Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-12-30
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSER
Friday, December "a.

0CCCEUBoF G&s
The safe III the Corinth Deposit
Bank. at Corinth. KY. was robbed OF
s25O0.
Both branches of congress have ad-
jonrned until January 4 for the Christ
mas holidays.
Is confined TO his Washington home
with a severe cold.
A leak In a kitchen gas stove in n
New York grocery store caused the
death OF two men and so overcome a
woman that she will die.
II IL said In Washington that Lloyd
Griscom will not return to Japan as
the American minister. but will be ap-
pointed ambassador TO Brazil.
All the Italians and foreigners EN-.
ployed as gatemen at crossings Of the
Pennsylvania railroad west of Pitts
burg will be replaced by Americans.
Saturday, December 23.
Three nuns were painfully burned
in n fire at ST. Bencdict's Academy.
Erie. Pa.
The furniture factory OF the Warren
Woodworking company. at Belvidcre.
n j.. was destroyed by fire, entailing
a loss of 100000.
supreme court. decided that South
Dakota divorce decree confers no pro.
lection In New York.
w. II. Moorehead. guard in the
Ohio pcnit antiary at Columbus. o..
was fatally wounded In fight be.
tween five guards and convict
John c. New. former consul general
to London. and John C. Wright were
acquitted al Noblisvillc. Ind. OF fraud
In the sale OF stock involving 1892.
900 In the First National Bank of In.
dianapolis.
Tuesday. December 26.
Mrs. S. u. Dibble. first president OF
the National Christian Temperance
Union. died at her home at Grass Val.
ley, Cal.
John Mccall J. II. Wells and James
Bestor were suffocated in lodging
house at New Orleans by blowing out
the gas.
Irwin Baxter. United States district
attorney for Nebraska. has been re-.
moved by President Roosevelt for NAL.
feasance In office.
While returning from work. Charles
Echon. of Coatesville. Pa. was run
down by "a locomotive and had a leg
cut OF and his skull fractured.
Seven masked men held up three
armed watchmen and a dispatcher In
the Toledo tOD Traction company's
car barn and escaped with over $1,000.
Wednesday. December 81.
Fire gutted the Exchange Hotel. Of
Uniontown. Pa. entailing loss OF
$100.O 900.
Mrs. ID. Stuart Null. OF Wellsboro.
Pa. was killed and her husband and
Miss Emma Mathers badly injured In
a runaway accident.
After playing Santa Claus for neigh.
bors. George Reed. of near Coshocton,
O.. SET fire To the long cotton whiskers
and was fatally burned.
Louis y. Megargee. editor and pub.
Usher of Seen and Heard" and n
well-known journalist. died at his home
In Philadelphia, aged so years.
In III of jealousy. Ashby Willis,
colored. of Wheeling W. Va. crushed
the skull of his white wife with an
axe and then cut his own throat
Thursday. December %.
The 25th anniversary of the Y. +. S.
C. T.. will occur on February next
George Is. Mcclellan was sworn In
on "Wednesday as mayor OF New York
city for the next four years.
Henry Potter. wealthy lumber
dealer OF Dunkirk. o.. was found on the
railroad with his throat cut from ear
To ear.
Miss Anna Randolph. an American.
90 years old committed suicide In Rome
by jumping from third-story window
while temporarily insane.
Claude sstillman. who was sentenced
to the New Jersey state prison In Tren-
ton In 1902 for embezzling $4,000 from
the Murphy varnish company. has been
paroled by the board Of pardons.