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

Kentucky woman, only S8 years old, has
just acquired her ninth husband.
1t is said that there will be 200, ,O00, 900
bushels of wheat for export this year.
The telephone and rural free delivery of
mail have increased Georgia farm lands from
$40 to 800 an acre.
Philadelphia leads the world in the manu-
facture of carpets, with a yearly output worth
S21, ,9s6, ,062, and employing II, 100 persons in
SS mills.
The Johnston warehouse, at Johnston, S.
c., was consumed by fire last Sunday. 1t
contained about 1000 bales of cotton, valued
at 100000.
Continuous rides by trolley from Chicago
to New York are projected by a new Indiana
corporation, and two routes are to be COM
pleted by next June.
The late C. j. Hamln, of Buffalo, N. Y,
the veteran trotting horseman, left an estate
of 81, ,54S, 900. mostly in gilt-edged bonds, to
his wife and three sons.
Peter Pitts, maniac, killed himself near
lorain, Ohio. last Saturday, where he was
surrounded by posse, after terrorizing an
entire township for three days.
In the United States last year there were
sos strikes, involving l45, Ia persons. The
number benefited was l2l, $40. The total
cost of the strikes was 81, 500, 620.63.
Thomas Taphng, of London, began collect
ing postage stamps when only 10 years old
aud now has a collection of about 100, 600,
which. it is estimated, is worth $500, 900.
Thousands of bats took possession of
schoolhouse in Nedding, Cal, the other day,
aud the school had to be closed till the in
truders could be ousted by means of burning
sulphur, etc.
Miss Nav Muller, of New York, who had
been Tilted by Charles Marsh, thre~ cayenne
pepper into his eyes as be was about to be
married to Miss Lena Coy last Sunday She
was arrested and held for court.
Last Sunday the villages of New Berlin and
EdmestoD. N. Y. were almost destroyed by
a eoudburst. Following a terrific fall of rain
al :. 80 y. M, the streams rose suddenly and
swept away buildings, cattle, &c. Several
persons were drowned and the property loss
was very heavy.
Fire al Adrianople. Turkey, on September
3, caused enormous damage Seven thousand
houses were destroyed in the Greek, Ar
uenian. Bulgarian and Jewish quarters.
There were many victims. With the excep.
ton Of the Catholic Church, the mosque, the
schools, convent and the telegraph Offices,
lev OF the buildings burned were insured.
Much damage was done III Trenton and
vicinity by heavy storm that passed over
there shortly before noon September 3. In
some sections of the county the storm had
the severity OF elOudbarst. aud many wash
onis are reported At Yardville the sbut-
m-nts of new bridge built by the county was
washed away, the water tearing out several
hundred tons of earth. Electric light poles
were undermined. aud number fell. The
suburban trolley lines suffered severely.
A dispatch from 81. Louis, Missouri, Sep
iemher ,, saws The intense heat of the last
few DAYS was dispeled today by a thunder
storm OF unusual severity. Lightning demol-
iShed the front of the wall of the home of
Frederick Brockschmitt. stunning the parents
aud two children. On Newsdaie avenue four
Hat buildings were piled up in the streets. A
number of homes were unroofed and trees
were blown down and stripped of their branch
es. The wind reached n velocity of 40 miles
an hour. A total of l.9l inches of rain fell.
Al Chicago, last Saturday, Nels Anderson,
a motor inspector of the Illinois Steel Com
pany, choose death by electrocution in pre-
ference 10 "A more horrible fate in one of
the company's seething metal pits at the
South Chicago works. Anderson was doing
repair work on the arm of a crane directly
above one Of the hot metal pits. slight
movement of the arm caused him to lose his
balance. The only support within reach was
an uninsulaied live wire The doomed man
gave one glance at the white hot metal below
and caught the wire as he was falling. He
was almost instantly killed and the body hung
over the wire until the current could be shut
off