The Democratic advocate., 1905-09-23
News of the week-

4 distinguished scientist e~lisaaies 'he age OF
rho uerli s' so go 90 years
The naval ailitias Of the several states
rouprisr ass officers and Z, 40 men.
Thr earth Weighs, according to scientific
estimates. 4.G4S, 90, 600, coo, COO tons.
There are 1T women engaged as stationary
caElneers and 6remea IN the Onised States
Miss Iona Dare. an Indiana schoolgirl,
make, $50 aaSot each acre ol q small Indiana
farm.
The Baden Produce Company. at Winfield,
Kan, Is Feeding l4,oo0 chickens Tor 'he
market.
The LOSSES 10 the oil companies in the Cau-
casus by the iuceudiary hres are estimated al
50. 00O. eco.
pr. Francis fagolsby. a6 years old. a cancer
suceialIsi. died iu GrAyson county, West Var
giHia, last week.
TaHcst among telegraph poles Is one just
raised ~ llfraeumbe, ia Eugiaud, which stands
llG feeJ inches above ground.
York Pa. Six Company has increased its
stock. which has been taken by residents, aud
WiIl erect aao,her large silk mill.
The blue lass at Grafton. W. Va, have he
come So unpopular that the Ciiy Council IS
considering an ordinance repeating them
The Psnnsylyania Railroad has placed or.
ders tor s., ,0o0. 010 wor,h Of steel rails and
hired 1900 w1rknrn for the several shops.
Dasid T.. Sherrick. Stale Auditor OF lndi-
nna. is q detauler Tor about Sl45,oOO. He
has been held to Sl5,oGo bail for the grand
jury
Sixty buildiugs, including the City Hall. at
Nome, Alaska. we're destroyed by tire on the
night ct September Is. The loss was 5000
Ogo
The contract for the erection of a Masonic
tenu,r at Fairmoui ". Va, TO cost slOn,otO,
was awarded to the Brady Construction Com
pany,
Russian oil men have asked the government
Tor . loan 10 cover losses at Baku, without
which. they say. los OF the l33 companies
must 20 oul of business.
Seven shepherds drove herd Of l4,OOo
sheep from Mamaga, in Queensland, to Narbi.
iu New South Wales, "A distance of 800 miles.
without losing one sheep.
One Irish industry fourishes-,hat of lion
breediug-in the Geological Gardens, Phoenix
Park. Dublin. In the last few years over 200
cabs have been raised there.
Katie Noher. who for more than a quarter
of a century. under the name and guise OF
man, lived the life OF a treighter, cowboy,
scout. goldseeker aud stage driver in Montana,
Is dead.
At Kansas City. Missouri, on Monday. the
American Pathological Society began its 29th
biennial meeting large array OF truit was
displayed. A Brooklyn firm showed l23 VA.
riches of European pears recently imported
and grown in this country
In respect to malignant diseases, one OF
darkest spots in the records OF recent years Is
the steadily growing death rate from cancer in
Germany. Not less than So persons per week
"A minimum average of five per day-die OF
cancerous disease within the municipal limits
of Berlin.
Andrew and John Foeren, aged and wealthy
farmers living near Spring Lake, Ill.,. were
tortured by robbers, who got $500 from them,
on September 10. The robbers beat the old
men into inseusibility and then burned the
soles of their feet until they told where the
money was,
The government Of Quebec, Canada, is
finding itself embarrassed by a law emitting the
parent of II living legitimate children TO 100
acres of crown lands Up TO June last 3,40O
applicants had received their claims. Since
then another 900 have applied, and every
month brings in from 100 10 200 applicants.
A herd of cattle, numbering twenty, that
was stolen last week from herd ON the farm
of Seachariah Mianich, near Netlsvile, Pa,
was recovered in a barn near Reading. where
the thieves had placed them. The cattle were
in a trghtiul condition from their long drive,
and is believed some of them will die. Good
descriptions of the thieves have been obtained.