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The Democratic advocate., 1909-10-08
DEATHS HARVEST.
Well Known Residents And others
Who Have Passed Away.
Ward.

Elizabeth Ann Ward, widow OF the
late Joseph Ward, died at the resi-
dence Of her son, Joseph r. Ward near
Gambler, on Saturday. October 2, aged
So years, II months and IS days. Fun
eral services we're held at Sandy
Mount NJ y. Church on Monday al
2 ,. M, conducted by Rev. s. F. Cas-
sen. fnterment in adjoining ceme-
terry. The pallbearers were Lewis
Haines, W. Frank Stocksdale. Joshua
Peeling, Levi Barnes, Norris Stocks
dale and Norris Caple.
Deceased Is survived by the fol-
lowing children; John T. Ward, Of
Westminster; Mrs. Richard Hunter,
OF Baltimore: Mrs VIM. Devilblss, of
Lamotte: Mrs Charles Mahanna, OF
baltimore county; Joseph +. Ward.
near Gambler. She was the mother OF
children. SO grandchildren and a.
great grandchildren.
+. G. sharrer was the funeral d.
rector
The Democratic advocate., 1909-10-08

Later-Elmer Hood was recAptured
Wednesday morning nj the home OF
bis mother. on the uniontown road.
short distance beyond New Windsor.
near Winters Church Raymond
Hood. the brother. who was Jointly In
dicted with Elmer, but who secured
bail, had a neighbor telephone Sheriff
Townshend early Wednesday morning
that Elmer was at the house. The
reason Raymond informed on Elmer
was because Sheriff Townshend had
visited him on Monday and told him
that any effort TO conceal his brother
or aid him In his attempt TO escape
would subject him 10 term In the
penitentiary, The sheriff was in Man
chester when the message came. but
Deputies Jerome and HesRon started
at once. Hood was in the yard when
they arrived, and made no attempt TO
escape. He was back In jail by noon,
having had two days of unenjoyed free
dom.
Hood says the men we're three
weeks preparing for their escape. His
part In Il was TO make the rope. The
irons used In scaling the wall were
in the possession OF the eolored men
when he Hood was committed TO
jail. Doesn't know how or when they
procured them
After lowering themselves from the
wall, Banks said he was going to the
rough-cast house near the canning
factory to get hat, and he went IN
that direction through the lot In the
rear OF the jail Hood and Hurd cross
ed Court street, went through the va
cant lot adjoining the tennis court,
back OF the cemetery, and on to the
Baltimore pike. They went down the
pike to within a short distance OF
the toll gate. and then cut across the
country to the Washington road. This
they kept until they reached Sykes
Vile at o'clock Monday morning.
Here Hurd was on familiar ground,
as IL was from here he was sent TO
jail. He went to the house of a color
ed friend and was given a blanket.
which he took TO the stable, where he
and Hood got few hours sleep in
wagon. In the morning they were
given something to eat, after which
Hood jumped freight and went TO
Cumberland, leaving Hurd I'm Sykes
Vile, where he is said 10 have a girl.
Monday night Hood jumped another
freight and came back as far as Union
Bridge, where he got of and walked
to his home.
Hood is only 10 years old, is some
thing OF graggart, and has evidently
spent great part of his time in per-
using the highly literature of
old Sleuth, the Detective" His part
In the affair was apparently inspired
by a youthful ambition to break jail.
He did not know what to do with his
freedom after he got IT,
After landing Hood in jail, Depu-
ties Chauncey r.. Jerome and John 3.
Mitten drove at once to Sykesville,
where they remained all night trying
to get on the track of Hurd. They
found traces Of him In several places,
but did not succeed in capturing him.
They spent the night in searching
barns, outhouses and negro cabins.
They expect to get him shortly.
1t Is thought Banks is still in the
neighborhood of Westminster. The
charge against him is not a very seri-
Gus one. being the larceny OF clothing
Of small value. He came to Westmin-
ster with Sparks circus, and was
committed to jail August 6.
The Democratic advocate., 1909-10-08
A Prompt ReuIy.

A temperance lecturer was describ-
ing to his audience how his life had
been influenced by total abstinence.
You know" he said, that | am now
head of my business. Four years ago
there we're two men in our office who
held positions above mine. One was
dismissed through drunkenness. the
other was led into crime and is now I'm
prison, and all through that evil drink,
the invention OF the wicked Now,
what ask is,' he cried, what has
raised me to my present high posi-
tion 2"
Drink" was the unexpected reply
he received from a member of his au-
dience.
The Democratic advocate., 1909-10-08
Tribute to LonIs Wesley Lee.
For the Advocate.

