The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-09-16
PICkINGS


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Isaac Glover, a negro. wanted for
murder, was shot to death by a posse
of citizens four miles south of Spring
vile, Ala, at o'clock Wednesday
evening. The negro shot two mem
bers of the posse before he was killed. a
Announcement OF airship communi-
cation between Munich and Oberam-
mergau in Germany recalls the fact
that proposals for an aerial service
from Paris to Lyons were made in
1884, within year OF the first balloon
ascent.
Miss Ethel May Pierce, Is years old,
who eloped with William Firth, Jr.,
of Chester, Pa, committed suicide by
firing bullet into her brain as she
was about to be taken into custody.
Firth is married man and has wife
and daughter.
The clergymen of HagerstoWn deny
having any arrangements with the
cabmen of that city to bring them
couples who come there to be mar
ried, for which service the cabman
would receive a percentage of the
marriage fee.
For the first seven months of 1910
the Pennsylvania railroad relief de-
partment, with headquarters in Phil
adelphia, paid nearly $1,500,000 in
benefits to members unable to work
because Of illness ana to families OF
members who have died.
The highest price obtained in many
years for farm land in Washington
county, Nd, was when So acres, sit
uated along the Greencastle turnpike,
near Cearfoss, was sold at public
auction in front Of the court house
at Hagerstown, for $225.05 an acre
this week.
Isaac G. Kitzmiller, aged about 81
years, a farmer living about two miles
from Crellin, Md, attempted to COM
NIT suicide by cutting his throat with
a pocket knife, this week, and, mt
Withstanding he severed the jugular
lie
will likely recover.
During one of the most terrific elee-
trical storms in years the Reformed
Church at Millerstown, near Martins
burg, w. Va, was struck by light
ming and totally destroyed by fire.
The bolt hit the tower and so intense
was the heat that the big bell, one of
the loudest and finest toned in Nor
rison's Cove, was melted
At least ten laborers were killed
outright and ten others injured, one
Of them critically and all OF them seri-
ously, in the collapse of an overhang-
ing shoulder Of rock above the west
ern mouth of the Old Erie Tunnel
under Bergen Hill, New York City,
connecting the Erie terminal in Jer-
sey City with its westward divisions
this week.
AS a result, it is said, if the in
crea3ed spirit duties under the Brit
ish budget the police have noticed i'm
remote districts Of Ireland indications
of revival of illicit distillation of IL
quor. There has also been consider
able increase, it is reported, in the
consumption of spirits of ether as a
beverage since the price of whisky
was raised.
Because she refused to marry her
uncle, Peyton Poole. Miss Viola Poole,
pretty young girl of 1S. who boarded
at the home Of Mrs. Thomas w. HURT,
2034 Huntington avenue. Baltimore,
lies wounded by his hand at st. Luke'G
Hospital. Poole. who. after firing
several shots at the girl, sent a bullet
through his own head. Is also at the
hospital. 1t is believed that he will
recover. but the condition of his vic
tim is uncertain.
Mistaking door leading to the
garret for one leading outside, bur-
glar discovered in A. *. Williams
store at Evansville, Sunday night was
trapped. A companion who was with
him in the store when the light by
which they were working was dis
covered by Mr.. Williams, who entered
the store with William Willis, had bet
ter luck, leaping through window
and making his escape. The one
caught in the garret said his name lis
Clifford A. Tremblay, and that he was
from Philadelphia. He refused TO
give the name of his companion.
Tremblay was lodged in Jail and will
be given hearing next Saturday.
The political struggle now Oh in
Wisconsin presents SO many bewilder-
ing angles is SO full Of bitterness and
ferocity, so replete with charges aTlfk
counter-charges, combinations and
cross-fire that the whole State is torn
with dissension and the Republican
party IS split grapingly apart. The
storm centre Of this whirlwind con
test is Robert Marion La Toilette, the
Insurgent Senator. whose remarkable
personality and striking political
creed have created mountainous
waves OF opposition Just as they have
started tremendous tide i'm his direc
ton. Ia Toilette is i'm a fight to be
renominated as United States Senator.
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