The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-05-25
News of the Week.

The United States has 107 social settle
ments. The rest of the world has SIS.
The farmers of Nova Scotia have been ex
periencing the earliest spring for many years.
Indications are that the wheat crop in Kan
sas this year will be the largest ever harvested.
Smallpox on the transport Indiana delays
the departure of the American troops from
China.
General Fiiz ohm Porter died at his home
in Morrsiown, New Jersey, Tuesday, aged
80 years.
A number of Chicago millionaires have
volunteered their services as street and alley
inspectors.
Rear Admiral Schley arrived in New York
Tuesday from London TO visit his son, DR..
Winfield Scott Schley, who is i'll.
Former Congressman Charles A. Boutelle,
of Bangor, Maine, died Tuesday at the Nc
Lean Asylum, Waverly, Massachusetts.
DIR. William D. Thomas Professor of Psy
chology at Richmond (Virginia) College, died
in Baltimore, Nd, Tuesday of apoplexy.
Gaetano Bresci, the assassin of King Hum
bert, committed suicide Thursday by stranging
in the penitentary of Santo Stefano, Italy.
Weston Rowland, of Fair Haven. Mass,
discoverer of the earliest method of refining
pCiIOICuug oiCd ouhuoy hiSuts aSSN W JNHAi''-
The Baptists of Roadstown, N. j., are
making big preparations for the one hun
dredth anniversary of the church on May 20.
Samuel Craig, of Mantua, N. j., veteran
fence builder, claims that he has, during the
past II years. constructed $500 miles of fence
John NJ. Glover, an ex- Congressman from
the ST. Louis district, met his death in The
floods near Love. Colorado, on Sunday last.
Andrew Carnegie has given to American
cities and towns $29, 070, 052, and to foreign
institutions and libraries 81, 1874, 500, II total
of $40, 964, 552
Dedication ceremonies ofthe Pan American
Exposition were held Tuesday, addresses be
ing made " Vice President Roosevelt and
Senator Lodge.
Franklin county, Pa, has about 40 cases of
smallpox, and Chambersburg is much excited
as tramp, who was placed in the Jail, has
violent case of it.
Henry C. Clair, of New York, aged Go,
died Tuesday at the Cape Charles Hotel, Va.
He at one time was proprietor of the Grand
Union Hotel, Saratoga.
The village of Aurenza, Italy, was partially
destroyed by an avalanche Tuesday. The
number of fatalities is not yet known, but al
ready fifteen corpses have been recovered
All the eight ladies who acted as train
bearers to the Queen on her wedding day, 60
years ago, are still alive. All save one are
married The Lady Victoria Howard is the
one exception.
Three men were swept to death Tuesday by
a rush of water from hitherto unknown pool
in the Silver Brook mine, near Hazleton, Pa.
The water was released by blast that was fired
to loosen coal
About $4,000 machinists throughout the
country struck Tuesday for niue hour day
President O'Connell, of the National Associa-
ton of Machinists, looks forward to an early
adjustment of the trouble.
Rev. DR.. f. B. Webb died at his home at
WELLESLEY, Mass, Tuesday, aged 81 years He
was President of the Trustees of Hartford
Theological Seminary, and prominently iden-
tilted with Mission Boards.
Alexander Edwin Sweet, founder of Texas
Siftings and humorist of national reputation
under the pen names of Colonel Bill Sweet"
and the 'Rev. Whangdoodle, died at New
York on Monday of heart disease.
Five cadets have been dismissed and six.
were suspended from the West Point Military
Academy for characterization. It's intmated
that about 20 others suspected of the same
and if proven they will be dismissed.
General John B. Gordon, Commander-in-
Chief of the United Confederate Veterans,
has appointed Miss Bessie Draper, of Atlanta,
Georgia, as sponsor for the entire South at the
Confederate Veterans reunion, to be held in
Memphis.
According to despatch from st. Peters
burg, engineers have laid before NJ de Witte,
the Russian Minister of Finance, plans for
connecting the Black Sea with the Caspian
Sea by canal $50 versts long and costing
800, O0O, 900 roubles.
About O'Clock on the night of the 17th
instant, during a violent storm, the residence
of Henry Martz, of Hanover, Pa, was struck
by lightning and considerably damaged. Mrs.
Mariz and four children were rendered uncon-
scious for short time.
At Elgin, Illinois, last Wednesday, was held
the annual crow hunt, and resulted in the
slaughter of l,084 crows. Fifty-four hunters
participated and John Delaney brought in
the largest number, killing 163 crows. The
birds are the greatest pest the farmers have TO
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