The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1905-12-23
News Of the Week.

News Of the Week.
In Philadelphia, Pa, $40 founderies produce
machinery valued at $38, 372, 971 annually.
W. T. Vernon, a negro of Kansas, will be
appointed by President Roosevelt as register
of the treasury.
During fire panic on Blackwell's Isl and,
N. Y, on Wednesday, the male prisoners
rescued 644 woman prisoners.
John D. Rockefellers income from Stan.
dard OIL railways, ETC., this year is S4O, oO0,-
600, and yet he is not happy.
On his 68th birthday which occurred last
week, Andrew Carnegie announced that so far
he has succeeded in giving away Sl3o ,oOo,ooo.
John J. Vaughn, of Culpepper. Virginia,
on December shot his daughter in law be.
cause she would not marry him and then killed
himself.
OF the $3.50, 600. 900 worth of sugar brought
into the United States during the present year
$50, 900, 900 worth came from Hawaii, Porto
Rico and the Philippines.
Horseshoe Falls, Niagara, has receded more
than 200 feet within the memory of living men,
and is now travelling toward Lake Erie at the
rate of 500 feet century.
Four finger rings and II brooches were used
in the construction of martens nest which
has been disodged from beneath the caves OF
house in Frogmore, England.
A few years ago only men of great fortune
possessed private cars. Nowadays there are
so many of these palaces on wheels that their
value is estimated at S72, OOO, 600.
On board the Pacific Mail liner China, which
sailed from San Francisco recently for the ORR
ent, were so tons of Mexican silver dollars,
worth $50, 900 in gold.
On the night of December Is, the entire
family of Peter Martell, of Red Lake Falls,
Mimi, were burned to death by the explosion
Of a coal oil lamp. The dead are Marlell, his
wife, two sons and daughter.
Indictments have been returned by the fed
cral grand jury at Kansas City, Mo-, against
common carriers, railway officials, shippers
and freight agents, charging the giving OF re-
bates and conspiracy to gain rebates.
Skunks are unusually plentiful in York
county, Pa, this season. One dealer has al
ready purchased 1000 pelts. Over 5000 pelts
were sold last year. Black skins are bringing
81 70 and spotted ones $l.25 this year.
Miss Minnetta Taylor, of Greencasile, Ind,
for wears professor Of Romance languages in
De PAW University, speaks fuently % diff
ferent tongues, is able to converse fairly well
in nine others, and can read four more.
California has just made her biggest ship
ment of potatoes from Stockton. 1t consisted
of "a train of thirty five cars, loaded with 8, $50
sacks of potatoes, which went by the Santa Fe
route to Texas Arkan and Missouri river
points.
After being in an insane asylum for three
years Walter Guy, of Cleveland, Ohio was
released December Is. As soon as he reached
his home he killed his child and a brother,in.
law. seriously wounded woman friend of his
wife and shot at his wife.
Bert White. the champion cornhusker of
Warren county, Indiana, after husking 1921
bushels of corn and crbbing it in 10 hours,
became paralyzed in both arms. The record
was made on a wager of 500. His opponent
huskcd 40 bushels during the same time.
W. S. Brady, apopular printer, died at Nor.
folk, Va, December II, leaving considerable
property. His will leaves the entire estate,
exclusive of a legacy to an uncle in Brooklyn,
to the Norfolk Typographical Union, to be
used for the benefit of sick and destitute prin-
tiers.
Rev. Adam Pheill for many years a leading
minister of the Progressive Dunkard Church
died at his home, near ST. Thomas, Franklin
county, Pa, December IA, aged so years.
His death was due to pneumonia. He is sur
FlNcu ny ~ SOIS anu uduSuleloy
Martin Phiell of Hagerstown.
The native cattle of the Hereros, in South
west Africa are TALL lean, long horned and
of little value for beef or milk, but they are
excellent for riding and drawing loads, and,
like camels can travel for days without water
and with little food. They are guided by
rcins attached to a stick through the nose.
The Detroit Michigan Journal, of Deem
Der says: 149 lives have been sacrificed,
more than 20 ships wrecked and loss of
nearly $7,000.000 has been sustained in the
three big storms on the Great Lakes this sea-
son. That this is the most disastrous season in
the history of shipping on the lakes is beyond
"a doubt. On several occasions the wind was
20 miles an hour.
On Wednesday fire destroyed two of the
largest and most modern ferry houses on the
North river front, the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western and Central of New Jersey, at
Twenty.second and Twenty third streets, in
New York city, at midday entailing a loss of
fully 81, 900, 600 Both structures were new,
having been opened for service last Septem
Der, and were equipped throughout with up
to date appliances for handling all kinds of
traffic.
Thn Chicago National Bank. the home Saw
ings Bank and the Equitable Trust Company
of Chicago, allied institutions under the con
troll of President John R. Walsh, and with
liabilities of $23, 200, 900, were forced into
liquidation by Comptroller of the Currency
Ridgely, on Monday, who states that Presi
dent Walsh obtained excessive loans for out
side railroad and quarry interests. Mr.. Walsh
was largely engaged in railroad and other Ell
terpriSes and also in politics.
AT Wesley, Iowa, on December II, Ray.
mond, aged years, son of Edward Studer,
performed Il remarkable somnambulistic feat.
He serves milk, and at 11.3O at night arose
from bed and in night clothes and bare feet
went over the ground he was accustomed to
travel, making deliveries. He was found near
ly frozen, several blocks from home, at house
where he knocked. He was wrapped in
blanket and returned to his bed without know
ing any thing that had TRANSFERRED.
Midshipman Minor Meriwether, Jr., will not
be dismissed from the United States Naval
Academy as result of the fight that caused
the death Of Midshipman James r. Branch,
Jr. The sentence of the court, which Secre
tary Bonaparte has approved, is that Meri-
wether ''be confined to the limits of the Naval
Academy for period of one year." and ''be
publicly reprimanded by the Secretary of the
Navy" Secretary Bonaparte merely amends
the sentence so that Meriwether may partici-
pate in the annual cruise of the midshipmen.
DR.. l.. H. Smith, leading physician of
Buffalo, N. Y, in an address before the socie-
ty of Natural Sciences, declared that glycerin,
not tobacco, and acrolein, not nicotine, are
the real sources of evil in cigarette smoking
He says that manufacturers of cigarettes use
lare quantities of gycerin to mix with their
tobacco, the glycerin having the property of
keeping the tobacco moist. When the cigar
cite burns the glycerin is converted into gas
known as acrolein, and it is this which is the