Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-08-06
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
FRIDAY. july %.

Bellamy Storer. ambassador to Aus
tria, and Charlemagne Tower. ambas-
sador to Germany. have arrived in New
York.
Lieutenant James W. Clement, of the
United States battleship Kearsarge.
died at Trieste, Austria, of typhoid
fever
The house of John Harper, at New
Haven. o.. was destroyed by fire. and
Mr.. and Mrs. Harper. both over 80
years old, were burned to death.
Jerome Warner, railway postal
clerk. was sentenced to a years i'm
prisonment at Trenton. N. j.. for alb
stracting money from letter.
Saturday, July 80.
Frederick Goodall. the famous artist
and member of the British Royal
Academy. died in London.
The U. S. torpedo boat destroyer
Marlborough arrived at Boston. to re-
main for the G.. A. r. encampment.
George Hildebrandt and Frederick
Shea were run down and killed by a
b. & o. locomotive at Locust Point.
Md
Secretary of War Taft and a num-
Der of generals will attend the Worlds
Fair at st. Louis on Philippine day,
August Is.
Edward II. Garner. a Pennsylvania
railroad brakeman. was found dead on
top of a box car at Downingtown. Pa
There are no marks on the body. and
1t is supposed that he died from heat
prostration or apoplexy.
Monday, August I.
The grand total of admissions To the
Worlds Fair since its opening is 81
657.577.
By an explosion of natural gas in
the Russell Park hotel. Chicago. seven
persons were severely injured
Fire destroyed the establishment of
the Shilbest Mercantile company at
San Francisco. Loss. $125.OO0.
The dry goods store of Slight & Al
len. Columbia. s. c.. was destroyed by
fire. Loss. $4,000: partially insured.
The drought has almost destroyed
the maize crop of Roumania, and the
government has prohibited its exporta-
ton.
Rev. J. d. Stoop. a Congregational
minister. of East Hampton. Mass. will
occupy the chair of philosophy at
Grinnell College. Iowa.
Tuesday, August 2.
The Shenango tinplate plant. at New
Castle. Pa, will resume, giving en-
ployment to $500 men.
The balance in the general fund of
the Pennsylvania state treasury, July
30. was 81. 96.S7S.55.
Warrants have been drawn for the
pay of the Pennsylvania national
guardsmen for camp duty at Gettys-
burg.
The Paddock Hodge Co. grain eleva-
tor ut Toledo. o.. was totally destroyed
by fire. Loss. 100000; insurance.
$1S9,OOO.
Wednesday, August 3.
The International Conciave. African
Knights Templar. opened their annual
session in st. Louis. Mo.
John NJ. Beall, assistant, will succeed
C. NJ. Shepard as general passenger
agent of the Mobile and Ohio railroad
DIR. Brown Ayers was elected presi-
dent of the University of Tennessee.
to succeed DIR. Charles W. Dabney. DIR.
Ayers was professor of physics at the
University of New Orleans.
Baron Speck Won Sternburg. German
ambassador at Washington, accepted
the presidency of the national advisory
board of the American Institute of
Germanics of Northwestern University.
Thursday, August q.
William O'Connor Morris. the famous
Irish judge. died in London.
During a downpour of rain at Bialys-
tok. Russia. there was regular shower
of small fish.
The engagement is announced of
Count Camille de Borchgrave d'Altena
to Miss Ruth Reilly. of Philadelphia.
Governor Lanham was unanimously
nominated for governor of Texas by
the Democratic state convention at
Houston.
Monsignor Falconio. apostolic dele
gate to the United States, was a pas
senger on the steamer Sardegna. which
arrived in New York from Genoa and
Naples.
Governor Blanchard. of Louisiana,
has selected Miss Juanita Lalland, OF
New Orleans. to christen the battle
ship Louisiana, which is to be launched
at Newport News on August 81.
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