The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1902-11-29
News Of the week,
Land sells in New York city from So to
$3.50 per square foot.


Land sells in New York city from SO to
$3.50 per square foot.
Five carloads of live turkeys were
shipped from Tazewell, Virginia, last Sat
urday, to New York.
The mistake of drug clerk in selling
the wrong medicine caused the death of
woman and child in New York.
A Reading Railway official says his COM
pany is shipping coal to the West in box
cars, in order to prevent its being stolen.
Cars are very scarce.
Commander Niblack declares that our
navy needs thorough overhauling in the
Ordnance Department, many of the cruisers
being little better than junk.
1t is estimated that the advance in freight
rates being made by the various railroads
will result in an aggregate increase of about
$40, 900, 900 in revenue over and above
the increase in wages.
Friedrich Alfred Krupp, the great gun
maker, died suddenly at Essen, Germany,
November %, and it is reported that he
committed sricide, though his physicians
deny it and say he died from apoplexy.
Il is estimated that during the "a hours
ending at 5 o. clock Monday morning 929
trains, consisting of 46, 225 cars, were
moved in and out of Pittsburg, thus re-
lieving the freight congestion at that point.
Last week Kasmar Palcar, of Chicago,
coughed up live lizard 10 inches long,
which had been in his stomach for years.
Albert jenkins, a fellow -employe, captured
and bottled it. Now Palcar, who values
the reptile at $500, has brought suit for
its recovery.
In Platte and vicinity, West Virginia,
an epidemic exists among the cattle. Cat
tie are dying in large numbers and all at
tempts to stop the ravages of the epidemic
have thus far proved futile. 1t is not
known exactly what the epidemic is, but
some are of the opinion that it is bloody
murian.
Rvland Martin, son of one of the wealth
lest farmers in lower Hanover, Virginia,
has been arrested on charge of forging
the names of George w. and Mrs. M. f..
Marlborough to an application for marriage
license. He was engaged to Mr.. Var
borough eldest daughter, but eloped with
her sister, Mollie, Is years old, to whom
he was married:
III: NJ II ,raStbnnnd an tho Rock
Island road, the regular st. Joseph and
Kansas City express, was held up at II 30
D. m. near Davenport, Iowa. Nov. %, by
masked bandits, who cut off the express
and baggage cars, forced the engineer to
run two miles up the track, blew up the
through express safe with dynamite and
escaped with their booty. Some say the
robbers secured $50, 900, but Davenport
officers of the company insist there was but
$500 in the safe.
Gov. Durbin, of Indiana, on the 2lst
instant, notified Sheriff Dudley, of Sullivan
county, that his Office was vacant, and the
Coroner becomes Sheriff ex-oficio. The
Indiana law provides that Sheriff shall
vacate his office when prisoner in his
charge is lynched, and the lynching of the
negro billiard on the 10th brought Dudley
under its provisions. The Sheriff has the
right under the law to ask to be reinstated,
but he must show that he was powerless to
protect his prisoner.
At Ashland, Wisconsin, last Saturday,
the Wisconsin Central Railroad ore dock
burned, causing loss of 1925. 900 In
falling, the dock carried with it number
of firemen and dockmen and several lives
were lost. Several badly injured fremen
were rescued from the burning ruins, one
of them with both legs fractured The
fire caught about clock, presumably
from boat unloading lumber across the
slip. Before the fremen arrived the entire
ore dock, half mile long, was in flames.
The attorneys for the coal companies
state they are confident a satisfactory agree
ment will be reached. The commission
has adjourned until December 3. 1t is
feared that the miners will stand out for
contracts with the United Mineworkers'
Union. 1t is said that the operators had
an inkling that Mitchell, the president OF
the miners union, had some very damaging
data which the operators did not want made
public, therefore cessation of taking tes-
timony and an effort to settle.