The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-11-23
News of the Week.

Asphalt, equal to the celebrated beds Of
Trinidad, have bas discovered in Little Bay
Denoquet, Michigan.
In Berlin, Germany, there are 81 1862 men
out of employment. and the outlook for the
winter is very discouraging.
Cotton growers have netted $500, 600, 600
more for the past five crops (1901 crop esti-
mated) than for the previous five.
Sixty overdue ships arrived at Shields, Eng
land, Saturday. Many of them were in di-
lapidated condition owing to the storm.
The new Mayor of Bridgeport, Conn, is
by trade a stoker, and at the time of his cleo
ton was receiving salary of SD a week.
The water supply in many localities Of
Northern Missouri is exhausted, and serious
condition confronts the railways and stockmen.
1t is stated that during the last year 400
tons of cigarettes were exported from Algeria,
and there promises to be largely increasing
trade.
Dallas Tex, manufactures more harness
and saddles than any other city in America,
and, perhaps, than any other place in the
world.
Minnesota is called the ''Bread and Butter
State, and rightly, too for last year her mills
turned out &c, $50, 500 barrels of -four and
churned over so, 000,0 900 pounds of butter.
T. I. Johnson, of Los Angeles, CAL, has
one of the finest pigeon farms in the United
States. He has $4,000 adult birds that pro-
duce $50 dozen squads for the market every
month.
Ants have been burrowing under the brick
pavements of Council Bluffs, Ia, and remov-
ing the sand. One street for distance of
several blocks, has thus been rendered unfit
for travel.
Robbers looted the bank at Greenville, Ia,
Saturday, taking all the money and papers,
but the amount i'll cash is not made known.
The vault was blown and the building badly
damaged by the explosion.
The second destructive fire within nine years
visited Welsville, York county, Pa, on the
18th instant, when the extensive factory OF the
Wellsville Whip and Net Company was burned
to the ground. The loss is 100000.
George Zollnhofer has confessed that he
and Harry E. Corbett have robbed the Will
liamsburg Savings Bank of Brooklyn, N. Y,
of about 100000. Ore was the receiving and
the other the paying teller of the bank.
Mike Javitsky and John Selnosky, Hungar-
ians, living in Pittsburg threw dice to decide
which was TO marry Annie Munkowiez. ia
whisky was the lucky one, and Selnosky went
away. Itis believed that he killed himself.
Governor Van Zandt, of Minnesota, an
nounces his intention of fighting in the courts
the consolidation of the Great Northern
and Northern Pacific Railroads, as conten
plated by the Northern Securities Company.
Some idea of the immense amount of work
done in the offices of a railway with mileage
of 10, 400 miles may be gathered from the fact
that the printed matter issued by one company
detailing the changes made in the passenger
service for the summer months amounted to
over five tons in weight.
A number of Holland bankers and capitalists
are making arrangements to establish colony
of Beers and Holland Dutch in Wyoming A
tract of 800, 600 acres has been secured in the
valley of the Green River, Southern Wyoming,
which it is proposed to irrigate and prepare
for sugar beet culture.
The cotton crop of North Carolina this year
is 65 II per cent. of last years crop, which
will give $685. 40 bales, against 542, 900 last
year. There is yet remaining in the fields,
according to the newspaper correspondents,
10 116 per cent of the crop.
An effort was made on the night of the 18th
instant to wreck a train on the Northern Cen
trail Railroad, by dynamite. Fortunately il
was not successful. The loss of life would
have been terrible, to say nothing of the de-
struction of property. The explosion was
within half mild of York, Pa.
In Comparison Nebraska has more miles of
railroad than the four States of Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont aad Massachusetts.
New York has 1900 more miles, and only
nine of the fifty States and Territories have a
railway mileage exceeding that of Nebraska,
one of the States admitted into the Union since
the close of the Civil War.
According to Captain Brouards, just re-
turned from Alaska, from the northern shores
of Kotzebue Sound 10 the Arctic Ocean, a
distance of 800 miles, is one immense bed of
bituminous coal, and he says there is enough
coal in sight to uppy the world for many years.
1t is of very little value for steaning purposes,
but for household use it is all right.
The biggest moonshine distillery was dis
covered in Brooklyn, N. T., last week, in a
suburban cottage inhabited by Russian Jews.
Its capacity was $50 gallons of proof spirits a
day and its profits were $500 week. A
wagon load of its product was captured and
the officers found the place by allowing the
horse to choose its own route homeward.
A dispatch from Bridgeville Delaware,
November II, says that Virgil Wiley, the q
months old son of Prof. K. NJ. Wiley, of the
Bridgeville Academy, is phenomenon.
When the baby was given set of toy blocks
recently he arranged them so as to form words.
Yesterday Professor Wiley, on going into the
nursery found the baby sitting on the floor
with newspaper in his hands, apparently
reading The Professor thought he was only
amusing himself until he questioned the child,
when, he says, he found the baby knew what
the paper contained