Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-09-30
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Friday. septemher %.


Three men were fatally injured In
the old county court house. Chicago.
which is being torn down.
Two hundred persons were hurt.
three seriously, by the collapse Of a
band stand at Belleville. Ill
From Idaho and California $4,000
cars OF oranges have been sent east
during the season just closed.
Andrew Carnegie will give Smith
College. Northampton Mass. Sl25.000
II an equal amount is raised.
Saturday. September 20.
The University OF Chicago has es'
tablished four.year course In rail
way education.
Fifty children engaged IN race
riot In Pittsburg and 10 colored boys
were badly beaten.
Derby 4 Co, New York jewellers. In
Maiden Lane, were robbed OF $1,000 In
silver plate by burglars.
Former Governor Charles T. O'Far-
reli. OF Virginia. died at Richmond
from nervous prostration.
Rufus Binyon. negro. was executed
at Ardmore. / T.. for beating his 8.
year-old stepdaughter to death.
John Reid. IL years old. who fatally
shot man at Suffers Harlem River
Park. New York, came near being
lynched He was intoxicated.
Monday, September rs.
A Bloomsbury. Pa. concern has Just
shipped 400 school desks TO Cape Town
South Africa
Mayor Tom 1. Johnson has beer
nominated for third term by Cleve.
land Democrats.
For assault on woman and the muir.
der OF her baby. Frank Brown. colored
was lynched at Conway. Ark
The Commercial Club at Topeka
Kan. is planning worlds fair fol
1911 TO mark the states semi-centen.
Mai OF admission to the union
Though an engine on top Of him nj
Bethlehem. Pa. had TO be lifted BY
Jacks to release Conductor Walter My.
ers. he was unhurt. but his shoes wer
In pieces
Tuesday, September 20.
In quarrel over a girl at Mays
vile. KY. Henry Edwards was shot
and killed by Clarence Turner.
Fifty Filipino students arrived In
Chicago. preparatory TO entering vari
GUS western colleges and universities
The biennial convention Of the su
preme lodge OF the Improved Order oil
Knights of Pythias was held at Wash
ington.
James p Hennessy. who confessed
to stealing $4,000 from the estate OF
d. Percy Morgan In New York. wa.
sent To prison for seven years.
The congregation of colored church
at Clayton. Mo. tried to lynch a col
ored man who was shot after an At
tempted assault on white woman.
Wednesday, September ~.
George r. Baer. president of the
his Gid birthday Tuesday.
Secretary Hitchcock has returned te
Washington from Monadnock. N. II.
where he spent the summer
Captain Martin l.. iIaines. who was
known as the Cranberry King" OF New
Jersey. died at his home near Mount
Holly.
Augustus $. Miller. mayor OF Provi.
dence. r. l.. fell dead from heart dis.
ease while chatting with several OF hi.
friends
Because his house had been sold anC
he was compelled to vacate. Fred Rit.
ter. an Altoona. Pa, drayman. com
mitted suicide by shooting
Thursday. September 20.
Five children were cremated In Q
fire which destroyed their home at For
Dodge. Iowa.
The First National Bank OF Orrville
Ohio. has been closed by the comp
troller of currency.
James McHale. riveter at Cramps
shipyard. Philadelphia. was killed by
falling 60 feet from a ship.
John Fowler. the alleged slayer oi
DIR. Il. w Rulings. at Dickson. Tenn,
committed suicide In Jail by hanging
himself.
The law passed by the last Michigan
legislature providing separate courts
for juvenile offenders has been de
clared null and void