The Democratic advocate., 1922-09-08

Nr. and Mrs. VIM. Staup and
daughter. Margaret, of Philadelphia,
returned to their home after spend
\ ing several days with the latter's
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. John Ecken-
rode, who accompanied them home
and will spend some time there.
Mrs. Roy Grossnickle and daugh-
ter. Velma, of near Union Bridge,
were guests in this city Tuesday.
Mrs GrossnickIe and daughter attend
ed the Reifsnider- Warner wedding
which took place near this city, Mon
day.
Feranda Crudden, (nee Tracy,
aged 76 years, died Monday at her
home in Baltimore. She was the wife
OF William Crudden. Funeral ser
vices were held Wednesday Inter
ment in Lorraine cemetery. Mrs.
Crudden was native of this county.
Mrs Elizabeth Berger was killed
Sunday by an automobile as she was
entering her home at Gardenville. y.
Y. She was just coming from the cem-
etery, where she had placed flowers
on the grave of her only son, killed
six years ago by a runaway team.
Four days after moving into his
new home, Davis Bennett. 81. Middle
town, Conn, committed suicide Sun
day by shooting through the right
temple. His wife and son. waiting for
him to go to church. could give no
reason for his act.
A rally day service will be held at
Zion Methodist Protestant Church, at
O'Clock September "a The annual
chicken and oyster supper Will be
held at the same place on September
80, by the Ladies Aid. All come out
and help.
Charles 10th. OF Boston, who start
ed Saturday evening in an attempt to
swim the English Channel from Dow
er to the French shore, had to give up
early Sunday morning after having
been in the water for II hours and 10
minutes.
A loaded revolver, believed to have
been thrown into baby carriage by
fugitive Gunmen, was accidentally fir
ed by a small boy Sunday, and Mar
tin Toomey, aged :, was taken to st.
Vincent's Hospital, New York, with a
serious bullet wound in his chest.
Mr.. Charles Swinderman. George
street. will leave shortly for Sanatur-
ium where he will take tre9 'ment for
lung trouble. Mr. Swinderman was
taken with cold during St. Johns
fete which weakened his system,
causing him to take treatment for
| ornament relief.
Four persons were killed, eight in
jured seriously and % slightly. in the
wreck of ST. Louis-San Francisco
passenger train No. sos near Witten-
berg. Mo. Friday. The train en- route
from ST Louis to Memphis. Tenn,
WAS wrecked when a trestle collapsed
as it passed over it.
Kicked in the back by an unidenti
fled man. Lee Goldner, a salesman at
the Pollock Furniture Store, Balti-
more. plunged headlong into the ele-
yator shaft Sunday morning and while
lying in the pit with both legs broken
some one on the upper floor bargain
ed with him for a rescue.
Paul Kovach. who is said to have
been in the habit of insulting women
in the foreign colony in Nazareth.
Pa. is believed to have paid for his
actions with his life. his body having
been found near Dexter cement plan,
a little before midnight with five bull
let wounds, one through the heart.
Seventeen-year-old Herbert Wood
ward occupies cell al the county
jail at Stephenville. O.. awaiting a"-
tion of the coroner in connection with
the death of his father. Clarence
Woodward Young Woodward shot
his father to protect his mother. The
boy told that he fired when his faith
er refused to stop beating his mother.
"My dress is on fire" cried Mrs. II.
+ Bressler. wife of a Sunbury (Pa)
business man, as their car was going
slowly up a mountain road. Bressler
quickly extinguished it. badly burn
ing his hand. Both jumped from the
car Just as it burst in flames from a
broken gas line. They were forced to
stand and see it completely ruined.
they said.
A current of $4,000 volts of electric
ity passed through the body of George
&. Wagner, 2S, an electrician, Of Dor
Mass. when he graSped a de-
fective wire on which he was work.
ing in the power house at the New
York Central yards. the Bronx. He is
in Lincoln Hospital. suffering only
from second-degree burns on the fore
arm, back, hands and chest.
Thieves entered the residence of
Jones Baker. on the State road be-
tween Emmitsburg and Taneytown.
a few nights ago and departed with
S37 and a quantity of preserves. meat,
bread and butter. The money belong
ed to the Toms Greek Methodist
Church. of which Mr.. Baker is treas
urer. The robbers gained entrance to
the house through the cellar and op-
Grated while the family slept.
A horrible experience in which he
was attacked by an infuriated bull, I
cut gaShed bruised and broken eS- |