The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-08-17
News of the Week.

Washington, D. c., is suffering from a
plague of fieas.
Littlestown, Pa, is TO have button facto-
ry which will give employment to about so
hands.
Fall River, Mass, cotton mills will make
reduction in wages of IA per cent. on Sep
tember 3.
Tilly Haines, one of the best known hotel
proprietors in the East, is dead in Boston,
aged 73 years.
Pernod's absinthe factory, at Pontarlier,
France, was struck by lightning Sunday; loss
| over S1,G00,000.
The corn crop estimates August l are for
,I03, 223 900 bushels, against 2,098, ,003, 600
bushels estimated July 10.
| At noon, last Monday, Roanoke, Virginia,
was flooded, and an immense amount OF dam
age was done in the business section.
Joseph Washington. colored, who assaulted
MRS. j. j. Clark, near Savannah, Georgia,
was burned at n stake after confession.
| Ferdinand Keller, aged % years and Jo-
| hanna Miller, aged 80 years, New I ork citys
oldest wards are dead. Keller had been in
| the aImshouse for 43 years, and Miller in the
lunatic asylum for 33 years.
The hiding place of the gold bars stolen
|
Works. near Vallejo, California, a week ago,
has been located, aud $l4l, 900 worth recov-
cred. The suspect, Winters, made con
fession.
Harry Abbott, aged 27, was shot and ia
tally wounded by his 10 year old brother,
Alfred. at Anderson, Indiana, on Saturday
night. The shooting was in self-detence, and
after Harry had beaten and possible fatally
| injured his mother.
Incoming steamers report clouds OF mosqul-
| toes from 60 to 800 miles out. Spanish
baraue, over 300 miles from the coast Of Bra
zil was so infested that the men we're made
miserable. They rose as cloud aud almost
excluded the rays Of the sun.
David Nation has brought suit for divorce
| from his wife, Mrs Carrie Nation, the tenn
peranee crusader. The petitioner, who is
visiting in iberia, Ohio, alleges that his wife
held him up to public ridicule, neglected her
! family duties and abandoned his home.
| A big increase in postal receipts is expected
this year, bnt the real gain will come when
| the order cutting down the bogus second class
matter goes into effect. Thousands of tons OF
second class matter-papers and magazines
| and millions of circulars load the mails that
are not fit to be circulated and should be ex-
| cluded under the obscene clause OF the postal
regulations.
Gen. Richard L. Page, of Norfolk, Va,
died August 9, about O'Clock at his summer
home, at Blue Ridge Summit, Pa, aged 30
wears Gen. Page was a national Inquire and
| saw notable service as commander IN Inc
United States Navy and as general IN the
| Confederate army He was classmate OF
| Admiral Farragut and was ensign on the
vessel which bore Lafayette back to France
| after his visit to this country in the early part
| of last century. Gen. Page negotiated the
first treaty between this country and Japan
while in the United States Navy. On the
breaking out of the civil war he resigned and
! was nut in charge of the Confederate forces IN
the New Orleans district. There he met his
| old cIassmate Farragut, but on opposite sides.
Nothing so large as the eight granite pillars
for The Cathedral of st. John the Divine, New
| York city, has ever been attempted IN modern
architecture They will be So feet long and
| feet in diameter Attempts have been made
| N get them out in one piece, but after break
inc two that plan has been temporarily aban.
| doned. and the pillars will probably CONSIST OF
| two nieces of 28 feet EACH The first two broke
| ON the gigantic polishing lathe under the great
pressure that is necessary to produce the
| smsoth surface The lathe was made expressly
for this great undertaking, and cost over 500,
| O0o II is the largest polishing lathe in this
country. The full length pillar in itsiorm OF
feet square weighs something like l75 tons.
In uniting it into cirular form 1t loses about
Que third of lis weight, SO that when polished
it will weigh about l25 tons.