
Miss Lillian Butts, daughter ola millionaire lum
herman of saltwater, Mimi, eoped with Albert S
franklin, negro. and married him in Chicago, on
Saturday She stole money, forged paper and sold
her jewels in order to purchase an outfit for the
negro.
jamaica Long Island N Y. "a great injustice has
been done the colored people of that section by
having a separate school for them" &c. and that
he intends to keep on fighting the decision of the
courts favorng distinct school for negro children.
More than half a company of recruits at Fort
Slocum deserted Thursday night of last week and
escaped to New Rochelle. N. " with the comfy
ance of sentres Ten of the men have returned,
but two of the sentries who deserted with the
others and Il of the privates have not yet been
heard from. The men who came back are now in
solitary confinement.