The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-02-18
THE ADVOCATE.
Items Of Interest.

Commander and Mrs. Ballingtor
Broth, of New York, have issued q
farewell letter to members of the Sal
walton Army.
w. H. Meyer, Of Traverse City
Mich :, was robbed of $4,70O by
masked men, who compelled him to
unlock his safe.
Louis Gordon, of New York, has
been sentenced to 6 years and ten
months imprisonment for setting fire
to his shirt factory.
Adam Herrelein and Barbara Bar
net, of Brooklyn, N. Y. ended their
lives, the former by jumping from a
roof and the latter by poison.
"Jack the Ripper" is the title of a
new opera soon to be produced in We
nora. The words and music were
written by an Italian named Gioma.
William A. Emmett, claiming to be
great-grandson of Robert Emmett
the Irish patriot, was found homeless
in New York and sent to an asylum,
Lassalle, the baritone, has set up a
cement mandatory at Chantemelle,
on the Seine, in France. He attends
to the business himself, and has been
made mayor of the town.
President Charles X. Adams, of the
University of Winconsin,! has been in
vited to deliver the address to the stu
dents at the commencement exercises
of the University of Michigan.
The Chesapeake oyster beds are
rapidly diminishing in productiveness.
Fifteen years ago they furnished about
100000 bushels of oysters. The
product this year will not be more
than 5000, 900 bushels.
Probably the oldest railroad engi-
neer in New England is Squire Will
son, OF Lyndonville, VT. He has been
running an engine on the Boston and
Maine system since 1852, and is still
making daily run.
Starhsh have caused immense dam
age among the Connecticut oyster
beds this season. One grower has
spent $4,000 in the pas few mouths in
an effort to check the ravages of the
starlish, but with no results.
Cabul in Afghanistan, has an arms
factory third of a mile in length snd |
600 feet in width. The daily output
is 10000 cartridges and fifteen hum
dred rifles, while four quick firing
field guns a returned out each week.
Miss Ellen Twining, Postmaster at
Old Orchard, Me :, was the other day
welded to Edward Joy, known as
"Grandpa" Joy, an old and wealthy
citizen of st, Louis county. The we'd
ding took place In Gen. Grants old
cabin, which Mr., Joy owns.
Because heavy rains had flooded the
cells in the lower part of the City Hall
at Port Townsend, Wash. Police Mag
istrate Jones, of that place, ordered
that all prisoners confined there be
discharged, as there was no other
place suitable for their detention.
The oldest man in Indiana, James
II. Culver, of Spencer, died last week
at the authenticated age of les
years and almost eleven months. He I
was born in Maryland, March 4, 1870,
and went West in 1918. He was mar
ried four times, and had two great
great-grandchildren living at the time
Of his death,
William p. Moran has Just compile
ted his fifty-third year of continuous
service as a clerk in the Navy Depart
ment. He was eighty-fVe years old
last week. He has been identified
with the navy for nearly seventy years
having enlisted as midshipman in
1927. In 1912 he became a clerk in
the department. 1t is said that the
of every officer now in
the naval service was written by him,
and is marked with his initials in the
upper left-hand corner.
A Household Urea sure.