Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-10-31
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
Domestic.

Two railroad employees were killed
and two others fatally injured by the
explosion of locomotive on the Penn
| sylvania Railroad near Rohrerstown.
At the annual meeting i'll New Ha-
ven, Conn, of the stockholders OF the
| Consolidated Lake Superior Company
the old board of directors was re-elect-
| ed.
a special investigation OF the New
| York Postolfice is to be made under
| the direction OF Fourth Assistant Post
master General Bristow.
George b. Sherman, of Cleveland. a
grandson OF General Sherman, and 4
student at Yale. fell from rock in New
| Haven and was killed
The United States grand jury return
ed an indictment against Asa Is.
| Thompson, receiver OF the Land Office,
at La Grande, Ore.
Mrs. Mary Stein, convicted OF shop
lifting in Chicago, agreed to go into
exile, and the sentence OF one year was
suspended.
Vice Chancellor Stevenson, in Jer-
scy City, decided not to appoint re-
ceiver in New Jersey for the Asphalt
Company of America.
Major General Corbin assumed COM
mand of the Department Of the East
at headquarters, on Governors Island.
AS he was about to strike his wife
with an iron bar, Nicholas Role was
shot and killed in Chicago by his step
son.
The strike Of the machinists at the
East Pittsburg works of the Westing-
house Machine Company.
pnrrl,rc rvof %1OnO from fhA ha ty
house of Scroggins & Workman in
Sheridan, Ore.
1t is reported in Philadelphia that the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company will
award the contract for the erection Of
the new union station at Washington,
D. c., to Podyhouse, Arey & Co., Of
Philadelphia. The contract will amount
to about $4,25o,ooo.
The report of Receiver Smith, OF the
United States Shipbuilding Company,
recommends that Schwab's $4,000, 900
bond issue be declared void and that
the common stock of the company be
assessed.
Judge Wing, in the United States
District Court in Cleveland, Ohio, SEN
fenced Albert w. Deibel, former paying
teller OF the City National Bank of Can
ton, O., to the penitentiary for five
years for embczzlemcnt.
Edward Roedel, aged 62, a travelling
doctor, was arrested at Cincinnati,
charged with countcrfeiting. Onc-dol-
lar bills have been changed into ten
dollar bills and passed in Southern In
diana and Ohio.
Construction of the ship canal which
is to connect the south end OF Lake
Michigan with the Calumet river was
commenced at Indiana Harbor.
The bandits who are supposed to
have looted the Burton (Kan.) Bank
were caught after desperate battle, in
which their leader was wounded.
A hearing was had at Lancaster, Pa.
on the application of John Q. Denny
for a receiver for the Susquehanna Iron
and Steel Company.
John K. Brown, fugitive cashier of
the Union Bank of New Holland. in
dicted for embczzling 100000, was ar
rested i'll San Francisco.
w. Z. Lattimer, merchant. was at
tackled and killed by highwaymen as lie
was about to enter his home, i'll Wood
stock, o.
Plans for amalgamating the two ma
tional organizations of carpenters have
been formulated by Albert Strausscr,
the umpire.
By the will of Miss Mary P. Ropes,
of Salem, Mass. $I,ooo.ooo is to be dis
tributcd among various educational and
other public institutions after the death
OF her sister, Eliza O. Ropes.