The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1912-03-01
CURRENT NEWS.
FROM HERE, THERE AND
EVERYWHERE.

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The House OF Representatives has
passed the bill to abolish five regi-
ments of cavalry.
Much damage was caused by fire in
Corpus Christi Catholic Church, Bal
timore, where valuable crucidxes and
candelabras were destroyed.
The Maryland Public Service Com
mission has sued the EastOn Light
and Fuel Company for not having
amended it, plant to furnish better
gas.
Mrs. Susie T.. Brewer has sued d.
Victor r. Schlosser, or HagerstoWn,
for $4,000 damages, charging that a.
pulled the wrong teeth from her
mouth.
III IL claimed that Ia the last few
years there have been more than 100
dynamite explosions in buildings
whose owners or builders had had
trouble with building trades unions.
The short supply of potatoes, and
portation OF some cargoes from South
Africa. It is the first time potatoes
have been imported from that CONT
nent.
a lobster weighing 27 pounds was
caught the other day about five miles
OFF shore at Atlantic City, NJ. j. III
is said to be the largest ever caught
Id those waters and one OF the largest
ever found anywhere.
Catholics i'm Frederick, Md, are
making preparations, under the 81
rection OF Father William j. Kane,
for the celebration of the seventy
fifth anniversary Of the conservation
OF st. Johns Church on April ~.
The Bureau OF Statistics OF Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor computes
that enough sugar is consumed IN
the United States eacn year to allow
each person 81 pounds. That is, We
eat seven pounds month apiece.
"A little pet terrier almost cost his
Mistress life when he snapped and
bit at those who attempted to carry
her from her burning home; i'm his
loyalty to her he kept Off the rescuers
until he was smothered in shawl
and taken away
The Public Service Commission has
aided the corporate development Of the
long proposed railroad ia Southern
Maryland. Tit ia said that the building
OF this much-desired road, leading
from Washington across to Point
Lookout, on the Chesapeake Bay, is
now assured.
New gold fields have been discov-
cred i'm the Yukon territory near
Dawson, and hundreds of miners
have rushed there to stake out
claims Many will probably perish
Id the bitter cold SO says report
from IT. . Consul Cole at Dawson
He says the discovery is one Of the
best since the Klondike was opened.
One OF the vast enterprises OF this
country il the pulp and paper bust
ness which has been built up in
Maine in recent years. Towns and
railroads have been built because of
1T and the total wages paid the more
than nine thousand men now employ
ed in this business exceeds tnat OF
the cotton Industry. Spruce l. the
wood used in making the pulp for pa
per.
Funeral services for the battleship
Maine and for the 260 men who
went down with the ship "a years
ago, have been arranged between the
Governments of the United Safes and
Wy OF Cuba. Shortly after March a, the
human skeletons having been removed
from her hull, the Maine" is to be
towed to deep water i'm the Gulf of
Mexico and sunk. The occasion will
be one Of ceremony.
Christian churches, other than the
Orthodox Greek Church, have never
been allowed in Russia. But the
rule has now been broken. The Car
has given special permission to TT.
Macarthur OF New York to establish
a Baptist church and college at St.
Petersburg. But the American
clergyman had to promise not to
mention Russian politics, nor preach
anything to which the Greek church
could object
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