The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-06-30
News of the Week.

Ohio, has filed petition in bankruptcy
Liabilities, s65, 900; assets none.
On Monday last the heat was intense in
Northern Minnesota and North Dakota,
the mercury registering l07 in the shade.
The Grand Rapids, Mich, Bicycle Com
pany has discharged most of its $50 work
men. By August l the plant will be
abandoned.
Work has been resumed at the Rock
ford, Illinois, plants of the Glucose Sugar
Refining Company after several weeks
idleness. Two hundred and fifty men are
affected
Major Charles NJ. Schaefer, late of the
Fourteenth Minnesota Volunteers, was
found dead Sunday with bullet wound in
his head in a cemetery at New Prague,
Minnesota.
A passenger train ON the Chicago and
Northwestern, loaded with excursionists
for the Saengerfest at Green Bay, Wis,
ran into freight last Sunday. Six pas
sengers were killed, one is missing and "a
were injured.
Thieves on Sunday night robbed the
large Elsesser cigar factory, in East Berlin,
Pa, and set it on fire. The entire build
ing and contents were destroyed, causing
loss of about Sc, 900, partly covered by in
surance. Great numbers of cigars and
cigar boxes were found scattered along the
road leading to Spring Grove, which had
been dropped by the robbers in their flight.
A passenger train on the Macon branch
of the Southern Railway ran into a wash
out ] miles north of McDonough, GA,
last Saturday night, and was completely
wrecked The wreck caught fire and the
entire train, with the exception of the
sleeper, was destroyed. Every person on
the train, except the occupants Of the Pull
man car perished Not member Of the
train crew escaped. Thirty y-five people in
all were killed.
Indications are that the Birmingham
Gala. district is to witness general coal
miners strike on July l. Such strike
would involve 10, 900 miners directly, and
the closing down of the mines would throw
nearly 10000 other men out of work.
The State Miners Convention has been in
session since several days, formulating the
miners demands, including new wage
scale, and conference between the miners
and operators will be held.
A dispatch from Scranton, Pa, June
%, says:-One of the most diabolical OF
plots to murder was uncovered today in the
arrest and imprisonment of Edwin Il. Ever
hart, aged "a years, son of DIR. |. +.
Everhart, one of Scranton's wealthiest
citizens, leading physician. The arrest
was made at the instance of the father,
but only after detectives had secured the
most convincing corroborative evidence that
such plot existed. The man who revealed
it was Frank H. Lewis, who has associated
with the younger Everhart recently. For
his part in the tragedy he was to receive
$4,000, and to secure the payment of this
blood money the son gave him one day
judgment note.
1t was discovered hast Sunday that
swarms of grasshoppers are destroying the
wheat and other grain on thousands of
acres in the Floyd River Valley of north
western Iowa. Already the fields are
turning brown as result of the ravages Of
the pests which in 1870 brought such
suffering to the rural districts of Iowa.
For five miles up the valley the prospects
are that the crops will prove almost total
failures. Previous reports have been that
the crops although meagre in the Dakotas,
would be up to the normal near here and
another prosperous year has been expected.
The grasshoppers found in such numbers
are small and young, and it is ques-
ton whether they will increase in sufficient
numbers to damage crops as badly as in
1876.
The New York Sun of Saturday last
says:-'' internal Revenue Agent Thomp-
son and his staff yesterday broke up the
most complete and prosperous moonshine
whiskey distillery that has been discovered
in the eighborhood of this city for long
time. 1t was in an old fashioned house in
Mount Vernon that until yesterday was
supposed by the neighbors to be a board
ing house occupied by city people who had
to go to their work very early every morn
ing, and who did not come back until late
at night. The revenue officers believe
that they have found the headquarters of
a crowd of moonshiners who have been
selling their product in the tenements on
the East Side of New York to the great
profit of themselves and of the saloon
keepers who have dealt in it. - And this
in New York We had been led to be-
lieve, heretofore, that moonshine whiskey
was only made in few of the half-civi-
lized Southern States by the purists (?)
north of Mason and Dixon Line