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

George Jones, SO years old, died at the
Oakland Goal. } Jail after an incarceration
of Is years.
The grand jury of Moore county, Texas,
has indicted % members of a mob charged
with the lynching of Allan Small.
Sam Parks, of the housemiths union,
announces that the New York building
strike will be extended throughout the
country.
Lee Chit, the proprietor of a small Chi
nese restaurant in Philadelphia, has been
indicted by the grand jury for refusal to
serve to colored man.
Samuel Holmes, a stone contractor, has
applied in Pittsburg, Pa, for an injunction
to restrain the Journeymen Stonecutters'
Association of North America from inter-
fering with his workmen.
Peter O. Elliott, of Minneapolis, last
Monday, after several Intellectual attempts
to see the President, created a scene at the
White House and fought the officers while
being taken to the stationhouse. He IS
believed to be insane.
What is supposed to be the largest tree
in Adams county, Pa, is on the tract OF
timberland near Fairfield, which DIR. Dubs
recently sold to DIR. Kalbach. The tree
measures 81 feet in circumference near the
ground, and Z feet from the ground it
measures 10 feet in circumference.
Peter Yesman, middle aged Slav, Of
West Hazelton, Pa, was taken to jail
Wednesday, charged with attempting to
roast his wife alive by placing her on red
hot stove and throwing in the street his
dead babe, which lay in coffin. Yes
mans defense was that he was intoxicated
A dispatch from Neigh, Neb., Oct. 5,
says: The five year old son of Fred. Warner
is dead as a result of an attempt made by
two of his playmates to force him to eat
sand. The young offenders, in trying to
force some down his throat, dislocated
Wagoner's neck. At the post-mortem ex-
animation quantity of sand was found In
the stomach.
At Akron, Ohio, last Monday, there
was color rush at Buchtel College, which
resulted in the Faculty suspending every
man in college except three, and they re-
main because they did not reach the col
lege until after the rush was over. Pres
ident Church had prohibited a colorrush
in speech made in chapel that morning.
AS soon as chapel was over the color rush
took place, Immediately followed by the
suspension.
Judge Rice, in the Superior Court, Phil
adelphia, Pa, has decided that Joseph
Travis, Thomas F. G. Seixas and B. Frank
Brown, School Directors of the twenty
eighth Section, convicted of conspiracy
to extort money from school teachers, and
David G.. johnson, the go-between, were
properly convicted, and that they must
serve their sentences. Pending decision
of their appeal Travis and Seixas were re-
leased on Bail, but the other two found no
bondsmen, and remained in the peniten-
tiary.
For the first time in history the finan-
cial transactions of the Postofice Depart
ment last year exceeded the billion dollar
mark. The total for the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1903, was 81 ,026, 731, 4O7. SO,
an increase over the previous fiscal year
of 1922, SOC, 1920. The receipts OF
the department last year were $134, 224,
443. "a, and the expenditures s138, 784, :
| 487. 81, leaving deficit for the year OF
al 560 ()44. 73. The fiscal year 1908,
compared with the previous year, shows
an increase in the departmental receipts
of s12. 376, 1896. SO, an increase in expendz
! lures Of s13, 975, 270. 80, and an increase
n tba animal deficit of 81, 598, 874. ~.