The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-06-08
News of the Week.

News of the Week.
Troy, N. Y, has $50, 900, 600 shirt
and collar trust.
Two thousand employees of paper mills
at Holyoke, Massachusetts,, struck on Sat
urday.
Alabama farmers have lost over $780,
900 by the recent overflow of the Tennes-
see river.
More than 1900 machinists and $50
marble workers remained on strike at Chi
cago on Saturday.
An oil well that throws six inch stream
of petroleum 100 feet in the air has been
struck on Middle Bass Island, in Lake
Erie, near Sandusky.
The Rochester Red Cross Society, of
Rochester, N. Y, has sent $1,000 for the
relief of the sufferers by the Jacksonville
fire.
Oil wells that flow in large quantity
have been struck near New Orleans and
in Tennessee, about 100 miles northeast Of
Nashville.
j. Luther Pierson, faith-curist, has
been found guilty in White Plains, N. T.,
of allowing his child to die for lack of pro
per medical attention.
Calvin Hall and his three sons-Frank,
James and Martin-and Daniel Yantls,
we're lynched May 81 in Modoc county,
California for stealing horses.
Water at Lake Erie is reported lower
than ever known before. The drainage
caused by the power works at Niagara
Falls is held chiefly responsible.
Isiaor Roth has been arrested in ST. 10
seph, Mich, on the charge of abducting
Rosie Giest, aged 16 years, daughter of
A. j. Giest, New York millionaire.
John NJ. Neill, an ex-officer of the
Regular Army, was arrested at San Fran
cisco, Sunday, on a charge of forging
vouchers in the Army three years ago.
Colonel James G.. Miner, an Assistant
Secretary of the Confederate Navy during
the Civil War, died in poverty at Milford,
Ohio, last week. He was 80 years of age.
Sarah, aged 2 years, child of Geo. Mock,
near Webster Mills, Pa, fell on shoe
buttener, which went through the roof of
her mouth into the brain. The wound
was fatal.
Six children, three boys and three girls,
were presented to her husband, the Greek
priest of Deligrad in Servia, by Nine.
Araugyel, according to the Pesther Lloyd
Eighteen months ago she bore him triplets,
A heavy storm passed over Pittsburg
last Sunday, and hail and wind did much
damage. A house was blown down and
four people were buried in the ruins and
badly injured. In Is minutes onethird
of an inch of rain fell.
Julian Guichard and Charles Blanchard
have been arrested at Sinclairville, N. T.,
for making and issuing counterfeit fifty
cent pieces A complete counterfeit out
fit was captured, together with a large
quantity of the spurious coins.
Rev. Thomas H. Pearne,. aged 81 years,
and for sixty-one years minister in the
Methodist Church, died at his home in
Cincinnati Saturday night. He was the
author Of several standard books published
BY the Methodist Book Concern.
The rioting at Corunna, Spain, last
week, had more serious results than at first
supposed. Two men and one woman were
killed and the hospitals are filled with
wounded. Many arrests have been made.
The rioters used revolvers freely.
The safe in the postofice at Andover,
Maine, was blown up by burglars Tuesday
and stamps and money stolen. Suisse
quently, the police found grip containing
$500 worth of postage stamps and nearly
$500 in cash in possession of the robbers.
The Allan Line steamer Sicillian, from
Glasgow, which arrived at st. John s,
Newfoundland, Saturday, reports immense
ice foes 200 miles off the coast drifting
south into the track of transatlantic ship
ping. The foes are studded with great
icebergs.
Owing to the bad crop prospects in
Prussia, Count Won Buelow, President of
the Prussian Ministry, has advised the
various Government departments to pro-
vide State aid in meeting the situation.
The harvest threatens to be a failure over
large areas
About 8 o clock last Sunday night,
Philadelphia, Pa, was visited by a fierce
electrical storm In the northern part of
the city hail fell in torrents and much dam
age was done. The parks were filled with
people and they caught the full force of
the storm.
Peter Conway, aged Z years of Plains,
Pa, was attacked by vicious cat last
week. The cat sprang on the boys
shoulders, knocked him down and bit him
in the neck and face The lad 8 cries at
tracted the attention Of persons, who drove
the cat off.
E. V. Babcock & Co., of Pittsburg,
have purchased 3, 500 acres of timber land
from James Curry & Son, of Somerset, Pa
This addition makes this firm one of the
largest manufacturers Of hemlock lumber
in the country, The price paid for the
tract was $3.50, 900.
Fred Rochell, negro, aged 80 years,
at Barlow, Florida, on May %, assaulted
and then cut the throat of Mrs. Rena
Taggart After hard run through
swamp he was captured, identified by two
other negroes, taken from the Jail and
publicly burned at stake.
The fastest time made by any railroad.
it is said, is on the road between Bordeaux
and Bayonne, France, where run of %
miles is made every day in 128 minutes
1t is to the credit of American mechanics
that the honor of making this run is ac
corded to American locomotives
1t is reported that since the provision
for water works and electric LIGHT Dlant