The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-06-22
News Of the Week.

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Seasonable rains have fallen in Southern
Russia and splendid harvest is assured.
There are 232, 921 women employed in
English cotton factories and only 147, 245
men.
From January and including June 1S
there has been a deficiency in temperature
Of IA degrees.
President Eliot, of Harvard University,
has invited 100 Cuban teachers to attend
the summer school there.
Fully a foot of snow fell Saturday, June
Is, in the mountain regions about Lead
vile and Cripple Creek, Col.
Zacharias Hilbert and Miss Revercomb,
of Harrisonburg, Va, we're drowned while
crossing Beaver Greek at Otterbine
It costs S13 to see all the Midway shows
at the Pan American, provided you look
after your money carefully.
The dam at Bowser's mill, near Win
chester, Va, was carried away by the flood
Monday, and much damage was done to
the lowlands
A report comes from Lawrence county,
Alabama, of the discovery of oil, the well
flowing 500 barrels day, also Of supe-
rior quality of coal
Cincinnati is a stronghold Of Presbyteri-
anism. Sixty four churches are included
in its Presbytery, % of these being within
the limits of the city.
A big oyster bed near Mobile, Alabama,
has been sold for S130, 900. 1t is esti-
mated that there are S100, 600 worth of
oysters in the bed at this time
The strike of the machinists at the Cor
liss works, at Providence, Il. l., was de-
clared off on Saturday. Their union was
recognized and wages advanced.
The foreign trade of New York and Bos-
ton is declining, while the exports Of the
Southern ports are increasing. The heav-
lest gain is made by New Orleans.
Il. Louis Metzger, of Philadelphia, Pa,
has purchased for syndicate site at To
ledo, Ohio, for linseed oil mill, which,
it is said will be the largest in the world.
this year on binder Irvine by patronizing
the penitentiary factory, which sells it Tor
81 cents pound while the trust asks ii
cents.
At Lancaster, Pa, Dilworth Brothers
cigar factory from June Of last year to May
80 this year turned out 2, 900, 600 cigars
at cost of S1.37 per 1000 to manufac-
ture.
Charles p. Hibler, of Cincinnati, met
Miss Estella Krehs, of Philadelphia, on u
train enroute to Atlantic City, and upon
arrival they went to preacher and were
married.
In the Mountain Of the Monks, on
the coast of Macedonia, there are twenty
monasteries The place is sacred to the
male sex, as no woman is allowed to cross
its borders.
Over 80, 600 knights and members of
their families are expected to attend the
twenty third annual convention of the
knights of ST. John, beginning June "a,
at Cincinnati.
A petition has been presented to the
York county Pa. court asking for the
disbarrment of Edward A. Allen on the
charge of appropriating trust funds, &c,
to his own use.
Mother Amedus, Mother General of
the Sisters of Charity of the Diocese of
Cleveland, died last week at the convent
in Cleveland, Ohio. She had been in the
convent for 40 years
Laura Madden, of Lewiston, Me-, hav
ing been deserted in New York by man
who had induced her to elope on promise
of marriage, tried to commit suicide in the
river off the Battery, Monday.
Hon. Mat s. Quay has purchased a
farm in Lancaster county, Pa, adjoining
his summer residence The farm con-
tains los acres, was owned by Jonas G.
Stehman, and was sold for $500 per acre.
The Mineral Springs Hotel, at West
Baden, Indiana, was destroyed by fire
early on the morning of the 18th. The
guests, over 800, we're panic stricken, but
all escaped by hasty fight losing all their
baggage.
On the 18th instant Russian cruiser
and other vessels, together with govern
ment buildings and warehouses, were de-
stroyed by fire and II lives lost at the
Galleys Island shipyard, near st. Peters
burg.
Runkel Brothers chocolate factory in
New York was burned Sunday; loss $3.50,
00O At 0gdensburg, n Y, the Fair
view cheese factory was burned also; loss
S45, 900. About 300 people are out of
work by these fires.
The Swifts, of Omaha, Neb., have pur-
chased large tract of land outside the
western limits of Detroit, on the river
front, and will erect thereon one of the
largest cold storage plants in the country.
A woman in Adrian. Mich, who pro-
tested without avail against gambling
den which got all of her husband 5 weekly
earnings, recently set out with can OF
kerosene and burned the place to the
ground She was acquitted in court
Official statistics show that smallpox is
prevalent. all over the United States, there
having been since December last %, 344
cases. Some states, as Kansas, Colorado,
Minnesota, Tennessee, have had several
thousand cases.
Since the Louisiana and Texas farmers
learned to raise rice by irrigation they have
invested 5000, 600 in 1900 miles of
canals, capable of flooding 300, 900 acres
and spent 81, 700, 600 in building thirty
modern rice mills Under the new system
rice lands pay net profit of SIS an acre.
DIR. August M. Unger and F. Wayland
Brown, on trial in Chicago for conspiracy
to defraud insurance companies through
the death of Miss Marie Defenbach, have
been found guilty and sentenced to the
penitentiary under the Indeterminate act.
Frank H. Smiley pleaded guilty and turned
States evidence.
Work has been begun on the Pacific ca
BILE which is to run from Victoria, B. c.,
to point on the coast of Australia 1t
will be 5S341 miles long, will cost So,
900, 600 and is to be in operation by Jan
uary |, 1908. This is British cable
ond mill NOT naoassarilv intarfara with