The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-12-03
Pennsylvania Items.

The farmers of Montgomery and Bucks
counties, who prided themselves on having
harvested a very fair crop, were woetuliy oe-
ceived when they came to threshlng the
sbeaves. A farmer who took forty bushels OF
wheat to the mill of T. X. Freed x Co.. North
Wales. was chagrined to learn that the fly had
wrought so much damage that out OF the forty
bushels there were only seven fit to produce
flour. At Lansdale, Godshalls are paying 80
cents for the best wheat but the price Is reg
ulated by the quality, much OF that which the
fly has gotten into bringing only oO ana on
cents Vim. Godshall, a member OF the hrm,
saws the fly originated i'll the lower part OF
Bucks county last year. Since that time 1t
has been moving northward. Just now it
seems to be doing It's most fatal work III the
section Immediately adjacent to Landsdale
and westward towards the Perkiomen. 1t has
not gotten far north yet, but next season the
farmers about Quakertown may expect Wis.
i,ation of the pest The fly bores IL small
hole in the heart and then makes the exit by
the same hole, leaving mere shell. mus
hundreds of bushels of wheat are destroyed.
There does no! seem to be any remedy for
the pest as yet.
HAzLEroN, Pa, Nov. 26.-Wilfam Gettlg,
of Sandy Valley while at a cOrnhusklng par
tv. near his home drank some hard cider
from barrel through a rubber tude WIN
the cider he also swallowed hornet which
had been in the barrel. The insect stung
Getting so badly internally that his throat
swelled up. almost choking hum. de was III
a precari0us condition for several hours, but
is now ont Of danger.
The fall of snow Saturday was general
throughout the State, and III some sections
drifts six feet deep INSTRUCTED travel on troll
ley lines and country roads. Trans on some
of the railroads in mountainous portions OF
the State were delayed almost "a hours.
The report of Isaac B. Brown, Chief OF the
State Bureau of Railways shows that tor the
fiscal year, ended June so, the receipts OF the
"a operating street railways were $40, 40, 1O6.
The capital stock of these companies out
standing is S100,9 1856.
By an explosion Of gas in Philadelphia
| and Reading Coal and Iron Company collie
nv. at Ashland, Saturday night, six men were
burned, three Of whom will probably die.
Judge Livingston, at Lancaster on Satur-
day, sentenced Ralph W. Wireback to be
hanged for the murder of Banker DAVID b.
Lands. in April last.
The Hanover Record of Tuesday says =
Another death in the diphtheria afflicted
Wildasin family, of near Basehoars school
house, in Union township, Adams county,
occurred on Sunday morning, the sixth death
in period of three weeks. The victim was
young child which had largely recovered
from diphtheria, but died from the after-ef-
fects, being unable to partake of food.
All the rest of the family are improving eX
cept one younger child, which is said to be
critically i'll from the weakening effects Of the
disease.
In letter received yesterday from DR..
Weaver, Of Taneytown, who is the physician
attending DR.. NJ. NJ. Fleagle, of this place,
he states that DR.. Fleagle is a very sick man.
He further says that he has been left with a
serious heart trouble, from which he is now
suffering. His recovery is doubtful. Five
or six new cases of diphtheria have been re-
ported in Spring Grove with in the past week,
but none of very malignant type. The sit
uation is so much improved that the School
Board felt warranted in reopening the public
schools this morning, which had been closed
since the outbreak began.