The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-02-10
NEWS OF THE COMPASS.


321, while 1892 were injured
Next week there will enter the po-
lice service of Barcelona 100 women,
whose principal mission will be to aid
in stamping out anarchy In that city.
Warrants are out February 8 for
the arrest OF eight men fin connection
with the disastorous dynamite ex-
plosion of Wednesday at Communi-
paw.
Fitzhugh Conner, % years old, shot
and killed his sweetheart, Miss Cora
Turner, 20 years old, February 2, and
then killed himself OF Naked Creek.
Page county, Va.
The authorities and doctors con-
tue to be puzzled rs to the cause
OF the sneezing in school Of 40 girls
taught by Miss Rosa Ernst i'm the
northeastern section OF Reading, Pa.
That the death due to famine and
the pestilence following in its wake
will total a million before spring, was
the estimate submitted to the relief
committee at Marking, China, Febru-
airy 8.
On one Of the three great railway
systems in Western Canada few
trains are moving, hundreds of pas
senger and freight trains being buried
i'm the snowdrifts, or at the mercy OF
dead locomotives.
Andrew Muzzleman, a farmer liv-
ing near Greencastle, Pa, was struck
by lightning and killed in the storm
of mingled snow ana hail which
swept over Southern Pennsylvania
late Friday night.
Abdul Hamid, the deposed Sultan of
Turkey, killed two of his wives Feb
ruary and was locked up in a cell,
violently insane. His struggles are SO
violent that he has been put In irons,
but he continually raves and means.
Philip c. Feibusch, alias Field, who
was arrested in New Orleans two
weeks ago on the request of the Ger
man government, charged with 287
foregries in that country, committed
suicide Monday I'm the parish prison.
]. Lyle Nugent, q years old, Phila-
delphia, was knocked unconscious
when a tire of his automobile explod-
ed on Sunday. He was removed to
the Hahnemann Hospital, where it is
said that he may lose the sight Of both
eyes.
Former Surrogate Petty, of River
head, n. Y, has presented his bill to
the Suffolk County Mutual Insurance
Company for legal services rendered
during the fiscal year ended on Tues
day of last week. The bill is for IS
cents.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, who became ia
thrnnphnnt fb.w
years ago by reason OF her fondness
for smashing saloons, was reported to
be sinking rapidly Monday, at Eureka
Springs, Ark, and her death is said
to be imminent
Accommodating the county seat
OF Fulton county, about 20 miles
above Hancock, was visited by fire
which destroyed four buildings, a
barn and icehouse, and new
automobile on which was carried
$1,000 insurance.
Sharks delayed the progress of the
Royal Mail steamer Marina, which
arrived at Port Limon, Porto Rico
last week. For three days she drift
ed idle and helpless because of a
school of about 20 man-eaters which
lowered about her stern.
"A murderer, four highwaymen, five
burglars, two forgers and three ordi-
nary citizens sat down Friday night
at banquet in prominent hotel at
Los Angeles, Cal, as guests of Leon
ard Mordaunt, himself an eX-convict,
who IL now at the head OF the prison
parole fund Of the Union Rescue Mis-
sion.
Albert Barlow, of Galveston, Texas,
a convict who is working out six
months sentence, was taken sick Feb
ruary and sent to hospital, where
IT was necessary to perform a surgi-
cal operation to locate the trouble.
A diamond valued at $500 and weigh
ing over carat was taken from his
stomach.
Barlow Bolton, a farmer Az years
old, il said to be dying at his home on
Clinch river, in Scott county, Virginia,
as the result of having been shot
through window OF his home by
would-be assassin last week. Both
barrels Of the shotgun were emptied
into hi body. There T. no clue to the
assassin.
Sister Mary of the Rosary will look
upon the face of her father Sunday for
the first time in thirty years at the
Convent Of the Good Shepherd at
Brooklyn. NJ. ". AT rare intervals the
nun had heard his voice through the
darkened gratingo a convent window,
but her vows prevented her from see
ing his features. 3,
Eight negro convicts escaped from
the workhousein Prince William coun-
ty, va, February and III more were
prevented from getting away only by
the repeating rifles of the guards,
when the 125 made a concerted effort
to gain their freedom by carrying
stones into the prison concealed in
their clothing for use of weapons.
The board of managers of the Mary
land tuberculosis Sanatorium at Sa-
billisville at a meeting last Friday
in Baltimore and approved plans for
the erection of an additional hospital
building which will accommodate a.
bout 200 patients. The building will
contain quarters for the doctors,
nurses and other help, offices, kitch-
en- and dining room.
Seven-year-old Thomas Kennedy
died early February 3, in Brooklyn, IN.
", from bullet wound. Five-year-
old Joseph Britton is in a critical
condition as the result of a wound
made by the same bullet. Locked up
In the Children's Society l. a terri
ned ll-year-old girl, Marian Riddle,
who was accused Nv tha noIfranF 49,,