Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1902-07-19
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.

GoTneSNc.
Mr.. Harry T. Walters called on Col
lector OF Customs Stranahan. III New
York. and surprised that official by
declaring that he wanted TO pay iull
duty on the Massarante collection
which amounts 10 about 100000.
Garfield Potter. leader OF a band OF
outlaws i'll Wise county, Va. was killed
by a bullet from his own pistol. which
dropped from his belt. causing the dis
charge
\ cloudburst at Thatcher, Ind. wash
ed away nine buildings and caused 4
loss OF $4,000. Residents OF the town
barely had time 10 escape with their
lives
The United States training ship Mo
hican arrived at Dutch Harbor having
encountered head winds and been driv
en- out OF her course on her way to
Honolulu.
p. ". Letter. OF Chicago. invented 4
scheme 10 substitute electromagnetic
Tor the trolley in street-car propulsion.
The long missing steamer Portland
arrived safely al St Michaels. but no
iidings have been received OF the Jen-
ME
The Peary relief ship Windward sail
cd from New York for the Arctic re-
gionS.
General Chaffee ordered battalion
OF infantry 10 the Island OF Mindanao.
The striking freight handlers and the
railroad companies in Chicago have not
yet come TO terms and many OF the
track teamsters refused 10 haul goods
to the freight houses
John Henry Warden. who clipped from
Montgomery county. Va. with Jennie
Austen. - years old. whom he married
in Ohio. was arrested on the charge OF
abduction.
Captain Greble. instructor in artillery
tactics AZ West Point. was seriously
hur: and three cadets injured during
drill there, runaway horse causing the
accident
The engagement is announced OF
Bishop Potter. OF New York, to Mrs.
Alfred Corning Clark. who was the
head OF the Singer Sewing Machine
Company.
AT meeting Of sol; coal operators in
New York it was decided to hold their
present stock pending the threatened
trouble with the miners.
V. NJ. Crews. OF Buckingham county.
Zimmerman, his brother-in-law.
The strike OF the boilermakers on the
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
system was settled by compromise.
Otto Faust. a former wealthy farmer
OF North Dakota. who, affected with a
religious mania. gave away nearly all
his lands for charity, was declared in
. sane in Chicago and will be taken back
Ia,
DR. 4. B. Ryno. a prominent physi-
clan. has been arrested at Mcpherson
Kan. on a warrant charging him with
having some connection with the mys-
terious shooting OF Miss Maud
Holmes.
Fourteen miners still alive. and one
oi them a raving maniac from his sui
ierings. were taken out oi the Johns
town mine. The dead. burned and
mangled by the explosion number over
100.
The court-mar;ial OF Capt. James A.
Ryan. OF the Fifteenth Cavalry. at Ma
Mia. on the charge OF unnecessary Sc
verify TO natives was concluded and II
is believed he will be acquitted.
General Maxilon. convicted OF trea-
son at Cebu. the Philippines. has been
sentenced 10 10 years Imprisonment
and fine OF $1,000.
Rhodes Clay, a member OF the Mis-
souri, Legislature. was shot and killed
in street duel in Mexico, Missouri
town.
Mrs. Frank Lavelleur, of Newton.
Iowa. was bound over to the grand Jury
on the charge OF numbering her hus-
I band
Police Captain John Fitchette, OF
Minneapolis. was convicted OF traffick-
ing in positions on the police force
A bolt OF lightning shaved David Full
lcr's head in Richmond. the victim sus
tanning no other injuries.