The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-06-06
News of the Week.

FROM 10. 739 saloons.
Typhoid fever Is prevailing 10 an alarm
ing extent in Philadelphia, Pa.
BY the will of Mrs Mary J Winthrop
Princeton Theological Seminary becomes
the reSiduary legatee Ia an estate valued
at 50. 80, 39l
Albert O. Mathes. for % years treasur-
er of the STAFFORD Five Cent Savings
Bank. Dover. \ II j. a deianiier 70 the
amount Of sl5, AZ
4 general strike Of the textile worker,
in Philadelphia has closed all but , : Of the
coo firms there and thrown out Of employ
ment about %, 600 operatives.
John Barrett, commissioner general of
the st. Louis Exposition to the orieat, ~
turned. after having travelled ~ 600 m'le,
on business for the Exposition.
VI Won Plehwe. Russian Minister Of
the Interior. was SAID Ia have plotte,l 10
bring about the oatbarSt aeainst the Jews
which resulted In the kischeneii massacre.
\ bolt Of lightning struck Christ Meth
odist Protestant Church. at Laurel. Del.
Nav %. partly demolishins the rcof The
interior of the church was ho,-ied aud
ruined by the rain.
Eighteen hens, which were seui 10 Aus
tralia from Chicago in March To take part
IN an egg LAYING contest, have proved su-
perior ~ far to their competitors. The
c,ates1 will las, year
The j. |. Case factory and threshing
machine shops In Racine. Wisconsin, the
Standard Oil Company tanks aud sheds
and half dozen residences and small fac
tories were destroyed by 6re last Sunday
afternoon. LES over $500, 600
Ga NAY ga last, so men raised barn
I ll7 by 40 feet in FIVE hours on Henry
Doui fagm in Conestoga township, Ian
caster county. Pa OF these men, Geo
+ b Campbell. Gordon Armstrong and
I Thomas Parker helped raise barn on the
same site 81 years agc.
4. n1sburg, Pa. last Sunday IL
riot caused by negroes. who wanted to
start crap game during the PFpere-s Of
I baseball game. one negro was klllsl. an
/ other fatally injured and Two white boys
I seriously vounded One sf the negro
[ leaders narrowly escaped iynehing
As consequence Of the 6.hi between
/ the American Tobacco Trust and German
I tobacco men. a resolution indorsed bN 500
/ Berlin dealers viii be presented at the
4 Congress OF retail tobacco dealers ia Co
I logne urging that all retail stores 10 Ger
many refuse to haIadle trus; made articles
! In York. Pa, Monday, the planning
mill OF German L Blackburn. building con
tractors, was burned aud the machinery
and stock stock destroyed The fire was
discovered at , o clock a m. in the main
building and spread rapidly to the other
departments, The fire was the work Of an
incendiary.
Jacob Saperstein and Max Lymen have
/ been arrested in Boston for an alleged con
spiracy to steal large quantities Of cloth
| from wholesale dealers of that city Ten
WOODEN dealers and several dealers in cloth
made complaints against the prisoners, and
the total amount of their losses Is gwen as
| SS105 90.
The Hamburg. Germany, police arrested
/ Elizabeth Weiss. who l. accused OF having
supplied babies frorl a private institution.
which she keeps, to persons who desired
them for fraudulent purposes Frau Weiss
1 is supposed to have provided Mrs. Cunning
| :. Bedford with the child which she reg
istered in London.
| Thomas Mcdonald, a resident of Ply
mouth, Pa, has been subject to violent
attacks Of hiceoughing. He had an at
tack MAY -, and the commissions were 50
severe that two ribs were broken \
physician called in says unless the he
coughing ceases it will be difficult matter
to get the ribs to heal.
There are 200. 900 idle men in New
York city. These men but for strikes.
lockouts and diSsensions among rival labor
unions. would be earning on an average
81 day each, total of $500, 600 day
or 81, 500, 600 week Not only is every
penny of this sum lost to them, but build
ing and other operations, the lumber trade,
brickmaking, iron manufacture and nearly
two-score of other industries and $500
large firms representing a total capital
ization of $3.50, 900, 900 are at standstill
| with 4 consequent loss of profits