~ tN@ RANNNAlts
A deep shadow has been cast over
our Sunday school at Stone Chapel by
the passing OF one OF our members,
Louis Wesley Lee. from his earthly
home To his Heavenly home. Hardly
knowing that he was sick until we
heard that his Illness must prove ia
tai. 1t was a great shock TO us all
and while we are Ia deep sorrow over
this loss 30 great TO us, we feryently
pray that this short life lived among
us. al IL did. 80 pure, so true and no
Bile, we pray that It's influence may
ever live In our hearts, and that in
the years to come we may see fruits
OF II, and that his guide, our Heavenly
Father, may help us all so to live that
We may form an unbroken class In
that Heavenly Home. remembering
that III is not all OF life TO live, nor
all OF death to die"
ANNA NJ. BARNES.
The Democratic advocate., 1909-10-08
MeImert.

Mrs. Mary Weimert, wife OF the late
Samuel Weimert, near Cranberry, died
yesterday morning after an Illness
OF three days OF blood poison. aged
about 63 years. The cause of the
disease was the picking OF a pimple,
which appeared on her lip, the poison
being conveyed through the finger
nail From the time she was taken
Ill she did not show any signs of Inn
proyement.
She is survived by two sons and
two daughters--Josepn p. Weimert
and Walter C. Weimert, Of Cranberry /;
Mrs. Jennie Harris. this city. and Mrs.
Platte Bankert, at home.
Her funeral will take place tomor-
row Saturday morning at 10 O'Clock
at Krider's Lutheran Church. Rev r.
w. Doty officiating.
The Democratic advocate., 1909-10-08
Bad place to sIcep,

Milton Hall, of Union Bridge, who
is employed by George p. Buckley, Jr.,
a merchant Of that place, while driv-
ing homeward from Emmitsburg
Thursday night of last veek fell
asleep and his horse left III road and
went on the track of the railroad near
Bruceyille Station.
The team plunged down an embank-
ment The horse was killed and Hall
seriously injured He was found
several hours after the accident and
taken to the hotel in Union Bridge.
The team belonged to Llyeryman Eng
lar.
The Democratic advocate., 1909-10-08
Manchester Lutheran Charge.

Confirmation and preparatory SER
vice at Snydersburg Friday at p.
NJ. and at Bachman's Saturday at 2
D. m. Holy Communion at Bachman's
Sunday at $50 a. m. and at Snyders-
burg at 2.30 p. m.
Mrs Helen G. Beegle, field secretary
OF the Woman's Home and Foreign
Missionary Society, will deliver an adj
dress at Lineboro, Sunday. at $50 a.
IN. and at Manchester at z p. m. II.
r. Flick pastor
The Democratic advocate., 1909-10-08
MI. and Mrs. G. 4. Cher RnlerlaIn.

Mr. and Mrs. Calrin II. Chew enter
tanned at their home on Friday even
ing, October /, the members of the
Epworth League OF Patapsco M. u.
church. Fifty members were present,
and a very successful program was
rendered, consisting of vocal and In
strumental duets and piano solos.
Refreshments were afterward served
In abundance
The Democratic advocate., 1909-10-08

Mrs. Elmira Duttsra. OF near Lit.
ueatown, died Saturday, October 2.
al her home. She was 81 years old
and is survived BY four daughters,
Mrs Frank Stayely. and Mrs Krouse,
OF Llttlestown. and Misses uenora
and Arabella. at home Funeral was
held Monday. October 4. nj ? o'clock
y. m. Services and lnterment al sii.
yer Run. Rev. Loder officlating
The Democratic advocate., 1909-10-08

Mrs. Annie Padgei. widow Of John
faKet, died in woodensburg Monday
October 4. aged SO years. Funeral
services were held at the residence
Of her daughter. Mrs. Charles w
Clifton. at woodenaburg. Thursday as
3 .. m.
The Democratic advocate., 1909-10-08
ESCAPED JAIL.
Sheriff J. Belt Townshend Loses
Three of His BOarders.

