The Democratic advocate., 1905-03-18
News of the Week.

-Four thousand Chinese are rrpos9rd 10 be
starving 10 san Francisco.
Il Is Said that Government sssns hare
ioand that Utah caal lands have bera secured
By fraud.
Twenty.tso negro women. Of kschmond,
Va. have ioFracd company To operate big
department. storC-
usary B!aua, NeE York yHilk dealer. was
sentenced to IL days IN the Tosabs Prison foF
Aaaltsraiins milk.
Quite member OF fatal e@sys af spotted
fever hav. been reported ia fh~ yagious cities
and go=ns Of C0apectieui.
Bs The zill of William T. Milton. of Nes
York, Harvard University IS 80 have 5000,
eos ~ tn death q hSs ~Ido-.
Jack. the talking eros belonging 10 Prot.
Nrlson r. Wood. Of the Smithsonian iastiia.
,ioa. gasbingsoa, u, C.. Is dead.
Chsef EIyuH. OF the Secret Service. rounded
up dAuger0as xaag Of roanisSi~i;rr~ tn a
tsaespeat- hsase IN Asios'@, l. /.
4 sg-eesal committee Of the Utah legislature
has declared that investigation has shosn
wcrid's FAIR a~Arsis 10 b. giksa,le fraud.
On March n. is CisrelAnd. Ohio, the jary
10 the Mrs. Cassie l. Chad-iek case. sA- eeis.
hr4iei female 6nancirF. rvnderrd yrElsci os
sail'y-
nru to~n IS pso,ecied near Hslustga. \.
j, where usrn wiil oos b~ allowed 10 dnnk or
sass tobacco aud women vii b. ioEb'dden 10
~rar rufscis-
giolrai Aad disastrous storas prevailed on
The EnSllsh Rnd iFash coasts lhis seek Many
lives seEe lost and grrAs damage So property
Is rrpostsd.
Az Genoa, Ohio. on Sunday. the safe 10 the
bsak ~as bloxn open and the robbers secured
g., ,Ooo in cash and sT8. .0si Ia bonds and ne
zosiAble paper.
Col Caleb Husc, whs vas an Instructors Al
West Point. aud subsequently, an otlicer le the
Confederate Army, died at his home. IN High
land Falls. \. T.
The CITY Hotel, Gettysburg, Of shieh John
+. Hughes vas proprietor, has beeu sold 10
Peter ~ BruneS; the purchase price was be-
tween SIS. coo aud $4,000.
William Coleman has been given six years
for sleai,ng So. 900 soEth uf diamonds from
Mrs III. c. Potter and her daughter, Ms.
Clark. Of Washington, u. &.
George schis,leF, OF D-nyer. killed a neigh
bor and his family over lawsuit and Gas him.
self killed by officers. his wife dropping dead
when she heard of the tragedy.
Mrs. l.aeetiA Hoover. wife OF c. c. Hoover,
oC Brownsin~n. Lancaster eoanty. Pa. died
March ls. agei IS years. She was the mother
OF ~ children, 5 are living and IL dead
Rev. J. ". Sandersop, of Beaver Dam.
Wis. who was Uuion officer a. Fortress
Monroe At the time, says Jefferson DAVIS weps
( when the manAcles were placed aPon him.
Three thousand miles without II stop, at the
rate Of 100 miles or more an hour, Is the capac-
/ inv Of a new type OF locomotive which has been
ordered by the Southern Pacific Railroad
On March IL the bank barn on the farm OF
/ ]. Edward Poe, near Greencastie, Pa. to-
| sether with IL horses. IS cattle, hay, fodder,
| corn aud machinery, was burned BY an Ineen-
| diary.
| Sherman W. Morris, a burglar, who served
| a term in the Iowa Peniientiary. eloPed irom
| Des Moines with Miss May Bergstrom, young
I lady. whose mother had objected TO the mar.
1 rage.
| Fieldeu Diekersou and JEFF Turman renew.
| ed an old quarrel while at church Sunday st
| Mira Fork, Floyd county, Virginia Turman
was sho, dead by Dickerson. who then made
| his escape.
| AT the sale OF the personal property OF Eliz-
| abeth Bair. near Hanover, Pa. last Monday,
a grandfather's clock brought $50, and BIZ
Bile, printed in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1925,
brought $3.50.
Miss Amanda Lease, an inmate OF the Home
| for Widows at Reading, Pa, died March IL,
| of eIephaniiasis, aged CO years. Her limbs
were so swollen that the body weighed over
400 pounds.
An old soldier has asked Pension Commis.
| sioner Warner TO discontinue his pension be-
cause he has recovered his health. No law
has been found yet under which the request
can be granted.
Nineteen persons are known TO be dead,
several seriously injured aud score more or
less hurt as the result of n fire in a big tene-
ment house on the East Side in New York
city, on Tuesday.
Statisticians find that something like 1000
vessels of all sorts disappear in the sea every
year. never TO be heard from again, taking
with them 10000 human beings and involving
u money loss of 500, 100000.
AT Morgautown, West Virginia, on March
IL the food did more damage than has oc-
Cured since the great food of 1888. Rail,
roads and oil companies were paralyzed aud
much private property was destroyed.
The annual report of the Pennsylvania
Railroad shows that during last year 285. 900,
600 tons of freight and l20, 900, 900 passengers
were carried over nearly l l. 900 miles OF road
with gross earnings of $238.OO0, 900 and net
earnings of ST., 900 600. Brought down to
smaller figures. this was 200 pounds OF freigh
for every inhabitant of the globe; a total o
passengers carried equal to the combined
population of the United States and France
! and gross earnings amounting 20 Sl4 for ever
family in this country.