The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-11-28
News of the Week.

Mrs. Mary Cusack and Mrs. Julia Ward
| died in New York after eating canned toma-
toes and peas.
Rev. j. NJ Haughey, of Mason City, ILL.,,
during the years of his ministry has joined
| 1872 people in marriage. His age is 10.
Japan imports large quantities of machn-
cry of every escription-rairoad plant We
hices, labor-saving tools-trom the United
States.
The White Star liner Cedric, which was
reported to have been sunk, arrived at New
York Thursday, and was welcomed with
cheers.
,, Robert j. Hale, formerly of Scranton, Pa. :,
ascompositor in the Government Printing Of
fee at Washington, shot and killed his wife
and himself Thursday.
t-a Wilson S. Fredericks, Westfeld wreck
victim, was discharged from Plainfeld, n.
j., hospital, 4200 gratis of skin having been
Successfully applied to him.
J, There was Indignation and disappointment
IN many Philadelphia homes because the cooks
refused to prepare the Thanksgiving Day feast
for the reason that Thursday was their day off,
u Former Secretary of the Interior Hoke
Smith and Attorney D. W. Rountree engaged
in a vicious fight in the United States Court
room at Atlanta, Ga, Wednesday.
Reports from Pennsylvania indicate great
unrest among the miners and steelworkers
In Cambria county 10, 900 miners threaten to
strike unless their working hours are changed.
By the bursting of a milk separator at the
plant of the Arctic Ice Company, Brdgelou.
n. j., Nelson Woodruff was killed and John
Waddington and Charles Morton probably
fatally injured.
Mrs. Caroline Koch, aged 46 years, COM
mitted suicide at her home, in Philadelphia,
Pa, Thursday, upon learning that her daugh-
ter had been secretly married in opposition to
the family wishes.
Charles Threshon and kalman Fodessy, two
men who had been writing letters from New
York to the President, were arrested Thurs
day. The former was sent to Bellevue for
examination us to his sanity.
Mrs. William E. Chisholm. a widow, of
College Point, L. l., has set aside plot on
her estate for the burial of her dogs. Mrs.
Chisholm's son in-Iaw is stepbrother Of the
present Duke of Marlborough.
Four men burned to death and n property
loss amounting to 100000 is the result Of IA
fire in the wholesale grocery of Allen Bros,
at Ninth and Jones streets, Omaha, Nebraska,
Thursday.
At Berlin, Wednesday, the Countess lsa-
bella Wesierska kwiecki, charged with pre-
senting "A false heir to an estate at Wrobrwo,
Province of Posen, who has been on trial there
since October %, was acquitted.
The Governor of Colorado has received Il
warning letter of a plot to blow up the capitol.
Adiutant General Bell declares that anarchy
will be put down if it takes every able bodied
man in the State to do it. The War Depart
ment has honored the Governors requiSition
for 1000 rifles and other military supplies.
At Athens, Ohio. Oh Thursday, George A.
Benton, multi millionaire of New York,
who was born and raised there. has not for
gotten his old friends. He arranged a ban
quet to which every man, woman and child OF
the town was invited. Senator Foraker and
Congressman Grosvenor were among the
speakers.
The International Paper Co mpany of Glens
Falls, N. j., issued orders Tuesday from the
New York office to shut down all mills We'd
nesday night. 1t is said manufacturing will
be resumed in one week. This affects % mills
in that State, Vermont. New Hampshire and
Maine and about 5000 men. The company
gives no reason for its action, but the gener-
ally accepted one is that there has been an
oyerproducti on.