The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1902-07-05
News of the Week.

Snowstorms and hail have ruined all the
crops in many parts of France.
All the New Jersey glass factories have
closed for the summer.
Gambling places in Atlantic City are being
raided by the police.
What is known as the fruit trust handles
$4,000, 900 lunches of bananas and 22O 900,
600 cocoanuts a year. besides oranges and
other fruits.
The corporation business transacted by New
Jersey during the month Of June enriched the
State to the extent of $33, 567 62 this being the
amount of filing fees paid by corporations.
In Laredo, Texas, June 20, was recorded
as the hottest day ever known there, with one
exception, the mercury reaching 1110 in the
shade and remained so for several hours.
The real estate in Cook county, Illinois,
including all the realty in Chicago, is valued
at 1852, 1874, $50 for taxation purposes. This
assessment is an increase of So, 657, 21S from
the previous year.
Twenty-Five young men from the Andover,
Mass. Preparatory School have been de-
barred from Princeton University because of
the unsatisfactory methods they pursued in
their examinations.
Conservative estimates place the damage by
the recent rains, floods, tornadoes and cy
clones in the West at over S7,00O;600. In
many places small grain was beaten into the
ground and will be total loss.
Mrs. Emma Carmichael Powell, better
known as Blanche Moulton, shot and instant
ly killed her husband, John H. Powell, at
their home, in Cleveland, on Sunday. Jeal-
ousy is said to have been the cause.
John D. Blood, prominent manufacturer
of Amsterdam, New York, died June 80, aged
II. For years he owned the largest broom
factory in the United States, which, in 1895,
he sold to the American Broom Company,
Joseph Geracchi, one of the Italians who
attacked Antonio Luciano's barrcaded home
in New Orleans on the night of June II, died
last Sunday night of wounds received i'll the
conflict. His made the fourth death growing
out of the raid
Two thousand employees on the Canadian
Northern Railway system, in Manitoba, are on
strike because of the refusal of the manage,
ment to consider schedules of wages presented
BY shopmen of the United Brotherhood of
Railway Employees.
Alexander A. Robertson, member Of the
Salt Lake City Council and paying teller in
the Wells Fargo Bank, who disappeared on
Saturday, and whose accounts at the bank
showed a shortgage of between $85, 600 and
$50, 900, has given himself up to the police.
For the fiscal year ended June 80, 1902,
the total receipts ofthe United States amount
ed to $3.50, 405. 1877, as against $587, 685, 337
for the fiscal year ended June 80, 1901.
The total expenditures for the year were SAIL
2O9, CAL as against 5000, 967, 1858, for the prev
ious fiscal year. The surplus for the year just
closed is 800, 1a6, 900
The grand Jury at Buffalo has reported
indictments for forgery against Joseph Kelly
and Morris McDermott, charged with altering
andselling York Central Railroad tickets.
They are accused of having sold about thirty
tickets originally printed from Buffalo to
Batavia" SO changed that they read from
Buffalo to New York"
The United States maintains over 1900 light
houses, "A light vessels, l72 steam or hot air
fog signals, 22l signals run by clockwork, AIS
day or unlghted beacons, 70 whisting buoys,
l20 bell buoys and 400 post lights on West.
ern rivers. There are over 10000 nautical
miles of ocean, gulf, bay, sound, lake and
river shores that are lighted, not counting the
Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri rivers. The
cost of lighting and buoying the United States
coast is said to be about 81, 500, 900 annually,
or $3.50 nautical mile.
Dr. Thomas j. Tiffany, we'll known phys
ician, of Binghampton, NY. has been senten
ced to Auburn State prison for hiring William
Carter, halt: breed Indian, to murder Charles
Carman that Tiffany might marry Carman's
wife, Tiffany promised to pay Carter $22,
bought the revolver and showed him where
to shoot to make fatal wound, but when
Carter shot Carman he failed to kill him.
Then Carter made confession, which was
corroborated and convicted Tiffany. Judge
Pearsons sentenced Tiffany to four years and
six months at hard labor in Auburn, and fined
him $1,000, to remain an additional 1000
days fthe fine is not paid. Tiffany is penniless,
and will have to serve his full time, which
brings the sentence up to the punishment for
assault in the first degree.