The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-09-07
News of the Week.

York, Pa, has an epidemic of typhoid
fever.
Plow manufacturers have decided upon an
advance of 10 per cent. in prices, due to the
steel strike.
To maintain the public schools of the coun-
try costs every man, woman and child little
more than So.
Last year this country used $4,000, 600
pounds of coffee and four and a half billion
pounds Of sugar.
A dispatch from Grand Rapids, Wisconsin.
says the pickle crop will be short, and that
prices will be advanced rs per cent.
The gold production of Cripple Creek, Col
orado, during August was 81, 558,OOO, the
greatest single months record in its history.
Jalius Van Steen, employed as cashier at
the Pfster & Vogel Tannery, at Milwaukee,
has been arrested on charge of embezzlng
$4,000.
During the year closing June 80, last, the
home consumption of petroleum was $780,
000 600 gallons; the exports were 1,O8l, OO0,-
600 gallons.
Twenty-Five bodies have been recovered
from the steamer City of Trenton, which ex-
ploded Wednesday of last week, near Phiia :
delphia, Pa.
Margaret West, aged % years, died near
Waynesboro, Pa, Sunday night. She was a
dwarf, only SO inches tall, had perfect figure
and was very intelligent
Gasoline and naptha stoves and engines are
getting in their work of death all over the
country. Nearly every day the papers con
tain several fatal accidents.
Colonel w. c. p Breckenridge, former
member of Congress, has accepted a PROBES,
sorship in the Law Department of Central
University, at Danville, Kentucky.
The towns of Riverhead and Southold,
Long Island, N. Y, had Is, 900 acres in pota-
toes this season, which yielded l,875,000
bushels They were sold at from go cents to
81 per bushel,
1t is said that automobiles have so cheap
ened the cost of harvesting grain in the i'm
mense California fields that wheat can be
raised there at less actual cost than in the Ar
gentine Republic.
Near Albany, N. Y, last Sunday afternoon,
Wilbur Alexander took his wife, son and
daughter sailing in a naphtha launch. The
can of naphtha exploded, causing the death
of the woman and daughter, and severely
burning the man and boy.
The Galveston News places the Texas cot
ton crop for the season just closed at 8 sos, 2o6
bales, an increase OF ,O6o,6l bales over the
previous year. Galveston cotton receipts for
the season were 2,177,9S bales, an increase
of 467, 720 bales over the previous season.
On the Both ultimo, at Nyack, Montana, Al
Scandinavians were killed by the breaking in
too of freight train on the steep grade of a
Rocky Mountain foothill. The rear end of
the freight tore loose from the head enc, dashed
backward down the mountain and crashed into
rear end of the passenger train which was just
pulling out of the station at Nyack. The car
attached to the rear end of the passenger was
the private coach of Superintendent Downs
He and his son and their cook, Henry Blair,
were instantly killed. Several passenger cars
were burned, but all the occupants escaped.
At York, Pa, August 81, a verdict of not
guilty was returned in the case of John Myers,
of Hanover, who was on trial charged with
arson. Last summer series of fires, aggre-
eating loss of 1000, occurred in Han
over. detective. who was employed to fer
ret out the author of the fires, caused Myers s
| arrest. When the case was on trial very little
evidence against Myers was produced. The
testimony showing how Myers was ''sweated'
for the purpose of extorting confession was
startling and made such an impression on the
jury that an acquittal was predicted on all
sides.