Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-10-14
WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Friday, October 6.

Friday, OCTOBER ..
A seat on the New York Stock Ex-
chan.e sold for $S5.00O. a new high
rec ord.
: ne annual convention of the Mary
lnr Bankers Association was held at
annapolis.
Robbers blew open the vault In the
national bank at Springfield. $. D.. and
escaped with $4,000.
N. c. Dougberty. superintendent OF
schools at Peoria. ILL.,. 10 under arrest
Tor iorgeries amounting to $4,000.
While returning from church. En-
nott w. Roach. a prominent citizen
OF Hickman. KY. was shot and killed
from ambush.
Saturday, October 7.
President Roosevelt has appointed
Charles w Russell assistant attorney
general.
Robert McLaurin. champion checker
player of Canada, died at Windsor.
Ont. aged 81 years.
Falling asleep on the trolley track
near York. Pa, Clayton Wallace was
struck by car and ground to pieces.
Charged with violating the Pennsyl-
vania laws by fishing with three lines.
Harry l.. Scherf. of Roxborough. was
fined s25 and $3.50 costs.
William Stuckenholt. who beat his
wife to death with n hammer at Quin-
cy. ILL.,, was convicted OF murder and
sentenced TO life imprisonment.
Monday, October O.
Dan Patch lowered his own worlds
pacing record of l.56 at Lexington.
Ky. covering the mile in l.55h.
The Mississippi state board Of health
has forbid len boarding schools and
colleges to open before November l.
The state convention of the Penn
sylvaria Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union was held at Washington.
Pa.
a thousand Erie freight cars are to
be destroyed at the American COM
pany's car "morgue" In Bloomsbury.
Pa.
ord lnverclyde. chairman Of the
Cmnard Steamship company. died at
Wemyss Bay. Scotland. OF pneu-
monia.
Accused OF larceny OF $500 in jew
slry from employers in Washington.
D. c.. George II. Ripple. colored. has
been arrested in New York.
Tuesday, October 10.
Pat Grove. the Cudahy kidnapper.
has been taken to Omaha for trial.
The supreme court of the United
eAr h. .e
1905 and 1906.
Thomas Wrench. Is years old. was
killed near Smyrna. Del. by being
dragged several miles by a colt he was
trying to break
DIR. NJ. T.. Hornbeck. of Catasauqua.
Pa. a member of the Pennsylvania and
American Medical Associations, died
of apoplcxy. aged GO years.
Mrs. Lucy Parsons, widow of one of
the men hanged after the Haymarket
riots. was prevented by the police from
making a speech at dance in Chi.
| cago.
Wednesday, October II.
Admiral Saso. Japanese inspector
general OF naval construction. died at
Toxic.
Next years convention of the Grand
Lodge. Knights OF Honor. will be held
at Harrisburg. Pa.
The annual convention of the SUI
preme Castle. Knights of the Golden
Eagle. is in session at Detroit.
Luther Billings. a negro. was hanged
by a mob at Brunswick. Tenn. for at
tempted assault on white woman.
Harry ST. George Tucker, dean of
George Washington University. Wash
ington. d. C., has accepted the presi-
dency of the jamestown Exposition
company, to succeed General Fitzhugh
Lee.
Thursday. October II.
Gold shipments from the Yukon Ter
ritory for the season of 1905 will
amount Of $6.000.O0O.
The Pennsylvania Daughters of the
American Revolution held a three
days State Convention at Reading.
George w. Murray, colored. a former
member Of Congress. was sent TO
prison for three years for forgery at
Columbia. S. c.
Robert Bacon, of New York, has
taken the oath of Office as assistant
secretary OF State. vice Francis b.
LOOMS. resigned.
Amanda Herkimer. great-grand-
daughter Of General Herkimer. Of
Revolutionary fame. died at James,
vile. Wis. aged ~ years.