Not stopping to say Goodbye
take keer yerself," three Of Sheriff
Townshend's guests skipped in the
dark Of the moon last Sunday evening
and up Co this writing they have not
even sent souvenir postal to show
which route they took or at what
hotel they are stopping. They were
evidently convinced that they would
have to leave the jail anyhow about
the middle OF next month, and they
concluded 10 go without the CUSTOM
airy chaperone and bracelets. Those
who took the stone-wall route to
freedom, were Elmer Hood, white
charged with trying to sell in Balts-
more horse he had hired from Har-
baugh, OF this city; Albert Banks,
black, charged with larceny. and
Charles Hurd, colored, charged with
assault with intent TO kill
Each OF the men had a fancy for
tattoo marks. Hood Is tattooed on the
right arm, with mis- initials, the figure
OF woman and flags Banks had his
initials and other tattoo marks on his
arm. Hnrd also had his initials and
other designs on his arm. They ought
TO prove easy marks for the sieuths.
Sheriff Townshend was sick IN bed
when the prisoners escaped At nine
O'Clock, the hour for locking the pris-
oners In their individual cells. he sent
his nephew, Robert Townshend, 20
perform this task. The young man
reported that the three men were
missing. The sheriff got out OF bed
and. revolver in hand, began to hunt
for the men.
A lock on the door from Jail 10 iail
yard had been forced. A number OF
iron rods and pieces Of pipe. evidently
supplied by confederates outside,
were driven into the side OF the 20
foot jail wall, by which the prisoners
reached the top. and then lowered
themselves TO the ground by a rope
made OF parts OF their three blankets
twisted together.
To one end OF this rope the men
had fastened the strong wire handles
from their Elop buckets, bent IN the
form Of V. TO at the V-shaped top
OF the wall With this rope in posi-
ton the men had comparatively an
~A"F SNaNts AAh FDlttAu VI AHH wall
scaled was within n few feet OF Court
street II was selected because no
windows from the jail open upon IL,
although II n a little remarkable that
the driving OF the irons into the wall
did not attract the attention of some
one. The prisoners could have made
little headway without the rope. aa
the irons were loose in the wall fall
ing out at the touch.
II is thought the rope was made by
Hood, whose cell was on the third tier,
where he could work nnobseryed BY
the other inmates lie was too smart
to take a whole blanket, because that
would have been missed he cut q
l2-inch strip on each OF the three
blankets. These strips we're twisted
and then fastened together. making a
strong rope. II probably took several
throws TO land the hook In place on
toy OF the wall
The Democratic advocate., 1909-10-08

Largest Paper in Carroll c0arfy
0ne-fhird more reading mater
than any other paper.
Only Democratic paper in county.
The Democratic advocate., 1909-10-08

Circulation 1000 more than that
OF any other paper
Read by $4,000 persons every
week.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-12-02

