The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-01-27
News of the COMpRsg.

were drowned
Miss Gertrude c. Walker, Of York,
Pa, dropped dead while giving medi-
cine to her mother on January 20.
Five persons were burned to death
On January p IN the fire at Toronto.
Canada, which destroyed the resi-
dence OF Percy G. Brooks.
Albert Deeruntz, Is years old, of
Chicago, Ill, was killed while play
ing hangman with his two younger
brothers In barn January 10.
WIN. Cottman and Philip Morris,
negroes, or Lancaster, Va, Quarreled
On January 20. 1t resulted In Morris
being shot to death by Cottman.
VIM. Preston, a negro boy, was ar
rested late Saturday at Rocky Mount,
Va, charged with criminal assault on
Miss Mamie Arlington, an aged white
woman.
Nellie Allen, OF Geavette, Ark, a.
wealthy planter, shot and killed her
father Friday morning following an
exchange of half a dozen shots with
the parent
Two battleships, two Golfers, eight
torpedo-boat destroyers and four sub
marine boats constitute the naval in
crease program for the United States
for next year.
Because Elsie Stanley, the 14-year-
old daughter of George r. Stanley,
near Bridgeville, Del, refused to mar
~ him, VIM. Jones twice attempted
suicide Saturday.
A fire which damaged the stable OF
Philip PadaZano, at Washington, ID.
c., on the night of January is to the
amount of $1,000 burned to death ~
horses and z mules.
The sentences OF IL of the "a an
archists who were condemned to
death by the Supreme Court at Toxic,
Japan, January 10 were commuted
to life imprisonment.
A news dispatch from Sosnowlce,
Russian Poland, says that 40 miners
lost their lives in a fire in the Casimir
colliery, near that place. Three hun
dred and sixty others escaped.
Thirty persons were injured, four
probably fatally, between Hartford
Ark, and Monroe, Okla, January -,
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cific passenger train struck cow.
Twenty-six hundred persons are in
quarantine at Philadelphia as re-
suit OF the discovery that black
smallpox, the most virulent form OF
that disease has existed in house
since the beginning of the year.
While at work in the plant of the
Consolidated Chemical Company, at
Newport, Del, Jos. F. Seelman, 80
years old, was caught in the shafting
and whirled to death. Nearly every
bone in his body was broken.
Mrs. Albert Griffis, aged 81 years,
wife of a Waterman, was attacked
and beaten to death in her home at
Ohaseland, Ohio, January eighteen
by an unidentified assassin, who
escaped. Mrs. Griffis was alone in
the house.
L.. L. Hardage and Richard Null
cahey, OF Memphis, Tenn, rival sa-
Quarreled and fought
Saturday because Of the recent raid
ing of their saloons. As result
il dead and Hardage is I'M
der arrest charged with murder.
During a quarrel over a trivial
matter Sunday, James McKeever, a |
youth of IA years, is alleged to have
stabbed and instantly killed Francis |
Donovan, playmate of the same age, |
while they were on their way home |
from church in Pittsfield, Mass.
What is considered the most re-
markable piece Of surgery in the his
tory OF this section Of the country is |
the stitching Of cut heart in Harry
Brensel, OF Galveston, Texas, who will |
live to tell that his heart was punctur-
ed nearly half an inch. He was stabbed
by man.
One man was killed and 10 injured
by the premature explosion OF dyna-
mite believed to have been due to the |
of a negro while mining
coal 700 feet below the surface in
Mine No. / Of the Old Dominion De-
velopment Company, at Carbon Hill,
Va, January 20.
Miss N. Hixon, Hattlesburg, Miss,
q pretty 1S-year-old girl, respondent
because OF Ill health and the thought |
or being separated from her sweet |
heart, telephoned goodbye to the lat !
ter, George Bony, Saturday night and |
drank an ounce of car
bolic acid, and died.
That little Foster Campbell, Ann
Arbor, Mich, whose body was found
Friday night hanging in a shack
built by the boys Of the neighborhood,
met his death at the hands OF a for
mer playmate seems clearly to be in
dicated by the finding OF "good-by"
note on the outside of the shanty
A man hunt started at Cincinnati,
Ohio, January Is. The quarry was |
negro who had felled Miss Mary Sot-
ter, saleSwoman, as she was return
ing home from work. The negro had
dragged her into an alley when her |
screams attracted a number Of pedes- |
TRANS. Hundreds OF white men took
up the hunt, but the black man had |
escaped.
A masked mob OF fifty men captured
the police officials OF Shelbyyille, KY, |
cut the telephone wires, battered down |
the Jail and lynched three negroes
early Sunday morning, fulfilling |
threats that have been more or less
publicly made on the streets for more |
than week The three men were
hanged from the G. & o. bridge over |
Clear Creek.
A subway train running south on
the northbound tracks struck Miss
Violet Darcy. stenographer, az she
was leaning over the edge of the
Twenty-third Street Station, New
York, Saturday in an effort to see If
a north bound train was coming. Her