Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-07-01
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Friday, June %.

Utica. N. Y. died at Asbury Park, N.
j.. while on a visit
The goth annual festival of the
North American Gymnastic Union was
held at Indianapolis.
The national council, Jr. o. u. A.
NJ, adjourned at Nashville. Tenn, to
meet in Boston in 1907.
Henry Nj. Wilson, a wealthy manu-
facturer. dropped dead of apoplexy at
the Duquesne Club. Pittsburg.
Levi Black. colored farm hand.
while standing under a shed at Mid
dletown. DEL. was struck by lightning
and killed.
Saturday, June "a.
Captain r. Inch was placed on the
retired list of the navy, with the rank
of rear admiral.
Secretary Hay has left Washington
for his summer home at Lake Sunapee.
N. H., where he will spend the summer.
Over $500 delegates were present at
the opening session of the Interna-
tional Sunday School convention Ut
Toronto.
Federal courts in Indian Territory
ruled that oil leases must be adver-
tised. and persons desiring to buy them
must hand in sealed bids.
Governor Pennypacker has appointed
D. Watson Rowe, of Chambersburg,
Pa, president Judge of Franklin coun-
ty, to succeed Judge John Stewart, who
became a supreme court judge.
Monday, June 26.
Count Cassini. the Russian ambassa-
Ior, will sail for Europe on July IL.
The 900 Chinese in Victoria, b. c.,
are working energetically against
American-made goods.
John Y. Woods. a prominent lawyer,
was struck and killed by a passenger
train at Greensburg. Pa
Believing that he had fatally wound
ed a friend. Frank r. McCamyon, a
waiter, killed himself at Chicago.
Bertha Killinger. aged IL, was fatally
shot in the head with a rifle while in
the woods near Altoona. Pa, gathering
flowers for church.
Pounding a dynamite cap with a
hammer, 1O-year-old Robert Eifner of
explosion that followed.
Tuesday, June 81.
Morgan ii. Beach. United States at
torney for the District of Columbia,
has resigned.
A severe forest fire north of Ogden.
Utah. got beyond control and laid
waste five square miles of rich farm
Ing country.
Ellwood Garman, under sentence of
death for murder. committed suicide
In the Mifflintown, Pa, Jail, by drink
ing carbolic acid.
Willie. the 9-year-old son of George
Smith. of Port Jervis. N. Y. while
playing with a gun, accidentally shot
and killed his 2-year-old brother.
Herbert Birdsall, aged IS years, ac-
cidentally shot and killed Edward
Rush at Stamford. Conn. and then
killed himself with the same weapon.
Wednesday, June %.
The National Woman Suffrage AS
ISOLATION will meet in Portland, Ore.
from June 29 to July 5.
The next convention of the Interna-
tional Sunday School Association will
be held at Louisville. Ky.
The Scranton. Pa, Gas and Water
company has purchased the 10 water
companies in the upper part of Lacka-
wanna county.
The breaker at the Sioux colliery,
Shamokin. Pa. was destroyed by fire,
causing loss of $55, 200 and rendering
400 employees idle.
Joe Bush. aeronaut, had narrow
escape from death near Belleville, N.
j., when his balloon started to burn
$50 feet from the ground. He alighted
in safety.
Thursday, June 20.
Miss Ada Rehan. the American ac-
tress. was operated on in London for
appendicitis.
A box of insects has arrived in San
Francisco from the Orient to be used
to destroy the gypsy moth pest in Mas
sachusetts.
Edward C. Hill. assistant postmaster
at Pittsfield. Mass. while riding a
bicycle was struck by trolley car and
instnatly killed.
The state convention of the Pennsyl-
vania Democrats to nominate a candi-
date for superior court justice will be
held at Harrisburg, August &c.
Columbia Post, No. 706. G. A. R.,
gave a camp fire in honor of General
Stephen ID. Lee, commander of the
Confederate Veterans, in Chicago.
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