Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-10-01
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Friday, September %.

FRIDAY, september %.
Captain John W. Hall. one of Balti
more's leading financiers. died sud
denly of heart failure. aged rs years.
The German emperor has conferred
the order of the Red Eagle on Presi-
dent Harper. of the Chicago Univer-
sity.
Princeton University, at Princeton.
N. j.. was opened for its l5Sth year
by an address by President Wilson to
the students.
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition
company has adopted a resolution to
admit clergymen free to the Worlds
Fair during the month of November.
Saturday, September "a.
G. w. Fidlar. deputy guarding the
steel plant at Glassport, Pa. was ia
tally shot in a riot between strikers
and non-union men.
Homer Smith, Is years old. was killed
at Laurel. Del, by being thrown from
his horse and dragged through the
streets by the stirrups.
General Harrison Allen. deputy audi
tor for the postoffice department at
WdSulukNOus ~ S.s ulCQ SuuuCuls Vi
heart disease. aged 60 years.
George Davis, son of a wealthy ranch
owner of Kansas City. was found dead
In a London hotel. having committed
suicide by cutting an artery in his
arm.
Monday, September 26.
James Stuart. colored. was lynched
at Laurens. s. c.. for an attempted as
sault on a 14-year-old white girl.
Lonely without his wife, who had re-
turned to Austria, Andrew Scalco COM
mitted suicide by hanging near Potts
vile. Pa.
The fall of an elevator In the Cohen
Printing ccmpany's plant at Cincin-
natl, O., killed one man and seriously
injured two others.
Four children of George Cooper.
ranging in age from to Z years. were
burned to death at Winchester, KY,
while left alone in their home.
Fire destroyed the structural build
ing at the Bethlehem Steel Works,
Bethlehem. Pa. together with the
paint, car, carpenter and pattern shops.
entailing a loss of $250,OO0.
Tuesday, September q.
The International Pure Food Con
gress held their sessions at the st.
Louis Worlds Fair.
Owing to scarcity of labor planters
in Georgia are preparing to start pick
ing cotton by moonlight.
Mrs. Bessie Peck. of Kansas City.
nd IN,
a rain cistern while Respondent.
James Bailey. colored. was hanged
at CORTLAND, Va. for the murder of
Cadmus Williams. colored, In a dis
pute over five cents.
A passenger train on the Burlington
railroad was wrecked near Elmwood.
Ill. by a washout, and one man was
killed and three fatally injured
Wednesday, September %.
Three children of Charles NJ. Bird
were burned to death In fire which
destroyed their home at Iowa Falls. Ia
The 54th annual meeting of the
Pennsylvania Medical Society was held
at Pittsburg, with 400 delegates in at
tendance.
fliii VIII Spcoh
for Parker and Davis October IL, Is
and 10 at places to be designated by
the Democratic state committee
After a shutdown of two months
the furnaces of the Carnegie Steel COM
pany at Sharon, Pa. resumed oper-
atoms. giving employment to 1000 men
Because young woman with whom
he was infatuated refused to recognize
him, Carlo Frederiques Won Bauditz
wealthy Venezuelan. committed suicide
In a New York hotel
Thursday, September 20.
Friday, October 81. has been desig-
mated as autumn Arbor Day in Penn
sylvania.
Secretary of the Navy Morton made
his first visit to League Island. Phila-
delphia, and made a thorough inspec-
ton of the naval station.
Charles Green, of Salem, N. j.. who
was the mate of the oyster sloop Edi-
son. was knocked overheard in the
Delaware river and drowned.
Twenty French workingmen. who
are in this country to study labor and
Industrial conditions. were received by
President Roosevelt in the White
House.
Driven insane through grief at the
death of Edward Hartman. whom he
had accidentally shot. George Brown