The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-03-23
News of the Week.

A receiver has been asked for the Gettys-
burg Springs and Hotel Co.
A large number of aged people have died
in New Jersey since the lst of January.
John Jents died in Lock Haven, Pa, last
week. He was bern in Prussia in June, 1900.
The Mississippi river is now clear of ice at
Dubuque, Iowa, the earliest date in many
years.
Up to and including the 18th instant, March
has broken all records for disastrous fires in
this country.
Deaths of children under years of age in
Boston last year were 80. IA per cent. of the
total mortality.
Patrick Donohue, publisher of the Boston
Pilot. died last Monday He was 80 years
old on the 18th instant.
Ephraim Mead, an old resident of Camden,
died last week at his sons residence, Mer-
chantville, N. j., aged 81 years.
A movement is on foot for the establish
ment, near Atlanta, Ga, of colony to be
composed exclusively of negroes.
Ohio had the largest number of smallpox
cases last year-1666, Tennessee coming next
with 1898, and Minnesota with 875.
The deaths of IL persons, men and
women, occurred in Philadelphia, Pa, last
week, who had lived from 80 to Sc years.
There are IA white men in Warrenton, Va,
and vicinity over 80 years of age, one of the
number being over 80. There are also several
women over 80.
The Klondike is proving valuable source
of income to the Canadian Government. Last
year the revenue oftheYukon territory amount
ed to ST, 261,8 16.
j. Kennedy Tod, New York banker, has
purchased the Dewey Arch, and will remove
it from New York to his summer estate, at
Sound Beach, Conn.
The Buckeye Press Brick Company's plant
at Rosevile has been transferred TO the Ohio
Press Brick Company. The syndicate oper
ates twenty nine plants
Seattle proposes to build canal eight miles
long from Puget Sound to Lake Washington,
which is twenty miles long to 200 feet deep
and will make an ideal harbor.
Pittsburg, Pa, had $3.50, 900 fire last Sat-
urday. One fireman was killed and four
others seriously hurt by live wire. The fire
started in the Exposition Building.
The grove of giant redwoods in Santa
Cruz county, California, will be preserved.
A bill appropriatng $3.50, 900 for its purchase
has been approved by Governor Gage.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company is
importing Japanese miners to fill the places
of strikers in their New Mexico mines. 1t is
stated the company will also employ japanese
to work in Colorado.
Four large boilers at Eppinger & Russell
Company's saw mill and lumber works, at
Oeustee, Florida, blew up simultaneously on
Saturday night ten minutes after the men had
quit work. The entire plant was wrecked.
Owing to an epidemic of smallpox at Sea-
ford, Del, the meeting of the Wilmington M.
E. Conference will be held at Wilmington.
There were II new cases in 48 hours several
deaths have occurred, and the town is quaran-
tined.
Captain General Mariana Trias, Command
rim Chief of the Filipino insurgent forces,
with 20 officers, 200 men and 119 rifles, has
surrendered to the American forces The
officers took the oath of allegiance and have
been given their liberty.
Mrs. w. H. Rutter, ofStowe, Pa, died last
week She weighed 500 pounds and her coffin
800 pounds. The coffin was SO large that the
door had to be enlarged TO to take it out, and
ten men were required to put it in wagon to
carry it to the cemetery.
Only the presence of the Nebraska militia
men on guard at the State Penitentiary, at
Lincoln, prevented the escape of twelve con-
victs from that institution on Friday night of
last week. They reached the roof through
ventator but got no further.
Rufus CumminsG Garland died at Fort Worth,
Texas, last week. He was son of Hon. A.
II. Garland, Attorney General i'll the Cabinet
of President Cleveland, and was engaged in
the legal department of the Dawes Commits
sion to the five civilized tribes.
Andrew Carnegie has promised to give New
York city sixty-five branch libraries. at an APP
proximate cost of SIS, 200, 900, providing the
city furnishes the sites and maintains the
structures. A gift of $1,000, 900 has been
promised TO st. Louis on like conditions.
The Kentucky State Board of Valuation
has refused a rehearing to the railroads who
sought to induce the Board to revise its rulings
subjectiDg their corporate franchises 10 county
and city taxation. Several hundred thousand
dollars additional taxes annually are involved.
Secretary Wilson has authorized the Chief
of the Weather Bureau to create three new
forecasting divisions, as follows: New England
headquarters at Boston; Western Gulf States,
headquarters at Galveston, and Central Rocky
Mountain plateau region, headquarters at
Denver.
Ira Sheets, aged IS, killed himself with
revolver at Bridgewater, Va, last Saturday on
account of jealousy. He had been student
at the college in that place during the winter,
had gone home to assist in the farm work,
when he was informed that his girl had "gone
back on him. He went to her home to find
out if the reports were true and shot himself
there. Sheets resided at Mt. Pisgah, Augusta
county.