The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-07-13
News of the Week.

Corbin, Montana, vas destroyed by cloud
burst Wednesday.
Window glass has been advanced 20 per
cent by the glass trust.
Saloon keepers in New Jersey who violate
the law are being severely dealt with.
Topeka, Kansas, last Monday, the tempera-
ture at 1.30 p. M, was 1899 in the shade.
The mills of the "Bar Iron Combine" have
resumed operations, giving work TO $4,000
men.
The severe storms which have heen sweep
ing over the country around Valladolid, Spain,
have destroyed the crops in that vicinity.
Mrs. Martha Patterson, the last of the chill
dren of ex- President johnson, died al Green
Vile, Tenn, Wednesday. She was born in
1923.
The wage conference at Youngstown, Ohio,
has resulted in an advance of wages for about
40, 900 employees in the bar iron mills of the
country.
DIR. August NJ. Unger and F. Wayland
Brown, convicted of swindling insurance COM
panies in Chicago, have been sent to the peni-
Tertiary on an indeterminaie sentence.
Three expl osions at the powder works, at
Santa Cruz, California, last Monday, wreck
ed the Corning mill and resulted in the
killing of w. R. Darling and serious injury of
Joseph Maynard, employees.
Nineteen persons were killed. two probably
fatally injured and number seriously hurt in
a collision between passenger and a fast live
stock train on the Chirago and Alton Rail
road, near Norton, NO., Wednesday.
statement prepared at the Internal Reve-
uue Bureau, Washington, shows that the total
receipts from the War Revenue act only from
20 Il IL al ~ &C.
to May 81, 1901. amounted to S3lO, O53, 1853.
A west bound passenger train on the Pan
Handle route was 'side-swiped'' by a switch
engine, Just outside of the Union Station, at
Columbus, Ohio last Monday. Twenty five
passengers we're injured, seven of them seri
ously
The Minnesota State Pardon Board has APP
proved the parole of Cole and James Young
er, who have been in the penitentiary 20 years
for completely in robbery and murder during
the raid of the James gang on the Mortified,
Minnesota, Bank.
Alfred Norlin, county treasurer OF kearney
county, Nebraska, was arrested Tuesday on a
charge of robbing the county treasury of $l0,-
OIL aud setting fire to the courthouse on the
night of June 81. After his arrest Norlin made
a full con fession and restored $6775.
AT OfiIntnSVilie, WeSt NlTgluih, last GUN
day night, Minnie Waddell, II years old, shot
a burglar as be was entering her home during
the absence of her parents, and stood watch
through the night over him. The burglar,
who will die, has been identified as Walter
Morris.
An S7-pound eagle was killed near Beling-
ton, W. Va, by David Ruckman, a farmer,
last week. 1t measured IL feet from tip to
tip-the largest seen in that section for so
years. When found it was attacking COW
and had badly lacerated its flesh. Three
shots passed through its body before it fell
dead.
Canton advices by steamer give details of
the loss of 300 lives by landslides and food,
occurring at Lung Keng, China, in June.
The landslide was caused by a tremendous
earthquake. There were many crashes, re-
sembling thunder. A great food of water
poured out of the mountains, carrying every
thing before it. Two hundred houses were
swept away and the fields swept bare of crops.
Several great landslides occurred, carrying
large portion of Lung Keng into the bay.
What appeared like a tidal wave followed,
making it impossible for any who were carried
into the water to escape.