Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-01-24
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
D0nest

VA. from private sources that Charles
Nj. Schwab president of the United
States Steel Corporation, was victim OF
loconCtor ataXia.
Seventeen residents OF Attala county.
Miss. who had been indicted for lynch
ING two negroes have left that county to
escape arrest.
Mrs. Letitia Eagle. 4 prominent so
ciciy woman OF Avalon. near Pitt>burg
has been arrested on the charge OF muir
dcrirg her ward
Judge Herrck. in Albany. \. Y. de
cidcd that the law requiring candidates
to file statements OF election expenses
invalid
Minie.cr Bowen arrived at Columbia.
S G.. ON the dispatch boat Dolphin and
started Al once Tor Washington by rail.
An aged couple were burned to death
i'll a building which was destroyed IN
the business section OF PItiSburg.
Col. William T. Micklc, OF Mobile.
Ala. was elected chief OF staff OF the
United Confederate Veterans.
Fraud and violence were evident at an
election for officers OF the Federation OF
Labor i'll Chicago.
Cleveland teamstcrS went on strike,
thus adding To the diScomforts ct the
coal shortage.
Five Cinnamon were shot. two fatally.
in 4 Chinese restaurant III San Fran
cisco.
\ rainbow was seen in a clear sky III
Ohio At O'Clock in the morning.
Two persons were fatally injured III
an apartment fire III Cleveland.
The delayed steamer St Louis. OF
the American Line. arrived at New
York and the passengers Landed thor
o::ghly indignant at the company
Daring the voyange al Indignation
meeting was held and resolutions
passed dcnouncing the company Tor
sending them across the ocean on a
crippled ship.
Five sailors belonging 10 the Mime
apols. at League Island Navy Yard.
had a dangerous ride on floating
cake oi ice in the Delaware River
Their rescue was very dramatic
The Hanover National Bank moved
into It's new building and SOS. 600 COO
was carried safely through the crowd
ed streets oi New York.
The Ohio Society oi New York gave
banquet to Secretary Hay. Many OF
the diplomats from Washington at
tended.
Mrs. James r. Booth. wife OF a
prominent Philadelphia attorney. COM
.::itted suicide at hotel III Atlantic
City.
In his testimony in New York before
the Interstate Commerce Commission
Mr.. August Belmont. former president
of the Louisville and Nashville Road.
did not know that John w Gates had
secured possession OF majority OF the
stock of the road until he was actually
i'll control.
AT Riverhead. L. l.. Louis A. Disbrow
Clarence Foster at Good Ground on the
night OF June Q. The verdict was reach
ed by the jury after brief deliberation.
In speech before the National Live
stock Association in Kansas City Hon.
w. NJ. Springer said that the incorpora-
ton OF the Beef Trust had been pre-
vented by the power of public opinion.
The will of DIR. Bushrod James, of
Philadelphia. makes provision for estab-
fishing free hospital i'll that city for
the treatment OF diseases OF the eye and
ear.
Testimony was given at the Glenn
court-martial in Manila of horrible tor
TIRES inflicted upon American prisoners
by the Filipinos in Samar
Two hundred Shoccuttcrs are on Il
strike at Lynn. Mass. because OF alleged
grievances. Their strike affects 5000
hands in the factories
The overdue steamer St Louis was
sighted off Nantucket Shoals slowly
stcaming toward New York.