The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1902-12-13
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u q. = ew York City there are AZ, 200 officials
Old y e pay rolls.
Bread riots are reported in the Ural districts
of Russia, where many persons are out OF
work.
The strike Of stokers and seamen in Mar
settles, France, has stranded 1900 passengers,
many Of whom are destitute.
Government expenses for the first Eve
months of the fiscal year we're SO, GOO, 600 in
excess of the disbursements for the same
period in 1901.
During the next two years the Pennsylvania
Railroad and the companies which are con-
trolled by it will experd $500, 600, 600 in inn
provements and equipment.
II. G. Prick is to give Pittsburg university
which will make the Carnegie gift of poly
technical school appear Insignificant, accord
ing to statement made by close friend OF
Mr.. Frick.
The Yorkshire Wool Combers' Association
of London, England, is in the hands of a re-
ceiver. Il was organized in 1889 with a cap
ital of SO, 90. but exhausted it in trying
to buy up independent firms.
The Standard Oil Company has advanced
the price of coal oil so per cent in the past
year, having added II cents within the last
Two mODtuhs as Soon dS IL was huOBH tudt
there would be shortage in coal.
Rev. II. A. Monroe, in an address on the
negro problem before the Methodist Episcopal
Missionary Convention, said Philadelphia in
two decades has gone from tenth to second
place in negro population, and threatens 70
outstrip New Orleans.
During the month of September 1850 car
loads of green fruit were shipped East from
California, whichis 800 cars in excess of the
shipments for the same month last year. The
green fruit is now being followed by carload
after carload of dried fruit
Mrs. Elizabeth Haskell, whose funeral was
held in Brooklyn N. Y, November rs, was
the oldest member of Plymouth church, Of
which she had been regular attendant for SO
years. She heard the first sermon Henry
Ward Beecher preached in the church. She
was 80 years old, and had been married to
Samuel Haskell, who survives her, nearly rs
years.
Patrick McGraw, noted craftsman and
murderer, pleaded guilty in the Criminal Court
at Wheeling, West Va, last week, to com
plieity in the safe blowing in the Pan Handle
depot some weeks ago, in which job his pal,
Frank Kennedy, equally notorious, was slain
by the bullets of police officers McGraw, in
1886, killed Policeman Plues, in Pittsburg,
and was sentenced to serve seven years. He
escaped and was recaptured two years later in
Missouri. He completed bis time. He was
known as an expert cracksman from Maine
to California. Whenthe court asked whether
his counsel's plea of guilty was his plea Me-
Graw replied: II abide by what my lawyer
says. stand pat
A dispatch from wheeling, West Va, on
the Ord instant, says: A coal famine so great
as to threaten the very life of trade la the
Wheeling manufacturing district, is on. As
a result several thausand men are idle, and
the big works at Benwood, just below this city,
are idle. The shortage has been threatening
for some time, and the climax came last even
ing, when the National Tube Company or
dered its steel works and its coke ovens to
close. In other sections of the district the
famine is assuming serious proportions, aud
only quick response to the demand can avert
a wholesale closing of mills. The railroads
are unable to supply the mines enough cars.
In The big coal districts no orders for definite
shipment are being booked.