The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-09-14
News of the Week.

| Saturday, September 81, is the day set for
the international boat race.
Immense ice foes continue to blockade the
coast of Northern Labrador.
A terrible fire swept over 500 Chow, Chi
ma, August 20 and 81, causing great loss OF
! life and property.
| England is buying more mules in Kansas
| City, Missouri. for South Africa, after an IN
teryal of three months.
On Friday, September 6. there was freez-
ing temperature in parts of Montana and a
| considerable fall of snow.
Two hundred anthracite miners at Jeddo,
Pa, joined in pledge to abstain from the
use of intoxicating liquors.
The overlooking of the Yangtze river, in
| China, has flooded villages and fields, caused
| great loss of life and will result in famine.
Rev. James F. Kenney, DID,. aged II
years, one of the Oldest Presbyterian ministers
| in Pennsylvania, died in Chambersburg last
week.
At Lexington, Mississippi, last week, Mon
roe Hitchford and Spencer Wright, colored,
fought duel with shotguns and both were
killed.
A report comes from Japan that, following
an earthquake shock, mountain sank into
the earth, the top being on level with the
surrounding plain.
| The Texas State Millers' Association, rep
resenting 200 millers, reports shrinkage in
| the wheat crop of the State of from 5000, 900
| to 5,000,0 600 bushels.
On the charge of completely in jury wheel
frauds in Clearfeld county, Pa, William f.
| DAILY, former Postmaster in Dubois, has been
held for the grand jury.
A coal combine, with a capital of $500, 900,
| 600 was organized in New York this week. 1t
will control all the mines and nearly all the
railroads leading to them.
A fierce storm ragged on Saturday and Sun
| day OH Lake Huron, and number of vessels
were wrecked. Smoke from forest fires add
ed to the danger of navigation, obscuring
buoys and lights.
| Harry Kearney, colored, who is being held
by the Chicago police on suspicion OF having
knowledge of the murder of Herbert Noyes
in Cleveland a year ago, tried to commit sui
| eide September Z.
George Keneile, aged %, September at
| St. Louis, shot and killed Bertha Richter, his
| 16 year old sweetheart, and fatally wounded
| himself. A refusal of the girl to keep prom
Use to marry Keneile prompted the crime.
There are LIB, 1856 cows in Denmark, an
average of 456 for every 100 acres of land I'M
! der cultivation and 756 for every 1000 inha,-
itants. In 1898 the butter exported amounted
to 121 AIS, 431 pounds, in 1899 to ~, Az, 593
pounds, and in 1900 10 124, 623, 1853 pounds,
I of which 1858, 362 pounds were packed in
! tins. The remainder was in hrklns.
! In shortening the Union Pacific Railroad
between Omaha and Ogden by thirty miles,
reducing the grades from maximum of nine
| ty-seven to maximum of 43 feet, and ex-
pauding the curves, SIS, GOO, 900 will have been
| expended, it is said, when the work is finish
ed There will be great saving in fuel, in
| the use of much longer freight trains, and in
higher speed, and the resulting increase ofearn-
| ings has been estimated at So, 900, 600 year.
| 1t is said that the great fair held every year
at Mini Novgorod, Russia, is the largest in
the world. Itfrequently happens that 400, 900
people are in the fair grounds at one time, and
| the volume of business transacted is enormous.
| In the year 1899, for example, goods to the
value of more than 172, 900, 900 rubles were
brought to the fair. This represents about
$3.50, 900, 600 of our money land of this amount
more than l43, 900, 900 rubles worth was sold.
| On Friday afternoon, the 9th instant, n
huge tidal wave struck Far Rockaway, Long
| Island causing great CONSERVATION among the
| bathers and those on shore. Steamboats, could
not land, and their passengers were hurled
about like chips. At Coney Island it was
equally severe. The sea was perfectly smoOthe
and without warning the wave suddenly rose
| and rushed in at furious rate. A few min
utes later there was smaller one. Millions
of fish were thrown out and then carried back
and by night the surrounding water was filled
with dead ones.