summary o. II
The world waits in breathless interest
the exciting moment, when the House of
Lords is to act upon the ia
ENGLAND ON NOUS tax budget which has
ANXIOUS kept all England in fever heat
TIPToEs. for the past several months.
It is confidently expected
that the Peers will throw out the bill
In this event, with starving thousands
roaming Great Britain like homeless, wretched
animals, there will be a great political con
vulsion, if not an actual revolution, that will
change the old order of things.
1t the budget goes and the reactionaries
rally their strength for this spectacular fight
for ancient privileges, the reactionaries in
turn will go. The Liberal leaders declare
that the issue is whether or not the hered-
itary chamber shall rule the country" Or if
the Commons representing the English mass
es, shall determine how the realm shall be
governed, taxes levied and applied.
Antonio Ferrara, head of the ''Noblemen's
Marriage Syndcate", declares he has gone
out of the business of
ALAS! The HE1REss furnishing funds to
HUNTERS SYNDICATE the sciOns of nobility
is No MORE. to be used In prose
cutting vigorous seige
for the surrender of American heiresses This
enterprising gentlemen feels that fate has not
dealt kindly with the honorable business in
which he engaged. While he furnished the
coin for impoverished Adventures to pay for
automobile rides and flowers, and dinners, to
say nothing of board and washing until they
could land American fathers-in- law to take
care of them, not one of these worthy bene-
ticlarles ever paid him cent and in many
instances he sadly confesses that although
the noblemen were paying attention to some
OF the most prominent young women of this
country, for some unknown reason no mar
riages followed"
The mind meanders along the paths of
logic, seeking for this unknown reason"
Can it be that there is yet sanity and common
sense and delicacy of feeling left in quantity
sufficient to save American heiresses from IT,
tied debauchees and idiots? Is it vet possible
that these girls would rather be honored wives
IN American circles, than snubbed nobodies
abroad! There is no accounting for the
moods of women, it would seem. Just when
the American heiress appeared to be an asset
raised up by an all-wise Providence for the
purpose of saving the darlings of foreign
courts from the tragedy of going to work for
a living, they evidently refuse to accept their
manifest destiny, and nice little matrimo-
NAL bureau fails through feminine perversitv
We sorrow for Mr.. Ferrara and his disap-
pointed clientele but alas, no way suggests
itself, short of bringing on international
complications, whereby this captiousness
might be abolished and the open door to
American money be maintained.
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eminent, this old claim and obtain indemnify
Since we have acquired the habit of rushing
about to protect capital" everywhere, and
browbeat little republics in favor of Ameri-
can greed, it IS not surprising that the Alsop
claim should be eagerly pressed Apparent
ly, however, the insolence with which the
matter is being agitated does not meet with
favor among the very class one might natrl-
rallv expect to approve American interior
ence-the present American residents of
Chile. The Alsop claim has been dragging
for some twenty years. and apparently what
ever quasi contract existed was not such al
one as should legitimately become bone of
contention between two countries at this late
date. Of course, it would not, if England
Germany, or dear little Japan-with it's cum
ming "little brown mem (such a precious
pet Of country is Japan were concerned
but South American republic is altogether
different.
Heriberto Barron, nominee Of the popular
party for president of Mexico, has been COM
PEELED to leave the country This
A FREE is another evidence of the per-
COUNTRY. feet democracy which holds
swayin our neighbor republic (?)
only POrfirio Diaz happens to be the de-
mocracy, just as he is everything else
The cheering news that Colonel Goethals
has reported to the Secretary of War that the
cost of the Panama Canal will
The CosT be $125,0OOOOO more than as
BOUNDS UP reported this time last year, is
one of those heartening items
upon which we have learned to rely What
ever is done or left undone, the Panama Canal
is always with us, costing more. Whether
Cocktails knows steam shovel from tea
spoon, he can always dig up incontrovertible
reasons for getting pay dirt out of the United
States Treasury Not long ago, it meant
odium, execration and Punishment from the
realm for any engineer to casually suggest
that the lock canal wasn't the proper thing
The able economists, bolstered up by the all
wisdom of one Theodore, hooted the sea-1evel
CANAL and proved by solemn array of facts and
"hggers" that the original estimate of $247,-
900 for the sea-level route was wild ex-
travagance. The estimate of the sea-level
canal has already been increased to $375,2O1-
900 and the end is not yet. When it is com
pleted, if it is ever completed the thing will
be an awkward channel, an artificial thing of
many complexities in construction and man
agement, whereas a sea level canal would, at
its completion, be true waterway as indie
pendent as a river of earthquake or destruc-
tive accident.
The Government iS takinO nvidonco in +ho
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-12-02

Pending ultimate readjustment, the Detroit
United Railway agrees to pay to that city
$500 per day for the use Of
DETRo1Ts its streets, upon which the
OPPORTUNITY. companys franchise has ex-
pired. Detroit has a chance
to proceed in such manner that a renewal of
the valuable franchise need not be made until
terms fair to the city have been secured
from the street railway companies. Will she
take it?
Congressman Mann predicts tariff war
with Canada over the justice of the Payne
Aldrich iniquity. He be-
WooD PULP MAY leves that our -neighbor
Be ScARcER on the North may retail
AND HIGHER. ate upon us, by forbid
ding the expectation of
wood pulp from Canada into the United
States, thing that would seriously handi-
cap the paper industries, and make the price
have, in many instances, to suspend There
is much likelihood of just such situation, as
not only Canada, but France and other coun-
tries are likely to take some measures on their
own behalf to bring the American people to
their senses upon the tariff question It is
poor tariff that can't cut two ways.
Impure milk has caused the death of TWEEN
ty orphan babes in the Myrtle Baby Home
at East Providence, r. l., the
DEATH IN deaths being variously stated
THE FEEDING in the reports as "malnutri-
BOTTLE. tion," "convulsions," Eintes-
final indigestion,' general
weakness" "acute meningitis" E'anemia," etc.
Hungry, helpless creatures sucking poison
The particular brand of milk used bore the
usual label stating that it conformed to the
pure food and drug act
Maybe it did conform, and maybe it did
not. Ordinarily, baby thrives pretty we'll
for its first year on condensed milk, which is
generally regarded as wholesome, if the bet
ter brands be used. But the terrible death
rate in the Myrtle Home is due to feeding the
babes on deadly material, and the matter is
now being investigated. The purest milk be-
comes poison if it is not kept strictly sterile,
as toxin producing bacteria simply swarm
In 1t 1t it is contaminated through any un-
cleanly handling. Poor little, unloved waits
Somebody didn't care whether they lived or
died, were comfortable, or suffered fortunes
before release came in the form of DEATH
The baby without home, and the home
without baby, remain the two saddest anon
allies of civilization
Governor Patterson, of Tennessee, has Just
pardoned twelve prisoners in the workhouse
at(Memphis, and proposes to get
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-12-02

