Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-01-10
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

Dr. Edgar F. Smith. professor of
chemistry and vice provost of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, was elected
president of the American Philosoph
ical Society
The Pressed Steel Car Company has
adopted the profit sharing scheme and
its employees may secure preferred
stock easily
\ gorgeous carnival OF flowers was
held at Pasadena. Cal. The process
sion OF carriages automobiles. bicycles
and carts decorated with flowers re-
Quired 90 minutes to pass given point
A young woman was found in the
Campbell House. in Newark. n. J..
nearly suffccated from gas. Another
woman was found nearly dead in the
same hotel from carbolic acid.
Henri Watterson issued another
philippe against the Smart Set. being
moved thereto by the promised COM
ing o; the King OF Belgium and the
Crown Princess OF SaNony.
The Riverside Wooden Mills. OF
Knoxville Tenn. announce redlc-
ton oi hours oil their employees. the re-
duction being from II 10 10 hours as a
days work
Ambassador Storer presented his
credentials at the palace i'll Vienna.
The King ri Saxony is reported in
a critical condition.
The pretendcr has announced that he
is not fighting for the throne OF Moroc-
CO fer himself. but for the Sultans i'm
prise ned brother. Alulai Mohammed.
The dispatch OF Spanish rcinforcemcntS
to NJ )rocco has been countermandcd.
Delta, hmcnts of French troops have
been ordered To- the Morocco frontier.
The Sultan may summon the border
TIL IS to 4 holy war.
'ihc Archdukc Leopold says that
Archdukc Johann Salvador, who re-
,unced his titles and took the name
John Orth. and was supposed to
have persisted i'll I shipwrecA, is really
live.
G.. II. Elder was remanded by a
London police court. charged on his
own confession with having embez-
zled $4,000 from his employers,
Brown. Shipley & Co. the bankers
the King in his speech spoke OF the
cordial relations existing between Por-
tmgal and all the powers, especially
Great Britain
Bulgarian and Turkish troops had
fight at the village OF Drcnovo in
which the Turkish commander and IS
oil his men were killed.
At Fort Dodge Ia. fire destroyed
the grain elevator and 100000 bushels
oi oats belonging 10 the Great West
ern Cereal Company. The loss is
Si25.cco.
The Delaware. I.ackawanna and
Western Company has forwarded to the
mine strike commission statistics oi
hours and wages OF lis employees Tor
1901.
There has been much fighting in the
new oil regions in Wyoming by men
stalking off claims. but no bloodshed
has been reported yet
Mrs. w. A. Clark. Jr. daughtc:in
law oi the Montana senator. died at
Butte Mont. Her child was born De
cembcr >
The wife of Governor Dockery. OF
Missouri. who mas been seriously i'll
for some weeks. is dead.
At Sioux City. Ia fire did 100000
damage destroying one elevator and
its contents and number oil other
buildings.
Marconi is preparing 10 etablish his
system oil wireless telegraphy through
out Canada.
Negroes oi Boston observed the for
tieth anniversary OF the emancipation
proclamation.
Associate Justice W. \. Little. OF the
Supreme Court oil Georgia, has re-
signed.
Gen Francis v. Greene umcd the
office OF police commission View
York
Electrical workers oi In
on a strike for an incre
B. B. Odcll Jr..-
Governor OF New York
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