The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1902-02-15
News OF the Week.

Japan now possesses the heaviest ma nnest
battlesifip afoat, the Mikasa, of $4,000 tons
displacement.
Family differences caused Heater Turner
and his brother James to kill each other, at
Alexander, Ky.
Tacoma, Wash, is 1909 miles from New
York by the shortest route, and it takes III
hours to get there
of &c. 1863 persons treated since 1886 at the
Pasteur Institute, in Paris, after being bitten
by mad dogs, only 1875 have died.
The F. Muhlhauser Company, manufaetur-
ers of cloths, of Cleveland, Ohio, has assigned;
liabilities, $275, 900. The firm has capitali-
cation of 5000, 900.
It is reported from Chicago that the Mills
Brothers, who operated peanut corner last
year with success, now have a corner IN PINE
apples, involving $1,000, 600.
William Roberts, railway postal clerk, has
been sentenced in the United States Court at
Trenton, N. j., to ~ years for obtaining
money on bogus money orders.
DIR. Mark L. Herr, aged 81, formerly an
army surgeon, physician and business man
of local prominence, died Saturday in Lam
caster, Pa, last Sunday, from paralysis.
Harrisburg, Pa, puts all tramps to work
fo- week on the streets and feeds them on
bread and water At Columbia and York all
tramps are to be arrested and vaccinated.
Rev. NJ. Snyder, one of the oldest Lutheran
preachers in the West Pennsylvania synod,
died at his home in Arendtsville, Adams
county, in the 84th year of her age, last week.
DIR. Henry Corson, aged 108, native of
Camden, New Jersey, who had practiced
medicine rs years in Susquehanna county, ia.
was buried last Sunday at Thompson, that
county.
In Brooklyn, N. Y, the Shadbolt Manu-
featuring Company works were burned Sun
day. Loss $3.50, 900; insured. Fourteen per-
sons were injured and Is horses roasted IN an
adjoining building.
| A dispatch from David City, Nebraska,
says that forged paper sold by the defunct
Platte Valley Bank, of Bellwood has already
reached an aggregate of $150,000, and it may
largely exceed this.
Because she was about to secure divorce
from him, John Kay, employed in a flour mill
at Topeka, Kansas, on the 9Th instant beat
his wife to death with fatiron, and then at
tempted to hang himself.
A dispatch from Ell Paso, Texas, says that
tract of timber land containing 50O,OO0
acres, and situated in the State of Chihuahua,
Mexico, has been sold to the Development
Company of America for 81, 000, 600 in gold.
William q. Kelley. an attorney of Warren,
Massachusetts, has been disbarred from prac-
tice, and sentenced to eighteen months IN the
House of Correction on conviction OF larceny
of $1,000 from the estate of John w. Downey,
of Warren.
The viceroy of India, telegraphs that the
famine outlook is very serious. No rain has
fallen, and the plague of rats in Gujerat. Ray
pootana and Central India is assisting IN the
destruction of the crops. The relief works
are being rapidly extended.
Edwin F. Walker, formerly paymaster at
the Mason Machine Works, at Taunton,
Massachusetts, has been arrested and held IN
$500 bonds for hearing on charges OF lar
ceny and embezzlement. He had previously
been arrested on the charge OF stealing So6oI.
Eleven lives were lost and about 20 persons
more or less injured by the burning OF the
Empire Hotel, in St. Louis, on last Sunday:
Some of the victims were burned to death and
others were killed or injured by leaping from
windows The loss to the building is about
| 10000.
Safe blowers forced the vaults of the Lemon
Banking Company, at Acworth, Georgia, ear
| " last Sunday morning, securing $4,000 in
gold, $4,000 Georgia State bond and large
amount of stock certificates. Between $4,000
| and $4,000 in notes, stock certificates and
bonds were hopelessly mutilated by the ex-
| plosion.
Near Pittsburg Pa, Monday, one stock
| dealer was killed, one badly hurt and several
hundred head of cattle crushed to death in a
| collision of trains on the Fort Wayne Rail-
road. The drovers were in the caboose.
| Maurice Burd, of Creston, Ia, was dead when
recovered II. J. Hardabout, of Greene
field, Ia, may die.
Another famine like that which Mortified
the world two years ago is impending in In
! dia, and in the same region that was devas-
tated then. The 81 Zoo, 600, 900 sacrificed to
/ make another desert in South Africa would
have put this vast region beyond the reach OF
| famine; but that would have been considered
an impossible expenditure.
The largest man and woman in the United
| States, if not in the world, will be married in
| Montana within the next few weeks. The
| contracting parties will be Miss Ella Murray,
of Missouri, ST. inch tall and weighing some
thing over 400 pounds, and Edward Beaupre,
ssThe Montana Cowboy" who tips the scales
at 367 pounds and is feet tall.
| TIE United States Coal Company has been
| incorporated at Columbus, o., and with capt.
tai of So, O00, 900 will develop tract of 49,
| 600 acres coal land in Jefferson county. tits
the intention to ship this coal to the North
west by water. The company will probably
! extend the Lake Erie, Alliance and Wheel
ing Railroad to Willoughby, Ohio. and there
construct big dock.
| Vice president Frank G.. Andrews, of the
City Savings Bank of Detroit, Michigan, has
been arrested, charged with wilfully and
| fraudulently securing from the bank a sum
exceeding $1,000. 1t has been discovered
| that Henry G. Andrews, the cashier, had per-
mitted F. G. Andrews to overdraw his ac-
count 1914, 900. With other Indebtedness to
the bank, his liabilities amounts to 81, l5S, 0OO
The town of Bunsnuir, Sskyou county,
| California, experienced cloudburst Sunday
night that wrecked six houses and delayed
railroad traffic many hours. No fatalities
were reported, as by almost miracle the &C.
cupants escaped injury. The food carried
| immense tree trunks and boulders with 1t,
and deposited some of the debris on the
Southern Pacific Railroad track, which par
allels the Sacramento River at that point.
Shock over the discovery that her husband
lay dead by her side brought back the power
| of speech to Mrs. Josephine Packer, of Allie
gheny, Pa, last Tuesday. Mrs. Packer six
months ago was attacked by paralysis of the
| throat. She could not utter a sound. Upon
| awakening IN the morning She made the u.s.
covery that her husband, Joseph Packer, SO
| years old, was corpse. The woman swooned,
and on recovering, her voice was full and
strong
The Hindoo twins, Radica and Dordina, who
were united in manner similar to the Siamese
twins, who were exhibited throughout the
world, were separated last Sunday afternoon
! by Doctor Doyon, of Paris, France. The
operation lasted 20 minutes and was entirely
successful; but, owing to the weakened con-
dition of the patients, due to the illness of one
of the twins, wac has been suffering from
thrush, the final result of the operation is still
doubtful.
A dispatch from Cory, Pa, on the 9th in
slant says: All travel was abandoned be-
tween Oil City and Brocton, on the Chautau.
qua division of the Pennsylvania Railroad to.
day. The blizzard is the worst in this sec.
tons history. A train lay all night in snow
drift at Summit, and this morning food was
carried to the imprisoned passengers. Through
trains from Brocton to Ashtabula will be run
via the Lake Shore. The Dunkirk division
of the Erie, also the Dunkirk, Allegheny Val
ley and Pittsburg Division of the Lake Shore,
are blocked, and no trains moving. On the
| r IT, &c al