The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-05-04

Rev DR.. Thomas C. Porter, former
President of the Pennsy lvania German Socie
y,since 1866 member of the Faculty of La
fayette College, died Saturday in Easton, aged
~
Six lives are reported lost by fire at the
Dorothy coal and coke plant of the American
Steel and Iron Company, near Latrobe, last
Sunday evening. 9he property loss is $780,,
600.
+. s. Nettleton. connected with the De-
partment OF Agriculture an expert, is dead,
at Denver, Colorado. He was 60 years old,
and was one of the most prominent engineers
in the West.
Nine Cinnamon were executed last Monday
in the American district of Pekin for highway
robbery and violence. The men were tried
and sentenced according to Chinese law, and
they are the first Of such sentences to be ap-
proved by General Chaffee.
Assistant postmaster Charles Fl. Drexel, at
Tarpon Springs, Florida, has been arrested,
according to reports of postofice inspectors,
charged with being short in his accounts to
the extent of $1,000, and with having blown
open the safe to cover his guilt.
meeting of trades unions leaders has
been held in Pittsburg, preliminary to con-
sodation of labor associations, the plan con-
templating an organization composed of g,
000,0 men, having for its object the dicta-
ton of terms to The United States Steel Com
pany.
In obedience to an order of the Reading
Coal and Iron Company, fire, loader and
driver bosses in the anthracite mines of the
Shamokin region have decided to withdraw
from the United Mine Workers, the union
| sanctioning this action to avert strike of
10000 miners.
The Birmingham, Ala, works has
ceived another big order from the Southern
Railway. The last order is for $50 refrigera-
tor cars, and the Southern will pay 5000 per
car. The car company is now at work on
about 1850 cars for the Southern and 1000 for
the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf road.
Alonzo j. Cutler, a Chicago Board of Trade
broker, was on Saturday awarded verdict of
! S54, 900 against C. w. Partridge The amount
represents losses which Mr.. Partridge was
accused of refusing to pay, on the ground that
they were gambling debts, having resulted
| from speculation on the Board of Trade
AT Wilmington, Del, last Sunday night,
| Just as he finished repeating the Lords Prayer
in the Union Methodist Church, John S. Hof-
fecker was stricken with appoplexy. He was
removed 10 the parsonage adjoining, and the
pastor continued the service, saying that Mr..
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/ all the congregation was.
The Bishop of the missionary diocese of
Moosone on James Bay, in the remote North
west, arrived at Ottawa recently after having
I travelled 900 miles on snowshoes. He started
! from Moose Fort, the most northerly post on
! Hudson Bay, and walked southwark until he
! reached the Canadian Pacific Railway, over
! which he journeyei to his destination.
Advices from Ashland, Wis, last Sunday,
reported the first serious forest fire of the sea-
sou, when 900, 600 feet of hcmock logs were
burned near Mellen, and the Wisconsin Cen
! trail passenger train got by the fire with diff
Guilty. Fires are scattered all along the south
shore of Lake Superior, and near Iron river
/ and Muskeg are said TO be particularly active.
The five men who were buried under ITO
feet of dirt in the Rosebud mine at Aurora,
Missouri, were able to converse with their
rescuers Monday. The men are still buried
uuder twenty five feet of dirt They were
thirsty, and cannot survive much longer. The
! work of rescue is proceeding very slowly now
because of the great danger of dirt caving in
on the workmen.