The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-01-10
News of the Week.

The spread of the bubonc plague in Mexico
is said to have now been checked.
During the past year the Baldwin Locomo
tive works of Philadelphia, Pa, completed
locomotive every four hours, or 1920 fol
the year.
Forty steamers have been chartered to carry
200, 600 or more tons of coal from English,
Scotch and Welsh ports to Eastern ports OF
the United States.
Jambarov, an American millionaire, was
murdered as he was about to enter church
in Moscow by brgands to whom he had
failed to pay promised ransom.
For the year ending December 81 there
were received at the Chicago stockyards $50,
722 hogs, 22.357 calves, 146, 800 cattle, 4, 965
horses, $751; 1897 sheep and l, 1922 mules.
An American syndicate, with $50, 900, DOC
capital, is said to be buying valuable timber
lands in Mexico, with a view of controlling
the hardwood supply from that country.
Advices received from New Guinea Decem
Der 80 says natives have brutaly murdered
two European prospectors and many other
persons. 1t is feared that the drouth has
caused the natives to resort to cannlballsm.
Thousands are starving or subsisting on roots.
twenty-five natives were recently killed IN a
tribal fight.
Elder NJ. B. E. Kline, a well-known German
Baptist minister, died at Broadway, Virginia,
December 80 He was an active member OF
his church, and for years was particularly
popular with young couples who wanted to get
married. He had married many more couples
than any other minister in the county, and
was kept busy with applications as long as his
health would permit of any active duties on
his part.
Farmers enjoying the rural free delivery
system in Saratoga, N. Y, and vicinity have
been officially instructed to keep open the
highways in order to assist the carriers suffer
the withdrawal of the service. The big drifts
caused by the frequent snowstorms during
December have rendered many of the rural
roads in the lower Adirondack region almost
impossible, thus seriously affecting the work
of the rural carriers.
The York [ Pa. Gazette says:-Whie there
may be some excuse for the scarcity and high
price of anthracite coal, yet we know of nc
reason why soft coal should be double the
price it sold for before the strike, since it costs
no more to mine and haul it now than it did
before the anthracite strike. The only ex
PLANTATION is that the operators, railroads and
dealers are taking advantage of the necessities
of the people to squeeze them to the limit o.
endurance.
Nero, the property of Judge Wayne Bailey
of Rutland, VT, and said to have been the
largest dog in the world of which there is an.
record, is dead of general debility at the agt
of 10 years. 1t was a mastiff, half English anc
half German, and because of its immense
| size was widely known. The dog weighed
2S4 pounds and at the shoulders was SO inche:
high. Its measurement around the body jus
back of the forelegs was 55 inches and arounC
the neck 35 inches. The forelegs just below
the body, measured 164 inches in circumfer
ence, and from the tip of the nose to the til
of the tail, just half an inch short of 6 feet
The dog was purchased by Judge Bailey whel
| it was months old.