The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1902-04-19
OIL. XXXVII.--NO. 26.
News of the Week.

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Mrs. Hannah Barton died at New
Brunswick, N. j., ON Sunday, aged LOG
years.
General Wade Hampton died April II,
in Columbia, South Carolina, aged "a
years.
Two wholesale milk dealers of New York
city were fined $500 and 5000 each for
adulterating milk.
A dust storm that obscured the sun and
did considerable damage swept Southern
Minnesota Saturday.
A combination of the leading hardware
jobbing houses in the country has been ef-
fected, with capital of $12O, 900, 900.
Masked negroes murdered Alfred j.
Jones, a wealthy farmer, near Uniontown,
Pa, Saturday night, and looted his house.
Seventeen fires of apparent incendiary
origin, most of them starting about the
same time, occurred April 11-12, in South
Chicago.
Major John W. Green, Confederate
veteran, and at one time Genefll Manager
of the Georgia Railroad, died at Atlanta,
April IL.
W. E. Koch, York (Pa.) jeweler,
found SIS, 600 worth of bonds, notes and
cash in an old chest that had been living
in the garrett
Rev. I. De Witt Talmage, the noted
Presbyterian minister, died at 9 O clock
p. m., April II, at his residence in Wash
ington, D. G.
James Fl. Carson, of Plainfeld, N. j.,
has been arrested on charge, preferred
by his wife, of putting powdered glass in
her cup of coffee
John Wesley Elkins, who has been in
the Iowa Penitentiary for murder since he
was years old, was released after 2 years
illegal imprisonment.
Philip Haus, 5-year-old pupil at the
Manual Training High School in Louisville,
KY, has been arrested on the charge of
making counterfeit nickels
A receiver has been appointed for the
New England Gas and Coke Company, of
Boston. The company's business showed
deficit of 500, 900 last year.
Arrangements have been completed in
New York for the organization of corpor-
alton with capital of $500, 600, 600 to
compete with the United States Steel Com
pany.
William Vaughn has been arrested in
Cleveland, O., on suspicion of having
brutally murdered his step-mother, Mrs.
Vaughn, and her mother, Mrs. Martha j.
Calhoun.
The cholera situation in the Luzon
provinces is said to be becoming alarming.
There have been Al s cases and 318 deaths
In Manila there have been 245 cases and
1872 deaths.
Edward w Kappele, well know life
insurance agent of Buffalo, is under ARE It at
Niagara Falls, accused of obtaining about
$4,000 by false representations from George
f. Green, a farmer of Niagara county
Mrs james MCGOWAN, aged %, of
fuckers Corners, Ulster county, n Y,
on Sunday gave birth to FIVE children, all
girls, and they all are doing we'll Mrs
McGowan's other children are son and
pair of twins.
Several more members of the St. Louis
city council have been arrested and indict-
ed by the grand jury for accepting bribes
for franchises. ranging from s5 to $780,
900, 1t is to be hoped they will receive
the severest punishment.
Elizabeth Hildebrand, relict of the late
Christian Hildebrand, died in York, Pa,
April IA, in her Tooth year. One son
and one daughter survive. She lived all
her life in York, with the exception of
few years spent in Baltimore, Nd.
At Gettysburg, Pa, 5 shares of the
First National Bank sold at $3.50, and 5
at S237 so per share, par 500 IA shares
of the Gettysburg National sold at from
s1Os to s110. so, par $50; 36 shares of
the Water Company sold at from S29 to
S29 25, par SIS.
A violent thunderstorm accompanied by
torrential rain, broke over Berlin, Germany,
and its vicinity early Monday morning,
causing great damage. Many buildings
were struck by lightning. The fire brigade
was summoned to upwards of 300 places to
extinguish fires and cope with floods.
Last Saturday the body of Mrs. Elmer
Collins, of Laurel, Del, was found in a
stable, with the head crushed, face beaten
and the body bruised by kicks. The
pocket of her frock was torn out and $50,
which her husband had given her, was miss
ing, indicating robbery. After the funeral
on Monday her husband was arrested and
charged with the murder.
Near New Castle, Pa, last Saturday,
Calvin Robinson, employed on a steam
limestone crusher, while standing on the
edge of the hopper, slipped and fell into
the crusher, and before his fellow workmen
could stop the machinery the greater part
of his body was drawn through the ma
chinery and ground up in the limestone.
The part remaining was his head and a
small portion of the trunk. He was 21