Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-12-12
TEE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER
Domestic.

having deirauded Insurance cO.nDanic:
will be presented to the grand jury o!
New York in few days Assistant
District Attorney Caravan says that the
fire insurance companies have lost hun.
drcds OF thousands OF dollars through
paying false claims OF loss.
Rev. T. B. Haskell has made a de
tailed report to the American Board of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions
showing the extent of the devastation
by Turkish soldiers in the village Ct
Monastir.
James NJ. Edge, former notc-te,ler Of
the First National Bank, Paterson. NJ
J.. was arrested in Memphis, Tenn,
charged with embezzling about $780,
COO from the bank.
Mrs. Hattie Sutliff and her I4-year-
old son were burned to death i'll fire
in their residence. at Flat Rock, Mich.
Ernest Miller. secretary of the Grand
Lodge OF the American Legion OF Hon
or. has disappeared from Hoboken.
Policemen saved from d mob Joe
Irwin, negro, who shot Edward
.awson, white man, i'll East St.
Louis.
Samuel Fl. Grey. formerly attorney
general OF New Jersey, died at Camden,
NJ
The First National Bank of Allie
ghcny resumed will, new set OF Off
GERS.
Blanche ST. Clair who was connected
with a gang of postofficc thieves, died
in Philadelphia hospital without re-
vealing the whereabouts OF her hus-
band, the leader of the gang, though
urged by the police and physicians TO
do SO.
John Slaughter. the Oldest Wyoming
pioneer, died at Cheyenne, aged "a. He
went to Wyoming in 1867, and was
| territory and state librarian for 80 years
and was assistant librarian at tho time
OF his death.
The cruiser Dcs Moincs in her off
cial speed trial over the Cape Ann
course exceeded her contract speed,
making an average OF 1868 knots per
hour.
The government authorities have
conhscatcd $4,000 Mexican cigars in a
private warehouse in San Francisco,
many of them valued at IS cents each.
Albert a. Honey, Chicago inventor
OF the underground trolley, is dead
from a stroke OF paralysis. He was an
/ old-timc telegraph operator.
A letter lett by .Amodeo Nicola, an
Italian, who committed suicirde near
Sacramento, Cal, clancs the Malta OF
Brooklyn for his death.
The prosecution closed i'll the case
OF Mrs. Mary Mcknight, on trial in
Candillac, Mich, OH the charge OF poi
soning her brother.
Two employees of the United States
Express Company were arrested IN
Pittsburg on the charge OF rilling ex-
press packages.
In the destruction of the home of
George Wright, by fire in Whatconl,
Wash. his eight year-old son, Reuben,
was burned to death. In trying to save
his life his sister, Maggie, II years old,
was terribly burned and was compelled
to jamp from an upper window.
ExAlderman Ghysels, of Grand Rap
ids, Mich, and Corey P. Bissell, fs,-mer
member of the Board of Public Works,
confessed that they had accepted brides
from Salisbury and announced their pur-
pose to plead guilty
City Attorney Liant Salisbury, of Crane
Rapids, Mich, continued his evidence
against Alderman Charles T. Johnson,
charged with being involved in the water
deal scandal
The executive committee of the Citi-
zens' Industrial Association of America,
in session in Dayton, O., took steps to
fight the walking delegate and the eight
hour law.