Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-06-20
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
Domestic.

E0meSuC.
Charles +. Mcfarland. superintendent
OF the Anti-policy Society. was killed i'll
New York by William |. Prior. colored.
who was. within two hours thereafter,
indicted Tor murder.
Edward I. Dcvinc. general secretary
OF the New Nc-'l Charity Organization
Society. describes the flood conditic,as
there as worse than they were Al Johns
town or Galveston.
The directors OF the trolley company
indicted for manslaughter in connection
with the disastrous accident at Newark,
y. J.. appeared in Trenton ard pleaded
got guilty.
The coroner's jury in St. Louis in
dicted John s. Bratton and his employees
for killing a naval reserve during the
levee riot.
There was again excitement = the cot
ton market in New York. and prices
went up and down, and finally closed
with Il rally.
The lockout ordered by the employers
in Pittsburg was called off and many
bricklaycrS and masons returned to
work.
Three fingered Jack" :i'd other riot
OTIS strikers in Arizona were. after a
preliminary hearing, held for the grand
jury.
The Elgin Loan and Savings Com
ranv OF ST. Thomas. Ont. closed its
doors pending a. investigation.
The remains of the late Gen. Alex.
Med. McCook were taken from Dayton,
O.. To Cincinnati for interment
p;.io,haci- L. prar,i-n,,f
young railroad man of Philadelphia. died
of typhoid fever.
Lewis Nixon resigned as president OF
the United States Shipbuilding Com
pany.
Thomas Marcum. bother OF j. B.
Marcum. for whose murder Curtis Jett
and Thomas White are being tried at
Jackson. Ky. made dramatic address
Tor the prosecution.
The Equitable Assurance Company
has refused to pay $4,000 insurance on
the life OF Arthur r. Pennell. who fig
ured in the noted Durdick case in But
falo. on the ground that Pencil was 4
suicide.
The hotel employees strike has caused
rich women 10 help do the hotel cook
ing. the guests TO wait upon each other
and TO eat under police protection.
In the Textile Workers strike the
cighty-ninth firm granted the demands.
1t is rumored that Col. Robert c.
Clowry is to retire from the presidency
OF the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, and Charles a. Tinker take his
place.
The one hundred and twenty-sixtll
anniversary OF the American flag was
observed 1T the Betsy Ross House III
Philadelphia
Judge Gray. chairman OF the Anthra-
cite Strike Commission. appointed
Prof. Charles p Neil. of Washington,
commissioner to compute the increase
OF miners wages under the sliding
scale.
Mrs. Isaac Poore. the wife OF far
.rer OF Washington county. Tenn. who
was criminally assaulted by a negro.
is expected to die. \ mob was dis
suaded from lynching the negro.
The doors OF the Bessemer (Ala.)
Savings Bank and the Bank of Com
merce were closed. the president OF the
former. who is confessed dciaulter,
being fugitive.
James Dumas. proprietor OF a trans
Ter company. i'll indianapolis. Ind,
killed Sarah F. King. wife OF Wesley
K. King. workman, and then COM
riitted suicide.
Mrs. Mary Mcknight. who confess
ed having poisoned her brother and
his wife and child in Kalkaska. Mich.
was arraigned and pleaded not guilty.
The hearing in the case OF the
charges against the coal-carrying rail
roads was continued before the Inter
state Commerce Commission, sitting
i'll New York
The United States Circuit Court OF
Appeals refused to modify its recent
decree allowing the Pennsylvania Rail
road 10 remove Western Union wires.
\ numbe: oil New York merchants
brought charges OF extorticn and con-
spiracy against various steamship lines
running TO South Africa.
President Ramsey OF the Wabash
Railroad. denied that there was any
truth in the various sensational rail
road rumors.