The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-11-17
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Rss n Mills at 3.; Joliet,
a. % men will be affected.
Henry the railroad magnate
and financier, - his summer residence
at Dobbs Ferry, i6SNew York State, Mon
day.
Miss Catherine Lovnie has been SEN
fenced in Elmira. n. Y, to four years
imprisonment for forging signatures to title
deeds
A visitor to the Willard Home the or
phanage established in Ocean City, n. j.,
by Rev. DR.. Wharton, found the inmates
starving.
Syracuse University is given $4,000
and the Presbyterian Home Missions 50,
900 by the will of Jacob Grouse, of SYRIA
cuse, New York
Two Mexieans have been arrested in
New York on the charge of smuggling into
this country some of the famous jewels
once worn by Empress Carlotta.
A statement from Nome bakers gives
the cold output Of that district on the Och
instant at So, 900, 000 for the past season,
as compared with SO, 600, 600 for 1899.
In a fight over game of crap at Bill
oxi. MIST. on the 9th instant, between
some negroes. 100 residences were burned.
Loss $500, GOO insurance 1925, 000.
The car barn, powerhouse and 60 cars
Of the Norfolk (Va) Railway and Electric
Light Company were destroyed by lire
sunday morning. The loss IS $3.50, 600
An expulsion Of gas on the OH instant
III the Buck Mountain colliery, near Ma
hanoy City. Pa. killed james Griffith, a
miner, and injured &c men and boys. sey
efal perhaps fatally.
Gustaye Erickson, Worcester, MaSSa-
chusctts. carpenter, was dragged from h's
bed aud killed By an unknown assassin last
Saturday. Erickson received knife
thrust in the heart.
The striking boiler makers in the shops
of the B,,ston and Albany Railroad IL
West Springfield, Mass threaten to tie
up the entire Vanderbilt system If their
demands are not granted.
The Knapp Stout Lumber Company, II
Menominee. Wis. last week transferred
to the Wisconsin Land Company 50. 900
acres of land near Rice Lake. Wis The
land went for 50 80 per acre
The wheat crop Of pawnee county.
Kansas. Is said tn be greater this year than
the entire crop Of Indiana Hundreds ot
machines are thrashing but the job Is mot
likely to be finished before the middle Of
December
The directors OF the Standard 0il Con,
pauy have declared dividend g 10 ler
cent, payable to stockholders Of rc,arl
Of November 10 This make> = pr
cent in digidends paid our by the
Standard oil Company this year
Max Shiuburn. Who escaped 35 years
ago from the New Hampshire Stale l.ri--'u.
where he had been committed i"T 10
years .r robbery OF bank, has t.su II.
turned 10 the PRISM - serve the "'snain
der of his sentence lie was captured At
Plattsburg, New York.
Mrs. Mary kuhus. of I4itsle-toWn "a.
widow Of Joseph kahas has donated
$40. 900 10 81 Aloysius' Catholic Church
of that phase, to he used for schssA Pnr
p,,ses The gift Is made a. a memorial e.
her daughter, Jennie Kuhns, who died a
few weeks ago
The number Of known victims of the
steamer City Of Monticello, which went
down in a gale of Cape Yarmouth \. ;.
last Saturday. i b There are loar sur
yiyors Twenty Ave eorpse, horribly matt
cle,! by the surf. have been east ashore
William Daniels and Ross Iohn-an have
been convicted Of murder At Lake Charlie
La. and sentenced 10 the State Veniten-
tiary for life They were me'nbers 81
mob Of lynchers, aud killed deputy SHEER
iff who resisted them.
Marcus DAILY, the copper king II Mon
taaa. whose political feud with CLARK has
been one of the most remarkable incidents
in the history Of the state died Al the
Hotel NetheFland, ia New York, Monday
The plant Of the Great Northern Paper
Company, at Milinoeket, Ne, said 10 be-
the largest If lts kind in the world. has
begun operations This plant oos, about
81, 00U, 600, and lis capacity y about 80
tons of white newspaper day.
Il. G. Dan, head Of the mercantile
agency firm Of r. Il Dun 4 Co, died in New
York city on the 10th instant, Of eirrho-is
Of the liver Mr. Dan was born in Chil
licoshe. o.. ia lS26 He had been >uf-
fering since the early part Of last summer.
He began his business career At the age u
Is in country store
According Ia London agricultural jour
nal Greece aud the Ionian Islands arr IN a
serious state, owing 10 the failure of the
eurraut crop Instead Of the yield being
100, 600 tons, it viii not exceed IS, 600
tons. Against this, it Is stated that the
United Kingdom requires for use on Christ
mas day alone IL 800 tons, while between
now and Yuletide some -, 600 tons are
usually used.
The New England Brick Company has
purchased brick yards in Cambridge, Bel
mont, Concord, Andover and Melford.
aggregating about $50 acres Of land. for
which it paid, according to the stamps on
the deeds, S3+S. 900. These purchase,
place all the brick yards in Middlese&
county under the control of the New Eng
land Company. The company is engaged
in taking over practically all Of the yards
in New England by which it will be able
to control the entire output Of bricks from
the Hudson river to the New Brunswick
border