The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-05-18
News of the Week.

Judge Davis, in Cincinnati, divorced
Mr.. and Mrs William HI. Bernard and
allowed the husband 81 year alimony.
After courtship of q years Howard
Wehler and Miss Susan Ruth, of Paradise
township, York county, Pa, were mar
ried May 9Th.
A Florence, Ariz., dispatch says that
the ella river, on the Sacaton Reservation,
has gone dry, and no grain will be harv-
ested by the Indians. Great restitution
will ensue.
Paul Goodwin, in Philadelphia, con-
fessed that he was concerned in the rob-
berry of the priest Riegel, and told Of the
drugging of the priest by Wynne, one of
the defendants.
The last pine grove in Allegany county,
N. Y, consisting of 400 trees, has just
been seld to lumberman for $500. Some
of the trees are five feet in diamter and
300 years old.
Delray, suburb of Detroit, was swept
by fire Sunday afternoon during 30 mile
gale. Over 100, 900 cedar telephone
poles were burned The property loss is
nearly $1,000, 900.
A trolley car, on which were lis per-
sons was wrecked in descending steep
hill at Fort Lee, New Jersey, Sunday, and
nearly all of the people We're injured.
The conductor will die.
Over 700 persons submitted to vaccina-
ton at Sitka, where there are over eighty
cases of smallpox. Four deaths have been
reported There were twenty cases at
Killisoo, and six deaths occurred
McSherrystown, Pa, has Catholic
Church that will cost $50, 600 when fin
ished, SIS, 600 of which was given by the
Stormbaugh family. The church is 78x
1853 feet with tower 1O8 feet high.
Franklin j. Klinedinst, well-known
young man Of York, county, Pa, who
died Wednesday of last week, was a victim
of excessive cigarette smoking Klinedinst
often consumed from 100 to 200 cigar
cites day.
The First Methodist Church at Cleve-
land, Ohio, was sold Saturday to Charles
L. Peck for $500, 900. With this money
the church people will erect an institu
tional church at the corner of Euclid ave-
nue. and Huntington street.
Hundreds of horses which have been
running wild during the last few years on
the plains between Lillooet and Caiboo and
Okanogan, British Columbia, are being
captured to be sold to the British Govern
ment for use in South Africa.
Samuel Flower, paying teller of the Hi
hernia National Bank, at New Orleans,
was arrested by United States Marshal,
charged with a shortage of $50, 600. He
was released on bond of So, 900 Flow
or bond to the bank was for S25, 900.
President o. Connell, of the International
Association of Machinists, says there will
be a general strike, involving directly $50, :
900 men and indirectly 500, 600 men, in
the metal working trades about May 20,
A farmer near Wheeling, West Va.
saw in paper that there was a boom in
Northern Pacific stock last week. He
said to his sister 81 believe that old truck
in the trunk is Northern Pacific stock, and
L Il take it town and sell it. He did SO
and for his 100 shares was paid $14, 300.
There are others throughout the country
who have the same kind of ''truck laid
away, believing it be worthless.
For confessed attempt to dispose of
Government records which he thought
might be of value to counsel for Charles
W. F. Nicely, the Cuban postal defaulter,
William D. Williams, of Minersville, Pa.
confidential clerk to Colonel w. A. Ed
wards, chief of the Insular Division of the
War Department last Saturday, was dis
missed from the service of the Government.
Williams betrayal of his trust consisted in
attempting to sell for 5000 and the ex-
penses of trip to New York certain cor
respondence relating to the Nicely case, to
Judge Lindsay, one of Neely's New York
attorneys. Williams wrote Lindsay under
the name of John B. Dickinson, that he
had this correspondence, which had passed
between the War Department and the De-
partment of Justice, and which he thought
would be of value to Nicely in his forth
coming trial in Cuba The papers offered
for sale are said to have contained an opin-
ion on the case written by Assistant At
torney General Beck.