The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-03-12
News of the Week.


than half that of the United States.
David Sears, wealthy bachelor of Boston,
has given $3.50, 600 to Harvard University.
The per capita circulation is now $50. 81,
the highest point ever reached in this country.
The cost of the pension roll is $175 year
for every man, woman and child IN the United
States.
The suicide rate in the United States has
increased in 10 years from u to II per lO0
600 of population.
Last year "a, 900 persons mysteriously dis
appeared in London Ninety per cent. of
them were married men.
The Italian state railways, according to a
report from Rome, will soon place orders for
200 locomotives and several thousand freight
cars.
The aggregate fire less in the United States
from 1877 to 1902, inclusive, was IS, 092, $50,
III, and the insurance loss was S1,S2S, $50,
62S.
All the people in the United States could
be evenly distributed over Manhattan Island
without making it as densely populated as its
southeastern quarter now is.
The referee decided the value of prize prop
erty captured in the battle of Manila Bay and
subject to distribution among Admiral Dewey,
his officers and men is 1929, 1913.
Henry Mari, of Columbus. Ind, farmer,
lives in house exactly in the middle of this
great country. A stone in his barn lot marks
the spot named by census officials.
Liverpool, England, has closed ore-third of
its saloons during the last 10 years, and so de-
creased her police IN consequence as to have
effected an economy of $40, 600 yearly.
Captain George C. Broone, United States
Army has brought suit for $3.50, 900 damages
against James F. Barbour and wife, Of Wash
ington, d. c., for alienation of bis wite's at
fections.
II is believed that the Rotnscaild family, as
a whole, is worth about 81, 800, 600, 900, the
French section being represented by about
$3.50, 900, 600 and the English branch by con-
siderably more.
The building, in Oswego. n. Y, containing
the Offices of the New York Central Railroad,
American Express Company, four stores and
an unoccupied hotel. was burned last Sunday.
Loss about 500, OO0
J. n. Coble, Norfolk Va. saloonkeeper,
has been fined $500 and costs and given 60
days in Jail for keeping his place of business
open last Sunday. ard was fined 500 and costs
upon the charge of perjury.
There are two national banks in Mt. Pleas
ant, Ia, and it has Just developed thGt q ma.
lOrlfN OF STOCK III eaCu GaSG - bNtGA " q
woman. The men VINO actually manage the
enterprise own but small fraction.
Smallpox is raging in the Indian Tribes OF the
Northwest. In the Isle de Cross district over
go deaths have occurred. and the Indians have
fed to other reservations, thus scattering the
disease. Soldiers aud mounted police are
corralling them.
At Reading, Pa, as result OF the improved
conditions in the iroH trade the Penn Hard
ware Company put its $50 hands on ten hours,
six DAYS a week. The same order was issued
TO 1900 employees of the Reading Hardware
Company. Both had been on short time for
the past year.
George S. Brainerd, President Of the Far
mers and Mechanics Bank, Of Montgomery,
Mimi, has been sentenced 10 five years i'm
prisonment for receiving deposits when his
bank was iusolvent. and Cashier Patteu, Of
the failed Farmers and Mechanics Bank, Of
Lesuer Centre, MINI, has been sentenced 10
eight years for forgery.
Al St. FeFcien, Canada, February p, the
residence Of Thomas Quay was burned. In
il al the time were the eight small children Of
Thomas Quay, Mrs. Philip Gagnon and her
three small children. All were burned 20
death Both 6aguon and Quay, the fathers.
were absent, working in the woods.
Arthur L. Kemper, president Of A. l..
Kemper L Co, bankers, at l5S La Sale
street, Chicago. has been indicted by the grand
Jury on a charge Of embezzement. The
amount Of the alleged theft is given As SIS.
600. and the complainants Eli N. Upton and
Thomas r. Lewis. members Of the Upton
Coal Company, Rochester, \. Y. kemper
is charged with having retained the proceeds
of notes sent for collection.
u 4 a.
advances have been made with roses, cArna-
tons and vioIets. There are now annually sold
in this country s., 600 900 to s., 0O0, 900 worth
of cut roses. This represents something Ike
100, 600 or lbs, 10000 flowers. The
growing OF roses as an industry has deve loped
especially in the vicinity Of our largest cities.
such as New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and
Baltimore.
In Codorus township, York county, Pa,
there is a remarkable family:-Mr. and Mrs.
John Stump, great-grest. grandfather and
greai-great- grandmother, aged respectively
Sc and IS years, of near New Sinsheim; Mrs.
Sarah Hoff, great grandmother, 90 years, Of
near Green Ridge; Mrs. Aggie Berkheimer
grandmother, 81 years, Of near Green Ridge;
Mrs. Geo. Baublitz, mother, l9 years, OF the
same place, and Bernice BaablItz, her dangb
ter, year. MIR. Stump is an expert bareback
rider.
Noah Raby died March / in Middlesex
county On. J. J poorhouse. of which be bad
been an inmate for the last 40 years. II he
had lived until April next, according to bis
own statement, Raby would have been 1872
years old. He retained his memory, aud
would recall many incidents OF his long career
until very recently. Raby is said 10 have been
born in Eatontown, Gates county, n. C.. on
April /, l772. He enlisted in the Navy ia
1906 and served on the ship Constitution aud
the frigate Brandywine, on the latter of which
Farragut was lieutenant
Last Saturday one oftbe most valuable car
goes ever brought to tue United States from
the East Indies arrived at Philadelphia, Pa,
on the British steamship British Monarch
from Calcutta The shipment consists Of over
10000 bales Of jute and barlap, insured for
s., 250, 900 and consigned to different firms
in that city. The vessel encountered stormy
weather in both the Mediterranean sea and
North Atlantic ocean. The toll assessed on
the Monarch for passage through the Suez
canal WAS 5000.
A dispatch from Lewiston, Montana, March
6, says: The three stalled trains on the Mon
tana Railway have been located between Har-
lowton and Ubet, and two trains are tied up
near Summit The passengers, about 20 in
all, were rescued in stages, after a path was
shoveled over the hills TO the track. The
snow plows are unable to work, and nothing
but thaw will open the road. In two days,
unless a freight train can get through, this
town will be in darkness. The storekeepers
have sold their last kerosene, and candles can :
not be had. Food supplies are already limited.
George Janney, a member of the prominent
Janney family of Maryland and Virginia, died
March 2, at Clear Brook, Frederick county
Virginia, from paralysis, aged SO years. He
was a native of Loudoun county Va, and 10
some RESPECTS was remarkable inan. Twice
he had walked the entire distance from Win
chester to Kansas and return, and once he
walked to California and return, besides hav-
ing tramped to New Orleans and returned
to Winchester via Southern States He was
a noted pedestrian all his life, man of re.
markable appearance, aud was one of the ear =
lest settlers in Kansas. He leaves no family
During the year just passed over sc, 600 feet
of applewood logs we're shipped out of York
county, Pa Martin L. Neither has in less
than 10 years acquired small fortune in buy
ing for shipment the logs from farmers in York,
Lancaster, Adams and other counties. Thou
sands of feet Of applewood timber were used
for fuel or allowed to go 10 waste before
Meitzler and others began buying the logs for
big lumber firms or manufacturers who find
use for applewood. Not so now. When the
farmer finds a tree in the orchard damaged by