The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-04-20
News of the Week.

seat on the New York Stock Exchange
was sold for $50, 900.
Petroleum in large quantities has been dis
covered at Greenville, Iowa.
There are said to be 375 typhoid fever pa
tients in New Haven, Connecticut
In Lanarkshire, England, 10000 colliers
are on strike for an eight-hour day.
At Fall River, Mass, 40 cotton mills have
closed throwing 1900 persons out OF EN-
ployment.
The steamship Anglo Australian cleared
from New Orleans last week for Cape Town
with 1000 mules.
Negotiations are pending in San Francisco
for the consolidation of the Pacific coast hsh :
ing aud packing industry.
James Stewart, negro of Sterling, Kan,
who was killed by train last week, was the
father of 81 children, all living.
The Farmers National Bank of Vergennes,
Vermont. is in the hands of a receiver. The
cashier is a defaulter for 0,000.
A company which has been prospecting for
oil in Wayne county, Kentucky, has made a
good strike at depth of 800 feet.
In the Wisconsin Assembly a joint resolu-
ton for a constitutional amendment to enable
women 10 fOlH Was hiiCh ny a 'ObC VI t"c "
one.
Two students are reported to have been
obliged to give up their studies at Harvard on
account OF injuries received IN imitation
exercises.
Near Bristol, Virginia, 10 foot thick
viein of double Bessemer iron has been dis
covered. 1t is said to be the finest vein in
this country.
The brokerage firm of Charles ID. Halsey
ami H. P. Toler, in New York, was dissolved
because of the Christian Science devotion OF
one of the partners.
The accounts of the Russian Comptroller
General between the years 1898 and 1898 are
said to show an unexplained deficit OF A.
600, 600 rubles (S33, 100000
Northwestern Iowa has begun shipping
choice butter to Porto Rico. The first con-
sigument left Sioux City few days ago, being
sent from a very large creamery.
The first United States naval coaling sta
ton TO be established on foreign soil has just
lower end of Lower California, Mexico.
The large irrigation canal in Arizona has
been opened, and the waters of the Colorado
river turned in at the head gates, below Yuma.
The canal is sixty miles long and navigable
to small boats.
According TO Beaumont, Texas, dispatch,
81, ,250, 900 has been paid by an Eastern syndi-
cate for the property of the Texas Western
Oil Company, formerly the Southwestern Oil
Company, of Corsieana.
james Carey Evans died March 20 at Buf-
fao, New York. He was born in Baltimore
in 1909. With others he formed the Ameri-
can Transportation Company, the pioneer of
the Great Lakes corporation.
Henry II. Faxon, a well known temperance
advocate, has distributed through the mail
twenty three 500 checks to as many clergy
men of Quincy, Massachusetts, to be used .'in
promoting the moral, spiritual, social and
political welfare of the people, of the city.
The Youngstown, Ohio, Iron Sheet and
Tube Company has bought land to build
81, 900, 600 plant, with which to compete
against combinations. The company is con-
posed of manufacturers who sold out TO the
trusts. 1t is understood they will build steel
plant later.
The Edward Hines Lumber Company, OF
Chicago, has purchased the seasons lumber,
lath and shinge cut of the N. Ludington d L.
Stephenson Co.'S Mills, in Michigan, for
$3.50, 600. The purchase amounts 10 So ,OO0,-
600 feet of lumber, 25,000,0 900 shingles and
15,000,000 lath.