The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-09-22
~ Of the State and
0ther Current News.

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Other Current News.
vi ora week of the recent rail
~ M luire in Great Britain the rail
M lost s2,5OO'OOO.
.+raams of lava from Mount
~ continue to destroy vegetatlon
N many miles around
y 80 new Union Station in Baltl-
Y ~ ras thrown open to the public
1 PR, r. NJ Il is a beautiful struc-
/ E r,iTh all the modern convent
~ and comforts.
wagon containing Abraham Sig
u. his wife and eight children
~, .trrck BY train near Passaic,
The eldest daughter was killed
:. +ba father and seven other mem
- II the family injured.
- tho first time in Turkish his
~ rhe Sultan on September re
HMeved a QepuLdLloA " M u.s. W
and promised them that he
%onId do what he could to improve
Iot of Ottoman women.
rrcIe Sans next big land lottery
I'M he held in South Dakota from
S1loher q to q, inclusive, when 1885,
ks5 arres of land in the Rosebud and
H. Ridge Reservations will be Of
LII Is prizes to land seekers.
4 click in a moving-picture ma
Abina at Canaonsburg, Penn, on Au-
INT d led a foolish boy to shout
fr5re" and to rush for the door. A
banic followed in which rs, mostly
children, were killed, and 25 we're
seriously injured.
New York, to IFS shame, has legaliz-
VI Intoxicating. The disgraceul
srepes attending the first fight under
he new law, held on August ~ in
Madison Square Garden, have done
inch to open peoples eyes to the
fniguity which the voters have per-
United.
The Virginia Conference Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
Mill meet in Salisbury this year. The
conference is composed of about four
hundred and twenty members: there
8will be about three hundred ministers
and one hundred and twenty laymen.
The wonderful seyenteen-year-old
Boston girl, Miss Rose Pitonof, swan
recently the seventeen miles between
East 10Th Street, New York City, and
Coney Island, really covering twenty
one miles in the swim, accomplishing
it in hours and z minutes. She is
the first girl to perform this feat.
& George Marshall, negro, after at
tacking Mrs Joseph Chaplain, wife Of
farmer, at Vicksboro, ii miles from
Warrenton, late Saturday afternoon,
killed the woman's father and shot
and wounded the sheriff and two of
the posse who rounded him up in his
house, near Warrenton, N. c. The
negro will probably be lynched.
Another hero of the wireless tele-
graph is Sheesley, a sixteen-year-old
ton was battling against the hurri-
cane during the recent terrible storm
off the Carolinas, and his wireless
station was wrecked, climbed into the
rigging and at fearful risk operated
his instrument from there, succeeding
in calling aid
Rumors that Waynesboro, Pa, and
Hagerstown are to be connected by
trolley line are now flying around.
One rumor sys: THE next move of
the promoters Of the Hagerstown and
Clearspring street railway company
will be for the building Of a line to
Waynesboro. The prophet is Hag-
erstown gentleman who is familiar
with the situation, but beyond ven
turing the prediction he had nothing
to say
Almost five thousand Baltimore ne
groes-4,S09 to be exact-reached
Gettysburg in six long trains over
the Western Maryland on Monday Of
last week, and all day wandered
through the town and over the bat
tlefeld, RouId Top being the special
place of attraction Disorder was
frequent enroute, and one special
railroad officer reported gang OF
eight or ten pickpockets pursuing
their vocation among their fellow
passengers.
After having for years declined the
propositions Of the Army athletic
representatives, the Navy has at last
agreed that the annual football game
between Annapolis and West Point
shall be PLAYED this year on the Sat
urday before Thanksgiving Day.
The contest is likely to take place
at Princeton, as the University of
Pennsylvania, which mas heretofore
allowed its grounds to be used, will
not have completed its own season
by that time
This year has been a disappoint-
ment to Eastern Shore farmers, truck
ers and market gardeners. Not for
thirty years has there been such a
failure in crops. The prices for
shipment Of fruit and produce were
far below the average. On a farm
near Salisbury, army worms stripped
n tia1d IF GROWING miIInt in 1nCG than