The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1905-04-22
News of the Week.

The electric railway mileage of the United
States is y, ST..
The wife of Captain Charles Deering, of
Portland, is u proud grandmother at 80.
Permits were issued in 2S cities in March
for Il, sos buildings, al total cost Of $685.,
100, 744
Estimates of the fatalities dnring the earth.
quakes in India, last week, put the total at
more than 1900.
In one week the canal commission imports
no less than 200 tons of insect powder and
200 tons of sulphur bars into Panama. These
are used in extermnating the mosquitoes.
knoxville, Tenn, on April 6, for half an
hour at noon was enveloped in the darkness
of the night. Snow and sleet began falling,
accompanied by an appreciable drop in the
temperature.
Georgia has held the lead in the production
of peaches for the Eastern market since 1902.
and for years to come is likely to be the lead
ing peach state in the Union. She has more
than 1,660,000 trees.
Seven shepherds, says an Australian con
temporary, drove herd of IA, 900 sheep from
Mamnga, in Queensland, to Narbi, in New
South Wales, a distance of 800 miles, without
losing a single animal.
The city of Salem. Mass, offered prizes last
year to boys for killing brown-tail moths. In
competing for these prizes the boys destroyed
375, 600 nests, which were estimated to repre-
sent 1l2, 000, 900 caterpillars.
Nearly every steamer arriving in this couu-
try tron Europe the past three weeks reports
immense fields of floating ice aud thousands
of ice bergs. Several steamers ran from 200
TO 500 miles out of their regular course to
avoid the ice aud bergs.
Fannet Township, Franklin county, Pa,
adjoining Washington county, Nd, is infected
with smallpox. So much objection was made
TO the quarantine that it was found necessary
to have the infected houses surrounded by
armed guards to prevent the spreading of the
disease.
A dispatch from Altoona, Pa, April Is, says:
Smallpox is being carried to nearby towns
from the epidemic at Mount Union, Hunting
don county, where 20 cases developed yester-
day aud today. East Waterford, Junata
county, today reported so cases. with other
eases at Mapleton, orbisonia, Newton, Hamil.
Ion, Reedviile and Shirley township. The
/ Pennsylvania Railroad Company does not
/ stop trains at Mount Union.
Piiisburg, Pa, was visited on the afternoon
OF April 10 by disastrous hail storm. Hail
stones two inches in diameter fell all over the
city, doing much damage to skylights, con-
seFsatnries and plate glass windows. AT
+ Sebenley Park abont one half of the glass in
the skylights of the Phipps Conservatory were
broken. The private Conservatives of H. c.
Frck and A. r. Peacock, in the East End,
also suffered severely. In the business part
Of the city many plate glass wisdows were
broken.
Frederick Helh, one OF the oldest and best
known citizens Of York county, Pa, died at
his home in Railroad borough April 8, aged
eighty years. His death, which was due TO a
complication Of diseases, was quite unexpect-
ed, as be had been in good spirits about an
hour before he died. Mr.. Helb was native
Of Wittenberg, Germany, an only son of Uirich
and Mary Keim) Helb. He was born March
9. 1926. aud immigrated to America in 1877,
landing in Baltimore, where for two years he
was engaged at tanning. which trade he learned
in his native country. In 1867 he built beer
brewery at Shrewsbury station with a capacity
OF 500 barrels year, and three years later
started a fruit distillery, manufacturing 500
barrels Of apple brandy in a season. de also
owned an extensive -four mill, steam and
water, the Jackson house, the only hotel in
the borough, aud number Of first class tene
meat hoases. Besides these he owned about
i50 acres of fine farming land in York county
and about l,300 acres OF valuable timber and
farming land in Maryland, with saw and staye
mills