Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-05-28
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Friday, May 20.

Friday, May 20.
Baltimore held its $ <th annual horse
show. with exhibitors present from
Maryland. Penns. .isnia. Virginia.
Ohio and New York
Professor w. l.. StOkcsbury. of Vir-
ginia Institute. Bristol. Va. has been
elected president of Lincoln Memorial
University at Cumberland Gap. Tenn.
The African Methodist Episcopal
churches throughout the country will
raise s60O.0OO TO build churches. aid
aged preachers and assist religious in
stitutions.
The plant of the Petrefoir company,
manufacturers of soluble gun cotton.
at Newark. n. j.. was destroyed by an
explosion. which badly injured one
employe and shattered windows for
blocks around.
Saturday, May 2f.
Henry NJ. Leech. a leading hotel
keeper at Mount Pocono. Pa. died sud
denly of heart trouble.
The cities of Cuba celebrated their
second anniversary of freedom with pa
rades. mass meetings and closing of all
business houses.
jacob Frankel, a merchant of Balti-
more. Md. filed petition in bank
ruptcy. placing his liabilities at $63,-
354.03 and his assets at $125.
A Philadelphia jury awarded Archi-
bald Shoosmith. years old. $500 dam
ages against the Rapid Transit com
oany for the loss of his left arm in an
lccident.
Monday, May %.
Secretary of State and Mrs. Hay
iave returned to Washington from
heir visit to the st. Louis fair.
All the films taken in Washington
recently showing fictitious President
Roosevelt aiding All injured negro
were destroyed by the police.
Theodore Shaffer was reelected
president of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton of Iron. Steel and Tin Workers
at the annual convention at Cleve-
land. o.
Charles Putlack. aged . years. of
Pottsville. Pa. placed a dynamite cap
on the curb and struck II with stone.
His right hand is gone and he is other
wise injured.
Tuesday, May "a.
Hester Jackson. a negro woman.
who claimed to be Jos years old. died
at her home in Washington. ID. C.
The United Presbyterian General
Assembly of North America will hold
a weeks session at Grcenville. Pa.
Nancy Hanks. 2.O4. the famous trot
ter was sold at Rcadville. Mass. To
j. NJ Johnson. mayor of Calais. Me.
for $4,000.
Frank Fl. Slyder. former superin-
tendent of schools. committed suicide
by hanging at his home at Chambers
burg. Pa
The next annual convention Of the
general assembly of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church will be held at
Fresno, Cal.
Wednesday. May IS.
Fire in the tcnderloin at Beaumont.
Tex. destroyed 30 frame houses. en-
failing loss of 100000.
Over 200a Knights Templar paraded
at York, Pa. on the occasion of the
opening of the 5lst annual state con
clave.
record and pension bureau at Wash
ington. ID. c.. shot and killed himself
in the war department.
While trying to board an electric
car at Berkeley. Cal. Professor NJ. J.
Spinello. an instructor at the Univer-
citv nf California waS thrown undor
the wheels and killed.
Thursday, May 26.
Over 1900 house painters and decora.
tors are on strike at Boston. Mass. for
an increase in wages.
Thomas w. Brennan and Daniel Tau
tbs. farmers. near Sioux City la. were
killed by single bolt of lightning.
a snowstorm ragged for IL hours over
Montana. the fall being from one six
inches and the temperature % degrees.
While digging a well at Springdalc,
Pa. three laborers were overcome by
gas and died shortly after being taken
out.
Secretary of War Taft has returned
to Washington from the Adirondack
mountai-s $. very much improved in
health.
The electric light and tramway
plants and the telephone system in
the Panama Canal zone have been
bought up by a syndicate of American
capitalists.
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