The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-06-26
NEWS OF THE WORLD.


Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., will go to
work for the Steel Trust.
The New York Board of Health has
decided to kill all stray doge.
Nine negroes and two white men
were killed in race riot near Hous-
ton, Tex.
A very infiammatory anti-American
circular is being circulated in the
Philippines.
The Curtiss June Bug, the new air.
ship, made three successful flights
at Hammondsport, n. Y.
Three men were killed when To-
connective of the Pennsylvania Railroad
blew up at Steelton, Pa.
The 12-year-old son of w. E. D.
Stokes. a New York hotel man, is an
expert in wireless telegraphy.
Taft men hope to induce Foraker
to stump Ohio and win back the negro
vote for the Republican ticket.
lightning killed married couple
in a South CarolinA church, but the
baby in the fathers lap was unhurt.
The Democratic and Republican
Congressional Committees are both
actively compiling campaign ma
terial.
About $50 900 persons witnessed the
flying experiments OF Leon Del
argrange, the French aeroplanist, in
Milan.
When Louis Nixon was asked If he
is a candidate for the vice presidency
he replied that he has to work for
living.
Sochito Asano, said to be the Sec
ond wealthiest man in Japan, has
come to this country on a financial
mission.
The Car has decreed that all wo-
men students be expelled from Rus
sian universities, and that no more be
admitted.
The town of Three Rivers, Can, was
swept by fire. Three hundred build
ings were destroyed and the loss is
over $1,0OO,OO0.
William Burns, of Waukegan, ILL,
after saving Miss Sadie Baker from
drowning, stepped upon live wire
and was killed.
Lewis Nixon is being talked of by
New York Democrats as the possible
candidate for vice president on the
Democratic ticket.
James 8. Sherman, Republican NOM
inee for vice president, is seriously i'll
operation will be necessary.
Charles NJ. Schwab is expected in
Madrid to assist in the organization of
a steel company to supply material
for rebuilding the Spanish Navy.
Judge Barnes granted Mrs. Belle
H. Grey at Chicago divorce after
he learned that her husband drinks
4S bottles of beer every Sunday.
CONGRESSMAN James S. Sherman, of
Utica, New York, was nominated for
the office of vice president by the
Republican convention at Chicago.
President Roosevelt and Secretary
Taft will meet at Oyster Bay Saturday
to discuss the craftsmanship of the
Republican National Committee.
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
visited the International Horse Show,
in London, and were particularly in
terested in the American-bred horses.
H. D. Everett, a government fores-
ter; T. r. Wakely, a teacher, and four
Filipinos were murdered on the Is
land of Negroes, Philippines, by tribes
men.
A method of assisting unemployed
men to obtain work has been COM
pleted by John L.. Hockey, chief OF
the Pennsylvania Bureau of Indus
trial Statistics.
Twenty-four manufacturers belong
ing to the Manila and Fiber Associa-
ton have been fined $4,000 for main
tanning an illegal combination in re-
straint of trade.
Judge Rugg, of the Supreme Court
of Massachusetts, has ruled that the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad must dispose of trolley line
stocks held by the railroad.
In the presence of King Edward and
Queen Alexandra, Jean Reid, daughter
of United States Ambassador Reid,
was married to John Hubert Ward,
brother of the Earl Of Dudley, in the
chapel royal of st. James Palace,
London.