Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-03-25

Friday. March II.


Tenn, was blown open by burglars
and $4,000 taken.
BY saving through the bars Of their
cell windows. two prisoners escaped
from the Jail at New Bloomfield. Pa.
Meyer Guggenheim, of New York.
the copper capitalist. died at Palm
Beach. Fla. Of pneumonia. aged Is
years.
Two negroes were hanged at Rich
mond. Va; Edwin Austin for criminal
assault on 10-year-old negro girl, and
Peter Danch for murder
Charles Taylor pleaded guilty in the
United States court at Philadelphia Of
passing counterfeit money and was
sentenced to 10 years imprisonment
Saturday, March 10.
The National Congress of Mothers
will meet next year in Los Angeles. CAL
Secretary of State and Mrs. Hay
sailed from New York for Europe, to
be gone two months.
Secretary of War Taft says it is the
policy of the administration to retain
the PnlllpplneS indefinitely.
Governor Pennypacker, of Pennsyl-
vania. has designated Friday. April Ii.
and Friday, April %, as Arbor Days.
The comptroller of currency has is
sued call for statement of the con-
dition of national banks at close Of
business on March IA.
While attending mass at st. Charles
church. Kellysville. near Chester. Pa.
Isabelle Kelly. aged 60 years, fell be-
tween the pews and expired in a few
minutes.
Monday, March 20.
The United States senate adjourned
sine die without action on the Santo
Domingo treaty.
John d. Rockefeller gave s25O,000 to
the Women's and Children's Free Dis
pensary at Cleveland.
The bite of a cat nine months ago
caused the death by hydrophobia OF
9-year-old Henry Pfiasterer, of St
Louis.
Stricken with apoplexy as she was
returning home in a rainstorm, Mrs.
Samuel Wolf. of MELVILLE, Pa, sank To
the roadside and died.
While trying to locate a break in a
gas main with lighted paper at Sioux
City, Ia. two women and their two
children were terribly burned.
Tuesday, March Il.
Frank Bacon, at one time nominee
for president on the Prohibition ticket
died at Los Angeles, Cal.
The ashes of former Senator Edward
o. Wolcott, of Colorado. who died at
Monte Carlo, were brought to this
country on the steamer st. Louis.
FRANC Craig, of Des Moines, Iowa,
after an examination by doctors, is said
to have two hearts. one on either side.
Medical annals show but three or four
of such cases.
Alton b. Parker, former Democratic
candidate for president, will be the
principal speaker at the Jefferson Day
dinner of the Democratic Club of New
York, on April 13.
Wednesday, March 22.
Colonel Allen Smith, 6Sth cavalry,
has been retired. with the rank Of
brigadier general.
Stanley Heaton, of Latonia, KY, two
of whose brothers committed suicide,
killed himself by shooting.
Henry White. recently appointed am
bassador to Italy, sailed for his post
on the steamer Kronprinz Wilhelm.
The Ohio supreme court upheld the
constitutionality OF the criminal Sec
ton of the antitrust law recently
passed by the legislature.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the plant of the International Tire
company, ut Midtown, N. j., causing
a loss of 100000, and throwing 900
men out of work.
Thursday, March %.
The Nurses Association of Pennsyl-
vania held their quarterly convention
at Scranton.
Rev. Elmer H. Capen. D. D., presi-
dent of Tufts College, Medford, Mass,
died of pneumonia, aged 81 years.
Vice President Fairbanks was the
guest of honor at the banquet of tho
Tarheel Club, Of Greensboro, N. C.
Twelve mail boxes in different Sec
lions of Lancaster, Pa, were broken
open by thieves and their contents
stolen.
Because he suffered with toothache.
Robert l.. Welsh. Of Wilmington, Del
committed suicide by inhaling illu-
minating gas.
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