The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1902-02-01
News OF the Week.

News OF the Week.
Revenue officers have nnearthed '.moon-
shine still in the heart of New York city.
Several attempts have recently been made
to burn the town of Shinneton, Ohio, owing
TO illegal liquor traffic.
VIM. B. Gratz who has been justice of the
peace in Rossville, York county, Pa, Tor %
years, is candidate for denomination.
An epidemic of measles, mumps and chick
en- pox prevails in Red Lion borough, I ork
county, Pa, so that the schools are almost
deserted.
Matthew N. Davis, 20 years old, is under
arrest in jamestown, New York, charged WIN
bigamy. One of his wives, it IS said, IS only
16 and the other Is.
Friday. Saturday and Sunday were disas-
trous ones in several Western States. The
mercury ranged from zero TO rs below. win
high winds and heavy snow.
George II. Danner, of Mannheim, Lancaster
county. the owner of probably the largest pri-
yate museum in Pennsylvania, possesses
German Bible printed in 1862.
This country consumed last year 81, oOO,-
600 gallons of distilled spirits, 30, GOO, 0OO gal
Ions of wine and l ,220, DOC, 600 gallons OF malt
liquors. 1t was only an average year.
maryland Day was celebrated at Chica.
90 last Monday, more than 1,5OO natives q
the State attending the Maryland oocleiy
reception to Admiral Schley at the Palmer
House.
Evidence that smuggling of Chinese has
been carried on within the past few months
has been found on Santa Cruz and ore OF the
other islands of the Santa Barbara Channel,
California.
England's oldest physician, DIR. j. W. Ed
gar. died recently at Monkseaton, at the age
oe 40 wears. He had two brothers, also doc
Tors. who died at "a and SO, and third doc
tor brother cut off at 80.
Charles A. Reno, who is said to have been
the first retail coal dealer in Chicago, is dead
at his home in that city. He was "a years
old. He became Police Commissioner in
1879. and held the office until it was abolished.
Charles D. Norris, of Ithaca, New York,
has pleaded guilty to the THEFT OF SoO,uoo
worth of bonds and other valuables from the
trunks of a theatrical company in October
Norris was railroad employe, and had ac-
cess to the baggage cars
According to statistics collected by the
Census Bureau, the gross value OF the pro-
ducts of manufacture in the United States IN
1900 was $13, DOB, 127, 682, as compared with
$9,372, 637, 2s2 in 1890, an increase OF 90. 10
per cent.
Mrs, Addie Richardson was on Saturday
acquitted at Plattsburg, Mo-, OF the charge OF
numbering her husband. Frank w. Richard
son, wealthy merchant, who was shot Christ
mas eve, 1900, as he was entering his nome
in Savannah, Mo.
Col. NJ. T. Herrick, treasurer OF the Nc
Kinley National Memorial Fund, states that
the fund is receiving practically no contn-
buttons from men of wealth, or those at the
head of great corporations. The greater part
of the moaey received comes from the work
ing people.
James L. Milard an itinerant clock mend
err, of Wiliamsport, Pa, was nursed
through desperate illness at Gordonyllle,
went to York, Pa, last week and were mar
ried by Alderman linn. The groom is "
and the bride rs.
kilograms from Athens report that St. Paul
Monastery on Mount Athos were burned
Thursday night of last week. The Prior and
nine monks persisted, and 20 were seriously
injured. The occupants of the monastery
were sleeping when the fire broke out. The
monastery was damaged to the extent OF
$4O0, 900.
The oldest living triplets, of the same sex,
in the United States, are Mesdames Mary
Fossett and Sarah Fossett, of North Union,
Maine, and Martha Hagar, of Somerville,
Mass. aged 81 years. They were born in
Knox county. Maine Their mother gave
birth to 13 children, and she lived to be so
years old
Many Adams county (Pa.) farmers have
been swindled out of considerable amounts by
a sharper who passed as a doctor. and who
registered al a Lttlestown hotel as DIR. r. j
Jones. His story interested the afflicted, and
some farmers paid $50 gladly for quarts OF
colored water and harmless drugs. Frequent
ly farmers demanded guarantees, which were
cheerfulIy given. Some of the patients pro-
fessed great benefit, but last week the magma
ton began to lag and the deception was re-
vealed.
The East Coast Milling Company, recently
incorporated at Trenton, N. j., with capital
of $9,000,000, has acquired control OF the
Eastern Milling and Export Company and the
Atlantic Flour Mills Company. The new
corporation will operate the u plants of the
Eastern Milling and Export Company in con-
nection with new mill, having daily ca
pacity of 5000 barrels, now being erected on
the Delaware river front at Philadelphia, Pa.
The total capacity of the combined companies
will be about Is, 900 barrels daily.
Henry R. Seitz, of Glen Rock, Pa, until
recently an employee at the York Carriage
Works, was instantly killed, near Lancaster,
by an express train on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road late Saturday night and his companion,
William j. Finfrock, was also slightly injured.
They were on their way to Philadelphia to
secure work. The men were walking on the
track. Finfrock is the brother of Miss Mary
Finfrock, the young lady who, last summer,
was drowned on Lake Roger, at Pen Mar, by
being thrown from boat which was over
turned by one of its occupants.
The entire section of Park avenue, New
York city, near the Grand Union Station, was
shaken, last Monday, as if by an earthquake
by an explosion in the Rapid Transit tunnel
Park avenue and East Forty first, street. j.
Roderick Robertson, wealthy British Column
bia mine owner, was killed in his hotel room.
Six persons were killed and more than 100
injured. The Murray Hill Hotel was wrecked,
and the Grand Union railroad station, the
Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, the Grand
Union Hotel and many other buildings were
seriously damaged All the windows for
many blocks were shattered. The clocks in
the Union Depot were blown from their cases
and all the windows in the building shattered.
The property damage is estimated at over
$1,000 900.