Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-05-14
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Friday, May 6.

Friday, May 6.
The 10th annual commencement Of
the Reformed Theological Seminary
was held at Lancaster, Pa.
NJ. Waldeck Rousseau, the former
| premier OF France. was operated upon
| by Paris surgeons for malady OF the
| liver
a gas explosion demolished the
house of James Mcdaniel at Merton,
Ind. killing Mrs. Mcdaniel and two
| children
The Republican national committee
will meet at Chicago. June 10 to hear
all contests and prepare the temporary
roll of delegates.
The blowing out of n controller on
Kansas City trolley car caused a
panic among the passengers in which
IL persons were injured. nine oil them
women.
Saturday. May 7.
United States Judge Bradford. OF
Delaware. will hear arguments in the
Northern Securities case at Newark.
N. j.. May u and %.
Curtis Jett who murdered J. b. Mar
| cum in the court house of Brcathitt
| county. KY has accepted life SEN
tence rather than face a new trial
The delegates to the biennial con
vention of the National Society of Co
lonial Danes of America were receiv-
ed by President Roosevelt at the White
House.
Rev. L. N. Gerhart. II. H.. IL. d.,
professor of theology and president of
the Theological Seminary of the Re
formed Church of the United States.
died at his home at Lancaster, Pa,
aged 81 years.
Monday, May 9.
Three men were badly hurt by tho
explosion of battery on William X.
Vanderbilt's yacht near New York
James j. Hill and wife have given
81 500. 900 toward the $3.OO0.0O0 Roman
Catholic cathedral to be built at ST.
Paul. MINI.
Theodore Campbell aged II. of Mill
vile. n. j.. died at his home of what
the physicians say was excessive Gig
arctic smoking.
Mrs. Sa,ah Draumadcl, of Harris
burg. Pa. ran a pin in her thumb
| while washing clothes week ago and
died after terrible suffering from blood
poisoning.
Tuesday, May 10.
The loss sustained by the fire insur-
ance companies of Germany in the re-
cent Baltimore fire is officially stated
as s352..lo.
Quarrcling over game Of poker.
| Harry Simmons. OF Chicago. shot and
| instantly killed l.. n. Wickman Sim
mons is under arrest.
While fcrdins river near Milan.
Kan. a wagon containing w. Hanlan
vie and iiva children overturned. and
| the woman and three children were
| drowned.
Thomas Costello. for IS years clerk
| in the payniastcr's department nj the
Brooklyn navy yard. pleaded guilty
| to stealing $500 and was sentenced TO
| five years in Sing Sing and $4,000 fine.
Wednesday. May II.
Vice President l.. l.. Estevczy. Of
Cuba. has arrived in New York from
Havana.
The 18th annual convention of the
Pennsylvania Knights of Malta was
held at Gettysburg.
Secretary OF the Navy Moody and
party arrived at Havana. Cuba. on the
dispatch boat Dolphin.
Secretary of War Taft is detained
at his hotel by illness. He has some
trouble with his throat and slight
| fever
The mills of the Schaghticoke Pow
der company. at Troy. n. Y. were
blown up and two men were killed and
many buildings demolished.
Thursday. May Il.
The seventh annual conference of the
National Congress of Mothers was held
| at Chicago.
a dispatch from Seoul says that the
| Korean cabinet resigned in body be-
cause the emperor sharply censurcd
them for neglect of duty.
The sixth biennial convention Of the
| international Brotherhood of Locomo-
| tive Engineers met AT Los Angeles.
| Cal. with over too delegates in attend
ance.
II is announced in New York that
Charles NJ. Srhwab. former president
| of the United States Steel Corporation.
will sever all connections with the COM
pany.
The United States Gunboat Nashville
and the torpedo boat destroyer Law
renee. which were at st. Louis in honor
| of the opening of the Worlds Fair.
have sailed for New Orleans.
GENERAL MARKETS
| philadelphia. Pa. Nav L. Flour