Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-09-23
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Friday. September IS.

Isaac q. Leonard, said to be the
Oldest man in Chicago. died OF para
lysis. aged 1902 years.
VIII Adams. colored. was hanged at
Raleigh. N. c.. for the murder Of a
negro woman and her child.
Over 40 buildings In the business
section of Grangeville. Idaho. we're
destroyed by fire. Loss. $25O.0O0.
Fire partially wrecked the plant Of
the Featherstone Foundry and Ma
chine company. at Chicago. entailing
a loss Of sl5o.000.
Brigadier General George II. Weeks,
retired. at one time quartermaster
general OF the army. died in Washing
ton after a brief Illness.
Saturday. September 10.
Field Marshal Lord Roberts. Of
Great Britain. has indefinitely post.
poned his visit to America.
John X. Roby. engineer OF a steam
barge. was burned to death by an ex.
plosion on the vessel at Lewes. Del.
Seventeen persons were injured.
several seriously. in collision be-
tween trolley cars at Kansas City. Mo.
The 44O.acre farm near st. Louis. the
former home OF General Grant. has
been sold for $4,000 and will be con.
verted into an amusement park.
After a varied career as lawyer.
minister. author and army chaplain.
Rev. John b. Rice killed himself at
Louisville because of sufferings from
q cancer.
Monday, September 10.
Soft coal interests in Ohio and Penn.
sylvania will raise prices 10 to Is cents
q ton at the mines.
Miss Alice Hamilton. granddaugh.
ter OF General Alexander Hamilton.
died in New York. aged 60 years.
The explosion Of defective boiler
in Edward jennings stave mill. at
Pinconning. Mich, killed five men and
injured 10.
Twelve governors have called a
southern states conference At Chatta.
nooga. Tenn. to arrange a uniform
quarantine.
From fall from a third-story win.
dow of ST. Louis hotel. w. b.
Walker. so years of age. of Staunton.
Va. Is dead.
Tuesday, September 10.
Daniel Leirde. steel inspector for
the Spring Valley Water company. Of
California. was found dead OF apoplexy
IN Harrisburg. Pa.
James Booth. who broke his spine
while bathing at Atlantic City and was
taken to his home at Mauch Chunk on
q water cushion. Is dead.
The Northern Pacific railroad has
purchased % acres OF ground north OF
its present terminals In Portland. Ore,
for 81. 900. 900. to be used for shops.
In smoking out bees, S. V. Reeves
get fire to his barn at Haddonfleld, N.
j., and a $4,000 fire resulted. valuable
stove patterns stored in the barn be.
Ing destroyed.
Wednesday, September 20.
The National Purity Conference
will be held in La Crosse, Wis. octo-
Der 1919.
The National Rural Letter Carriers
Association held their annual conven.
ton at indianapolis.
II. w. Dennison and six members OF
the Japanese peace mission sailed
from Seattle for Japan.
The annual convention OF the Amer.
icaL Federation of Labor will be held
at Pittsburg November 13.
Wade S. Stanfield has been appoint.
ed United States district attorney for
the northern district OF Indian Ter.
ritor!.
John Vercavage. OF Pittsburg. who
was arrested at Wilkes. Barre. Pa. for
drunkenness. hanged himself in his
eel. and was dead when found.
Thursday. September 81.
Autumn Arbor Day in Pennsylvania
will he observed on Friday. Octo-
Der 20.
Admiral Dewey has returned to
Washington from Hot Springs. Va.
where he spent the summer
The Brotherhood of Railway Car
men of America will hold their next
biennial convention in Chicago
Frederic Laurence Knowles. the
poet, author of "On LIES Stairway"
and Love Triumphant" died at Rox.
bury. Mass, OF typhoid fever.
The Noel Construction company. OF
Baltimore. was awarded the contract
TO erect the administration building at
the U. S. Naval Academy. Annapolis.