The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1902-07-26
News of the Week

In New York 10000 garment workers are
on strike.
Fire destroyed the chief buildings of the
exposition at Dallas, Texas, July 20. The
loss will reach 100000; insurance $4,000.
The immigration Bureau shows that during
the past fiscal year 730, 1893 immigrants landed
in this country, of which lis, 375 were Italians.
The Probate Court in Clayton, Mo-, have
decided to appoint guardian for Thomas B..
Warren, who spent 10000 in 10 years for
drink.
The business center of Colquith, Ca, was
destroyed by fire July 20. Eleven stores, the
postofice and the Masonic Temple were
burned.
Floods in Des MONIES river, July II and 18,
have caused estimated damage of between
$500, 600 and 81 900, 900 to crops in Iowa
and Missouri.
A Manila despatch says that cholera is still
spreading in the provinces. The totals are
IA, 567 cases and 10, 937 deaths. Manila aver
ages forty cases daily.
Russell Sage, of New York, has purchased
tract of go, 900 acres of long leaf yellow pine
land in Southern Mississippi. He does not
propose to Immediately develop the property.
At mission conference at Rocky Springs,
Lancaster county, Pa, last Sunday, $40, 900
was raised for the cause, men and women
even putting watches and iewelry in the con-
tribution basket.
In Pennsylvania 10000 members of the
Junior Order of United American Mechanics
have been expelled by an edict of the National
Judiciary Court Of the Order for non payment
of assessments.
A riot was caused at Nebraska City, Neb.,
by the effort of the Law and Order League to
break up Sunday baseball. The sheriff was
disarmed and the members of the league pur-
sued by the crowd.
A violent cyclone visited Chalon-S Sur. Saone,
France, On the 10Th inst, doing immense dam
age Several vessels on the river were sunk,
the Alcazar was destroyed and the streets and
shops were flooded
After losing fortune, estimated at $780,
600, in the show business, James Thomas
Harper, one legged acrobat, well known
among circas people throughout the country,
died at Warsaw, Indiana, last week.
A Tacoma despatch says that after forty
days of continual pursuit by men and blood
hounds, all organized effort to capture Harry
Tracy, the escaped Oregon convict, has ended.
The pursuit thus far has cost $1,000
Near Stockbridge, Georgia, on the 14th
inst, at a religious meeting, four negro wo-
men had razor duel about a negro man.
One woman was cut to death, one fatally in
jured and the other two were seriously cut.
On July 16 the city of Guayquil, Ecuador,
was nearly obliterated by fire. A large loss
of life is reported. Twenty -four blocks, con-
tanning 548 houses and business places were
burned. Loss $1,000, 600; insurance $4,O0O,-
600.
race war is on at Carbondale, Illinois, a
mining town, and State troops are on duty to
prevent any further outbreak. Illinois is a
Republican State and its citizens should treat
''the man and brother with more consider
alton.
Several hundred soldiers surrounded re-
sort in Leavenworth last Saturday night and
demolished the doors, windows and furniture,
n revenge for the fatal stabbing of Eli Loucks,
a member of Company F, Sixth Calvary, by
a colored man in the resort.
Rev. John S. Brown died at Lawrence,
Kansas, last week, aged Sc years. He was
one of the few survivors of the famous Brook
Farm experiment, and was probably the old
est Unitarian minister and the oldest member
the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity in the United
States.
Mrs. William Shaw, aged IS, of Glassboro,
N. j., was held up in her house by robber,
Monday, bound and gagged and the house
ransacked. A stranger, whom she identified
as the robber, was arrested as he was leaving
town. An effort was made to lynch the man
who was identified by Mrs. Shaw.
John W. Mackay, the California multi mil
lionaire, died in London, England, last Sun
day. He was born in Dublin, started as a
poor boy, but soon developed strong mind,
emigrated to California, and soon became in
terested in gold mining. His wife and family
we're with him. He was in his 72d year and
contributed largely to charity.
A dispatch from Kieff, European Russia,
July q, says-Fifteen persons were drowned
Yesterday by sudden thrush of water into the
easements of various houses in the lower por-
lions of the town. A torrential rainstorm,
accompanied by violent wind and hail, broke
over Kieff during the afternoon and turned
the streets into veritable torrents, flooding
cellars and drowning their occupants before
they were able to escape. Large trees were
uprooted and railroad embankments were
washed away, necessitating the suspension OF
traffic. The losses sustained are very heavy.