The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-12-17
News of the Week.

Fresno county. California, produces 50.
900 tons Of raisius yearly. The profit on them
ranges from s. TO $500 an aere.
Andrew Carnegie says that bigger fortane-
viii be made Ia the rubber industry fhsu sea
any other duriag the next hall century.
Mrs. Charles L. Becker. Of New Yusk. re-
ceived $40 600 for piece Of properly 10 The
Bronx which she did not kI=1w she possessed
Miss Mary Cannon. Of Sea Clif. L. l., an
athletic girl. last Sunday routed high way man
whom she met while returning from the golf
links
Frank Gardner has been sentenced 10 ihe
penitentiary by Judge Marshall Of Pi,tsburg
Pa, for 81 years and 3 months ia II cases ol
larceny.
By the will Of the late Charles +. French. d
miser, OF Boston. the bulk of an estate valued
at Sl65 900 is left to educational aud phiIan.
ihropic uses
There are A, 600 hotels IN the United States.
representing an invested capital Of over 50,
600. 00Q. These establishments employ g.
500. 900 persons.
Edward Broughtou, for FIVE years a trusted
mail carrier in the Portsmouth Virginia
Postofice, has been arrested on the charge OF
robbing the mails
monument has been dedicated at Kansas
City to James Bridges, the famous guide and
explorer, who discovered Great Salt Lake and
Yellowstone Park.
Daniel Renear q swimmer Of the New York
Athletic Club. covered 100 yards ia one min
ute at Honolulu, establishing new worlds
record for the distance.
The Lord Mayor of London has issued an
appeal for funds for the relief OF the anern
ployed Of London. and the RothschildS have
contributed $4,000, the King 81, $50, and the
Queen 81 900.
dispatch from London, England says:
Eighty seven cotton spinning mills employing
capital amounting to over SIS. 900. 900 onlv
made profit of $3.50 900 for the year ending
November 80 The same mills last year lost
500. 600
Pressed by suits, the Neafe Levy Ship
and Engine Building Company, Of Philadel
phia, Pa, has agreed to a receivership, and
Sommers n. Smith. vice president and gen
eral manager of the concern and John W.
Grange were named.
The Roby Building, in Rochester. n T.,
was destroyed by fire December II. entailing
a loss of about $500. 900. The building. which
was valued at $50, 600 was practically des-
troyed The Van Bergh Silver Plate Com,
paDy loses $3.50, 600, with an insurance Of
$3.50, 0O0 the Hayden Furniture Company,
100000, insured.
While complete official returns of the late
election are not vet available, it is known that
the total vote was about 500, 900 smaller than
the total vote of 1900. The total for Roose.
welt exceeds the total for Mckinley by about
484, 600, but the total for Parker is about
I.240, 900 less than the total for Bryan. This
showing fully explains the tremendous plu-
rality for Roosevelt.
After being fugitive from justice for thir
teen months, William J. Mendum, of Win
chester, Mass, went to Portsmouth, \. a..
December aud surrendered 10 the author
ties. Mendum was the only son of Charles
II. Mendum, of that city, wealthy property
owner. At the death of his father he was
appointed one of the trustees of the estate.
and il is alleged that he violated this trust by
embezzling $4,000.
Further investigation of the alleged secur
tiles deposited by Mrs. Cassie l.. Chadwick in
Ohio banks showed that Andrew Carnegie's
name had been forged to notes and other
papers to the aggregate face value of SIG, 1876,
900. c. I. Beckwith, president Of the wreck
ed bank at 0berlin. in written confession, |
made a surprising expose of the manner in
which be and his colleagues had been duped |
by the wpman's promises that they should !
handle her $4,000, 900 estate, with salaries of
$40, 900 each, and should receive bonus of
$40. 900 on loans. Mrs. Chadwick collapsed |
in her cell in the Tombs after she had sent |
word to the United States Commissioner that
she would resist the attempt to send her to |
Cleveland for trial.