The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1905-12-30
News Of the Week.

John Jacob Astor's income is estimated at
| $50, 600 day.
Sheriff Gibson, of Butler county, Pa, has
seized the county treasury to satisfy two judg.
| ments, aggregating $448, 1873.
| Over 900 men employed in industries
| in PittsbCrg are to receive an increase of 10
| per cent. in wages next week.
| On December % twenty five men caught in
a ships hold full of burning pitch fumes fed
| through flames to escape at Sydney, C. B.
Juctice Gaynor, of the Supreme Court in
Brooklyn, has handed down decision that
the new Royal Arcanum rates are illegal
A contract to build IS bridges for the Tide
water Railroad was awarded to the Virginia
Bridge and Iron Company of Roanoke, for
100000.
A monument erected in memory of Joseph
Smith, founder of the Mormon faith, was ded.
icated at Sharon, VT, his birthplace, on De-
cember %.
The grand jury in Napoleon, Ohio, on De.
cember % broug hl lii Is indictments against
Ohio bridge corporations for violating the
antitrust laws.
John E. bennington was murderously AS.
sauIted in his office in New York, December
%. by William Seims, son of banker, who
was bent on robbery.
On December % six penitentiary convcs
were pardoned by Governor Montague of Vir.
ginia, and 35 prisoners were released from the
Richmond Jail by Justice Crutchfeld.
fast freight train On the Lehigh Valley
Railroad derailed at Catasaqua, Pa, Decem-
Der 49, crashed into and demolished the sta
ton and killed Albert Tiey, the telegraph
operator.
On the night of December % robbers
h.; al, cd ha,t nd ,ba
soes of the feet of Mrs. Hezekiah Horne,
near Connellsvile, Pa, but she would not
reveal where $500 was hid in her house.
The burberry canning factory at Island
Polut, VT, has shut down after canning 3OO.
600 gallons of product Over 500, 900 pounds
OF berries have been used, and seven carloads
of lumber were required 10 box the goods for
shipment.
Emil Benesch, of Baltimore, shot his brother
Louis three times last Saturday night, at their
father' residence on North Gay street. Emil
had been suffering from mental trouble for
some time, and few days before had been
released from an asylum.
kilograms from St. Petersburg, Russia, say:
''Sowly but surely the danger ola great plague
epidemic advances. Nothing more can be
done TO suppress it, and already the infection
covers all area of $50 by 30J miles. Owing to
the lack of doctors, it is impossible to isolate
the sick"
Mediterranean moths have closed two Min
neapols flour mills, and more mills may have
TO shut down to get rid of the insects. The
moths gather under the silk cloth through
which the flour is sifted, and form heavy webs
there. They also eat the silk, making sitting
impossible.
William Waldorf Astor is soon to erect
model apartment house in Broadway, New
York, near Central Park. which will cover
almost city block, but will be only ~ stories
high. 1t will accommodate 600 persons, and
will have eight hydrostatic elevators running
day and night. No apartment will be let
under 81, 900 year.
At Meriden, Conn, on December %, Max
Lichtenteld, aged q, made a wager that he
could drink four quarts of milk. One of his
companions took the bet. and the young man
accomplished the feat while sitting in a saloon.
He then drank Il quantity of beer and seemed
to suffer no i'll effects, but next morning he
was found dead, and the medical examiner
declared the cause to be acute gastritis.
Ernest Powers the 16.year.od schoolboy
who stabbed and killed his teacher, Ebert
Wattenburger, in the Second district of Nc
Mnn county, Tenn, last September, was
sentenced to life Imprisonment by a jury De-
cember %. The teacher had reprimanded
the boy for throwing stones and had struck |
him once with switch, when the pupil plung
ed knife into his teachers heart. Watten
burgers death was witnessed by room
crowded with pupils.
In New York, though orchid plants were |
sold for $50 and 500, according to the num-
Der of flowers, and American Beauties for $50 |
dozen, more potted plants and cut flowers |
were ordered for Christmas than ever before. |
The increase in sales over other seasons has |
been more than 10 per cent, say leading |
florists, and they have been unable to supply |
the demand. This increase, they say, is owing |
to greater population, the good business con-
ditions and to the fact that flowers of all kinds
have been less expensive and more plentiful |
for the holidays.
In Hagerstown, last week, under instruc-
tons from the court, the jury in the case of
Benjamin N. Emmert against Bald Eag |
Tribe of Red Men and the German Baptist |
Brethren Church of Funkstown returned ver-
dict in favor of the plaintiff for the value of
the property and one cent damages. Mr. EN-
inert brought the suit to recover lot of ground |
at Funksown which his grandfather in 1859
donated to the German Baptist Brethren for
church purposes. Recently the trustees ofthe
church sold the property to the Red Men as
Il site for hall. The case will likely be car
ried to the Court of Appeals.
A dispatch from Knoxville, Pa, on De-
cember "a, says: Here is d check for
100000 Refuse to marry William Meider
and the money is yours William Bagnall,
a millionaire, of Knoxville, suburb of Pitts
burg, tried to blind the love of his niece,
Lillian Bagnall, by the promise of this fortune
if she would forsake the man she loved. She
looked at her uncle, then at the check and
81 think that William Is more
precious to me than all the gold CT the uni
verse She backed up her declaration by
Meider that same evening.