The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1907-10-11
Late News Items.

Mormon missionaries from the United States
have been expelled from Germany.
The strike in Cuba, IN incipient revolution
from all appearances, is spreading.
Four more true bills have been found by
the Grand Jury investigating the Pennsy lvanla
capitol scandal.
The Pullman Car Company in the last ,nree
months has reduced its working force from
1900 to 1000 men.
Caruso. the famous tenor, wept after per
Torrance before il very small audience Ill
Budapest, because OF scant applause.
Counsel for Harry X. Thaw is attempting
10 force a second trial of the murderer OF
Stanford White, some time during November.
District Attorney William Travers jerome,
of New York, has ust won libel suit against
Frank E. Xavier, editor of the 1onkers
Herald.
Walter Welman, novelist and arctic ex-
plorer, who has been compelled to ABANDON
his air ship dash for the pole this year because
of unsuitable weather, is now IN Paris on MS
way home.
Students and hoodlums in northern Calcut-
IA, India, have wounded many OF the ponce IN
rioting. caused by the anti European senti
ment which is there being created. 80 lar
there have been no deaths.
Elk. Governor jackson has announced that
he will not be candidate for the United
States Senate He has also Withdrawn from
the local ticket in Wicomico, where he had
been nominated for the State Senate.
Father Vau Rensselaer,, the noted Catholic
priest, died last week in st. Vincent's Hosp.
tai. New York, of Bright's disease. In 1887
he renounced the Episcopal faith. and EN-
braced Calholicity, turning over TO the church
the whole of his immense private fortune.
The lid seems to be off all along the Cana
dian boundary so far as the migration OF
Japanese and Asiatic coolies generally are
concerned, dispatches reporting them TO be
crossing into this country in great numbers.
Secretary Straus is preparing to have the line
more efficiently protected.
Charles Emory Smith, editor OF the Phlla
delphia Press. Minister to Russia under fres-
ident Harrison, and Postmaster General under
President Mckinley, was married October .,
in New York. to Miss Henrietta Nichols, the
daughter of Mrs. Washington Romano Mich
OILS. of New York.
Judge Dobler, last Thursday in the Crimi-
nal Court of Baltimore city, handed down a
decision, unfolding the constitutlonallty OF
the S-hour law, which has been called IN
question. Against the protests OF class legis'
lation. the court held that the State has the
RIGHT TO restrict the hours of its own and mu-
nicipal employees.
Henry NJ. Fiagler, the Standard Oil multi;
millionaire, is said to be so heavily interested
in the Florida East Coast railway, as to be
financially embarrassed. Recent reports
credit Henry Il. Rogers with similar situa-
tion MS result of his manipulations in the
Virginia Tidewater. Flsgher is supposed to
have $4,000, 900, in the Florida project;
Rogers $40, 600 900, in his Virginia enter
prise.
Tn the courts of Europe, war is regarded as
imminent between this country and Japan.
because the United States proposes to send a
feet of battleships to the Pacific coast. This,
it is affirmed, will be construed by the Japa-
nese, a hostile move in their direction. The
same foreign observers think that President
Roosevelt is beginning to realize that the
blunder of his career was made when he
brought to close the Russic-Japanese war,
u year too soon. A year more OF war would
have spelled freedom for the Russian masses
aud quietus for the Yellow Peril. for years
to come.