The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1912-08-23

war III turkey IL ln6VlTaDle.
The Cardinals residence in BaIti
more has been recently fitted with
electric lights.
The Maryland and District of Col
umbia Federation OF Labor was in an
week.
Julius Rosenwald, of Chicago, cele-
brated his 50th birthday On August
18th by giving s6S7,50O TO charity and
educational work
Prisoners in the House of Correc-
ton have been inoculated with anti
typhoid serum. Nine cases are re-
ported in the institution.
An effort will b. made il the SEN
ate appropriate $4,000 toreimburse
former Senator borimer for his ex-
penses in defending himself.
Secretary Wilson predicts a ma
terial reduction in the price Of beef
this winter because OF the unusually
large corn, oats and hay crops.
One million dollars is to be spent
on the Olympic, one Of the White Star
Line steamships, in order to make her
absolutely safe for ocean travel
q feet OF seven aerop4anes Is being
gathered at the army aviation field,
College Park, Md, where the training
Of young aviators will be resumed.
Sixteen aldermen in Detroit, Mich,
were arrested, charged with bribery.
These proceedings are the result of
investigation by private detectives.
The laws Of Maryland for the year
1912, now In the hands of the binders,
will cover about 1900 pages, or nearly
800 pages more than they did two
years ago.
Chief Judge Hammond Urner, who
developed typhoid fever at his coun-
try home, at Braddock Heights, Sun
day, j. resting easy under a mild at
tack OF the disease
The State Live Stock Sanitary
Board has dispatched Dr. Daniel Kel-
lar to Frederick county with a supply
Of hog cholera serum to stay che
progress Of cholera
Miss Maud Powell, a China medical
missionary who was supposed to
have persisted on the Titanic, has
reached her home at Washington, Pa,
where funeral services for her had
been held.
Secretary of State Knox will repre-
sent the United States at the elabor-
ate funeral services for the Emperor
Mutsuhito, of Japan, which will begin
on September the thirteenth and last
for three days. The Emperor died on
July 30th
w. I'll. Anderson, superintendent of
the Anti-Saloon League, in letter to
President Jesse D. Price, Of the Sen
ate, says he is willing that Mr. Price
shall have all the time he desires in
which to make a speech in rebuttal in
the joint debate at Salisbury On Sep
TENDER 27.
A colored Baptist convert took in
so much water when he was being
baptized at Paulsboro, N. J., that he
lost his head and grabbed the pastor
by the neck, pulling him under the
water. Only the quick work OF the
converts father saved the two from
drowning, while most Of the women
present fell in faints.
After an illness of several months,
eX-State Senator John Writ Randall,
of Annapolis, one Of the most prOmi-
nent Republican attorneys in the State
loo i1I Of 4I,o # hi
daughter, Mrs. William Bladen Iown-
des, Roland Park, Friday afternoon,
shortly after 2 o'clock Death was
due to stomach trouble.
Mrs. Madeline Force Astor, of New
York City, survivor Of the Titanic dis
aster, in which her husband, the Col
John Jacob Astor, lost his life last
April gave birth to son last week
The new arrival has been named
John Jacob Astor, after his father
| The baby becomes a direct heir to
100000 Of the Astor fortune.
Farmers In Talbot county, Md, who
have taken up potato culture are
making heavy profits this year. One
grower reports a yield OF 720 bushels
on acres, and many others have
done nearly as well or better: The
tubers have been selling at produce
exchanges at 80 to SO cents, and the
potato crop il said to be the best
paying one this year
Fred Allen, one of the mountain
outlaws charged with completely in
the Hillsville court house, murders
last March, pleaded guilty Ia murder
in the second degree last week at
Wytheville, Va, and was sentenced to
eighteen years i'm the peRftentiary.
Two others have been convicted of
first degree murder and TWO more
members of the gang are about to be
tried.
An up-to-date farmer, Charles
Bauermeister of Fairfield N. j., tried
to save. decaying apple tree by fill
ing the holes with concrete, just as
an up-to-date farm journal recon-
mended. This spring the tree bore
many apples, but when Mr. Bauer
meister bit into one, he broke Off his
) best gold mounted tooth on some
hard substance. The apples had con-
crete cores, or at least as hard as
; concrete cores. He declares he will
.. feed all those apples to his chickens
hoping they may cause his hens to
: lay hard shelled eggs for shipping.