The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1912-05-17
CURRENT NEWS.
FROM HERE, THERE AND
EVERYWHERE.

New York State consumes 1,4OO,-
100000 eggs year and there are now
3O0,O0O,O0O eggs in storage there.
Fast trains have now made lit pos
sible It'd 20 from San Francisco 10
New York in less than three and a
half days.
Gen. William Booth, the founder
and world-commander OF the Saliva
ton Army, is now almost blind and
las had to give up work.
tn Missouri there II "a woman who
serves as sheriff. She recently took
two men to the penitentiary and no
doubt understands her work as she
experienced no difficulty in handling
the prisoners.
The ancient weather-beaten cottage
where Edgar Allen Poe wrote THE
Raven" brought $4,000 ait real 60
tate sale While Poe was writing the
immortal lines and other poems he
could scarcely meet his household eX-
penses-
The final legal step has been taken
toward the establishment Of the
Johns Hopkins Technical School. 1t
IL planned to open the school ln the
coming fall with courses in three
branches of engineering-mechanlcal,
electrical and chemical.
The fate of diamond engagement
ring varies, but most unusual was
the fate of the one that Miss Georgia
Goodwin, of New York, fed to a horse
along with an apple. of course she
only meant for the horse to take the
apple.
a butcher named Augustus Moore
closed his shop at Plainield, IN. ~,
the other day because of the advanc
ing prices of meat. He said that his
conscience would not permit him to
rob the poor. Would that some of
the beef barons in Chicago and olner
meat centers, had such consciences!
Louisiana floods show no signs Of
Abating. at the beginning OF this week
the lower Mississippi was still rising,
as the Rocky and the Allegheny
mountains, poured in their melfed
SHOWS Tit il estimated that $4,000
D6CD1G nave DG6n IuduC IU1AC1OD0,
hundreds Of lives have been lost and
the money cost is many millions of
dollars.
1t is going to cost $31 100000 a
year to operate the Panama Canal
after it is finished, according to esti-
mates submitted to the Senate Com
mitee on Canals OF the total, 111A
millions are for interest on the cost,
Is millions for defence" including
forts and garrisons, and Az millions
for the actual cost Of operation and
repairs.
Since July /, 1911, the q. s. treas
ury has paid out $12,O95, 900 more
than it has received Last year at
this time the shortage was only ST.
067,000 Last week the Treasury had
$63,15O,0OO in cash on hand, besides
$33,OOO,OOO i'm banks and i'm the Phil
ippine treasury. This does not in
clude the reserves held to secure the
various forms Of paper money.
Twenty thousand women and GIG
men marched in a 'tVotes for Women"
procession in New York last Satur-
day Enormous crowds of specta-
tors, estimated at 100000, packed
the sidewalks, congested the roadway,
and cheered Before half the women
were in line solid mass of marchers
extended from 57th street to the
Washington arch, distance of more
than two miles.
The damage done by the Mississippi
overflow will BE- partly offset, says
the Secretary Of Agriculture, by the
good the floods have done in destroy
ing billions of cotton boil weevils.
Many of the cotton fields have been a
long time under water and the weev-
lis have been drowned. Enough of
them have been killed, Secretary Will
son thinks, to add millions of dol
lars to the value of this years cotton
crop.