The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-02-27
News Of the Week.


S22, 95l ,8O5 were exported from the United
States during the year 1903.
There are 100 slate, "a marble, and 2Oi
clay quarres in this country, and the value OF
their combined products is $13, 100000
The Iowa Supreme Court has affirmed a
decision giving tramp damages for injuries
received by being thrown from railroad train
A steel.ike grass from the volcanic slope:
or Oran, Algeria is elastic that 1t can be uset
instead of springs in the manufacture of furni
ture.
The people of the United States eat uE
$3.50, 600. 900 worth of candy in year, arc
there are nearly 5000 factories making it
with capital of $3S, 100000
Convicted of bigamy. Samuel c. Hazard,
alias Hargreave, a graduate of West Pom
and former army officer, has been sentenced
in Minneapolis to two years in the penlten
tiary.
Last Saturday % persons were killed, Is
injured and great destruction Of property was
wrought by the explosion of IA carload o
dynamite due to collision of freight trains Il
jackson, Utah.
Charles F. Breach. former cashier of the
Equitable National Bank. New York. now il
the hands of ii receiver, has been arrested
charged with raising certificates OF the bank :
stock owned by him.
Roderick Thomas, n Hudson Bay fur trader
was killed by Indians near Lac du i1ackeet
Manitoba last Saturday. He is the third o
his family to meet death in long standing
quarrel with the Indians.
George w. Lewis, of Toronto. Canada. whG
committed suicide at Niagara Fails two weeks
ago. left AN estate worth 1858 058 most Of il
vii ed to his sisters, Mrs. Julian, of New York
and Mrs. Gooderham, of Toronto.
At Berlin, February II, Frau Krupp OBJ
served the birthday of her late husband by
giving S25 each to 1000 worknen who hao
been % years III The service Of the company
and by donating Sl25, 900 TO the workmen's
hospital.
Ernest Driscol, local engineer of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Saturday
morning broke the speed record between Bal
timore and Wilmington, Del. He made a
distance of II miles in IS minutes, and pulled
% loaded freight cars behind him.
At Meridian, Conn, w. J. Prouiy. princi
pal of the high school, last week caused Il
sensation by declaring that drinking, swear
ing, lying, and staying out at night by pupils
of the school must stop. On Friday he assem-
bled the entire school and lectured the pupils
for an hour. He dwelt especially on drinking,
and so pointed were his remarks that all gain
ed the impression that intemperance had
crept into the school.
Brooklyn, N. Y. is flooded with counter
felt Buffalo" ten dollar bills. They are said
to he the best counterfeits ever issued. The
engraving of the bills is SO good as to enable
them to defy detection even with a glass, and
the counterfeiers have discovered a way to
IL,
1t is only by the "feer' of the bills that the
specimens have been discovered so far. The
notes are so like the real ones that the tellers
at the banks have been completely deceived
by them.
Mrs. Bridget Dolan, widow, aged p years,
residing at High Market, Bowie county, N.
Y, last week walked Is miles to BoonviIe
on snowshoes in order to attend the funeral OF
her son in lion. The roads between her
home and Boonville were drfted 50 deeply that
the regular stages were abandoned. The roads
were from II to Is feet deep with snow. On
Friday Mrs. Dolan retraced her steps over the
snow covered fields to High Market In all,
she walked 80 miles on shOwshoes in two days,
having rested but few hours after the funeral.
Dorr Hardy, of Utica, N, Y. is at his home
exhausted from working 1856 hours without
sleep. Hardy is lineman employed by the
Bell Telephone Company. With other mem
bers of his gang, he went to Cooperstown
more than week ago to repair wires which
had been torn down by recent storms. Hardy
is cable splicer, and realizing the necessity
of earl completion OF the repairs so rs to re-
open the service he declared that he would
not quit until the job was done. For six
days ami seven nights he toled, stopping only
for meals All of his work was among the
cross bars of the poles, 80 feet from the ground.
His midnight meals he ate aloft. He said that
his nerves were mistaken until he had com
pleted the task; then relaxation seemed to sci
them on fire.
At MELVILLE, Pa, James Hall, sporty
dude negro barber, formerly of Chambers
burg, put on much style for several weeks
and soon became so familiar that he accosted
white women when he caught them unpro-
tected on the streets, asking them to let him
see them home. The people of the town w~re
incensed and determined to put stop 10 il
He was notified to leave town, but he faieG
to heed. Then it was decided to take further
step. A posse of citizens was organized.
Two of them went into the barber shop, while
a third stationed himself at the door. Behind
him WAS Il crowd of irate people. Hall was
induced to go to the door, and there he was
undone for he at once found himself in the
grasp of the mob. Quickly his hands were
tied behind his back and rope fastened
abou, his waist, the negro meanwhile protest
ing and pleading, for he thought lynching
was to follow The mob rushed him to
spring about half a mile away, and as the
crowd moved along it found additions at every
step until there were about $50 people about
the negro Arriving al the spring, where
Hall thought he saw his finish, the ring lead
ers asked him if he would leave the place al
once if he was liberated. The thoroughly
frightened negro at once complied ard he was
released. [If this had taken place in South
ern town the papers of Pennsy would
have been filled with details of another out
rage against the coored brother, and Con
greSs would have been asked to investigate it