Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-11-07
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
Domestic.

Frank Connolly and Peter Skel:cy
u.rc arrested on the charge of start
ing the fire at Coney Island which re-
suited iii the destruction of property
valued at ST.. SOC, 900 and loss of life.
The grand jury Of St. Clair county,
ILL.,, found indictments against seven
persons who are believed to be impli-
Gated in the lynching OF David Wyatt,
a negro schoolteacher.
| One trainman was killed and four
others seriously injured i'll collision
OF an accommodation and freight
engine in the Allegheny yards OF the
| Pittsburg and Western.
Melville Wheeler, assistant cashier
of the Cumberland Telephone Com
pany, was assaulted in his office i'll
Nashville, Tenn, and the company S
safe robbed Of $3ooo.
Mrs. Guiscppi Dcnicola shot and
killed in New York Dominica Bashet-
to, married man, who insisted on her
clipping witt, him.
| Marie Layton was sentenced III New
York to an indetcrminate sentence OF
from one to five years for larceny.
The directors of the Pennsylvania
Railroad declared the usual 3 per cent
| scmiannual dividend.
A brilliant display of northern lights
was observed in New York, Chicago,
| Cincinnati and other places. In some in
stances tho electrical conditions inter-
| fcrcd with the telegraph service.
An attempt was made to launch the
steamship Manchuria at the New York
Shipbuilding Companys yard, at Cam
den, N. j., but the steamship stuck on
the ways.
William Frazer stabbed and fatally
wounded Thomas Barrett i'll a saloon i'll
Brooklyn. N. Y. while illustrating a
tragic scene i'll a play he had just wit
| messed.
Robert McCullcy, aged 70 years. an in
vcntor CT prominence, was accidentally
aspllyxiatcd by illuminating gas i'll his
| home. in Philadelphia.
The United States gunboat Nashville
sailed from Kingston. Ja.. under sealed
orders, but her destination is believed to
be Colombia.
A strike of the photographers in New
York was avcrted by all agreement to
submit existing differences to board of
arbitration.
Oliver w. Buckingham, cotton mer-
chant. fell dead from heart disease in the
corridor of the New York Life Building.
| Three workmen were killed and four
injured, one fatally. in the Ncwsam Coal
Mine, at Pennington, iii.
An internal machine was sent to the
home of Peter Kureghian, editor OF
Young Armenia, i'll Boston.
Two persons were killed and nine i'll
jured by tornado near Hydro, i'll Okla
llona Territory.
John Murray Dowic. of Essex. Ia. de-
clares that he is the father of Elijah the
! Restorcr.
| Vahtan Krikorian. the Armenian poet
and journalist. pleaded mot guilty" to
the charge of political murder" i'll con-
ncction with the assassination of Sag
atel Sagouin i'll London when arraigned
| before a United States commissioner
| III Boston.
Miss Henrietta Adams. of Center
vile, Mich, secured verdict of $780,
600 damages for breach OF promise
against Robert Stuart Baker, society
man, OF Grand Rapids. Mich.
| The American Public Health Asso-
citation adopted resolutions iavorng the
army cantccn. 1t was decided to hold
next years convention in Havana.
Foreign.
The Dowagcr Empress and high Chi
nesc officials i'll Picking conferred about
the rcoccupation OF AIukdcn by Russian
| troops The Chinese Minister at Wash
ington has been trying to interest the
| United States government in China S
behalf in her Manchurian troubles.
At large memorial service for the
late Mrs. Booth Tucker i'll Congress
! Hall, Clapton. London, General Booth
reviewed the effective lifework of his
daughter in connection with the Sal
vation Army.
NJ. Combcs. premier of France. irri-
tatcd at the recent reduced ma ority of
the government III votes in the Cham
! Der of deputies, is considering the adj
visibility of retiring.
Camille Flammarian, the French as
/ tronOmcr, attributes the recent mag
netic disturbances to the huge sun spots
which crossed the center meridian OF
| the sun on Saturday.
| NJ. Tzokoff, the new Bulgarian diplo-
matte agent i'll London, says that war
between Turkey and Bulgaria is newt
! able i'll the coming spring.
| 1t Is reported that Il conflict between
, 500 Jews and Russian police occurred at
| Warsaw, and that Il number OF persons
were wounded.
The pew cable Of the German Atlantic
Cable Company between Emden and
Fayal, Azores, has just been completed
Count Cassini. the Russian anbassa-
dor to the United States, in an interview
i'll Paris. says tho reports that Russia
has "rcoccupied' Aukden, Manchuria,
are misleading.
The German battlcslip Prerissen was
launched at Stcttin in the presence of the
Emperor and the Empress. the latter per-
forming the christening ceremony.
Lord Goschcn has been elected 10 the
CHARACTERISTIC OF Oxford University. in
succession TO the late Marquis of Sails
bury.
Emperor Francis Joseph has signi6ed
his approval o! the new Hungarian Cabi-
net as formed by Count Stephen lisa
President Loubet informed the
! French Cabinet council of the terms OF
the letter he received from the Gar,
in wllicil the Russian ruler refers to the
policy OF France and Russia for the
maintenance OF general peace
/ A new plot has been discovered
against the murdercrs of King Alcxan-