The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1905-06-03
News of the Week.


of thieves who for years have been working
the Spanish hidden treasure swindle in Amer
lea and Europe.
Col. George Fl. Jones, of Cobb county, Ga,
will present to President Roosevelt, when he
comes South several receipts given by MS
grandmother when she sold slaves to buy "a
wedding trousseau for his mother.
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild. aged IS
years, head of the French branch OF the BANK
ing house bearing the name OF Rothscnilu'
and governor of the Bank of France, dled may
&C. in Paris, from acute bronchitis aggraVa'eu
by govt.
Under orders issued by the Chief OF Ponce
of Manchester, Virginia, all unemployed men
there mnst 90 TO work at once, leave town or
be Put in iail There has of late been grea,
growth of idle men, and this was considered
necessary.
George C. Holden. the postotfce lnspec-
tor of Philadelphia. Pa, who confessed hav-
ing borrowed $11OO from the Storey Cotton
COMPANY, has been dismissed from the ser
vice by Postmaster General Cortelyon. lie
was one of the Oldest men in the department
in point of service, and was looked upon as
one of the shrewest and most capable deec
tives.
What is claimed to be the richest deposit in
the world of pitchbende, from which radium
Is extracted. has been discovered in Colorado.
and L. G. Nesmith, hitherto poor miner, is
the owner. The value of the pitchbende
produced by Nesmith's mine is 50 pound
and the fortune of its owner is said to be be-
yond the dreams of avarce. Up to this time
ptchblende has been found in crevices in the
| rocks scarcely thicker than knife blade. but
Nesmith has followed his vein until he has
| found large body of the valuable ore. Dur
| ing a recent visit to Denver he exhibited a
| piece of the pitchblende said to be the largest
| in the world. Nesmith has made one ship
| ment to Germany and will soon go there with
d large lot of the ore.
At Lincoln, Nebraska, on June Is, Frank
| Barker convicted of the murder of his broth
er Daniel and also his brothers wife, and
now incarcerated in the Nebraska penten-
| tiary awaiting the moose of the hangman for
| his double crime, is to be his own eXecutioner.
| The law requires that all legal executions in
| Nebraska shall be at the penitentiary, under
the supervision of the warden. AS Warden
| Beemer shrinks from the duty of springing the
trap, Barker has stepped into the breach and
informed the warden that he will be his own
hangman. Barker has frankly confessed that
he is guilty He even admits that he deserves
the punishment which the law prescrbes. An
| electrical contrlvance is to control the trap,
connected with a wire running into Barker
|
| but he will have free use of his fingers, and
will push the button releasing the trap.
Reports from Rio, Hardy county, W. Va.
state that Rev. j. A. Mcclure, IL minister OF
the Presbyterian Church of Front Royal. Va.
was placed in the predicament last Saturday
of being arrested and locked up in the con
stables store at Rio on suspicion Of being Il
horse thief Rev. Mr.. Mcclure left his home
early Thursday morning for Rio to take the
place of the regular preacher, who was off or
ii vacation and he drove IA team that looked
like one that was stolen in Winchester from
Liveryman Robert NJ. Henry. The livery
man went in pursuit of the alleged thief anC
arrived at Rio Saturday. When he failed tC
identify the team the preacher was released
Rev. Mr. Mcclure was to have officiated at /;
funeral, and it was delayed five hours. A
large crowd turned out on Sunday at the
church to hear Mr. Mcclure relate his expert
ence.
The Merchants Trust Company, Of New
York city, was closed Tuesday by the order
of the state superintendent of banks. because
it had made loans amounting to about 81 $50,
600 upon which it had not been able to realize
sufficient sum to pay depositors and save tn,
capital of the company from impairment
The company's loans which have no ready
market value were about $3.50, 900 on securities
of the Hudson Valley Railway Company, o
| Gens Falls, n. Y, which is Il consolidation
of trolley lines in the vicinity of Albany, Troy
Saratoga and Lake George, and nearly $500,
600 to the Rutland, VT. Street Railway Com
pany and the Chittenden Development Com
pany, of Rutland. The trust company owe
depositors about 81, POO 000 and according tt
the state bank examiner has available asset
other than in the Hudson Railway Compan,
and the Rutland Companies Of nearly 81, 300,
600, so that it will be necessary to realize
$3.50, 900 to pay depositors.
dispatch from South Norwalk, Conn.
| May %, says:-Snce the town meeting her,
Friday night, at which a special COMMITTEES
presented its report on the ''outdoor aid de
partuent, the problem of its poor has begun
South NOrwalk in an unusual way. 1t wa
learned then that many persons, comparative
ly well-to, do, some among them taxpayers
have been on the pauper lists, and in receip
of monthly aid of from $ll to $40 ever sine
the department was established, or for upwar'
of 20 years Out of a total of 105 cases wher
outdoor aid had been given, only % case
were worthy In more than 20 cases the com
mittee discovered that the benehciarieS hat
been placed on the lists as orphans too youni
to support themselves, and had remained OIL
the lists to the present, though now grown up
In one case young woman engaged to b
married to a well-to do business man of Nor
walk, it was said was in receipt of Il month";
stipend up to the time the committee begal
work. Then she left town.