The Democratic advocate., 1904-03-05
News Of tho Week

In February there we're ,O03 failures IN the
United States, with Si5,sl2, $50 liabilities.
Taunton Mass. Safe Deposi, and Irus,
Company has been closed. Liabilities S6o2,
966.
Rocky Mount. North Carolina. had an So
600 fire asi Wednesday. The business part
WIS bnrned.
The annual report of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company showed the net earnings
for 1903 10 have been S27 5Od,5o7.
Savings deposits 10 Chicago banks have
passed the 500, 900. 600 mark. IL the last
year they have increased more than $1,000,
600.
In Philadepbia. Pa. on February -, there
was fail OF large hail for minutes. followed
in the afternoon by roaring Wind With VICIOUS
lightning and heavy ram.
Charlottesville Va ,was visited by a thunder.
storm Sunday, vita sharp lightning and .lt
lie rain, while the ground was covered With
snow aud seei Two hundred telephones aere
burned GU, during the storm.
The Wisconsin State House. at Madison,
was burned February y. Loss $50. 600.
with virtually no insurance, the State having
iust started a fund for lis own insurance. IDe
agitation for the removal Of the seat q gav
ernment TO Milwaukee has been renewed.
An Illicit still, which would rival the OUTFITS
Of the famous ''mooushiuers' Of the Ale
ehenies. was unearthed al 10 Richmond
street. Philadelphia, Pa, February %, by
Collector OF Internal Revenue AcCoach and
several deputies Il bad capacity OF zoo
gallons per day.
AT Rochester, n. Y. on the night Of Feb.
ruary %. the worst blizzard OF tie season
swept over that CRY. IL few moments all
trolley lines were practically out OF business
aod snowdrifts on the sidewalks were almost
insurmouniable A lively thunderstorm ae-
eompauied the blizzard.
Al Dusseldorf. Germany, February 2slh,
Adam Siepen, the armless PALMER, died tie
was born without arms, and painted with ms
left foot. but, despite this terrible Disability,
his work was much sought after and many OF
his pictures were sold in England. Herr Sie-
pen had large studio in Dusseldorf, where
he was popular.
Eight negroes died from eating poisoned
hog meat that was stolen from the smokehouse
Of Thomas Perkins. white farmer residing
near St. Stephens, Ala. The farmer mad been
constantly robbed Of his winter supply Of meat,
and put rough on rats on a quantity OF Il,
which he placed where the thieves were apt TO
get it. They got it, aud the result Is thai a
number are dead. Other negroes were made
i'll. but will recover.
Aunt Sally Coover, as she was familiarly
called. died at Mechanicsburg, Pa, March /,
aged log. She was native Of Cumberland
county and was the last Of a large family, all
of whom we're long lived. Almost 10 the last
she took lively interest in topics Of general
interest. Her mental faculties, which were
good, she retained until the last She was
born April 5, l79S She seemed TO have no
disease, not even the infrmities Of age, until
a few moDths-ago.
Believing life no longer worth living because
she had been deserted by the man who prom
ised to marry her, Miss May Shank, within a
few days of being "a years old, ended her life
with the aid of morphine at her home, at Way
nesboro, Pa, March 2. She left note stat
ing that young man employed in one of the
local factories had promised to make her his
wife. but thai recently be had treated her bad
Iy and deserted her. aud that she could no
longer bear up. She expressed the hope in
her note that the young man would think OF
these things in the years to come. Besides
morphine, the young woman had also pur-
chased laudanum, but no trace of the latter
poison was found in her stomach.