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

Waste leather is no longer thrown away.
Manufacturers use it in Il compressed form,
instead of iron, TO make cog-wheels.
Il has been computed that for every 1000
tons of pig iron consumed for all purposes the
quantity Of steel produced is approximately:
In Great Britain, GO tons; in Germany, 20
tons; in America, so tons.
Eight of the 10 European thrones will pass
from father to son if all goes well. The Sui
tan will probably be succeeded by his brother
and the King of Spain by his sister, while there
is no direct heir to Queen Wilhelnina.
About $4,000 water wheels are used for
manufacturing in the United States, yielding
300, 900 horsepower or oneqnarter to one.
third of the whole power used. Of this total
! $50, 600. horsepower is used by the 1900 mills
in New England
| The California State Board of Trade has
voted to request the Secretary of Agriculture
| of the United States TO appoint a special com
missioner to ascertain and report regarding all
agricultural products that can be raised in the
! Stale.
The failure of the potato crop is causing
great distress and suffering among the peasan-
| try of Connemara, Ireland. Reports from
various districts of Ireland state that the pinch
/ of hunger is already severely felt, especially
on the Mayo Seaboard
Rev. William May, the oldest Methodist
preacher in Kentucky, died last week. He
had been preaching for 20 years, and during
that time had never accepted cent Of money
for his services. He married 5000 couples,
baptised 5000 persons and ofliciated at 5000
funerals.
One of the most remarkable prisoners in
the United States is a convict in Sing Sing
who edits the prison paper, the Star of Hope.
He is there for burglary, but in his time has
been lawyer, reporter, confidence man, secre-
tary 10 Il khedive of Egypt, preacher, forger
and politician. lie is an Englishman by birth.
Along the international boundary of the
Canadian Northwest, 20 years ago, was an
acreage Of go. 900 under crop, yielding 200
COO bushels of wheat. Now the acreage is
over 4.0O0, 900, aud the annual yield no.
Co., GEO bushels. while population, acreage
and output are augmenting at 4 rate 10 other
country can approach.
Las, week the Hanover { Pa. Produce Co.
shipped To New York, Philadelphia and Bal
y timore markets 81 $40 pounds Of turkeys, and
n 1000 pounds OF chickens and ducks. The
Ggh Street Produce Co. of the same place.
shaped 81, 55S pounds OF turkeys and 200
poth,ds OF chickens and ducks to the city mar
kpts.
II Sensational charges have been made against
{, john r. butts. president Of the Water Board
"t Wheeling. ". Va. in an affidavit published
last week. -. W. Martin, former employe Of
the burl, says on his oath that the president
; tried 10 conspjte with him 10 burst big down
u town niala 10y putting on heavy pressure, th'
/. object being 70 iorce the City Council into
b. costly CONTRACT Tor new main. Butts is
wealthy contractor.
Death from fasting under an impression
p that be was obeying u divine command WA
] fhs to ftff fa ts.sy IA pf A div
stone, a suburb of Cincinnati on Novembe
% lie vas found dead in his bed. after fast
;ug forty days Mr.. Buckles, for years
Methodist preacher, claimed to be fastn
lie under Gods direct command.
r A dispatch from Pottsville, Pa, Novembe
/, -, says: A peculiar snowstorm extende
from Broud Mountain today 10 above Wilkes
barre, distance OF sixty miles. Althoug
; the snow fell To "a depth of two inches, ID
: storm was only mile wide. many towns ca
NJ eriencng the fall effects of the blizzard, Will
neighboring towns within walking disiaRc
we're not affected at all. A high wind accom-
!, panied the storm.
u Al Homestead, Pa, on November %, Their
2, we're six miles Of freight cars, loaded wit
a products OF the mills in the lower MonoDgs
hela valley, blocking the yards Of the Pitt
, burg, Virginia and Charleston Railroad, an
n hundreds Of other cars are on tracks at othe
mills awaiting shipment While the conges
g ton ia not complete, the production has reach
= ed thar point where the railroads are seriousl
n handicapped in the way of motive power
There is also a serious shortage of cars Tn
| plants may have to shut down. although the
are crowded with orders. The same eondinO
exists al the Duquesue plants, and the bi
!" yards ina the vicinity Of Oliver Hollow are file
e with loaded cars.