The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-01-06
News of the Week.

mills of New England $50, 600 persons are
benefited
Copper and other mining stocks have
fallen off over $1S7, 900, 900 within the
past two weeks.
j. Henry Park, a malster, has confessed
insolvency at Chicago, III. Liabilities,
S130, 675; no assets.
Last years fire losses in New York and
Brooklyn amounted to about So, 500, 600,
and 78 lives were lost.
Chicago, Illinois, had 81 900, 600 fire
on Saturday last, in the business centre of
the city. Nine fremen were injured, two
fatally.
The Messrs. Dukes, tobacco men of
North Carolina, have recently purchased
"a, 900 acres of land in Florida, which will
be planted in tobacco.
Harry P. Mawson, of the firm Of Ed
ward S. Mawson & Sons, Chicago, H.,
which dissolved Is years ago, has asked to
be discharged from S120, $50 indebtedness.
A blizzard was raging Dec. 30 in North
western Pennsylvania. At Cory, Pa,
and vicinity the snow had attained depth
Of four feet. At Altoona the cold was in
tense.
The system of pensioning old employees
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company on
the lines east of Pittsburg was started on
the LIST instant. Nine hundred and fifty
men were retired
Stahl & Straub, of Philadelphia, Pa,
who failed November 20, have not dol
lars worth of available resources. The
total liabilities amount to 81, 22l, 3O8 and
the total assets 1927 AIS.
Even, Mcintyre & Co., proprietors of
one OF the largest department stores IN
New Haven, Conn. has filed petition in
bankruptcy. Liabilities 1921, S07 y and
assets S205, 451.7S.
A. NJ. Stetson 4 Co, lumber dealers,
Boston, Mass, and Alphues NJ. Stetson
individually have made voluntary assign
ments for the benefit of their creditors.
Liabilities $3.50, 900.
Rev. Sylvester Malone, the Oldest no
man Catholic pastor in continuous service
in Brooklyn, died December 20, aged ~
years. He was one of the Regents of the
University of New York.
The dry goods establishment of John NJ.
Conkhn Il Son, of Brooklyn, \. Y, has
assigned. Assets, s155, 900, of which
1925, 900 is represented by stock; the
balance by book accounts.
David f. Weber, formerly of the firm
of Weber Brothers, Of Milwaukee, Wis,
which dissolved in 1894, has filed peti-
ton in bankruptcy at New York. Liabl-
tiles, 1912, $50; no assets.
Executions have been issued at Lancas-
ter. Pa, against Hershey Brothers for
s24. 900, and against county treasurer
Emanuel H. Hershey for SIS, 600. The
latter's books show deficit of sos, 042. =
Al.
Thos. MacKellar, of the type founding
firm of MacKellar, Smiths x Jordan, of
Philadelphia, Pa, died December %, aged
n wears Mr. MacKellar Published many
poems and hymns, and for many years was
active in church work.
George V. Metzel, founder Of the Order
Of Heptasophs died suddenly at his home
in Stewar,stown, Pa, on the LIST instant.
aged 80 years. On December | 3 he eele-
brated his golden wedding He was a
native Of Baltimore, Md.
Severe gales, rains and snowstorms were
reported in the mountains of Ireland last
week. At Nenagh, near the Nsnagh
river, a landslide, followed BY a rush q
water swept away two farm houses, Sith
their occupants.
4 new industry that will employ about
500 persons has been secured for Dfllsburg,
Pa A company, composed Of Boston
capitalists, after thorough investigation
Of the kaolin and other clay deposits near
there, has purchased land, and viii erect
large works at once. The estimated cost
Of the plant is SAG, 900.
A petition in bankruptcy has been filed
by Russell Dart, Jr., formerly partner
in the insolvent firm Of Clarke, Radcliffe
i Co. New York city. He gives his la
bilities and also those Of the bankrupt firm
at 1921, O33; no assets. The debts, which
mostly consist Of money borrowed since
1888 from National banks, are Chased as
secured claims TO the amount Of Sl02, 1870
and unsecured claims Of SITS, 843.
Mrs. Jacob Lady, aged 40 years, was
80 severely burned at butchering At her
home near Arendtville, Adams county,
Pa, last Saturday, that she died Sunday
morning. Her dress caught FIRE in the
outdoor fireplace. A high wind was
blowing at the time, causing the flames to
spread rapidly over her clothes Before
assistance reached her she was burned
severely, and she suffered great agony IN
til death relieved her.
If Mn. Sarah Cover, Meehanicsburg,
Pa. lives until April, 1900, she viii be l02
yeans old. Nanny Greenly, oolored
woman of New Cumberland, was 80 years
old on January l. Twenty three years
ago she was housekeeper for james Nc
Carthy. when he taught the New Cumber
land grammer school Mr. Mccarthy Is
well known in Western journalism under
the nom-de-plume of ''FitE Mac. On
a recent visit to New Cumberland he ar
ranged that Nanny" Greenly should
be placed in the Dunkard Home, where
she will be cared for the rest of her life