The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-05-09
News 81 the Weekr

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plants, in Chicago.
Herring are so plenty in the Potoma,
river that they have been sold as low as
so cents per 1000.
Mrs. Minnie Cummings, of St. Louis,
is accused of shooting and killing both hen
first and her second husbands,
John F. Costello, wealthy Buffalo
man, was shot Monday by his wife, with
whom he had been at odds for some time,
j. b. Marcum, an attorney, was shot
and killed as he WAS entering the court
house at Frankfort, Ky, by an unknown
! man.
Bishop John Fletcher Hurst, of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, died IN Wash
ingtou, D. c., May 4, He was A native
of Maryland,
The entire congregation of Holy Saviour
Roman Catholic Church at Wilkesbare,
Pa. 1900 in number, took the temperance
pledge Sunday.
\ food swept down Bonanza creek,
in the Klondike, May 3, carrying of
heaps of pay dirt worth millions and doing
other great damage.
Three persons were killed and twenty
eight injured as result of an explosion
last Saturday in the torpedo factory of the
Thor Manufacturing Company in Cleve-
land
Martin Wisler, of Menges Mill, York
! county. Pa, recently sold Holstein steer
that weighed 2055 pounds 1t was hauled
to York standing in cage built on farm
wagon.
W. II. Murray, who arrived at St.
Paul to get hands to gather the California
fruit crop, will extend his mission to New
England He attributes scarcity OF labor
to the Chinese Exclusion act
Last Saturday 4,66S, 1872 eggs, in 10, =
SOC crates. were received in Philadelphia
The actual amount Of money of all kinds
in the United States on April 80 was
81, 679, $40, 600, and the per capita cir
culation was S29 IS.
4 fight among the e,Dngregatinu in the
Slayonic Catholic Church at Joliet. N
Sunday caused panic among the women
and children \ mob OF eura-ed women
penned in the men aud pelted them with
PRAYER books The police were called to
subdue the rioters
4 merchant of McKeesport, Pa owns
dwarf COW that weighs only 50 pounds,
and Is no larger than an ordinary NeV
Rundland dog, but yields from i've TO six
quarts Of milk daily The owner pur
chased her from a West Virginia noun
taineer while on a hunting trip
At Clarksburg. " Va. MAY ,. the
Gen Flour and Feed Mills were destroyed
by fire The building was Quilted and
machinery ruined -Four hundred barrels
Of -four aud several thousand bushels Of
grain were burned The loss j. about
SO. coo, With insurance about one-third-
While attempting las, Sunday Jo rescue
Henry McWilams from the top fooT ef
burning building in New York Fireman
William McNally and james G. MeEyoy
were both seriously burned. They sue
oeeded in carrying McWillians down
ladder, but he was 80 badly burned tina,
be only lived a few minutes.
Fire in the principal business portion Of
Berlin. Pa, Sunday, completely destroyed
the Garman Opera Building aud drug
store. the general store OF A r. Cober,
restaurant Of ". C. Emery. brick resi-
denceS Of John \ GaFmsn and + h
Collins. and the hoEae Of W. 4, Garman,
with ali the stables, including six horses.
buggies and other contents.
New York detectives aud posgofioe ia.
spec;ors hare raidei the Offices u a Gun
panv which dealt in stocks Of dlamoud
COMPANY repused to own valuable fields in
South Africa. bur which the ofhcers say Is
myth Several men were arrested.
Names Of nobility are given IN the hst q
directors. but the British consul general
SAYS there are no such titled persouages.
The town Of IVES, Point, Virginia, wss
visited bv destructive Gre at an early
hour on May LIT Forty-seyen buildings
were burned in the heart Of the town
The loss bv conservative estimate + sl5S,
600. There are practically no places Il
supply LETT in the town. and for sJuie time
the people will have to look &c outside and
for their daily needs There are no vacant
buildings. and the housing Of these fam
lies presents quite a problem. Fortu
naiely neither the Terminal Hotel nor the
Beach Park Hotel were injured.
Ten to fifteen people were killed aud
thirty or more were seriously injured BY
being struck by the Grand Trunk Pan
American fier FROM Chicago, which ran
into crowd of thousand people at the
corner Of Deluinder and Garfield streets
Detroit, Mich. May , At 80 p. N.
The majority Of the killed aud wounded
are from Toledo Fifteen hundred people
from Toledo came up to Detroit that morn
Ing on special Lake Shore train so eele-
brate holiday They left the train At
the corner Of Dequinder and Garfield streets
and went over to ST. Josephs church,
where they spent the day with that con
gregation.