DUCKWORTH HAS Nor ANSWER
ED THOSE QUESTIONS. THEY ARE
FAIR QUESTIONS. VITALITY LNPOR-
TANT TO FARMERS' UNION. BOYS,
WAKE HIM ANSWER
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-12-02

Governor Patterson, of Tennessee, has just
pardoned twelve prisoners in the workhouse
at(Memphis and proposes to get
A WISE after the conditions there and
GOVERNOR in other prisons of his State,
Consumption, paralysis and 9th
er terrible diseases are constantly being con-
tracted by the unfortunates confined in these
wretched pens. One man was serving SEN
tence for ''the crime of sleeping in a box-car"
and had lost his right arm through the loath-
some conditions of the workhouse. What
Governor Patterson saw for himself no doubt
many another governor could see in his own
State, if he troubled to look. There is no
doubt but that thousands of unfortunates,
sentenced for trifing misdemeanors, lose their
health, and even their lives, by being thrown
into contact with infectious disease The
sanitary conditions are execrable, and the
men in charge Of these institutions are either
helpless to prevent, or reckless in their disre-
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-12-02

American residents in Chile have protested
that the action of the United States in refer
ence to the Alsop claims is arbi-
THE ALsoP trary, and detrimental to Amer
CLAIMS. lean interests in Chile, and have
asked prominent lawyer in
Washington to present their views to the gov
eminent. These claims grew out of an al
legged payment to one Chilean administration
of money for the purpose of obtaining enor-
mously valuable concessions War inter
vening, the administration was unable to
carry out the arrangement and the. heirs of
the original exploiters are endeavoring to
push, with the aid of the United States Gov
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-12-02

The Government is taking evidence in the
land office inquiry, at Seattle, into the va
lidity of the Cunningham
AN IMPORTANT land claims, valued at $780,
CASE. 100000, in the Katalla dis
trict of Alaska This is an
inquiry of the utmost Importance, and devel-
opments therein have so far gone to confirm
the charges made by Clifford Pinchot and to
prove that the boundless wealth of Alaska, all
of which should be held for the benefit of the
whole people, is dangerously near being lost
not only through design, but through laxity
and indifference.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-04-13
VALDEZ WILL
 ISSUE BONDS

VALDEZ.-Thc town of Valdez will soon make $l5,OOO bond issue for the purpose of raising money to con struct dike to protect the town from glacier stream floods. An cleo ton has been called for April 2 to secure the consent of the taxpayers tC the issue, and the bonds will be ready to market soon after that date.
 As Alaskan towns are prohibited Ey law from mourning any bonded in GebtedncSs, it was necessary to sc Dre the passage of special bill through congress authorizing this is s,.c, The bill was introduced over : lcar ago, but was not approved until February of this year.
 The bonds are to run for ten years and bear 6 per cent interest, payable scmi-amually
The daily Alaskan., 1909-04-13
EXPECT BIG OUTPUT

J. NJ. Ruffner, manager and vice president of the North Columbia Gold Mining company, and party arrived cr the Princess May yesterday and left for Discovery in the Atlin dis. uict this morning. The North Col umba Gold mine is one of the larg- est hydraulic placer mines in the world. The company has a practically unlimited water supply and expect to have an enormous output this sea. son.
 Mir. Ruffner has been spending the winter at Cincinnatti, his old home.