The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-10-03
News of the Week.

Three men were struck by lightning al
the Trenton Fair Grounds last Sunday.
The Ferracute Machine Company plant
at Bridgeton, NJ. was: burned Sunday; loss
$3.50, 900.
Recent numerous and costly fires in
Oberlin, O., are believed to have been
caused by incendiaries.
About 5000, OOO,OOO pennies have
been sent out from the Philadelphia Mint
during the last five years.
Great Britain spends SIP, 100000 a
year on the support of the poor. This
does not include private charities.
The yearly consumption of beer averages
81 gallons head throughout the German
Empire, an increase of nearly so per cent.
since 1882.
London has no less than 313 parks and
open spaces, while in 1884 the number
was only 1903. They are reckoned to have
cost $40, 995, 900.
The deaths from consumption in New
York have decreased 40 per cent. since its
health department began its crusade against
the disease two years ago
Joseph P. Dudley, Standard Oil mag
nate and Buffalo millionaire, " years of
age, after a spirited courship, won the hand
of Mrs. Sarah j. Fowler, a schoolteacher.
A shotgun quarantine has been estab
lished at Laredo, Texas, where yellow
fever is on the increase The inhabitants
are leaving in crowds for distant points.
Ten thousand persons in Central Park,
New York city last Sunday, were panic
stricken by sudden storm, and made IA
mad rush for shelter. No one was injured
The labor troubles in the building trades
in New York has resulted in the with
drawal of about $50, 900, 600 which had
been projected to be put into new build
ings.
Walter Craig, who a few years ago was
worth half million, died penniless at the
cabin of his former housekeeper, near Troy,
Ohio, September q. Speculation and
fast horses had led him to ruin.
The number of theological students has
been reduced one-third at Princeton; at
Andover it has been reduced from 100 to
10. Formerly Yale class of 300 would
graduate 90 ministers, but last year it
turned out only 4.
Philadelphia, Pa, was deluged last
Sunday by sudden rain storm. 1t was
followed by drop in the temperature of
90 degrees in about an hour. At West
Chester, Pa, over s25, 900 damage was
done by hail.
A fast mail and express train on the
Southern Railroad was wrecked near Dan
vile, Va, last Sunday afternoon and nine
men were killed and seven injured. All
the dead and injured were mail clerks ex-
cepting the engineer, conductor and fire
man.
"Gassing' trees has become so large a
business in California that Los Angeles
man has an outfit for it which cost $40, =
900. Tents are used to confne the gas to
the trees and to protect the operators from
the deadly prussic acid which is liberated
from a saucer at the trees root.
1t is stated that nine of the most sue
cessful of modern novels aggregated a sale
of over 1900, 600 copies. The paper on
which these books were printed was made
of wood fber-cellulose- the Paw
tucket Gazettee figures out that it required
about 4, 900 trees to furnish this paper.
Thomas Nicholson and his sons, James
S. and Thomas g., have filed voluntary
petitions in bankruptcy in the Federal
Court, Chicago, to get rid of an indebted
ness of S255, 1872 each. None of them
has any available assets. The failure of
the Nicholson concern was attributed to
labor troubles in connection with the work
on the First National Bank building and
the Railway Exchange.