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

Vermont Republicans intend to place an
independent stete ticket in the field in oppo-
siion to the regular one.
Increases in wages ranging from % to so
per cent. have been demanded by employees
of the Chicago City Railway Company.
At Norfolk Va, the Norfolk and Hampton
Shipbuilding Dry Dock Company has been
organized with capital of $l0,000,0 600.
The American Steel Foundries Company,
with capital of $40, 600, 900, has been char
tered under the laws Of New Jersey.
F. S. Donnell is in Jail at Boston, Mass,
charged with stealing $52, 900 in bonds of a
railroad company of which he is president
oxford University has conferred the honor
airy degree of Doctor of Civil Law on Joseph
II. Choate the United States Ambassador to
Great Britain.
An oil gusher has been struck by California
men near Basin City. The well is located in
the Bonanza field, about thirty miles southeast
of the Big Horn Basin.
Prominent independent iron manufacturers
of Youngstown, Ohio, are said 10 be planning
for the erection of Bessemer steel plant in
that city, TO cost 81, 100000
While funeral was being held in church
at Pnerio Spain, on Tuesday the building was
struck by lightning, and as result % people
were killed and 35 were injured.
Anthony S. Sherman, cashier of the Mer-
chants Bank at Newport, Rhode Island, who
| shot himself last week because of a heavy
| shortage in his accounts died Thursday.
Kansas has passed an entire year without
bank failure within its limits. There are now
$40 banks in the State, of which Alb are State
| ko,,Is IDI natinnol hanks apd 40 nfIvafa
banks.
A freight train on the Norfolk and Western
Railroad was wrecked ten miles west of Roam
oke Thursday by the breaking of car wheel.
Forty box cars were wrecked, aud two wiite
tramps were killed.
| A company has been formed to gro% al,-
of 100. 900 trees will be planted this fall.
Patrick county is said to have the best soil for
apples in this country.
George Secrest, of Muncie, Indiana, after
having lived with his wife for half a century,
has discovered that she has an ungovernabe
temper and has sued for divorce. He is 80
years old, and Mrs. Secrest is rs.
The Governor of Ohio has honored a requi-
sition from New York for VIM. Ii. Hahn, In
surance Commissioner of Ohio under McKin-
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an insurance company with which he was
connected.
Pennsylvania is having some experience
with negroes. Two were hung for murder on
Tuesday. On the same day murderous as
sault was committed on a woman in Chester
County, and in Philadelphia several negro
politicians are under arrest charged with
| furnishing "straw" bail.
/ Mercur, the great cyanide gold camp, and
the second largest mining town in Utah, was
practically wiped out of existence by fire on
Thursday Not less than 40 or 30 stores have
been destroyed, and not one is left in the
camp. At least 1000 persons are without
food or shelter. Loss between 100000 and
81 900, 900, and the insurance $780, 900.
In an interview Thursday in Wilkesbarre,
Pa, President Williams, Of the Michigan
District, United Mine Workers, said the Or
ganizalion would go to the limit to save their
union, even to the abrogating of agreements.
1t was intimated that soft coal unions would
he heavily taxed TO support the anthracite
workers during the strike, should it be pro-
longed one.
James Geary's saloon, at Rosyn, Va, was
completely wrecked and the place riddled
with bullets from carbines and revolvers We'd
nesday night by crowd of between 100 and
$50 soldiers from Fort Myer, Va, who con-
Quoted an organized attack on the place.
There we're five persons in the saloon at the
time, all OF whom hurriedy made their escape
on the approach of the soldiers. One man.
Thomas Muntz, Jr., was shot in the hand and
foot, though not seriously. The soldiers are
supposed to belong to the Fourth Battery OF
Field Artillery. stationed at the fort, and their
act is presumably in revenge for the shooting
of one of their comrades, Private Harry q
Pancoast, in Roslyn, the night before.