The Democratic advocate., 1905-09-02
News of the Week.

About 1,500, 900 persons are employed in
the coal mines of the world.
Germany's S African war has already cost the
taxpayers nearly So. 100000.
shpyard at Ominato. Japan. still in oper-
alton, was established 900 years ago.
A barrel of salt is produced in the United
States each year for every four inhabitants.
gramophone which, it is said can be
heard at distance of three miles, is late
invention.
No married man in Vienna is allowed to 90
up in balloon without the formal consent of
his wife and children.
China has 10 railways in operation. with a
total mileage of ,, 235, or about e.tenth that
OF Great Britain.
A l5-yearold choir boy has been arrested in
Philadelphia on the charge OF burglary. The
police say he has committed over 40 rObberieS.
BY cloudburSt near Tobasco and Berwin.
| Colorado, on August %, it is said 30 lives were
lost in the coal mines by the sudden flooding.
The BackuS- Brooks Lumber Company. of
/ Minneapolis. propose to build dam across
the Rainy River at Fort Francis Ontario.
York county, Pa, Is filled with counterfeit
quarter dollars The coin is said To be one of
The finest ever made and experts have been
deceived by them.
A social rivalry between Mrs. John Jacob
Astor and Mrs. Potter Palmer threatens to
divide the American social eoloHy in London
into two bitter factions.
The British First East Yorkshire Regiment,
which has been 20 years on foreign service in
the Far East, has Just been ordered home from
! Burmah
There is a beacon in the Arizona desert to
guide travellers to water hole. This is light
ed At night. constituting lighthouse sever
| al hundred miles inland
\ Philadelphia man became convinced that
h- was about 20 die and predicted IN let
ter % Is relative. When about 40 post the
missive he dropped dead.
7. ". Davis is he champion bicycIist cfhls
age ia the world. He is q years Old and has
ridden lu7,7sl miles on his bicycle. He be-
gan bicycling al the age OF 81.
John Moore, negro, 20 years old, was
taken from jail iu e~Oern. " C., August ~
by mob of leo armed men and lyuched. He
attacked a woman In . country store.
The discovery ol OH ~ the heart ui Warren.
Pa, has made that town oil crazy. Wells are
belug SUNK Ia back yarl> ui residents, There
has been phenomenal rise 10 land values.
O~,ug Go a long continued irouih m the
districts ct usuua and Almog,a, Span, over
I 10. .oou persons arr starving and many deaths
"' S"''aF'h ana "'i persons hA'' occurred
Bgookiyu man asked tina; has wife be-
committed 90 an industrial home because hv
s-> iigeI pf cambiaE her hnlr an1 sewing
buttons %" her '.Du-e'- She vas committed.
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