The Democratic advocate., 1909-04-16
GENERAL NEMs.

A mouse caused panic among the
800 spectators in b moving-Dicture
show given in the Womelsdorf (Pa.1
town han on Friday night.
As a result of throwing lighted
lamp at his bedridden wife, Charles A.
Quinby, shoe skiver, died at Havers
hill, Mass. Saturday of burns.
A daring mail pouch robbery, In
which the thieves got probably more
than, $50000 IN currency and checks,
was made public Tuesday at George
town, Ky.
While asleep in bunk car near
Treyorton, Pa, on Sunday Salvatore
Before, a section hand on the Phila-
delphia and Reading railroad, was
blown to pieces by dynamite.
Rev Edward e. Nobert, for ten
years pastor of st. Charles Borromeo
Church, Providence, r. L., was burned
to death on the altar In the chapel at
his horne in Norwood Tuesday morn
ing.
Edward A. Hughes, convicted murd-
erer of George Gillian, of Goldfield,
New, was found dead in his cell Sat-
urday hanging from the highest of
the steel bars by a rope Of strips of
blankets.
OF 5S miners who were at work
when an explosion of gas occurred
Tuesday in one of the shafts Of the
mines of the Compana Carbinefera
del Norts, at Menor, in Coahuilla,
Mexico, only 23 escaped alive.
Howard Sergeant, the negro who,
the police say, confessed that he at
tempted criminal assault upon Bertha
Tyler. 14-year-old white girl, Of
III 4. a Ia.
the grand jury Monday.
After a week of constant tracking
with blQodhounds, Mink Morris, who
shot and killed Sheriff William Lang
ston, of Leon county, Florida, was
captured Tuesday at Coolidge.
Thomasville, Ca, and is now in Jail
With the heaviest vote in local his
tory. Clark county, Ohio, voted "dry"
by II majority in the local option cleo
, tion Monday. The total vote cast in
the county was 1881. The election
affected 81 saloons In the county and
three breWeries.
Twenty-Five death sentences passed
upon political prisoners were con-
firmed by the Supreme Military Court,
st. Petersburg, Russia. Fifteen OF
these were convicted OF an attempt to
escape from the Irkutsk prison when
q prison guard was killed.
The wife and baby OF George Hoop
fer, a farmer, were hacked TO death
with an ak at their home In Antrim
county, eight miles southwest OF Man
celonia, Mich. The decapitated
bodies were found In bed Monday at
the HOPPER home by neighbors.
While scores OF persons watched,
powerless to help, Christ Anderson
and Henry Bothman, duck hunters,
clinging to an upturned boat, from
which Frank Bentz had already Jump
ed and drowned. went over the fails
on the Cedar river at Waterloo. Iowa,
Sunday and drowned.
Grieying opeE the death Of his boy
cousin and disappointed because he
was not appointed one OF the pail
bearers at the funeral, p. Ehrhart, 16
years old, OF York, Pa, blew OFT the
top OF his head with his fathers shot
gun on March 25.
Led by Rev. Thomas r. White, pas
tor of the First Presbyterian Church.
and Rev. James Brown, pastor OF the
First Baptist Church, 500 people
raided a blind tiger at Bloomington,
Ind, on Saturday and hauled away
carload OF beer and whisky.
Napoleon Parboni, a Republican
agitator, OF Rome, went Saturday TO
the Convent OF the Sisters OF Mary
and asked TO be allowed to talk with
one OF the school girls. aged 10. The
request was granted. Parboni stab
bed the girl and cut his own throat
with the same dagger.
A masked train robber with a red
lantern stopped local train on the
Burlington road Monday might near
Fairfield, Neb., boarded the train aud
forced the conductor TO carry a sack
through the passenger coach and coll
lect 5000 and II watches from the
passengers-19 women and two men.
That his young wife does not love
him as devotedly as his former wife,
who died a year ago, was the reason
assigned by Taylor Rittenberry for
slashing his wlfes throat from ear to
ear and then attempting suicide In
like manner when corneTed by a
police officer at Henderson, Ca, Tues
day. Both will die.
What Is believed to be a most im-
portant raid occurred at Fairmount.
w. Va, Saturday night. when county
and Government officers took into
custody 10 Italians, all OF whom are
believed TO be members OF Black
Hand society which has terrified the
foreign miners in the Fairmont coal
fields for long time
Frederick Johnson, an elevator man
in an apartment house at 615 Fifth
avenue, New York. was shot and kill
ed by Joseph Parise, Pinkerton de-
tective, on Monday night in hand-to-
hand struggle In an elevator in the
building. The detective had arrested
Johnson for entering fiat which
Parise had been watching.
Surgeons were amazed to find that
Michael Rislclo, OF New York, who
died while being operated on Monday
that his heart was on the right side
Of his body, and that his stomach and
digestive organs we're on the left side
In place OF the heart. All OF the Or
gans of the body seemed to be In nor
NAL condition and II was evident that
the man was born that way.
After firing two bullets at his wife,
pointing a revolver at his mother-in-
law, when she attempted to help her
daughter, and trying vainly to get his
little daughter out of a neighbors
house, that he might kill her, Larry
Smith, aged 81 years. motorman
living at Coraopolis. Pa, sent a bullet