The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-01-30
News of the Week.

Liverpool to Yokohama will be =, 2OO miles
shorter than that across the Uuited States.
John p Gogein, treasurer of the Nash
ia On. H. Trust Company, has been ar
rested on the charge of embezzling $780,
900.
Fifty-nine per cent of deaths from con-
are people under 40 years of age,
% per cent from As to 60, and II per
cent. of people over so.
A steel like grass from the volcanic
slopes of Oran, Algeria, is so elastic that
it can be used instead Of springs in the
of furniture.
Most dromedaries, according to a men
ageries proprietor, are particularly fond Of
tobacco smoke, and can be made to do al
most anything under its influence.
Now that cotton presses reduce the size
of Il bale until it weighs 45 pounds to the
square foot, one ship will carry the pro-
duet of 10000 acres of average cotton
land
Great damage was done to fruit trees in
Orange county, \. Y. by sleet January
- The damage to peachgrowers is es-
timated at 500, 600, many orchards being
ruined.
George A Rose, cashier of the Pro-
duce Exchange National Bank, Cleveland,
Ohio, has been indicted for stealing S1S9, :
0O0 of the bank funds The bank has
been closed
The Metropolitan Arm Museum of New
York has just purchased an old chariot for
$50. 600. 1t was unearthed near Rome
some time ago, and is 1000 years old and
splendidly preserved.
The Masonic Temple in Chicago was
damaged To the extent of $40, 600 by FIRE,
January % and panic started among the
1000 occupants of the building; all escaped
without serious injury,
Second Assistant Postmaster General
Shalleuberger, in his annual report. SAYS
nearly IL, 600, 001, 600 pieces Of mail
matter were handled, aud that its trans .
portatiou cost more than S63, O00, 900
J L. Broierick. formerly president W .
L. Goodness. formerly cashier, and Walter
Brown, formerly director of the Indiana
National Bank, have been arrested at Elk :
hart, Indiana, for embezzlement of s542, =
00O
;. b. Allen, president of the Farmers
and Merchants National Bank at Gle
burne Texas, has been arrested, charged
with the embexzlement Of s29, 600 Of the
banks funds He was released on s., :
000 bond
Willard Gait. alleged to have been the
the leader Of the gang Of rlihans who as
saulted Mrs Lafe Dedman, Of Petersburg.
Indiana. in the presence Of her husband
was apprehended at the home Of Peter
childish. bu, afteFward escaped
l. Wolfson large dry goods store at
san Antonio, Texas, which carried stock
Of goo,is valued at 1888. 600, was destroy
ed BY FIRE last Sunday The building wss
valued 81 SIS, 600. Considerable damage
was done tai surrounding property.
More than sl2, OOO worth Of jewelry
was found on james Walters, said to be
enc of the cleyeresG diamond thieves in the
country. when be was arrested at Mime
apo3is January %, charged with having
robbed Baroness Helena RadEik wele OF
10000 worth Of diamonds at the Colonial
Hotel in San Francisco.
The t0wn Of Aalesund, Norway, was
completely destroyed by Ere January %.
hu, there was no loss Of life The damage
i estimated at 81, 600. 900 The entire
population = homeless. Provisions aud
medical stores, which are greatly needed,
have been sent from several cities. Aale
sund j. 4 busy seaport trading town OF
Norway with over 5000 inhabitants
Az Jamestown. Miss, on the night Of
January -, large store was turnSd com
pletely over. residence was demolished,
and the saEehouse Of the Jamestown Cotton
Oil Company was anrOofed and the con
tents materially damaged By an electric
storm, Negro cabins suffered to great
extent. Three cars on the fazo aud
Mississippi Valley tracks were completely
demolished By lightning.
Disastrous foods occurred Friday and
Saturday Of last week in New York, New
jersey. Delaware, Maryland Virginia,
Pennsylvania, and along the Ohio aud Mis-,
sissippi rivers and their tributaries Mil
lions vi dollars damage resulted tn property
and mach distress prevails among those
who were compelled to abandon then
homes, caused By the intense cold of Sat.
ur,iay night and Sunday.
Fire Chief Musham, in a report to May
or Harrison, in Chicago, placed the blame
for the lroquois Theatre catastrophe upon
the management aud builders of the play
house Harry hlawans, son Of a wealthy
Chicago man, has been arrested. charged
with having in his possession plumber taken
from the body of William NJ Reid, OF
Waukegan Illinois, who was burned with
his wife in the theatre FIRE.
United States >enator Burton, Repub-
lican, Kansas, has been indicted by the
Federal Grand Jury at ST. Louis, charged
with having accepted five checks Of $500
each from the Rialto Grain and Securities
Company while he was United States
Senator Ii was said he accepted the money
As a reward for preventing the issuance OF
a fraud order against the company, The
Senator, in Washington, said that the
money paid him was for his services as at
torney for the Rialto Company
The oyster-shucking industry on the
ocean side of the Virginia Eastern Shore Is
fast growing in extent and prominence.
Over 3, 600 gallons of shueked oysters are
daily shipped from Onaneock to city mar
kets. Orders are taken from Jacksonville,
Florida, to Portland, Maine, and FROM
Montreal, Canada, to Omaha, Nebraska.
Several thousand people are employed
This section is without the Baylor survey
aud is known as the planting district. -
1t was developed by private parties plant
ing oyster on barren rock.
Right Rev. Thomas Underwood Dud-
ley, Episcopal Bishop of Kentucky, died
in New York, January %. He was one
of the most eloquent preachers among the
Episcopal clergy. He was born on Sep
TENDER &c, 1897, at Richmond, Va, and
was graduated from the University of Vir-
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