The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-04-04
News OF the week.
Stevens Point Pa, With population
of 81 has q cases of SMALLPOX.

SCefeHs TOinGi Ia, Will POpuiaIloi
of 81 has q cases of Smallpox.
The Schenectady Railroad Company
has authorized an additional bond issue of
81, geo. 900.
The sale of forged railroad tickets on a
large scale was brought to light in New
Orleans.
William Blake's illustrations of the
Book of Job have been sold at auction in
London for S28, 600.
The Wabash Railroad is preparing to
issue SO, 900, 900 in bonds, to be ex-
pended on terminals in several cities.
The American Locomotive Company S
earnings for the past nine months aggre-
gated s23, $50, 345, gain over the same
period last year of 81, $50, 607.
Harry Anderson was caught setting fire
to a warehouse at Lockport, n. Y, and
confessed having started fires there on
three previous occasions.
A four-foot vein of anthracite coal has
been found near Havre, Montana. The
coal has been pronounced by chemist to
be of superior grade.
Admiral Sir Henry Keppel, the father
of the British navy, who is SO years old,
is about to marry. His bride TO be, who
is a resident of Singapore, is % years old.
Bishop Warren, of Utah, removed Mis-
sionary Leilich, who had charge of the
mission there, and filed charges of polyg
amy against Senator Smoot
Miss Bessie Knecht, who had slept for
% days continuously up to Tuesday night,
at Salt Lake City, and still sluubers de-
spite efforts of physicians to waken her.
A severe storm, accompanied by high
wind, swept the Atlantic coast from the
Carolinas to New England, Sunday and
Monday, doing great damage to shipping
Three lives were reported lost.
J. Pierpont Morgan, in an interview.
says that the United States is ''unqual
fedly prosperous, aud that there is prom
ise of continuation of this prosperity far
into the future.
For 1884 feet of land and improvements,
fronting on Chestnut street. Philadelphia,
Pa, nearly $4,000 front foot was paid
last week Its the highest price ever paid
for land in that city.
Rev james Laird Vallandigham, of
Newark, Delaware, was 81 years old on
March l3 For 5S years he was pastor of
Presbyterian Churches in Maryland and
Delaware.
Mrs. Marian NJ Jones, Of Philadelphia,
Pa, fell down the cellar steps at her home,
Monday and landed head first among some
bottles. Several bottles were broken and
the sharp edge Of one cut the woman
throat and severed the jugular vein.
John Howard Ciimenson, Aecountins
Warden Of the Nestry Of ST. Clement
Protestant Episcopal Church. Philadelphia
Pa, is in Moyameusing Prison in default
of 81 o, 900, charged with enbezzlins $50,
600 from the Pennsylvania Epileptic Hos
pital and other institutions
Labor system Of the country Is in i great
state Of unrest In Massachusetts over
so unions are threatening to quit work
May Is. unless certain demands made by
them are granted In Lowell a threatened
strike was met by the closing Of seven
mills last Saturday, thus throwing out Of
work IL, 600 persons.
At Wilmington, Delaware. March 30.
q monument was unveiled 20 mark the
landingplaee Of the tins Swedish settlers in
America The Swedss came TO that city
April %, 1888 The deiioaiory address
we're made By Chief Justice Lore. prusi
dent Of the Delaware Historical society.
and Mrs Charles f. McIlvaine. president
Of the Delaware Society Of Colonial Danes,
under whose auspices the monument was
erected.
A movement has been started among
Western rAilroad managers to secure a
general decrease in the speed Of the i'm
portani passenger trans Extremely heavy
traffic, bosh freight and passenger, with
unfayurable climatic conditions, made il
practically impossible for most Of the west
err lines TO run their trains on schedule
time during the fall aud winter The snes
imposed by the Post0fiee Department be
cause Of the failure Of mail trains to make
their schedules during the pas; III months
amount to an enormous sums.
Gen. William II. jackson. nOted Con
federate cavalry leader during the civil
war. when he bore the soabriquet Of
Red jackson, died At his home, Belle
Meade, near Nashville, Tenn, March 80
in his 6s,h year. At the close Of the evil
war General jackson was in eommand II
Forest division, with the Texas Brigade
added After the war be devoted him
self to agriculture and the breeding Of
thoroughbred running horses, some of the
most noted performers on the American
turf having been foaled at famous Belle
Meade.
Franklin Swift, president Of the Swift
Packing Company, died in Chicago March
%, Of internal hemorrhages resulting from
surgical operation performed several DAYS
ago Mr. Swift was 63 years old The
hemorrhage which caused his death re-
suited from an operation for an infeetion
Of the gall bladder performed March %
Hisdeath was entirely unexpected, both
By Mr.. Swift family and his physicians
He had given every indication Of recovery,
aud all danger was considered passed. Mr. |
Swift began life as butcher in Boston /
and remained there until 1878, and left 1
an estate of about 81 o, 900, 600 In 1857 |
be evolved plans for the first rsfngerAting
car, and dressed meats instead of live |
animals were shipped to Eastern cities
He was the pioneer in this kind of business
Mr. Swift was not only the oldest packer
at the time of his death, but he was the
originator of the method shat has made
many large fortunes. From the small plant
started in 1871 has developed great cor
poration, with branches ia St Louis, Kan.
sas City. st. Joseph, Omaha, St. Paul
and Fort Worth, Tex, and with distrib-
uting Offices in every important city and
town in the United States and with repre-
sentat;ves in the leading cities of Europe,
Asia and Africa. Its employees number
%, 607 Upon its capital stock of s25,
900, 900 the sales of 1902 exceed 5000,
900, 900.