The Democratic advocate., 1904-05-21
News of the Week.

Preparations are being made to build large
mill in Louisiana to manufacture paper from
rice straw.
| Negro delegates to the General Methodist
| Conference at Los Angeles are incensed be.
cause at several hotels they were refused ac-
| commodations.
Last Sunday afternoon there was a hailstorm
in the lower part of York county, Pa, much
damage was done by the hail and the mercury
fell 80 degrees in 10 minutes
Surgeons in Louisville, KY, performed a
| fake operation on woman of New Albany
Ind, who insisted that she was suffering from
a tumor, which the surgeons say did not exist.
United States Commissioner Heacock, in
San Francisco, has held Henry A. Hyde and
Henry P Dimond under $50, 600 and $40, 900
bail, respectively, on charges of being involved
in the public land frauds.
Dennis Grummei, sentenced to Is years in
| the Eastern Pennsylvania Penitentiary for
postal robberies, confessed that it was he and
! his pals who attacked and robbed Jacob Baker
and his wife, and not the six men who have
| been convicted Of the crime.
The United States employed 10, ,555 men in
| distributing mail last year The cost. dis.
| tributed among ], 400 lines, was $63, $40, 600.
| In 373 accidents to mail cars Is clerks were
killed and IS seriously injured.
The frozen rabbit industry has become an
important Que in Victoria. Over 10000, 600
rabbits were utilized during the past year for
export purposes. OF these 1900, 900 were
exported frozen in the fur and from 10, ,00O,-
600 to l2,000,00O skins were shipped and
large number of these animals timed and dis
posed Of.
The Chamber of Commerce at Denver,
Col, Is considering a proposition to bore one
and an eighth miles into the earth at point
IL miles east of the city in search of natural
gas, oil and coal. The cost is estimated at
SsO, 900, but the plan is considered feasible by
experts who have investigated the geological
formations.
The Pike is the term applied to the poly
glOt thoroughfare of the world which at previ-
Gus fairs was called the Midway. The Pike
at the St. Louis Fair is the biggest thing of the
kind ever attempted. 1t is six miles long
three on either side, and it costs $21. 20 to see
everything on it and in it, for there are attrac-
tious within attractions.
John O'Reilly. aged 100 years, and his
wife ~ years, residents of Jersey City, N. j.,
sailed last Saturday for Ireland Mr.. O'Reilly
walks erect and without the aid of stick
He is going to visit the early scenes of his
youth in Queens county. ireland. Mr..
" heiliY salo ne nau lUU granu ana great
grandchildren, and that he will return for a
family reunion in September.
The Hanover pa Record says:-The
Hanover Produce Company is placing in cold
storage thousands of dozens of eggs each week
Last week they stored something like $1,000
dozens. The company has at Gettysburg, Ja-
cob Roth, an expert egg Gambler, who will be
employed for several weeks yet. Chas. Ecker,
of Gettysburg, has been in New Oxford for
three weeks and will be busy for some time.
The eggs are sent to Philadelphia after under.
going a severe test by experts before being
packed.
At Millville. n. j., John Strong went into
the meat market of Stewart & Evan, and
picking up basket of groceries, went up the
street with them. They belonged to Mrs.
Martha Fiehl, who, hearing that Strong had
them IN possession, searched for him and
knocked him down by blow on the head.
She then asked him to tell her where the
goods were concealed. aud when he refused
She beat bim numerically. He then con.
senied to show her, and she led him by the
ear to an open lot, where the stolen articles
were found.