The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-08-24
News of the Week.

Philadelphia, Pa, is suffering from flea
scourge.
With capital of $3.50, 200, 900 the Consoli
dated Tobacco Company has been organized
1t absorbs all other Companies.
On Monday, at Richmond, Va, the plant
| of the American Cigar factory was burned
loss $150, 900, small insurance.
At Herkimer, N. Y, on Monday, fire caused
1 an explosion of dynamite in rouudhouse
Six men were killed and the building wrecked
LIGHTNING started great oil fire in Phila
delphia, Tuesday While four tanks were
blazing an immense tank of benzine exploded
| A number of firemen were killed and injured
Two men were rescued from the water
works tunnel at Cleveland, 200 feet under
Lake Erie, Monday They were imprisoned
there for FIVE days and were supposed to be
| dead.
Seven of the IA men injured by the explo
sion ON Sunday of molten metal in the blast
| furnance department of the Ohio plant OF the
National Steel Company at Youngstown are
dead.
Armed steel strikers Sunday, in Wellsville,
Ohio. surrounded party of non union men,
and held sway until suppressed by the sheriff
| Of the county, who hints that he may ask Tor
military assistance.
Two thousand carriageworkers in Clncln.
natl have been discharged, the firms announc-
ing that they will reopen September as non
union works, employ whom they please aud
regulate their own affairs.
Joseph Trone, of New Oxford, Pa, W.
M. Railroad brakeman, was crushed TO death
at sos O'Clock last Saturday evening while
conuling cars in the Gettysburg yards. lie
1yass 90 wears old and leaves a wife and
children.
Joseph M. Weaver, farmer of East Earl
township, Lancaster county, Pa, is the owner
of STEER weighing something over 40oo
hounds. the animal standing 6 feet inches
from the hoof to the middle of the shoulder.
Mr.. Weaver bought the steer tive wears ago,
when it was IS months old and weighed 1000
pounds.
Chancellor Heiskell, of Memphis, Tennes-
see, has decided that the publication OF al
legged libelous matter cannot be restrained by
the process of injunction. The decision was
based upon two grounds, first, the freedom oil
the press is impaired; second. the right OF
trial by jury is invaded.
Scotland has the largest number of crimi-
nails in the United Kingdom. Last year 1886
persons were convicted in the courts for every
10O, 900 of the population. In England the
ratio was only 581 and in Ireland $50. The
explanation is thatthe Scots are very lntem
perate; that they drink whisky instead of beer,
which induces crime.
A letter from Onancock, Virginia, says the
Irish potato season just over has been ban
ner one in the history of potato crops in this
section, 100000 to 10000 barrels being
shipped, with net profit of from $500, 200 to
$750,OO0. Prices were high and farmers are
able to pay their rents from this crop alone,
with the sweet potato crop to fall back on
Biologists, after a careful study of the
question, have given it as their opinion that
the oil belt, which at present is doing so much
to boom Texas, extends from Beaumont down
the Gulf coast to the mouth ofthe Rio Grande
and far into Mexico. Should this prove true,
that country has before it period of prosper
ity such as its people never dreamed of.
A Joke nearly cost Edward Bruch, of East
Stroudsburg, Pa, his life last week. Bruch
is an engineer in factory, and sat down TO
rest after attending to his fire and boiler, per-
spration fairly rolling off his body. work
man dropped big piece of ice down Bruch' S
back next to the skin. His throat became
paralyzed and his nervous system is shocked
The engineer lost mis- voice entirely, and his
throat closed.
The men in the Bay View mill of the Hi
nois Steel Company, at Milwaukee, voted on
Saturday to go on strike in response to the
last call of President Shaffer, of the Amalga-
mated Association. Employees in the River
side plant of the National Tube Company, in
Wheeling, West Virginia. took similar action,
by which but $50 of the 5000 employees in that
city remain at work.
washout on the Lehigh Valley Railroad
Saturday night closed the Vosburg Tunnel,
delaying the Black Diamond Express, east
bound and westbound, until Sunday. A Del
aware, Lackawanna and Western train was
caught between washout on mountain stretch
of road, the passengers spending "a night of
errorn In Danville, Pa, the Reading Rail
way and number of manufactures suffered
serious damage from the storm Sunday.
Another famine is impending in Russia, and
il is said that it will affect 100000 people.
Its area is about the same as that of the great
famine of 1891, when the attention of the
whole world was called to it, and strenuous
measures for relief were made in this country
This year, however, we have little famine of
our own to provide for The island of PanaY,
in the Philippines, is reported in such bad
condition that more than hundred people
have already starved to death there. 1t seems
as though we were in duty bound to succor the
Panay sufferers first.