Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-12-19
TIE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER
Domestic.

Domestic.
William Mayme, superintendent Of the
insane asylum at Lancast, Wis, has been
killed by Thomas Fox, a patient The
superintendent brains were beaten out
by poker in the hands of Fox.
The international Cigar Factory, at
San Juan, Porto Rico, was closed, all
the employees going ont on strike and
several thousand men i'll other parts OF
the island are on strike.
Three factories in the Fox River man.
ufac,uring district in Northern ILLINOIS,
shut down bccanr: the employees refused
to sign in,iIs idual agreements not to
strike.
\ verdict for $I2iS2 WAS given in
New York for Chicago plaintiffs against
the promoters of the Get Rich Quick
Syndicate.
James A. Edge, the defaulting Patcr-
son bank teller, pleaded guilty in the
United States District Court i'll Trenton,
n. J.
Lnlcss $4,000 be raised by popular
subscription by December "a Palmer In
ivcrsity, near Muncie, Ind, will be
closed
Miss Helen Gould has declined to COM
pete for the presidency of the board of
lady managers of the Worlds Fair.
E. The Steel Corporation will cut the
wages OF nearly all the 10000 work
men anI dismiss high salaricd en-
rloycs.
All OF the New England cotton mills
have now reduced the wages of opera
tors 10 per cent on an average.
The Chicago prcsbytery passed reso-
luton conelcmning the production on the
stage of "parsiial"
DIR. Joseph ii. Greer, of Fort Wayne,
Ind, died Of misunderstanding resulting
from stepping OH a tack.
President Brodcrick and Cashier Col
Inns, OF the Indiana National Bank, at
Elkhart, were arrested OH the charge
of violating the National Banking
Law.
John L. Chandler was arrested in
dynamiting the transfer house OF the
Sun and Moon Mine, at Idaho Springs,
Col
At the annual dinner OF tie Arctic
Club i'll New York Walter Wellman
said lie had some entirely new ideas
about the way TO surely reach the
North Pole.
Merchants of Havana, Cuba, expect
the passage of the Reciprocity Treaty
to result Immediately i'll all extraordin-
AIRY demand for American goods.
Ben c. Aylcr was acquitted i'll
Carthage, Mo-, Of the charge OF muir
der, his plea being that he killed Cor
don Allen i'll self-defcnsc.
The Franklin Union, No. 4, Press
Feeders, OF Chicago, was fined $1,000
by Judge Holden, OF Chicago, Tor con-
tempt OF court.
The New Orleans flyer and freight
train collidcd at the terminals in East
St. Louis, and the passengers had a
shaking up.
United States Minister Squicrs sail
ed from Havana for New York, whence
he will go immediately to Washington.
Anna Cypress, the young wife of an
Austrian coal miner of Federal, Pa, was
found dead at her home with gunshot
wound i'll her breast. The husband is
under arrest, pending an investigation.
Mrs. Rachel Ann Beall, II years old,
was found murdered in her home, il,
Washington, d. c. Two men and a
woman, members OF the murdered
woman's family, arc under arrest Oh sus-
picion
a firm Of Cleveland commission brok-
crs secured i'll New York Il verdict for
$7,O4s against Alfred L. Goslin, Robert
A. Anmon and other members Of the
gct-rich-qnlcls syndicate.
The schooner Willie l.. Newton was
capsizcd while ell route from Jackson
vile to Providence, r. t., and the cap
tain and crew OF six men were drowned.
Robert Middlebrooks, colorcd, was
hanged at Gainesville. Ga, for the muir
der of Baiiif Reed, whom he killed six
months ago while resisting arrest.
The railways of Pennsylvania have
devoted $377,loo,ooo to construction
work and bcttcrncnts to steam and cleo
trio railways during the past year.