The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1902-10-04
! News Of the week.

the head OF syndicate buying up Cailfor-
MIA oilfelds.
Chin Sing, Chinese laundryman Of
New York city, is suffering from an adj
vance stage Of leprosy.
Queen Maria Christina, the mother Of
King Alfonso of Spain, has married her
master of the horse, Count de la Escosura.
A Darien woman has been an inmate Of
the Connecticut Hospital for the Insane for
over forty years, and has cost the taxpayers
$4,000.
Minneapolis millers have replied to the
demand of their employees, refusing to grant
an eight hour day, but offering an eight
hour day with wage scale based on work
by the hour.
Adoiph Bethlehem, former banker of
Vienna, Austria, who absconded with about
$3.50, 600, is now an inmate of the aims
house in New York, having been swindled
out Of his money.
Samuel Erizan, an Armenian barber,
of Salem, Mass, has been arrested for for
chilly OBTAINING Mrs Charles Weir, whose
husband had skipped his bond, Erizan
having been his bondsman.
Charles Clifton, has been arrested in
Newport News, Va, ON the charge Of
burglary in Hagerstown, Nd, from which
place he had taken Miss Jennie Fox, with
whom he lived as his wife.
The st. Louis grand jury investigating
the alleged bribery in the House Of Dele
gates found that two checks aggregating
S47, 800 were cashed by a politician on
the same day the ten year lighting bill was
passed.
Clark Gibson, the negro who confessed
to the murder of Mrs. Carrie Whitfield,
was burned at the stake at Corinth, Miss,
last Saturday. He also confessed to seven
other assaults, murders and thefts.
Several steamers and japanese battle
ship were driven ashore in typhoon that
swept over Yokohama last Monday. Five
hundred persons are reported to have been
drowned by tidal wave.
The second cyclone that swept over the
Island Of Stella Sunday added to the great
loss Of life by the first storm Several
ships were wrecked. The bodies of 600
persons are awaiting burial.
A young man giving the name of Her.
bert L. Jenkins, of Winthrop, Mass, has
given himself up to the jackson, Mich,
police. He says that he stole 500 or
$500 from his employer, Joseph Middley,
Jr., Boston baker
a second operation was performed upon
President Roosevelt injured leg last Sun
day morning. His temperature had risen
and a swelling indicated the formation of
more pus. The bone was found to be af-
fected.
A negro shot and wounded j. Ell. Baber,
amotorman, in Richmond, Va, last Satur
day, and when lot of carman started to
lynch the negro crowd of his friends came
to his rescue and riot followed A num-
Der Of men were hurt and a policeman in
jured.
Pension Commissioner Wares annual
report shows that it has cost So, 992, 500,
OLE for pensions since the establishment of
the Government The bureau is catching
up with its work, having handled more
applications than were fled last year.
r. Bannister Mitchell, young man of
Stony Creek, Va, eloped with Miss Mabel
Lee, of the same place, ostensibly to be
married. When about rs miles from their
home Mitchell shot his sweetheart to death
and then killed himself with the same
weapon. Their bodies were found lying
together on buggy robe.
Emile lola, the noted French novelist,
was found dead in his bedroom in Paris,
last Monday. Asphyxiation from the fumes
from defective stove is given as the cause
of death. Reported evidences of suicide
not substantiated by Nine. Zola, who was
also nearly suffocated There is differ
ence Of opinion, however, as to the cause
of death.
The seasons are all upside down, and if
we are to have the usual average tempera
ture for the year there must be warm
weather sometime in December. This APP
plies to Europe as well as to this country,
for the women of Paris were wearing furs
in August, and in Italy at the same time
the thermometer marked only As degrees
above zero.
During the registration of voters in
Northumberland county, Va, last week,
many negroes were refused registration
because they could not comply with the
law Since then they have formed in sew
eral parts of the county societies whose
members are required to sign pledge to
do all in their power against the white
people The women are not allowed to
hire themselves out. The society holds
nightly meetings at the house of some one
of its members The feeling among the
negroes against the white people is very
bitter, and they are continually threaten
ing all kinds of vengeance.
Edward Short was given cowhiding
and almost killed by Abram Lilly, near
Brumley Gap, Washington county, Va,
on the night Of September 20. Short has
made habit of disturbing religious SER
vices at that place and trying to trouble
those taking part in church worship. This
had occurred for several Sundays, and after
prayer meeting, Lilly, that night, who is
a prominent citizen of that community,
chided Short for his acts The latter
didn't like the scolding and cursed Lilly.
The latter went to his buggy, got large
rawhide whip and beat Short on the head,
face and body.
Southern and Eastern Texas was visited
last week by terrific rainfall which did
great damage to the open cotton, washed
away innumerable small and many big
bridges, drowned cattle and caused other
destruction. The small streams are re-
ported out Of their banks, in every direc-
ton, and the railroads have suffered heavy
damage to their tracks and bridges. The
loss to cotton cannot be estimated because
of the large area affected. Picking has
made no progress for some days, but all
that was not removed from the bolls was
total loss, being beaten into the ground.
The rain has thoroughly relieved the long
existing drought in the cattle country along
the lower coast.
Wholesale robbery of graves in the GEM