Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-10-21
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Friday. October -.

FFtody, OCtopGF To-
Henry Sturgis Drinker has been In.
stalled as president Of Lehigh Univer.
sity. Bethlehem. Pa.
General William T. Clark. chief OF
stan of General Grants Army OF the
Tennessee died OF cancer In New
York
Rev John Long aged 30 years. q re.
tired Episcopal minister. who served
charges IN Delaware. Philadelphia.
Wilkes.B Barre and many other places.
died in Reading. Pa.
Several days ago William Eldridge.
a well known pilot OF Cape May. N. j..
predicted that he would die on the
night before his daughters wedding.
and Tuesday night all the conditions
OF the prophecy were fulfilled
Saturday. October -.
Four prisoners confined In the ID
rain. O.. Jail cut their way through Q
l0-inch wall and escaped.
Mrs. John Sainsott OF Millville. N.
J., who was scalded with boiling coffee
while preparing dinner. died after
great suffering
LYMAN q. Bloomingdale. founder Of
the Bloomingdale department store In
New York. died Of heart disease al
Elbcron. y. j.
W T.. Brown, president OF the failed
First National Bank. of Storm Lake.
Iowa. was sent TO prison for five years
for fraudulent banking.
cat 4 fvA a
keeper and director Of the closed
Peoria H.. National Bank. died heart
broken of ever the incident.
Monday, October f6.
The total registration Of students al
Princeton University Princeton. N. j..
II l2i5. n decrease OF Al.
Joseph Hartman. a lineman. fell SO
feet from the top Of telephone pole
In Philadelphia and was killed.
The Union Central Life Insurance
Company. at Cincinnati. o.. was sued
by the state for $2.35S.4Sl. alleged ar
rears Of taxes.
Domestic troubles led Margaret VIII.
Jams. employed in McAlister Hall. &c
kill herself at State College, Pa. by
drinking poison.
Four OF a party Of six Grand Trunk
Pacific surveyors were drowned 10
Winnipeg river by their canoe upset.
ting near kenera. Man.
Tuesday, October II.
Harvey T.. Boyle. Of Harrisburg. Pa,
committed suicide by drinking carbolit
acid.
by the falling of scaffold al
bloomington. Ind. six workmen were
injured. two fatally.
Rev DIR. ID. NJ. Gilbert. of Harrisburg
Pa. one OF the foremost Lutheran
clergymen in the country. died sudden.
ly after a brief illness.
hundred Christian Brothers In
monastery at Pocantico Hills. N. Y.
fought big barn fire and saved large
herd of COWS and horses.
Mayor Belcher. OF Paterson. ". ].
who embezzled $500. 900. has been locat.
ed at the home OF James Robertson
another fugitive Patersonian, at Yebri
Queensland. Australia.
Wednesday, October 10.
Mahlon Clark Mercur. one OF the
best known citizens OF Northern Penn.
sylvania. died at Towanda. aged 90
years.
Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Field. who
were recently married in London. ar
rived in New York on the steamer
Kronprinz Wilhelm.
During Il fight at a beer farm" near
Bridgeion. n. j., William Duffield was
shot in the leg and man named Rob.
bins was terribly beaten.
a hand car ON which were eight
railroad laborers was struck by a Wa
bash train at Cecil, Pa. and two were
killed and one fatally injured.
Thursday, October 10.
Thomas NJ Day. father-in.law OF Sec.
rotary OF the Navy Bonaparte. died at
Hartford. Conn.
The price Of shoes In Chicago have
been greatly advanced. owing TO Q
scarcity OF hides.
Burglars broke into the home oi
Governor Herrick at Cleveland. Ohio.
and stole articles worth over $1,000.
The plant Of the Standard Chain
company at Braddock. Pa. employing
over 500 workers. resumed In full ON
an open shop" basis.
The great council of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church Of North America ut
Milwaukee adjourned and will here