The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-02-03
NEWS OF THE COMPASS.

NEWS OF THE COMPASS.
Chancellor Allison decided at Nash
vile, Tenn, against the negro Knights
Of Pythias, helding that they have no
right to the name, regalia, badges, etc.
Miss Georgia Smith, prominent in
society at Rochester, N. W, commit
ted suicied Saturday evening at the
Seneca Hotel by drinking carbolic
acid
Four arrests were made January ~
for an alleged felonious assault COM
mitted on Miss Laura Clifner, a well
known woman, in Wilmington, Del,
late Wednesday night.
Three men are dead and another was
inernally injured January % as a
result of a premature dynamite eX-
plosion in the Helen iron mine in the
Michipicoten (Ontario) district
Mrs. Nathan Kirkwood, of 1872 Ripka
street, Philadelphia, sentenced her
husband Saturday to one year in the
House of Correction, who was asked
by the police captain to sentence
her husband.
After having served eight years OF
a life sentence imposed for murder
he never committed, nut OF which ne
was convicted in Los Angeles, Sew
eriano Gonzales has Just been released
from San Quentin prison.
Mrs Sina Davis, SO years old, was
drowned January 20 in the Tygarts
Valley River, between Bentons Ferry
and Colfax, w. va. The aged woman
il supposed to have become bewilder-
nd nrd UaIEad intO thn stream
Just as he stepped from the pulpit,
after preaching an eloquent sermon
I'm the Presbyterian church, man
supposed to be the Rev. John Gibbs
of Paterson, N. j., was arrested on
charge of horse setaling at Tampa,
Fla.
Mexisall, the first border town i'm
Mexico to be captured by rebels, was
taken with little resistance early Sat
urday. The only man killed was the
taller, when he refused to surrender
his prisoners. The custom house was
seized.
The body OF Thomas Hedrick, liz
years old, who disappeared from his
home in Princeton, w. Va, about
year ago was found January 26
three-fourths of mile northwest Of
the town in badly decomposed con-
dition.
The jury in the case Of Laura Far
nsworth Schenk, accused of poison
Ing her husband, John Q. Schenk, at
Wheeling, w. Va, on January 20, who
could not agree on verdict was dis
charged. The jury stood II to l for
acquittal.
The annual report and statistics for
the corners office shows that the cor
oners acted last year in 5,4OS deaths.
a slight increase over 1903. OF these
deaths 2,4S3 were OF violent nature,
following wounds from assault or
accidents
With her skull crushed, supposed
IN with flatiron, the body of Mrs.
Oliver P. Smith was found January
20 i'm a rooming house owned by her.
Two pocketbooks, both Of which had
been rifed, lay on the floor beside
the corpse.
Wilhelmina EQUITY, OF Newark, w.
Va, is dead from burns, her clothing
having caught from an open crate in
her room. She was alone, Sitting
in an invalid's chair, and the flames
swept out and ignited her dress on
january 26.
Federal indictments were returned
at Guthrie, Okla, Saturday against
Duke y. Jeffries, Democrat, and Will
lard Smith, Republican, both wealthy
farmers, charging them with offenses
against the franchise and against the
civil rights of negroes.
John B. Hurt, So years old, a
wealthy farmer living near Pounding
Mill, va, was found dead at o'clock
Friday morning on a ridge a short
distance from his home with bullet
hole in his head and a revolver in
his hand Hurt had been i'm bad
health for some time.
Four Italians working on the third
track for the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, near Terra Alta, w. Va,
were injured in a mysterious dyna-
mite explosion on January ~. 1t ID
said the explosion was Black Hand
outrage, perpetrated by a Calabrian
who had grudge to settle with one
of the men.
Elias White, whose name materially
bellies his color, enjoys the distinction
OF being the biggest chicken thief
in the world" according to County
Constable Harrell, who brought him
to jail at Suffolk, Va. White, says
Harrell, has a record of 1000 chickens
collected at various times during his
checkered career
That the Chinese Government is
ready to stamp out the plague epidem-
ic was demonstrated January 20 when
the Wal Pu Flu authorized Doctor WI,
i'm charge OF the native city i'm Harb-
in, to burn 1000 collins containing
corpses Of plague victims, owing to
the earth being frozen. These unburied
bodies are believed to be contributing
to the spread OF the disease
J. Burnett, prominent European
planter Of Palaghat, on the Nelliam-
pathy Hills, in Southern India, has
been killed by an elephant under trag-
ic circumstances. He was walking
through his estate with one OF his
coolies, when an elephant chased
them. They climber a tree, but the
Infatuated beast dragged Mr. Burnett
down and crushed him to death.
Twenty-three officers, noncommis-
stoned officers and sailors, survivors
OF the Haytian gunboat Liberte, which
sank at set off Port de Paix, Hayti,
last October following an explosion,
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