The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1902-10-11
News OF the Week.

The raisc Of lime i heing advanced ow
liz 70 the scarcity Of coal.
Statistics show that there are 458, 86S
blind people and 126, 244 lepers in India.
Four prominent citizens of Baldwin,
Michigan, are under arrest, charged with
using the United States mails for lottery
purposes.
The Island of Guam was visited by
disastrous earthquake on September %,
and the naval station and insular buildings
were badly wrecked
The retrial eff Roland B. Molineaux foI
the murder Of Mrs. Kate Adams, in New
York, was postponed one week on account
Of the illness of the Judge
Coal oil for fuel has come SO generally
into use in San francisco that two incom-
ing ships, bringing coal in ballast, recent
~, were obliged to sell it at a loss.
The Chicago Inter Ocean declares that
the firm of j. P. Morgan & Co., has ne
gotiated to inancs the packinghouse mer
ger, the firm fee to be SO, 900, 900.
Mrs. Joanna Samuels, owner Of large
tract of coal land in Kentucky, has offered
it to President Roosevelt to be mined by
the government for the relief of the poor.
The lawyers of Albert T. Patrick, con-
victed of the murder of millionaire Rice,
in New York, have asked that the time
for argument of the appeal be extended
until May next.
William D. Clark, of Hyannis, Neb.,
who, while clipping with Miss Myrtle Shaw
berg, last Sunday, was shot by her father,
was married TO the girl while the surgeon
was dressing the wound.
OF "a, 900, 900 acres claimed in the
Southwest under land grant title, 80, 000,
600 have been rejected, and thus added
to the public domain by the Private Land
Claim Court during its existence.
A. j. Glasgow, a travelling evangelist
and seller and distributor of bibles and
tracts, is in jail at Lancaster, Pa, on
eighteen charges of larceny, having stolen
nine horses and buggies, harness, &c.
On October End snow fell at Hanover,
Hildesheim, Wernigerode, and in the
Harz Mountains, Germany accompanied
by heavy windstorms. The temperature
at Hanover fell to 20 degrees Fahrenheit.
Dusky diamonds are being shipped from
the anthracite coal region in box cars in
order to guarantee safe delivery. Should
the strike continue coal dealers may be
obliged to resort to the express companies
and the o. s. mail
Anthracite coal of fine quality has been
discovered on the farm of Daniel Hoover,
near Hampton, Adams county, Pa. A
number of miners are employed, and ia
vorable reports are given. The mine will
be thoroughly developed.
The Coal Transfers Union, in Chicago,
has decided not to haul coal to any public
school building until the Board of Educa-
ton induces the company which has the
school contract for the Northwest Side to
pay its men the union wages.
The negro workmen sent to take the
places of the striking iron workers, were
sent away from Lebanon last week 1t is
expected that this will result in the with
drawal of the troops 1t is said the Amer
lean Company will remove its steel mill to
Pittsburg.
Twenty five hundred miners in the EN-
ploy of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Com
pany, in Alabama, struck Thursday on ac
count of the refusal of the operators to
collect for the United Mine Workers the
weekly assessment for the anthracite strik
ers in Pennsylvania.
A curious coincidence occurred at York
Springs, Pa, last week, where birth,
marriage and death took place on the same
night in the family of Edward Criswell,
and within five hours At s clock in
the evening niece was married, a grand
son was born at 10 clock, and Mr. Girls
well died few hours later.
At New Castle, England, last Monday,
100, 900 tons of coal were sold for ship
ment to America. Reports from Cardiff,
Wales, state that % steamships have
been secured to carry coal to New York
and Boston. OF 100, 900 tons bought at
Cardiff last week for American orders,
80, 900 were for New York.