The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-08-29
News of the Week.


Wilson Lippincott. of Bristol, Pa, who
weighed 564 pounds, died August Is.
AT Altoona PA, Pennsylvania Railroad
shops the labor hours have been reduced one
half
Ia Philadelphia. Pa, lis new cases Of ty
phoid and 20 new cases Of smallpox were re.
ported last week.
A goldfish farm is conducted by William
Shoup, in Waldrou. Ind. His profits are
about $50, zoo a year.
The Census Bureau has announced that
e26. 200 acres are under irrigation IN Texas.
aud that the system cost s., l9l,Sl3.
Henry 7. Eiby, colored treasurer Of the
0livet Baptist Church, Of Chicago, has been
arrested for embezzeling 81 900.
Ia the city of Huaraz, Peru, 10000 inhabi
tants we're endangered by water spoutine HH-
der church aud under various houses.
In band Of counierieiters on trial in San
Francisco is George Brown, who is 50 years
old, aud who has been ia the business for over
80 years.
Delgado Grafton, employed in the Office Of
George NJ. c. kober, dean Of Georgetown
University. Of Washington, Is under arrest NJ
Buffalo, n. Y, on the charge OF embezEhng
s.. 200, the property of the university.
Thousands Of acres Of grazing land ia West
Texas have been burned during the last lev
days by incendiary fires. aud sioekmen and
farmers are guarding their pastures with arm
ed men. New fires have just been started IN
Gaines aud Dawson counties.
Al Buffalo, ~ Y, Fred Boyd. Frank o.
Weir and Henry Hartz have been held for
hearing on the charge Of stealing express
and freight in transit from New York 20
D,G Il a..
Of dollars worth Of freight had been stolen.
A fine collie belonging to DR.. NJ. Minor, al
Comorn, Va, was run over by wagon aud
bis back broken. Chloroiorm was admins
tered and when the dog was dead il was
turned over TO a. undertaken and was
balmed and buried as ii it had been human
being.
Last Saturday Sadie CAssel, Of Harrisburg.
Pa, took the top of keFusene lamp ia her
room, and sat1raiing her clothes with the oil
ignited them. She then ran down se STAIRS
from the third floor OF the house like human
torch, burning the paper on the walls of the
hallway as she went.
Jacob Wilsey. farmer Of Wyoming eoUuiy,
Pa. was attacked by his vicious dog lass Sal
urday Mrs. Wilsey struck at the dpg siih
an axe Just as Mr.. Wilsey raised his Lex sud
be received thvtull force OF the blow just he
low the knee. s,.yering an artery. tie BLEED 20
death before physician could reach him.
Horrible massacrez by Turkish troops are
reported August p AID -. Whole villages
in Macedonia we're set on fire aud sacked,
and men tortured ia the worst manner before
being killed. Not only women, but even chill
dren OF both sexes. were bruualiy violated 10y
Bashi- Bazouks, and other shameful crueiIies
committed.
An investigation has been asked by Meiho
dist elergymeu of San Francisco OF Rev. John
d. Hammond for the nismanagemeuf of the I
Methodist Book Concern aud Chinese Mission 4
College. Hammond is charged with wasting I
$40 600 of the Book Concern 5 funds and with I
appropriaiing $4,000 u year assigned for the 4
Chinese College for several years. The col I
lege is myth, only ten Chinese boys belug
in the class.
Miami aud Fulton counties. Indiana, we're .
visited By remarkable hailslorms h4st wees, \
aud thousands of acres of growing corn were I
completely ruined. What coru WAS not bIoau 4
down was cut by the ha:lstones, some Of which Z
measured seyen inches ~ circumference. I
Hail drifts were reported al WALNUT, aud loF 4
the distance Of half mile the fog after the /
storm WAS so dense that nothing could be seen 4
80 feet away. Some live live stock was kiilrI .
in the vicinity Of Miami.
An unusual thunder storm swept over The 4
nOrthen part Of Weber county, Utah, on the 4
night OF August %, and with the Tremendous I
rainfall Was great fall of toads. Sunday 4
morning people coming into Ogden eneount-
cred an army Of the hoppers. There were |
millions Of them, from an inch 10 an inch aud I
a half long They covered the highway So 4
thickl3 tAai i was with difficulty that teams 4
could get through, as they clogged the wheels 1
Of the vehicles.
4 l. I
Washington, b. G. A postal employee in Ma /
chen's bureau, who passed q month in hos I
pital there nearly year ago, recovering from /
a gunshot wound inflicted by District Gov I
ernmeut officer IN an affair over a woman. re- 4
eelyed Tor that time an expense allowance Of /
81 dag on the sworn affidavit that he was 1
travelling about the country in the discharge 1
of official duties. This man has such strong /
Senatorial backing that he has been undis
turbed.
The seventh annual reunion of the Mary.
land Association of Ohio was held August 10 /
at Chauiauqua Park, on the Miami river, IA 4
miles from Dayton. Fully 2. 500 persons we're 1
on the grounds. The exercises were held IN I
the Auditorium, which seals 1000 persons. I
The following officers were elected for the en- (
suing year: President, Henry Eavy, Of Aenia; /
first vice president, II. Longman Of DAYTON;
second vice president, c. Y. Sleek OF Spring
field; secretary, T. {. Harbaugh, the well
known poet aud story writer, of CasstoWn;
treasurer, J. H. Wolford, of Cedarville. The |
next reunion will be held at the same place in
August, 1904.
Joseph Pulitzer, owner OF the New York
World, has provided 81, OOo. OOe to establish
school of journalism at Columbia University.
A building will be erected on Morniugside
Heights, at a cost of $500, coo, and the school
will hold toward the university a relation sim
liar to that Of the other schools. An impor-
tant feature will be an Advisory Board, 10 be
nominated by the donor. Seven members of
this Board have been named. They are
Nicholas Murray Butler, President Of Colum
bia, ex-oficio; Whitelaw Reid, John Hay
Secretary Of State; ST. Clair Mckelway, An
drew D. White, Victor F. Lawson, of Chiea
Charles w. Eliot, President of Harvard Uni
veTsity
II is said that large number of postal
clerks in the department at Washington are to
be discharged. The list will contain the names
of clerks in the department who have been
mentioned in one way or another in connec-
ton with the indicted officials and the devel-
opments of the investigation. 1t is not meant
that these clerks are implicated criminaly in
any of the charges of bribery or conspiracy,
but on account of their connections with the
department they were in position to have
knowledge of what was going on and the off
cials claim should have taken steps to prevent
the wrongdoing. 1t is stated that the clerks
on the list are Of the 81 800 per annum class
and higher grades. 1t is further stated that
when this report is made and the list publish
ed all clerks thus mentioned will be dismissed
from the service on the ground that it is for
the good of the service that they should be re-
moved.