The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-03
News of the Week.

Newark. N. j., is overrun with mosquitoes.
The pests are greater in number than ever
! known heretofore
The largest sugar factory in Germany. near
Thorn, West Prussia, was burned Monday.
The loss is 81, 250,0OG.
The German crop report shows that summer
wheat. rye. barley, oats and potatoes do not
come up to expectations.
1t is said the action of the Standard Oil
! Company in cutting the price of crude oil to
! liz cents barrel will ruin the California oil
! interests
| J. NJ Leonard, lawyer, who is serving a
term in the Michigan Penitentiary for bur
! glary. has prepared his own papers in which
! he will ask for his release
| The county of Lackawanua. Pa, is bank
| rupt. as the available funds in the hands of
the Treasurer are exhausted. and there is no
/ immediate promise of money from any source
The Standard Oil Company's tanks at Ant.
werp. Belgium, containing 500, 900 gallons,
were destroyed and seven workmen were killed
August 20. The money loss is estimated at
! 81, 2j0,00
Mrs. Cordelia Botkin has been found guilty
at San Francisco for the third time of poison
ing Mrs. John P. Dunning, of Dover, Del,
by sending poisoned candy through the mail,
and was sentenced to imprisonment for life.
The Gar, in honor of the birth of his son,
issued manifesto abolishing corporal punish
ment among the rural classes. setting apart
funds for the benefit of the landess people of
Finland and remitting the fines imposed upon
Jewish communes in the cases of Jews avoid.
ing military service.
c. ID. Bernsee. member of one of the best
known families in Brooklyn, is in the Tombs
in New York, after having passed hundreds of
alleged forged checks, amounting TO $25, 600.
and yictimizing some of the largest hotels in
the city. 1t is said most of the money was
lavished on actresses.
There is a suspicion that the crop expert
sending out the sensational reports on Mani
toba wheat has some connection with Patten,
who is big bull on wheat. The Toronto
Globe has one and a half columns of the most
favorable crop reports from leading business
men and mIllers in Manitoba, fatty contra
dieting damage reports.
At Wiliamsport, Pa on August %, while
little Elsie Jamison s~as feeding peanuts to
Queen. the most vicious elephant owned by a
travelling circus, she ;ell just as the animal
was m the act OF taking step. Instead of
crushing the life out of the child, as the on
lockers expected, the elephant gently used her
trunk in lifting the child out of harms way.
A silver communion service has been re.
turned 10 Bishop Gailor, of Memphis, of the
Diocese of Tennessee, after having been traced
through pawnshops in many States. Two
months ago the Bishop residence was robbed.
Detectives traced the thief to Kansas City,
thence TO Denver. Los Angeles and San Fran.
cisco. In the latter city the communion SER
vice was seized.
In escaping from strikers who had threaten.
ed them with violence several nonunion work
men in Chicago ran into the saloon of Ignaiz
Hoynstsky, last Saturday. The strikers pelted
them with stones, aud broke the windows of
the house, until Mrs. Hornatsky shot the leader
with shotgun, and then shot into the crowd
with the other barrel before the police arrived
IN response to riot call.
While on his way home last Sunday, j. W
Reddiek, Northern Central Railway ticket
agent at Hanover, Pa, was attacked by
negro, William Barnes, and, after desperate
encounter lasting half hour, was robbed of
S6S. Indignation was aroused TO such an ex.
tent that armed citizens instituted asearch with
the intention Of lyuchng the negro. Barnes
surrendered himself to the authorities and was
taken to Jail
Or. Charles f. Il. Wlgohs, aged 100 years
and 5 months. died at.Akrou. Ohio, Aug 20.
He was Of remarkable mental and physical
vitality until week ago aud was able to walk
for miles. He was born in Denmark IN 1905
HIS father was doctor in the German Army
and he followed the German Army in the same
capacity. lie enlisted in the cause of Polish
Independence and was wounded four times in
the battle Of OS;ralanka. In 1927 he went
with an Arctic exploring expedition in a sail
ing vessel He came to America later and
spent most Of his years practieing medicine in
Dovlestown