Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-09-17
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Fricay, September 9.

The Panama Canal commission has
called for proposals for IL steam SHOW
els for canal construction.
Joseph Elsie, an aeronaut. was killed
while making a balloon ascension and
parachute leap at fair at Tuscola. ILL.,
Mrs. Eckley ID. Coke. widow of the
Luzerne county, Pa. coal operator. will
establish a hospital for consumptive
miners.
The comptroller of the currency has
issued a call for the condition of ma
tional banks at the close of business
September s.
David Greenburn, a wealthy junk
dealer of Greensburg. Pa. was muir
dered and robbed by a man with whom
he was riding.
Saturday, September 10.
Solomon Kerr. aged 60 years. post
master at Lebanon. Pa. died suddenly
Of pralysis.
Sir Thomas Upton will have Eng
land the latter part OF this month to
visit the Worlds Fair at St. Louis.
Because her husband went to a base
Charles Evans. of Monterey. Ia. COM
mitted suicide.
Justice A. p. Rich. of the New York
supreme court, and members of his
family were received in private au-
dience by Pope Plus.
While praying on the grave of her
twin sister. Yetta BerkowitZ was
crushed to death under a tombstone in
a Brooklyn cemetery.
Monday, September IL.
The battleship Georgia will be
launched at Bath, Me-. October II.
Rear Admiral w. S. Schley. retired.
will shortly publish his autobiography.
Accused of being short $1,000 in his
accounts as clerk in the postoffic :.
Harry S. Rawls has been arrested in
Effingham county, Va.
The United States cruiser Milwau-
kee was launched at San Francisco,
Miss Lillian jeffrey. of California.
christening the ship.
The 2-year-old child of Milton Mann,
of Bangor. Pa, died from scalds re-
ceived through the overturning OF a
bucket of scalding water.
Tuesday, September 10.
Almost every business block at Idaho
Falls, Ida. was destroyed by fire, en-
failing a loss of over 100000.
Herbert w. Bowen, United States
minister to Venezuela. has arrived at
New York on a leave of absence.
-
ton. Plymouth and Nanticoke. Pa, are
on strike for an increase of wages from
SO to 1920 day.
Thomas Thompson. of Pottsville, who
was convicted of murder in the second
degree for killing Peter Curley. was
sentenced to 20 years imprisonment
The Ottoman Bank has notified the
American legation at Constantinop!e
that IL has on deposit $4,000 for land
of an American citizen. illegally seized
at Smyrna.
Wednesday, September IA.
Charles S. Hall. New York lawyer.
has been appointed assistant treasurer
OF the national Democratic committee
The strike at the American Steel and
Wire company's plant at Sharon. Pa.
has been settled and the men returned
to work.
BY the explosion of a 12-inch steam
pipe at the American Steel and Wire
works. Worcester. Mass, five men were
scalded. two fatally.
John ID. Rockefeller has given the
Young Women's Christian Association
of Cleveland. O., 100000 for the cree
ton of a new building.
J. p. Fenton, a travelling man from
Philadelphia. while crazed with drink,
leaped from a window of a hotel at
Boone. Ia, and was killed.
Thursday, September IS.
Four men were killed in a cave-in
at a gravel pit near Memphis. Tenn
The 30th annual convention of the
American Bankers Association is in
session in New York.
Mobile. Ala. is flooded with S. gold
certificates stamped United States
National Bank of Morristown' n. j."
While preparing dinner on a gaso-
line stove. Mrs. Annie O'Neill of Phila-
delphia, was fatally burned by her
dress catching fire.
In a duel with shot guns at Column
bus. Miss. Rev. Z. NJ. Younghause shot
and fatally injured. John Harris The
cause of the shooting is not known.