The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1906-01-27
News OF the Week.

Al We, Appomaiox, Virginia, there
arr l eas,s Of . mild typo of smallpox IN
white families
Archi,ceiS have planned to build in
New York fgr William Waldorf Aston an
APARTMENT house 20 co9t 81, 600, GOO.
4 break in the dam at Atkins, last Tues
day. caused serious damage 70 Norfolk and
Western Railway property west Of Maronr
Va
The Mississippi compress, at Jackson,
Mis-. With g. 300 bales Of cotton, was
destroyed by fire on Tuesday. l>oeSs $3.50, e
100, With insurance Of $500, 600
In a cisar.shapei s,eam car Marriott
made the worlds mile record Of 81 10
seconds, l.rst Tuesday, As the feature Of the
raciu. on the Ormond, Florida, sea beach.
The greatest freight movement in the
history of the Pennsylvania Railroad oe
sarrrl ON the Philadelphia division JAN
uar, Is. when 1910 ears were moved east
and west from Harrisburg
Thirty-onc warrants have been issued
for men believed to be involved in the plot
a. kin Governor Pcnnypacker, of Pennsyl-
yania, Pattisou, cf Ohio, and at Paterson,
y. j.. several persons viii be arrested also.
Gold storage egg dealers in Chicago and
other cities ia the west host over 81 300,
600 las, week, owing to the intensely
warm weather. Eggs that cost last fall | I
a. 20 cents pet dozen were drag ON the
market at | | cents.
DR.. Philip Setter 0rndorf, a widely
known PHI sician of Rio, Hampshire county,
/ W. Va. died January 10, at his home,
after two weeks illness Of paralysis, aged
- wears. Seven sons and four daughters
survive. enc of the latter being Miss Lucy
| Orndorfr. Of Baltimore, Nd
petitian has been sent to the Secre-
tary Of State to grant charter TO the
/ Knobley Mountain Orchard Company, OF
/ keyser. West Virginia, with s75, 900
capital, foI the purpose Of planting and
operating an orchard of peaches and apples
/ Of about 900 acres, Several well known
| MARYLAND people are in the company.
The steamer Valencia, of the Pacific
Coast Company, which sailed from Sar
Franc isco for Pugent Sound ports January
/ % was wrecked off Vancouver Island,
! January -, during fog, and it is re-
ported 100 lives were lost. Late accounts
say that only Is out of the l54 persons
/ on the steamer were saved.
Travers W. Carpenter, young white
man and United States mail carrier, was
instantly killed January - in peculiar
way at Winston Station, Virginia. He
was driving COW across the railway track
| when the animal was struck by fast
Southern passenger train. The body Of
the COW struck Mr. Carpenter, who was
some distance away, and broke his neck,
less and arms. The impact of the engine
AGAINST the cow was so great that the AM
mails head and three legs were torn from
the remainder of the body and were thrown
in different directions.
Marshall Field, the millionaire merchant
of Chicago, died in New York on January
16 of pneumonia. He was born in Con
way Mass, in 1885, went to Chicago II
1896, member of dry goods firm ii
1860, and in 1865 was associated with
Potter Palmer and Levi T. Letter, late
was in business alone and had trade OF
over $50. 900, GOO a year; in 1868 HI
married Miss Mamie Scott, by whom hi
had two children, son and daughter, thu
daughter survives; in October, 1908, h
married Mrs. Della Spencer Gator, Wit
survives; he leaves an estate of over $3.50,
600, 900