The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-04-20
A $50. 600, 900 trust is to consolidate all tn

A 500, 1000, 900 trust is to consolidate all the
big machinery and stationary engine plants of
the country, including forty plants. They are
located in Milwaukee, Fort Wayne, Canton,
o.; Wilkesbarre, Pa; Pittsburg Youngs-
town; o.. Cleveland. Hamilton, o.; New
York, Philadelphia and Akron, O.
Over $50 newly enlisted soldiers of the
Fourteenth Cavalry Regiment, recruiting at
Leavenworth, Kan, have deserted The only
reason assigned is that they were disappointed,
beliving that since Aguinaldo had been cap
tured the new regiment would not be sent to
the Philippines on account of the possible
termination of the war.
Mrs. William Clarke and hired man are
under arrest at Morris, Illinois, charged with
numbering with poison the formers husband,
farmer of Lisbon, who died Tuesday. -Four
sons give the principal testimony against their
mother Rat poison was found in the house,
and an examination disclosed quantity of
the drug in Clarke's stomach.
Some alarm has been caused in London by
the fall of an eighteen-foot pillar in Westmin-
ster Abbey. The pillar stood in the side
chapel, northeast of the chancel. 1t fell
with tremendous crash, was shattered into
small pieces and damaged the tomb of Lord
Norreys. Investigation showed that a similar
column in the same chapel was unsafe.
Dispatches Monday from various parts of
Germany give reports of heavy thunder
storms. Lightning killed three persons and
manned four others near Fredelsloh Hanover.
Heavy SHOWS have fallen in Rudolstadt and
throughout the whole of Thuringia, while the
rains have caused the Oder TO overflow, COW
ering large districts in Siesia. The Rhine is
still very high at Cologue and the district OF
Caub is flooded.
G. Harry Eager, proprietor of machine
shop. and Charles c. Nelson, storekeeper of
the PENNSYLVANIA railroad roundhouse, in Co.
Iumbia, Pa, are held for trial, Nelson on the
charge of grand larceny, and Eager charged
with receiving stolen goods. Nelson, who is
leader in his church and member of the
choir. had charge of much valuable railroad
material and supplies, quantities of which he
is accused of selling to Eager. who used it in
his business.
For the last SO years Noah Raby has eele
brated his birthdays in the poorhouse, near
New Brunswick, N. j. Ra5y was born in
North Carolina, on April /, 1872. He recalls
the fact that George III was King and re-
members to have heard Gen. George Wash
ington make an address at Yorktown about
the year 1890. About the beginning of the
last century he joined the United States Navy,
in which he remained until the breaking out
of the second war with England, when he
went back to North Carolina.
Miss Margaret MeSherry, aged so years,
member of one of the best families in West
Virginia, died of general debility Thursday,
April A, in Gettysburg Pa. She was closely
connected with the prominent families of that
name in Virginia, West Virginia and Mary
land. She was a sister of DR.. II. l.. McSher-
ry, of the United States Navy, and of the late
Prof. Richard McSherry, of the Maryland
Medical University. She was also an aunt OF
Dir. Clinton McSherry, Richard Meredith and
Allan McSherry, of Baltimore, and of DIR.
Richard McSherry. of Littlestown, and VIM
McSherry, Esq, of Gettysburg.
Easter collections in New York city this
year were unusually large. 1t is known that
a number of the churches received from So,
600 to $4,000 EACH Two or three, which made
special appeals, obtained $4,000 and up
wards. and the collection of Grace Church
amounted TO more than 100000. There are
500 churches in Manhattan and Bronx, 466 in
Brooklyn, 1873 in Queens and 62 in Richmond,
a total of 1865 in the whole city. An average
collection of $1,000 for each church that Sun
day may be trife high, but it is probable
that at least 81 100000 was given by the peo,
pie for religious purposes on that, the greatest
day in the church calendar.