The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1905-12-02
News Of the Week.


Mrs. Mary Kidder, the hymn writer, died
at Chelsea, Mass, November %. Mrs. Kid
der was SO years Of age. as My Name
Written There p "We Shall Sleep, but Not
Forever" and 1.-The Golden Side were
among some of her best known compositions,
and it is estimated that she wrote more than
1000 hymns during her life. She was asso-
ciated with Ira d. Saukey in writing the words
for the music composed by his co worker, d..
l.. Moody.
William S. McWlliams, aged so years, is
under arrest, accused of killing his wife, four
sons and one daughter, near Independence,
Ia, Friday of last week. Additional evidence
has been secured against him since the crime
was discovered. McWillams maintains his
innocence. His neighbors say that he has
acted peculiar since suffering sunstroke two
years ago. They declare he should be exam
ined for insanity. McWllliams, it is alleged,
beat his wife and children's heads with Il
hammer, hacked their bodies with a meat
knife and left them on the kitchen floor.
George Kreps. farmer of Glen Rock, Pa,
was ground to death Friday, November "A in
a most horrible manner under the wheels Of
an engine on the Northern Central Railway,
at Seven Valley. The body Of the man was
ground into fragments and the portion of the
track over which it was dragged was covered
with blood. Kreps was driving a wagon
loaded with wood over crossing Of the rail
road, when it was struck by local freight
engine. kreps evidently had not observed
the approach of the train. He was thrown
from the wagon upon the track and directly
in front of the engine. Both of his legs were
severed and other portions of the body torn
into fragments. man standing near the
crossing warned kreps of the approach of the
train, but he evidently did not hear him. The
two horses attached to the wagon ESCAPED in
ury.
The most disastrous railroad wreck IN Mas
sachusetts for many years occurred al s. Is
O'Clock p. M, on Sunday, November &c, at
Bakers Bridge Station, on the main line of
the Fitchburg division ofthe Boston and Maine
railroad. The regular Sunday night express.
which left Boston al 7.45 o clock for Montreal
via the Rutland system, crashed into the rear
OF a local train which started from Boston al
7.l5 for points on the main line and the Mari
boro branch. Sixteen persons were killed
outright, burned to death or sufocated, and
% were seriously injured. Many passengers
sustained minor cuts, bruises and burns The
wreck was primarily due to thick weather.
which apparently obscured signals set by the
forward train, which at The time of the disas-
ter was standing in front of Bakers Bridge
Station. The Montreal train drawn by two
locomotives and consisting of nine cars, crash.
ed into the rear of the local, demolishing the
two last cars.
Mrs. Francis Burton Harrison, wife of
former Congressman Francis Burton Harri
son, of New York city, was killed November
% by the overturniug Of an automobile in
which she was riding with party of friends
from San Francisco. The car was running
down steep hill iii Long Island City when a
break in the steering gear caused the accident.
Mr.. and Mrs. Laurence |. Scott, of San
Francisco, and Charles Il. Crocker. also of
San Francisco, Yale student and brother of
Mrs. Harrison, were injured. MIR. Scott suf
fered fractured rib and is in serious con
dtion. His wife was knocked senseless. but
later revived Mr. Crocker was bruised and
the chauffeur slightly hurt. Mrs Harrison's
neck was broken. Mrs. Harrison was Miss
Mary Crocker, daughter of the late C. F.
Crocker, OF San Francisco She was one of
three children who divided fortune of be.
tween ST., LOCO, 900 and SIS, 200, 900 left by her
father. Her husband, Francis Burton Har.
rison, is the son of Mrs. Burton n. Harrison.
the novelist, and Burton N. Harrison, who
was secretary to President Jefferson Davis,
ofthe Southern Confederacy, during the Civil
War. Mr.. Scott is a son OF the late Irving
M. Scott, the San Francisco shipbuilder.