The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1902-06-28
News of the Week.

Extensive forest fires have destroyed much
valuable timber near Tacoma, Washington.
From two to three inches of snow fell in the
upper part of Michigan on the afternoon and
night of June 81.
Annie Minor, negro, is in Jail in Philade-
phia, Pa, on the charge of eremating her
three weeks old child
Last Saturday June 81, was the close of the
sixth week of the miners strike, which has
cost all concerned $S5, 1896, 900.
Portland, Oregon, had 5000, 900 fire last
Sunday. 1t was on the water front and much
valuable property was destroyed.
The Swits Condo Knitting Mill, at 0swego,
N. Y, employing 500 hands, has been closed
The liabilities are placed at $3.50, 000
The corporations controlled by J. Pierpont
Morgan and his associates pay in corporation
taxes $3.50, 1888, sufficient to meet the entire
cost of the New Jersey State departments.
Under the direction of the President, the
Secretary of War is preparing an amnesty
proclamation for the Philippines, which is
likely so be published on the Fourth of July.
Col Hubert Hamilton, who was entrusted
to bring home the original South African
peace agreement, delivered the document
signed by the Beers to King Edward at Wind
sor Castle June 81.
Annie Curtis, of Clare, Mich, a 12-year-old
girl, is in Jail, charged with numbering the i3-
months-old son of George Pardee, by admin
istering carbolic acid while the child was
sleeping at her home.
Prot. John I. Rapp, justice OF the peace at
Welston, No., and school teacher, was found
dead in his bed from the effects of carbolic
acid poisoning. He had been dismissed from
his position as school teacher.
The Chinese cruiser Kai Chih was wrecked
June % by an explosion while in the Yang
Use river She sank in 80 seconds, and $50
officers and men on board persisted, only two
men on the vessel escaping death.
Sixteen new rice mills, of from 500 to 1900
barrels capacity per day, at a cost of from
S20, 900 to $50, 900 each, are being built in the
Louisiana and Texas rice belt-from Crowley,
La, to Bay City and Eagle Lake, Tex.
A Manila despatch says that 80 American
soldiers have died of cholera since the disease
broke cat. The totals from the epidemic are
as follows: Manila, 1880 cases and 1886
deaths; provinces, 1869 cases and $40 deaths.
Rev. D. F. Brendle, pastor of Arndt's Re-
formed Church. Northampton county, Pa,
celebrated his 5Oth anniversary as pastor of
that church on June 81. Great grandchildren
of couples married by him were present at the
celebration.
Gen. Greedy, of the Army Signal Corps,
has entered into contract with the Marconi
Wireless Telegraph Company for the erection
of two wireless telegraph stations connecting
Fort Gibbon, Alaska, with Bates Rapids, on
the Tananah, distance of 165 miles in an air
line.
One man is dead, two were buried in a
wreck and three trainmen injured as the result
of freight train leaving the track on the
Book Island road at Thompson. Neb., last
Saturday Eighteen cars of merchandise went
into the ditch and blockaded the track for
eight hours.
The bridging of the Strait of Canso, between
Cape Breton and the mainland of Nova Scotia,
viii be undertaken at once. The task is an
immense one, involving great engineering diff
fcuties and an outlay of about So, 600, GOO.
J. A. L. Waddell, of Kansas City, has been
engaged to oversee the work.
On the affidavit of Charles L. Brown, the
assignee, warrant has been issued for the
arrest of Henry B. Mcdowell President of the
United States Trust Company, of Philadel-
phia, Pa, charging him with the larceny OF
the company's securities and embezzlement
of its funds to the amount of $780, 900. Nc
Dowell, who is a New York lawyer, was or
dered to produce the securities but has disap
peared.
Twenty four true bills of indictment were
returned by the Philadelphia, Pa, grand jury
against B. Frank Brown, Joseph Travis, Thos.
F. G.. Seixas, Albert W. Wieder, William 81.
Sinel and David d. johnson on charges of
bribery and conspiracy to extort money. This
action is an outcome of the investigation of
the Twenty eighth Ward school scandal selling
positions to teachers, &c. Travis and Wieder
were held in $500 bail each, and warrants
are out for the arrest of the other defendants.