The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1902-06-07
News or the Week,


A SO, 900, 600 glucose plant is to be
erected at Waukegan, ILL.,, Independents OF
the Corn Products Company.
Rockaway Beach, N. X, had s125,
900 fire last Sunday. Two persons were
burned to death. Fifteen hotels and stores
were destroyed.
Mr.. Carnegie is said to have made gift
Of 81, 900, 600 to Miss Harriet NJ. Lauder
on the occasion of her marriage to James
c. Greenway.
As the result of collision between two
fast-riding bicyclists in Lancaster, Pa,
last Sunday, Walter Powell was killed and
Daniel Treewitz viii die.
Absalom r. cambridge, who helped
Wilkes Booth to escape after his assassina-
ton of Lincoln, died suddenly at his home,
in New York, last Sunday.
Dong Gong, Chinese leper, is reported
to have been completely cured at the quar-
antine station near st. Louis, having been
treated with chaulmoogra oil, the product
of East Indian tree.
Hailstones nearly three pounds in weight
fell during recent storm at Jessore, in
Bengal. Metal veranda roofs were per-
forated, cattle manned, trees beaten down
and man killed outright by the downfall.
A suit involving 5000, 900, 900 was
brought in New York on Saturday against
the Steel Trust and j. Pierpont Morgan,
Jr., ON account of the changes recently
made in the stocks and bonds of the COM
pany.
At Chicago, on Monday, there was riot
and bloodshed owing to the teamsters
strike Nearly all hauling was suspended,
and many persons are in the hospitals.
Clubs, stones, pistols, &c., we're used by
the police and the strikers.
Henry Cole, one of the oldest real estate
men in Denver, has given the Methodist
Church of that city, $3.50, 600. This
amount viii be invested in new corpora
ton, and the interest accruing is to be d.
vided as follows: Fifty per cent. to evan
gelistic work, 25 per cent. for building
and improvements and the balance for
charities
At Wilmington, DEL, on june /, Mrs.
Catherine laws celebrated the enc hun
dredth anniversary of her birth at her
home She enjoys excellent health for
one of so advanced an age. Mrs. laws
is the widow of James laws, who was an
engine builder in Charleston, s. c. He
built the first engine constructed in Charles
ton.
An official cablegram received at the
British War Office in London from Lord
Kitchener, dated Pretoria, IL o clock Sat
urday evening, May 81, states that doc
ument containing terms of surrender was
signed there at TO- 80 p m by all the Boer
representatives, as well as by Lords Miner
and Kitchener. Great rejoicing in Lon
don followed the announcement, which
spread quickly through the city, that the
war was ended.
Baron Eichhi Shibusawa, one of the
richest merchants of Japan, arrived at San
Francisco on june 1, from the Orient, ac-
scompanied by large retinue of secretaries,
servants and an interpreter. He is Presi
dent of forty stock companies, representing
an aggregate capital of 500, 900, 900.
For many years he was President of the
Toxic Chamber of Commerce, and has held
many important Offices. He was created
a peer in recognition Of his services in
building up the commerce of his country.
The Baron is touring the world for pleas
ure.
Fifty persons committed suicide in Chi
cago during the month of May This is
the greatest number ever recorded, accord
ing to the health department. During the
same period there were 1874 deaths from
Bright's disease, which also is unprece
denied The excessive and steadily in
creasing mortality from these two causes,
as well as from pneumonia, says the de-
partment's report, is attributed to the bale
full effects of influenza poison, which is
said to be a subject demanding share at
least of the attention being paid SO exclu
sively to consumption.