Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-03-11

Friday. March 2.


Frank Tidmarsh. OF Bridgeton. N. j..
committed suicide by hanging himself
to the post of his bed
Princeton University has added
wrestling to the list of college sports
and club has been organized.
Burglars entered the postoffice and
railroad station at Carrcroft, DEL, and
secured $500 in stamps and valuables.
One man was killed and over so in
jured in a head-on collision between
rains on the Mt. Vernon railroad at
Spring Park, Va.
While repairing a broken electric
wire at Chester, Pa, George McGin-
mis- forgot to turn off the current id
was instantly killed.
Saturday, March 4.
Charles +. Horst. stell worker, was
struck and killed by a train at Har-
risburg. Pa. his body being horribly
mangled
Three men and one woman were in
jured in a rear-end collision between
trains on the Philadelphia, Baltimore
and Washington railroad at Wawa, Pa.
Four railroad laborers were killed
and two fatally injured near Pikeville,
KY, by an explosion of dynamite,
which they we're heating In powder
cans.
The Texas legislature adopted q
resolution endorsing President Roose-
velts policy regarding the Standard
Oil company and the alleged beef
trust
Monday, March 6.
The Texas legislature is preparing
data to assist the government in in
vestigating the methods of the beef
trust
Using her hands to stop fire in lace
curtains. Mrs. w. II. Emigh, OF Hunt
ingdon. Pa. may lose one of them by
amputation.
High WALL" one of the finest dor
mitories at Yale College, New Haven,
Conn. was damaged to the extent of
$4,000 by fire.
President Roosevelt will attend the
dinner of the Empire State Society of
the Sons of the American Revolution
in New York. March IL.
In head-on collision between
freight trains on the B. & o. railroad
at Defrance, o., one railroader was
killed and two fatally injured.
Tuesday, March 2.
Rear Admiral Robley Evans will as
sumo command of the North Atlantic
fleet on March 81.
d. w. Tyron's bank at Spartans-
burg. Pa. closed its doors. the owner
having made an assignment
Judge John H. Reagan, sole surviv-
ing member of the Confederate cabi-
net, died at Palestine, Tex, aged SO
years.
Banker Jacob II. Schiff, of New
York, has given Columbia University
100000 to endow a chair of social
work.
Ellen Peck, rs years old, the most
notorious confidence woman in the
country. was arrested in New York
for swindling Frank Repetto out of
5000.
Wednesday, March 8.
George b. Cortelyou took the oath
of Office as postmaster general
John l.. Swayze. assistant attorney
general of New Jersey, resigned to
enter the service of a corporation as
attorney.
John. w. Grange, a retired banker
and co-receiver of the Neafie & Levy
Shipbuilding company, died in Phila-
deiphia of pleurisy.
BY the will of David r. Jaques, of
New York. the Hampton Normal and
Agricultural Institute, Hampton. Va,
receives $4,000 to educate Indian
boys.
Thursday, March 9.
Romeo Gwynn, a negro, was lynched
ut Tullahoma, Tenn, for larceny.
Postmaster James w. Bartlett, Of
Doylestown, Pa. died at his home,
aged 81 years.
Judge Peter v. Voorhees,, of the New
Jersey court Of errors and appeals,
has resigned on account of i'll health.
Vespasian Warner assumed his Of
fee of pension commissioner. to sue
ceer Commissioner Ware, resigned.
John Sheer, a freight brakeman on
the Pennsylvania railroad, fell from
his train near Lancaster, Pa, and was
killed.
After searching rs years for his sis
ter. William vansickles, of New
York. met her by accident on a crowd
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