The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-03-19

Abog. 1000 ship. cross tbs Atlantic every
monih.
Al wilkesbarrc. Pa. SIX inches Of .ro~ Tell
march lS,h, ard there are fears % another
i1cshsf.
Over 1900 ba,ldius operatives arr IDLE IN
Nr~ iork because ~ strike Of 2U@1 aHiou
lAbgrrrs,
Chicago ~As blocked by heavy AL q
sao~ os the lSsh aud Iiih Of March. rrahc
zAs susp~adrd
A Neti Lake Iaisas. Minnesota. - reported
O. have ksilrd and eai-n bis wsie and ek.id 20
rsespe starvation.
Bur,ug the Eaoush Of Jsuaasy tho Canadian
Pac,fc RadsAy sold ll6 SOS acres ~
total yaIlc o, stssi t49 -
Or~a warfare 49, been declared be.Weeo
S~ualer Foraker and Senator sl~cs pEeS IN
0hio over Federal patronage.
Crossed electric ulrvz caused the desiruc.
too Of = CaieAso traction company car barn,
cAussax = loss II sl5a. 90 last Monday
Il - estimated that ,hc loss nf bujxes in
Pennsylvania. By The food. 1t lat seek. Will
eoss the state over 81 GO 90 10 rcplaer,
LeipxiS's nr~ fail~zy station cost ls0. CO...
90 marks is1. ooo. oool- az ghls sun Pras-
slz and SAIony contribute &c, OF. coo marks
Gideon e. Nooiy. =ho wAs ,hr hrst uigrd
States Senator from Soals Dakoia, iirl
Thursday Al i.os AakcisS, Cal, aged = yeArs.
To March Is there ~as received 81 the CHI
eAgo slock yards, =. 90 cattle. ADD ca Tors
8Ay and "Wednesday &4.Oo hogs And 10000
sheep
Nisssssippi siesnBoa, owners ard captains
have decided To dsspesse VITA ihS nexru deck
aani. and rasszhoais, aud 30 employ on!y
white labor
Rev T. A. Bishop. father Of the s,ri Tor
shos- murder the negro George White Vas
iyachsd, has resigned hts position st Whining
ton, Delaware.
Hcnry 7. Tharbcr. Who as secretary 20
to PrrsideuI Cleveland dariuE Tho islreg's
SECOND term. died Thursday IA Detroit. Mich
igzn, after an operation Tor appendicitis.
Fire destroyed blsiasss property IN Sau
Anionin, Texas, Thursday, valued ~ 500.
co. The balldiHgS consumed Incigd, the
San Aagelo Hotel sHd iae Fsrst National
Bank.
DR.. Thos Darlington. health officer of New
York. has found BY experiments that bacteria
do not live longer than Is hours on silver,
nickel OF copper coins, whereas paper money
Is al abode for hundreds Of thousands Of
germs.
District Attorney Jerome plainly told the
State Senate committee that be wanted 10 put
Richard Garfield, proprietor Of the Saratoga
Clubhouse. ia State prison. and D. also wanted
Reginald Vanderbilt, Of NsS York. "a a wit.
aess to help him do H.
Alice Price, negro, aged 10 years, Is in Jail
charged with poisoning the family of John V.
S,illwell. postmaster al Whitehouse, y. J.
After her arrest the girl said she used rat.
poison, because she did not like Mrs. Still
H.. - l,vaA al . b., E.V.s1v q.
two years,
Der, Washington, a negro. shot and killed
his wife, then committed suicide during the
course of festival il the African Methodist
Episcopal Church, at Donora, Pa, At mid
night Saturday. The father OF the woman,
who is pastor OF the church, stood helplesSly
by sud saw his daughter murdered.
Postmaster Hauser, Of Hicksvile, l. l., a
wealthy and prominent resident OF that town.
was arraigued before L. 5. Commissioner
MOrle Wednesday, charged with having appro.
priated TO his own use S344. receipts from the
money order department. He was held ia
$1,000 bail. Mr.. Hauser was the last posimas-
ter appointed by President Mckinley. receiy.
ing his nomination the day after the President
WAS shot at Buffalo.
W. A. Stanton, of New York, has purchased
Ia, 200 acres of land lying on the Big and Lit.
| tie Coal rivers, in West Virginia, from Chill
ton, McCorkle L Philton, of Charleston. The
tract is rich in Kanawha coal. Connected
with MIR. Stanton are number of large own
ers of Coal river lands. Active development
will soon begin. A company of Cleveland
| (0hio) capitalists has purchased $500 acres
in Mcdowell county, West Virginia, along the
Norfolk and Western, and will erect 1000
coke ovens.
A furious blizzard descended on Detroit aud
Lower Michigan, during the night of March
| I3, aud the heavy snow fall, drited by the
high east wind, delayed traffic considerably.
Street cars in Detroit had as much trouble
during the morning of the l4lh, as at any time
this winter. Several lines were almost com
pletely paralyzed during the early hours. The
storm was so severe that many children could
not get to school and number of the city
schools were closed for lack OF pupils,
An earthquake played pranks on the West
ern Washington coast, north of Gray's Har
Dor. On March IL word was received that
| the bed Of the Queets river had risen about
thirty feet, causing the river to form new
channel. and making huge lakes out of the
| adjoining ranches that were formerly on high
ground. Strange sounds were heard in the
vicinity of Queets river about six miles from
its mouth on March 4. Next morning iuhab
itants of that section were astonished to find
the river out of its bed. Settlers cannot &C
count for the upheaVal of the river bed, as
earthquakes in this State are almost unknown,