Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-04-22
4 WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Friday. April IL.

b. ]. Rowe, a Pennsylvania railroad
brakeman, was killed in u wreck near
Fern Glen.
The Lewis county jail at Weston.
w. Va. was partially demolished by an
explosion. and seven prisoners escaped.
Three cars running wild on the South
ern railroad at Columbus, Ca. struck q
passenger train and killed three col
ored girls.
The Isthmian canal commission will
establish a purchasing depot in New
by Chairman Shonts.
First Lieutenant Henry Clay Evans.
Jr.. son of the former pension commits
sioner has been placed on the retired
list on account of disability.
Saturday, April IS.
Arthur Laster and Joseph Miller. two
negro murderers, were hanged at Pat
erson. N. ].
Robert Hodges. q prominent Balti-
more architect. while suffering from
Ill health. committed suicide by cut
ting his throat.
| The greater portion of the business
section OF Springvale. Me-, with many
dwellings. was destroyed by fire, en-
failing a loss Of 100000.
John d. Rockefeller has given $780,
900 to the University of Virginia to
perpetuate the memory of Dr. J. l.. M.
Curry. the famous southern educator.
Alleging that utterances of her father
caused her fiance to refuse to marry
her. Mrs. Helen Hazeltine. of New York.
has sued her father for $4,000 for
SANDER.
Monday, April IL.
Prices of live cattle in all the Texas
markets have been materially increased.
Beebe & ons' leather tannery at tt
tusville. Pa. was destroyed by fire, en-
failing a loss OF $4,000.
Thrown from vicious colt. his foot
catching In a chain trace. r. Percy
Herner was dragged to death near Har-
risburg. Pa.
Three men were killed and much
damage to property done by an explo-
sion of powder in a hardware store at
Trenton. Tenn.
| IICiy " HllC, Tic new 1IIcIlcdH am
bassador to Rome. was received by
King Victor Emanuel and presented
his credentials.
Tuesday, April 10.
John Paddock and Carl Lamphead,
high school students at Charleroix,
Mich, were drowned while canoeing In
Pine lake.
Mollie Halpert. years Oh, of Phila-
delphia, found poisoned nat biscuit in
her home and ate 1t, dying an hour
later In agony.
Mark Wistlers and a laborer named
Burgess were burned to death in a fire
that destroyed a boarding house at
Cranberry, n. c.
After quarrel with her parents.
Miss Lillian Smith. of Wilmington,
Del. swallowed a dose of poison and
was only saved by prompt medical
treatment.
Wednesday, April 10.
The Master Plumbers Association
of Pennsylvania held their 18th annual
convention at Reading.
Senator James p. Taliaferro was re-
elected to the United States senate by
the Florida legislature.
Asa S. Gates. father of John w.
Gates. the multi-millionaire, Is dead at
st. Charles, ILL.,. aged 50 years.
The annual meeting of the Southern
Newspaper Publishers Association
will be held at Charleston. S. c., May
and 3.
A butler employed in the home OF
d. r. Richardson. Morristown. N. j.,
has disappeared. taking with him Jew
els valued at $4,000 and $500 In cash.
Captain Harry Whiteside was run
over and instantly killed by a freight
train while crossing the bridge over
Great Egg Harbor river. N. J.
Thursday, April 20.
Frederick L. Stees, national secre-
tary of the p. o. S. of A., died at his
home i'm Philadelphia
In an attempt to escape from fail
at Pontchatoula. La, three prisoners
set fire to the building. and two were
burned to death.
BY the explosion of a lamp in the
home of Mahlon Prinvenhoof, at Mont
gomery. Pa. bank notes valued at $l0,-
900 were destroyed.
Robert 4. Wright, of Allentown. Pa.
grand secretary of the Odd Fellows In
the United States, appointed ex-Mayor
John b. Goodwin. of Atlanta, Ca,
grand secretary, vice ]. f. Grant, de-
ceased.