Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-08-05

Friday, July 20.

Friday. July 20.
Ptomaine poisoning has caused the
death OF Charles A. Burr, of New York.
head OF U. s. Plummer & Co.. straw
importers.
Charles II. Savage. former president
OF the Middletown Silver company.
committed suicide by shooting at Mid
dletown, Conn.
Mrs. Margaret Weems Jones. 81 years
old. a daughter of Captain Weems.
founder of the weems steamship line,
died at Baltimore.
With her hair and clothing ablaze
from ignited naptha, Mrs. George r.
Wilson saved her life by jumping into
q bath tub at the Norma apartment
house. New York.
Saturday, July 20.
Secretary Shaw will address the Vir-
ginia Republican state convention at
Roanoke on August 8.
Five railroads entering Chicago will
erect a terminal station to cost from
81. 500. 900 to 81. 100000
Seven-year-old Harry Binson acct
dentally shot his mother with a blank
cartridge at their home in Brooklyn.
Bishop Conaty. of Los Angeles. CAL,
has received $25O,O00 from Los Ange-
les man for a home for the Little Sis
tiers of the Poor.
Her naptha launch rammed by q
steamer and rapidly filling. Mrs. E. l..
Dunlap of New York, stood at the
wheel and ran the boat to its pier at
Bath Beach, Me.
Monday, July 81.
Falling face downward on a rusty
nail. Herbert Stefiie. a boy, died two
days later at Laurel Hill, Lehigh coun-
ty. Pa.
Colonel w. ]. Bryan will soon start
on two-years' trip of the world. meet
ing Mrs. Bryan in Japan, for which
place she has already sailed
Los Angeles. Cal, is to start on a
new water system that will insure for
all time an unlimited supply, the esti-
mated cost being $23.000.000.
Awakened by the screams of their
infant son, the family of George Lichty,
living near Dover, York county, Pa,
saw a rat jump from the baby's crib
and hurry to the attic. the child hav-
ing been painfully bitten on the tongue
and about the fact.
Tuesday, August I.
William Hevener, aged years. of
Philadelphia. while playing in the
street, was run over and killed by a
trolley car.
John +. Post, of Pompton. N. J.,
formerly a member of the state as
sembly. died at Montclair of valvular
disease of the heart.
Colonel Philip McHenry, who was
private secretary to former Vice Pres
ident Garrett A. Hobart, committed
suicide at Prescott. Ariz
Baltimore brewers and their en-
ployes settled their differences by mu-
men and oilers to receive an increase
in pay.
Wednesday, August 2.
A. NJ. Katon. aged lis years. believed
to have been the oldest man in the
northwest, died at Glidden, Wis.
Newton Gwaltney and Jacob Kelly
were drowned while bathing near Suf-
folk. Va, in the Nansemond river.
Saying his wife is man. Abraham
Leakin, a New York tailor, is suing
for the annulment of his marriage.
Charles Z. Suffer, of Philadelphia,
has been appointed physical director
at Lehigh University, Bethlehem. Pa.
BY the capsizing OF a small skiff
on Swan river. near Vera, Mimi,
Edith Tichenor. Goldie Tichenor,
Everett Tichenor and Mrs. J. NJ. Pogue
were drowned.
Thursday, August 3.
]. Pierpont Morgan arrived at New
York from Europe on the steamer
Oceanic.
The bank at Royal. ILL.,. was broken
open and robbed of $4,000, the thieves
making their escape.
Andrew Wylie. formerly a jr -tice of
the supreme court of the District of
Columbia. died in Washington.
Miss Romaine, a school teacher of
Newark. N. j., died suddenly of apo
plexy while driving near Middletown.
N. ].
Kicked and trampled by horse he
was about to buy at Womelsdorf, Pa,
Charles Brown, a farmer, died of his
injuries.
Mrs. William Bramm, OF Harris
burg. died of heart failure caused by
seeing boy run over and injured by
an automobile.