The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-12-31
News of the week

The traffic through The 500 ship cansi 60
The year was 81, SAC, loo tons, decrease Of
4Is. Cos tons.
In Chicago the Pennsylvania Railroad Is
preparing % build depui TO cost $50, COO COO
FOR land aud bindings.
wise-beaaers ia Washington, D. O., here
after are to haye taste Of The whipping posi-,
instead Of going to jail.
The FIRE ii Sioux CITY, Iowa. December -,
DESTROYED two central business blocks. the to-
tai loss being s2,000.0o0.
Miss Esieiaao Cara was married IN Aus,in,
Texas. December - 20 GFegorio Coriez. Who
( is serving life sentence fer marder.
The largest Photographic lens ia existence
has been bought in New York for ihr Cape
Astronomical Observatory IN Soula Africa.
A negro named Jones has been arrested 81
New York, charged With beating another ia
Louisville so badly as 20 prevent the latter
from voting at the presidential election.
The long drought ia tie central ana western
portions os Pennsylvania IS said 10 be the
cause Of one OF the worst freight blockadeS IN
the history OF the Pennsylvania Railroad.
The greater number Of ., 4s5 steerage pas
sengers who arrived ia New York last Sunday
on the steamer Patricia were from RussiHe
Poland, and came TO America 10 escape ean-
scriptioH.
Mrs. Gretchen T. Persch. OF New York.
charges that her husband looked on while Wm.
II. Bongklon. Buffalo man, beat and kicked
her Boaghton was arrested, bat the husband
hiss not yet been found.
Director J. 4. Sage, of the Iowa Crop Ser
vice Bureau. in his completed report OF the
crops produced in that State in 1904 estimates
the aggregate value Of all crops at $50, 0O0. 600
mere than the value OF the crops produced In
1908.
The yAIne Of wheat exported foi eleven
months ending November 80 was $40. %, 706,
against $54. s57, 1876 last year, aud Tire value of
wheat -four exported N the same period was
$40 003. 525 is year. aggiEst ~. SO .6S,j last
yysssf -
ffu..b .FEfsses q fzIsek 9iPsr Ezi1s. Wis,
4 e stssftssss man from Wisconsin Ia 1887 IS,
died in alSenver, aged 40 K8 was son of
W I. Priee,.for many years congressman from
the Eighth Wisconsin ..ssiF::Tt. and succeeded
his fsfiser III Congress.
The passenger train which left ST. Louis at
3 O'clock on the nightof December "a on the
Southern Railway was in collision with a pas
senger train from Louisville, near Mands STA
tion, ILL.,, on Christmas day. Que passenger
and six employees were killed and two passen-
gers and eight employees were s<Shlly injured.
The Northwestern Grain Dealers Assoeia-
ton has issued the following on the wheat sit
nation for Manitoba and the Northwest Terri
tories atthe close of navigation. Quantities
are given in bushels: Estimated YIELD 0cio-
Der is. 50, S5T, 1870; inspected 10 date. p, 200,
600; in store at country points. $500. 600; in
transit aud not inspected, 490, 900; total mar
keted, ST, 100 900; allow fer seed, 5000, 900;
for country mills, 1000, 600; total, 40, 1870 900;
balance to market. Is, 667 100.
At an expense exceeding $1,000 DIR. George
w. Little. physician at the Homeopathic
School af Glen Falls, N. Y. December rs sent
10 oyersa thousand Of his patients e.souyenir
sterling silver teaspoon. mace FROM nus own
design. On the handle are the Do1tor's por-
trait. the inscription 'foriy-six years" the
length OF time he has been III practice, and a
lilly and pheasant. for both of which be has
penchani, as grower aud faneer. On the re-
verse side are shown she Doctors horse and
sleigh, and he himselfis represented as bend
ing over the bedside of Il patient. II also
bears the inscription, dedicated to my pa
tients who have survived my practice. A
silver pellet OF homeopathic size is attached
inside The bowl Of the spoon.