The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-04-28
CURRENT NEWS

CURRENT NEWS
r. United States troops at San
- and along the border will, 1t
: said remain until July l.
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80 motorcyclists collided In Phil
.aa1nhia. last Sunday. One was kill
~ ~ md the other probably fatally in
jured.
c;-l nupils Of st. Agnes School, Al
hany, N. Y, marched out OF their burn
~ building without panic, and had a
line Of hose playing On tne nre Derore
tba fremen arrived.
leaders OF the majority In the House
agreed last week upon 40 to 80 per
1ent reduction in the duties on wool
ems (cloth and clothing, blankets, car
nota etc. J, and so per cent. on wool.
Nv the accidental fitting Of a crucible
containing tons of melted steel, the
Sorv liquid was poured over a num-
hsr Of workmen at Wayne Junction.
d Seven were killed and twelve
others Dduly Jul ACd"
The waste of war in time of peace
Il seen in the fact that six leading
nations spent last year $685. ,OOO, 900 on
their navies and $1,021 100000 on
their armies The nations, in the or
der of their war-like expenditures
were Great Britain, Germany Russia,
limited States, France, and Japan.
All except France and Japan spend
over s300,000,000 a year on prepara-
tons for war.
According to recent German expert
mpnts II appears that all kinds OF glass
will dissolve in water II the tempera-
ture is high enough. Ordinary glass
dissolves in water at 40 degrees,
Fahrenheit. OF course it is impossi-
BILE to raise water to that tempera-
ture except under strong pressure.
Great damage was done recently by
a succession of tornadoes, which swept
parts Of Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri
and Arkansas. twenty-five persons
were killed and one hundred injured,
while over five hundred were render
ed homeless. 1t was especially severe
in St. Louis, where a grain elevator
valued at 100000 was blown into the
Mississippi River.
The Chinese government, after
months of hesitation, has signed the
contract for a loan of $50, 100000. The
money will be used to build railroads.
Because of the jealousy which other
governments have for each other, 1t
was decided to borrow the amount
from American, British, French and
German bankers-one fourth from
each. Each was eager to lend the
whole of the money.
Henri La Fontaine, distinguished
Belgian, has arrived in this country,
hoping to promote the cause OF peace.
He Is very enthusiastic over the
worldsrecent progress away from mil
itarism, and looks forward to Fed
Grafton of the World" in which there
will be no more war. M. La Fontaine
In president of the Permanent Inter
national Peace Bureau at Berne, swift
erland.
Many women will head important
municipal offices in Colorado as re-
suit of the elections held this month.
Pueblo. the second largest city in the
State, elected woman auditor. Lead
Vile, Telluride, Idaho Springs, Greedy
and Montrose elected women treas
urers, as did also the smaller towns
Of Fairplay and Ridgway. Colorado
City and Las Animas elected city
clerks. and Durango a woman alder
man.
In the invention of flying machines
almost everything that will fly or soar
has been taken as model-the bird,
the kite and the thin fiat stone that
bows make to skip" over the surface
of a pond. The present flying ma
chine is a combination of all three.
A New York inventor named Harrison
has taken out a patent on one Whlcn
is based on the principle OF the rock
eta series of rapid explosions. He
says it is going to make the inventions
of the Wrights, Curtiss and Blerlot
look like foolish toys" but as yet
his only success is with a small
model.
The eclipse of the sun, April 2S,will
give astronomers an unusual cnance
to study the corona, since it will be
total almost five minutes. But only in
the Pacific Ocean, in a narrow triangle
commencing near the southeastern
corner of Australia and extending al
most to the shores OF Guatemala. On
ly few small islands are in the track
Of totality, and to them astronomers
have gone from all parts Of the civil
lized world to get the benefit OF those
five minutes.
In the United States the eclipse will
be seen as a partial one only, and not
at all in the far northern States. III
we draw a line from Washington
through Chicago to Portland, Oregon,
it will mark the northern limit.
Those who live south ofthis line should
see something. The further south the
more may be seen.
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