The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1906-04-06
News of the Week.

More than 100000 people are sufferers
from the famine in Japan.
Ii is stated that at least %, 900 square miles
in Liberia are covered with dense rubber tree
forests.
On Wednesday of last week there was a
$500. 600 fire in the business section of Johns
town, Pa.
The coach in which the lord mayor of Lon
don rides on state occasions has been IN use
since 1851
Last Sunday fire destroyed IL stores in
Fayetteville, n c. Loss over $3.50, 900, with
small insurance.
Disastrous foods are reported in Wyoming
and the lower California Railroads are tied
up by washouis and many lives lost BY the
carrying away Of bridges.
Thomas ". Harvey, teller of the defunct
Enterprise National Bank of Pittsburg, wanted
on l6 charges, has surrendered to the author
tiles.
As the sequel to a quarrel over five cents in
crap game last Sunday, John Waters. colored,
shot and killed Stephen Green IN Lancaster,
Pa.
Walter Duncan has been arrested in Wheel
ing. W. Va, charged with forging the name
of Governor Dawson to a note in which It WAS
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for SIS.
Sir John Sinclair. a Scotch oaronet, has
presented graphophones and records TO 500
asylums aud other institutions on condition
that they are played to the inmates for half
an hour every day.
Because her position would uecessitaie her
introducing Governor Cummins As ian hon.
ored guest at the annual meeting Of the Des
Moines Wenen's Press Club last Saturday,
Mrs. James G. Berryhill resigned as toast.
mistress.
The letters in the alphabe;s Of the different
nations vary in number. The Sandwich Is
landers have ~; the Burmese, Is; Italian, 20;
Bengal, 81: German, Dutch and English, 20
each; Arabic, Is; Persian, S2i Armenian, IS.
aud Russian, Al.
In an Irish town not loug ago a crowd
watched nearly $50 rass cross above the
ground on a telephone wire from the town
hall to a -four mill over 300 yards away. The
rate used their tails to preserve their balance,
and not one made false step.
Five arrests have been made in connection
with the failure of the Enterprise National
Bank of Piusbnrg. The men arrested are
Forest A. Nichols, private secretary TO w. Il.
Andrews; George l.. Rallston, Charles Men
zener and Edward I. Mcmillan, former clerks
In the bank, and George (. Cook.
Rev. Henry Wunder, pastor Of st. Paul's
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Chicago, has
Just concluded "a years as pastor of that
church, which is longer time than any other
Chicago minister has been connected with q
congregation. In his passionate be has mar.
ried and christened more than %, 900 persons.
Robert H. Spriggs, of New York city, the
negro recently convicted Of abduction IN de-
ms thar will u a
resort frequented only by negroes, has been
sentenced to serve 20 years in state prison.
Sallie Bennett, who assisted Spriggs in con-
Quoting the resort, and who pleaded guilty TO
abduction, was sentenced to 10 years in state
prison.
II am an innocent man. You are sentenc-
ing me TO living grave. ! only hope that |
NAV live to see those who have wronged me
i'm the grave Of DEATH So spoke Turner
jackson when he was sentenced by Judge c.
S. johnson, Of Skagway, Alaska, some mouths
ago to 10 years for manslaughter. On March
2 President Roosevelt psrdoned jackson aud
Judge johnson died.
At Seaford, Delaware. on March 80, on a
wager Of 81, William Outteu offered to eat 10
raw eggs III FIVE minutes. he accomplished
the feat and then offered to eat cake of soap
to wash it down, if anyone would pay for the
eggs and soap, and put up forfeit of IS II he
did not do it. The bet was made and he ate
the soap and won the wager. 0utten showed
no i'll effects and offered to duplicate the feat
for SIS, but no one would take him up.
During the last three months of 1905 there
were 165, $40 alien arrivals at the port OF New
York. This is an increase of 5000 over the
record breaking figures of a year ago, the IN.
hux from Italy alone being larger by 10000
than in the last quarter of 1904. New York
becomes the home of So, Alb of the neweom-
ers, and the fact that 35, 72S, or one-fourth OF
the 140, 600 Immigrants over IA years old, can
neither read nor write is not altogether reas-
saring.