The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-06-29
News of the Week.

and only one twelfth OF her area is cultivated,
it has population Of A 100000.
An explosion of fireworks in q store at Pat
erson, N. j., ON the 21st instant, caused the
death of II persons and the wounding Of
others.
There have been heavy snowfalls in the Ba-
varian and TyroIean Alps aud railroad com.
munication between Munich and Italy are
interrupted.
Emerson McMillin, New York banker.
offers to defray the expenses OF week IN the
country for 600 poor children OF Columbus,
Ohio, his former home.
Three clerks in the Adams Express Com
pany's New York office have been arrested,
charged with stealing $1,000 worth OF Jewelry
from packages in transit.
The La Plata River firm of Wiengreen &
Co., with offices at Hamburg, have failed,
with liabilities amounting TO between 5000,
600 and 1900, 600 marks.
Lightning rod swindlers are working New
Jersey and other States William Godfrey OF
M. Laurel. was swindIed out of 1925 last
week by the Coles Lightning Rod Company
of Ohio.
In the bottom of a strawberry box opened
AT Hutchinson, KAN, recently the purchaser
found the following message: am Cora
Marsh. aged 16, of Logan, Mo. Never been
kissed"
Ex-Governor Morrill,, Of Kansas. owns what
is said to be the largest apple orchard in the
world. When work now IN progress shall
have been completed the orchard will ceniain
"a, 900 trees.
The brush factory of j. NJ. Martin Son
and the grain elevator Of the j. G. Smith d
Wallace Company, at Newark, N. j., were
DESTROYED by fire on Saturday. The total loss
is estimated at 100000.
Gen. Cables surrendered, with $50 men and
500 rifles, to Gen. Sumner, at Santa Cruz,
Province Of Luguna, in the Philippines. All
took the oath of allegiance, and Frank Mekin,
an American deserter, was placed IN IRONS
An open switch at Monaco, Pa, Monday
evening caused an express train 10 be
wrecked. The engineer and baggage master
were killed, both being ground INTO pulp; 3
fatally injured and over 40 severely injured
and bruised.
After more than a fortnight of tropical heat.
France experienced a cold spell on the 18th
inst Parisians had to resume their overcoats,
while from many parts of the provinces snow,
violent rains and hail was reported. Stormy
weather prevailed along the coast.
Policeman Debray, of Atlanta. GeoIgia,
was recently assassinated by some unknown
negro. Chief of Police Rroyles overheard
three negroes plotting on Friday of last week
to kill several more policemen. As result
there is intense excitement IN the city.
Recent reports from the Yadkin river val
ley, in North Carolina, state that the results
from the last storm are more disastrous Than
the one last May, as the land was so soltened
hy il that the recent food carried OH the soil
and the outlook for farmers is very gloomy
A barrel of whisky in freight car caught
fire Saturday in the yards at Logansport, In
diana, exploded, and caused the death OF
Lawrence Beeson, who was repairing the ear.
William Eskins was fatally injured John
Moore and Calvin Neff were seriously hurt.
At New Haven, Conn, early Sunday morn
ing Adelbert Stone Hay. former consul of the
United States at Pretoria, South Africa. and
eldest son of Secretary OF State John Hay,
fell from a window in the third-story of the
New Haven House, and was instantly killed.
1000 shop hands Of the Reading Railway
Company in Reading, Pa, are on a strike
for nine honr work day and 10 per cent.
increase Of pay. Labor leaders predict that
the trouble will extend 10 every shop along
the company's entire system, and that the
machinists are waiting to be called out.
Thirty acres of coal land in Pittston, Pa,
surface is still going down. The cave-in oc-
Cured at the Fiddler colliery, operated hy
Elliott. Mcclure & Co. The 600 employees
escaped 1t is thought the shaft will have to
be abandoned The cavern was due to rob
bling" pillars.
A negro and white man quarreled in Phil
adelphia, Pa, last Saturday night, and the
white man was disemboweled. About 1900
men soon gathered and itrequired squad of
policemen with clubs and revolyers to pre-
vent the negro being lynehed. The papers of
that city did not denounce the act as barbar-
Gus nor call for the militia to suppress the
mob or to guard the jail
The City National Bank, of New York,
controlled by John D. Rockefeller aud the
Standard Oil interests is said to be negotiating
for the purchase of the National Bank of Com
merce and the First National Bank of Kansas
City, The two concerns are the strongest in
Kansas City, and have combined deposits of
nearly $50, 600 900. 1t is stated that the New
York bank is endeavoring to buy up banks in
other Western cities.
A queer freak of lightning was Witnessed ON
the 18th instant on the farm of Harold Cobb
in Frederick county, Va. A flock of so sheep.
in which there were three black ones, took
refuge beneath tree during storm. Light
nlng STRUCK Tue Tree, Is duu Sccui-
ingly picked out the three black sheep, in
different parts of the flock, killing them, with
out injuring any oil the white sheep. The dead
black sheep were found in places 20 feet apart.
Following the exposure of AN alleged plot
to heavily insure stocks in small stores rented
for the purpose and collect insurance on the
places which frequently were burned shortly
after policies were secured, eight we'll known
men of Chicago, were held Thursday to the
grand jury in bonds aggregating $50, 900.
Eight more arrests are expected to follow. 1t
is alleged the sums collected from various in
surance companies aggregated 5000 in two
years.
An attempt was made early last Saturday
to wreck the First Methodist Church at Man
haitian, Kansas, with dynamite. A number
of stained glass windows were destroyed, a
large hole was torn in the door, near which the
explosives had been placed, and the steps
were shattered. Rev. j. NJ. Miller, pastor,
was recently elected Mayor, and has waged a
bitter war on the keepers of Joints" Re
Gently six of them were fined 5000 and 80
days in Jail.
On Thursday of last week, between and
o. M, Shippensburg. Pa, was struck by
coudburst Water flowed through houses
from an inch to nearly two feet in depth.
The storm came so suddenly that there must
have been cloudburst. The water swept
down on the west end of town in waves, Civ
ing no time to remove household goods.
Trains on the Western Maryland and Reading
Railroads could not reach the passenger de-
pots on account of washouts, and in some
places trains had to wait until the water re-
ceded.
Wheat cutting has begun in Southern Spain.
The province of Andalusia and Murcia expect
fine yields, and the promise in Central and
Northern Spain is excellent. The wheat crop
in Central Europe is very promising on the
confines of the Adriatic, and very bad on the
confines of the Baltic, indicating that Croatia
and Hungary will have a good crop, while
Prussia and Prussian Poland will have a
serious deficiency Mediocre results may be
expected in Bavaria and Austria. In France
the yield will be short about 40, DOC, 900 bush
els which will have to be purchased from
other countries.
A religious association, representing several
Protestant denominations in the section on
the West side above Seth street and below
120th, New York city, has taken census of
all the families in the district. Only one fam
ily out of 8697 visited was found willing TO
avow that it had no religion, but large mi
nority of Protestant andJ ewish families do not
attend any particular place of worship. In
one parish 319 Episcopalian families attend
3S different Episcopal churches, while 113 of
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