The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-05-11
News of the Week.

Gloucester City, N. j., has a smallpox cpl
demic, and in Camden the Court has ad
journed.
A combination of all the watch factories in
this country is to be made with capital of
$75, 900, 600
At Reading, Pa, nearly 5000 men are on
strike for restoration of wages to the old scale
as promised. As a result the tube mills and
furnaces have closed.
Joseph Eckenrode, about 10 years old, died
at Two Taverns, Adams county, Pa, on APP
Ri 80, and Holiday Newman, of the same
place, last Saturday, aged nearly 20 years.
The employees of the street railway lines in
Albany, Troy, Cohoes and neighboring towns
are on strike for recognition of the Amalga-
mated Association ofSreet Railway employees.
Frank Billman, of Freeand, Pa, had his
nose bitten off by a stallion on Monday night
as be was feeding him, and he would have
been killed but for neighbors beating the
animal off.
The restitution in Jacksonville is very great
and all classes of men are clamoring for work.
Many supplies have been received, and the
insurance adjusters have already paid out over
half million dollars.
The body of Harry Hoch, a painter, was
found in the harbor at Buffalo Tuesday. His
throat was cut from ear to ear, and there was
FIVE pound weight in his pocket and stout
wire bound about the corpse.
The employees in the Delaware, Lackawan-
ma and Western Railroad shops, 1000 in num-
Der, went on strike on Tuesday. Also the
building trades Of Louisville, Ky, and lat the
Hayemeyer's glucose factory III Edgwater,
N. j., the strikers attacked non union men.
In New York city, on Wednesday, DIR. L.
r. E. Couturier, aged 81 years, and Mrs.
Margaret E.. Shaw. aged sc years, were mar
ried The groom is a native of South Carroll
ma, and is in excellent health. The bride
is native of New York.
A despatch from Boston, Mass, last Mon
day, says: The courts of the New England
states at present have unusually large
number OF murder and manslaughter cases be-
fore them, and of the list no less than eight
sre docketed for hearing this week, in one
stage or another.
The Newfoundland seasons seal fishing
came to a close Sunday night with the arrival
at St. Johns Of the sealer Virginia Lake.
The total catch was $50, 900 seals, valued at
5000, 000 There was not single fatality or
or serious accident among the 300 men Ell.
gagged, and only one vessel, the Hope, Was
lost.
Labor Unions throughout the country are
asking for the discharge of their members from
military companies. In some States the men
cannot resign under three years service, aud
the Unions say they must resign or leave the
Unions. The cause for this action is said 10
be the Unions contemplate general strike
and they do not want any of their men to be
called out as militiamen to suppress the
strikers.
The citizens of North Scranton, Pa, pass
ed through siege of terror last week. Law
lessness is rampant Women are afraid to
venture out of doors after night fall, for hold
ups and sand baggings are of nightly occur
renee. Stores and residences are entered
aud robbed The police seem powerless to
cope with the criminals. All of the electric
lights in the affected district have been
smashed, and the we'll organized gang of
thieves work under the cover of darkness.