The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-05-18
News of the Week.

Tollgates are to be abolished III franklin
county, Pa The county authorities buying
the stock.
Turkey is becoming christianized (?). A
Minister of Finance is missing with large
deficit to his credit.
Tawney's bakery in Gettysburg, Pa, to-
gether with so barrels Of -four lot of harness,
&c, was burned Tuesday morning.
Aftermath from the Wall street speculation
shows that Il number of bank officials were
caught short in large amounts as well as con-
idential clerks.
May corn was cornered on the Chicago
Board of Trade Wednesday, and advanced to
60 cents. That is the highest price since the
corner OF May, 1892.
The American Light and Traction Company
has increased its capital from So, 900, 900 to
$40, 600, GOO 1t is said to be a western com
bination coming east
E. l.. Chetwood, confidential clerk for
Brown Brothers, bankers, New York, has
been arrested on the charge of embezzling
500, 900 of the firm money.
Daniel Creighton was arrested Wednesday
while at work at Blanchard, Maine, on the
charge of being implicated in the murder of
the Allen family, at Shirley.
The Chinese government, in its reply to the
powers on the Indemnity question, appeals for
mercy and declares that the utmost it can
pay is 15, 000, 900 taels (about $4,000, 000)
annually for the next 30 years.
A petition has been sent to the President
and Postmaster General Smith asking for the
removal of Thomas l.. Hicks, postmaster of
Philadelphia, Pa, for violation of the Civil
Service Law, &c.
A dispatch from Lock Haven, Pa, Monday
night, says A heavy squail ofsnow preceded
II rain storm in Sugar Valley today. The
snow melted as fast as it fell. 1t is so cold
that frost is feared.
The Machinery and Allied Trades Metal
Unions have ordered strike on May 20 in
all shops refusing TO grant the desired con-
cession. Many firms throughout the country
have already granted the demands.
The steamer City of Paducah struck a snag
and sank in 25 feet of water in the Mississip-
pi, near Brunkhorst Landing, Illinois, on
Sunday night Two OF the passengers were
drowned and Is of the crew, mostly negroes,
were drowned.
At Pennington, West Virginia, Wednesday,
six miners were killed, five fatally injured and
three seriously burned by an explosion caused
by a lighted torch which one Of the men had
carried in the mine against strict orders pro-
hibiting the same.
W. W. Ryan, railway postofiice clerk,
whose run is between Washington and New
York, has been arrested at New York by
Washington postofice inspectors, charged with
riAipg mail matter He Was taken to Wash
ington and held in $1,000 BAIL
]. Pierpont Morgan, the New York banker,
has hard time of it. Last week the country
wanted to hang him for causing the Wall
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his praise for contributing sufficient money to
save the Palisades of the Hudson river.
Mrs. Lurany Soaring, of Uniontown, Pa,
was 1O3 years old on May 10. She was mar
ried when II years old and had seven sons
and seven daughters, forty-two grandchl-
dren, eighty-one great grandchildren and
eight great great grandchildren, total of
AS descendants.
One of the largest tobacco deals ever made
in the West has Just been carried through at
Madison, Wisconsin, by the sale to Phila-
,lephia firm of 13, 900 cases oflast years crop
of Wisconsin tobacco. About $3.50, 1000 cash
changed hands The shipment will amount
to about 260 carloads.
A New York bridge company has taken
contracts for about one hundred portable
steel houses. for sh pment TO Venezuela,
where such structures, 1t is said, find a ready
market in view of the frequent earthquakes.
These steel houses, which are one story,
weigh about twenty tons each.
Riot followed the attempt of the Union
Traction Company of Albany, N. Y, TO re-
sumo the operation of portion of its electric
street railway system, Tuesday, which had
been tied up by the strike of employees inaug-
urated last week. Over 20 people injured
and several cars wrecked. Troops have been
ordered from Brooklyn for Albany.