Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-09-03
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Friday, August 26.

overcome by heat and died shortly
afterward
South Dakota. cattle raisers will ap-
peal to President Roosevelt to save
them from bankruptcy by settling the
Chicago meat strike.
In an attempt to commit suicide.
Harry Woods, of New York. drank an
ounce of carbolic acid and a pint of
blue ink He will recover
Joe Laney, Jr., 16 years old. is Under
arrest at Rome. Ga. charged with en-
bezzling $1,000 from the Western
Union Telegraph Company.
Saturday, August 81.
John Mitchell president of the United
Mine Workers. has returned from his
tour in Europe.
Attorney George ]. Sicard. former
law partner of Grover Cleveland. died
at Buffalo. aged sc years.
Polluted Potomac river water threat
ers Washington with an epidemic of
typhoid. and official warnings have
been issued.
Judge Julian Bennett. Of Watertown,
s. D.. who weighed 40 pounds and was
known as the largest judge in America,
died suddenly Of heart disease.
George r. Beach has been appointed
receiver for the International Mercan-
tile Agency of New York City. Liabil-
tiles, $216.0 900; assets. 100000.
Monday, August 90.
The late John Lowber Welsh has left
$4,000 to the Episcopal Hospital at
Philadelphia.
General Frederick Grant will take
command of the Department of the
East September rs.
August Moller. Jr.. American vice
consul at Valparaiso. Chile. died at the
consulate in that city.
Mrs Ellen S. Kelly. of Philadelphia,
was burned to death in an explosion
caused by pouring gasoline On a range
fire.
Most Rev. Randall T. Davidson. of
London, archbishop of Canterbury.
who arrived in New York. approved OF
Bishop Potter's tavern plan.
Tuesday, August 80.
Major F. +. Eltonhead. U. S. A.. re-
tired. committed suicide at Detroit
while respondent
The plant of the American Steel and
Wire Company at Pittsburg resumed
work, giving employment to 1900 men.
Mead Floyd. Peter Young and George
Hart were arrested on a train near
York. Pa. charged with robbing hotels
in that city.
One of the fiercest forest fires on
record is raging on the Bitter Root
Mountains. Montana. many miles of
timber being burned over.
Bitter feeling between rival candi-
dates for sheriff caused a pistol duel
on the streets of Marion. Ark. No one
was injured. but further trouble is
feared
Wednesday, August 81.
The postofiice at Enfield, N. c., was
robbed of $1,000 In stamps and money,
and there is no clue To the robbers.
Commander James II. Perry. of the
bureau of steam engineering. was re-
tired for age with the rank of captain.
Jesse NJ. Fitzenmeyer. years old,
was insanity killed by being kicked by
a mule on a farm near West Chester.
Pa.
Joseph Bumpass. negro. was lynched
at Hickman. KY, for attempted rape
on a white girl, and his body thrown
into the river.
Crazed by the effects of liquor. Frank
Leopold. of Heidelberg. near Pittsburg,
murdered his 11-year-old son and then
gave himself up.
Thursday, September I.
ii. A. Gudger. United States consul
general at Panama. has arrived in New
York.
Three masked men held up an en-
press train at Kemmerer, Wyo., and
escaped with $500.
Senator Fairbanks. Republican can
didate for vice president, opened the
campaign in Kansas at Marion
Washington Hancock. grandson OF
the late General w. S. Hancock. died
suddenly In London of heart disease
Georgia has appointed board to in
vestigate the extent of tuberculosis in
the state and to devise means for
stamping 1t out
DIR. Thomas Herran. who represented
Colombia at Washington up to the time
of the Panama incident. died at Liber-
ty. N. Y. after long Illness.