The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-01-28
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
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A raid on the Military Club and the
arrest Of many army officers at Mad
rid are believed to have nipped in the
bud a widespread conspiracy against
the Spanish Cabinet.
"A woman and five children were
burned to death in a settlers home
in Saskatchewan.
Henry Smith, cO1Ored convicted or
the murder of Walter F. Schultz, a
Chicago artist, at Alexandria, was
sentenced to death in the electric
chair.
Two bank officers and three other
men were arrested in Pittsburg On
charges Of grating.
The secretary-treasurer Of the
American Sugar Refining Company
and several employees were indicted
on charges OF conspiracy to defraud
the Government.
The International Harvester Com
pany has decided to distribute $780,
100000 stock dividend and declare
dividend of 4 per cent. on the COM
mon stock.
Some 60 business organizations met
in Chicago and adopted resolutions
opposing the publicity clause Of the
Corporation Tax law.
Baron" Emil Karl Won Mueller, un-
der arrest at Los Angeles, is believed
to have swindled 80 women by marry
ing them.
Saturday.
Tennessee Dutcn," notorious
craftsman, was killed while robbing
the postoffice at Tallahassee, Fla:
Mrs. Eva1yn @. Romadka, former
wife of a Milwaukee millionaire, was
quietly released from Joliet Prison
in Illinois, where she had served an
indeterminate term for pilfering.
Two little children of Asa Farrer
were run down by big sightseeing
automobile in Jacksonville, Fla, and
one of them was killed.
A corset steel saved the life of Mrs.
Walter Garner, of Buffalo, N. Y, who
was shot by her husband, who then
killed himself.
Four men were killed and three in
jured when Colorado Midland freight
train was derailed near Busk tunnel,
Colorado.
The Southern California orange
crop has been damaged to the extent
of $1,000,000 by the heavy frosts of
the last 10 days.
Mrs. Timothy Lynch, aged q, of
Butte, Mont, attempted suicide by
setting her clothing on fire with ker-
OSene.
Sunday.
James A. Jones, 25 years old of
Laurel Grove, Pittsylvania county,
committed suicide by shooting him
self through the heart.
There are now in the Internal Rev.
enue Bureau 2S4,OOO,0OO stamps,
valued at $56,914,O0O.
Miss Laura White, aged IS years, of
Pittsburg, Pa, bequeathed 500 to have
physician stab her through the
heart three times.
The first days polling in the gen
eral Parliamentary elections in Eng
land resulted i'm the return of Al
Unionists, SO Liberals, 6 Laborites
and 5 Nationalist. The Unionists
gained 16 seats, the Liberals and the
Laborites /. 1t looks like the Liberals
would retain control by a reduced
majority.
The Turkish government has 10000
troops in readiness to send into Crete
because of the Cretan executive COM
mittee taking the oath of allegiance
to King George and violating what
are claimed to be the sovereign rights
of the Sultan.
Walter Lonsdale, who was in an
official capacity associated with Dr.
Cook, the explorer, now admits his
distrust of the Doctor as discoverer of
the North Pole.
From speechless trance in which
she had been for three months and
half, Mrs. Kate Mendelsohn passed on
to death at hospital at Pittsburg.
The physicians are puzzled at the
case.
Monday.
A major-general of the Russian
Army has been accused of grating.
Roosevelt reports he has 8,463
specimens of vertabrates for the
Smithsonian.
Kansas, by divided Supreme Court,
lost its case over the law fixing a
school fee on charters Of interstate
doing business in the
State.
Thomas Noel, a negro, was senten-
ced to death at Norfolk for the murder
of Deputy Sheriff Sykes
Mrs. Frances Evans, of Baltimore,
died of shock, after being taken from
a Philadelphia apartment house which
was destroyed by fire.
An Illinois minister took poison
and one in Pittsburg shot himself
dead because of ill health.
A New York milk wagon driver es-
capped the bullets of strikers by max
ing fort of his milk cans.