The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1902-05-31
DERR & LAMBERD.
News of the Week.

James Rudolph, aged "a years, died at Al
loway, N. j., last week.
Strikes in almost every branch of trade pre-
vail throughout the country.
Almost simultaneously with the latest earth
quake disturbances in Central America the
Texas oil wells ceased to flow.
AT Rutherford, N. j., last Sunday, a gang
of 'moonshinersh were arrested. Their still
had 600 gallon capacity daily.
Two hundred and four bodies have been
taken from the mine at Fraterville, Tennes-
see, and twenty or twenty two are still missing.
A Chicago despatch says that consolida-
ton of the III coal mines in Indiana, with an
output of {, ,000 600 tons, will be effected within
month.
Another torrent of mud and lava was belched
day, and swept away what was left of the town
of Basse Pointe.
Lord Pauncefote, the British ambassador
and dean of the diplomatic corps in Washing
ton, died rather Unexpectedly at the British
Embassy, last Saturday.
The biggest raft ever sent down the Missis-
sippi is on its way to ST. Louis. 1t contains
Ii 1000, 600 feet of logs, and requires two pow
Aui StCatuCt5 w 10.
The number of lynchings in the United
States has apparently been decreasing of late
years. In 1892 there were 235 lynchings; in
1898. more than 200; in 1898, about 1875; in
1899, about 105; in 1900, 115; in 1901, 1856.
Brigham Young had ffty-six children, of
whom forty-seven survived him. There are
81 grandchildren of the Mormon leader and
745 great grandchildren, making a total of
more than 1000 descendants of a man who has
died since the Civil War.
Sheriff Pearson, of Portland, Me-, the
clergyman who was elected as a joke, says
that when be entered upon his labors there
were 27l open saloons in the city, and that
now he'll give any one 500 who can show
him one open in the county.
Curious phenomena have been observed at
Pedroso, near Oporto, Portugal, which are
supposed TO be connected with the volcanic
eruptions in the West Indies. Fissures in the
earth there emitted FIRE and smoke, simultan
eously there came tornado.
Dead sheep by the thousands are piled up
in heaps on the plains of Uintah county and
on the Utah farms which skirt the Wyoming
line. a snowstorm which had been raging
for two days has killed fully 100000
lambs and ewes that are valued at 81 500, 600.
H. II. Mateson, formerly cashier of the First
National Bank, of Great Falls, Montana, has
beed indicted on ninety counts, on the charge
of embezzling S19S, 900 of the banks funds.
The testimony before the Grand Jury dis
closed the fact that Mateson was at one time
$238, 200 short.
Last Monday 35 cars filed with strawberries
were shipped from Bridgeyile Del, and on
Wednesday As cars. Each car contains from
500 10 800 crates, aud each crate has GO quarts.
John Vendenburg, the well-known grower,
shipped many so large that it required only
II berries to fill the quart cup.
Patrick William Carey and his four sons,
of San Jose, CAL, measure among them 81
feet 8 inches of stature, the talest aud shortest
being two sons, who stand 6 feet 81 and feet
21 inches, respectively. The father IS feet
4. Their combined weight is 1866 pounds,
and all are stout and strong in proportion to
their height.
The outbreak of smallpox in the United
States. which has made itself to some extent
felt in Canada, is attributed to the presence
of so many American soldiers in the Philip
pines and Porto Rico, and the consequent
traffic that has grown up between those eoun-
tries and the Republic The receipt of letters,
curios aud various articles from these infected
Islands brought smallpox to the United States.