Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1906-05-19
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Friday. MAY II.

Friday, May II.
Confederate Memorial Day was OBJ.
served In Norfolk, Va, Thursday.
The Pennsylvania Grand Castle OF
the knights of Golden Eagle will meet
In Harrisburg next year
A sleeping car on the Chesapeake
4 Ohio railroad was wrecked near
Buena Vista. O.. and seven persons
were injured. one seriously.
John f. wallace. former chief engi-
heer OF the Panama canal, has accept
ed the presidency of the Electrical
Properties company of Chicago.
James Muccho and wife were muir
dered In their home In New York. and
a young Italian boarder is locked up.
charged with the crime Robbery was
the motive.
Saturday, May IL.
Five business houses and two resi-.
dences were destroyed by fire at Sa.
nersville Pa. near Pittsburg
Charles Archer. colOred was sen.
fenced 10 II wears in Jail at Philadel.
phia tor assaulting a 6-yearold co!ored
girl
H. Jalmar Westfeldt. OF Brokaw.
Wis. drank poison in a New York
barber shop. and died while being
shaved
Major Joseph b. Phipps. an active
officer of the Maryland National
Guard. died suddenly in Baltimore of
heart disease.
Monday. May ID.
Postmaster Byron Trammell has
been acquitted at Dothan. Ala. OF the
murder of X. J. Barnes. a cotton bro
ker.
Samuel Eisenbcrger. Of Marietta Pa.
a war veteran. fell from a trolley car:
his neck was broken and he died in a
tow hours.
Or Thomas C.. Chamberlain, head of
the University of Chicago's depart
mnnt Of geology declares the earth Will
be habitable for at least lOOOOO.OOO
years longer.
5. Wetherbee. a travelling telephone
iineman from Hammonton. y. j.. was
thrown under the wheels while trying
to board freight train at Lewistown
Junction. Pa. and cut in two.
Tuesday. May is.
John ID. Rockefeller denies that DIR.
william Livingstone. who died re-
:ently in Illinois. was his father.
The supreme court of the United
States has denied the petition for "A
rehearing in the Chicago traction
asses
Fifteen men were injured two ia
tally by the bursting of ladle holding
80 tons of molten metal in the Illinois
Steel works at Chicago.
A bill has been introduced in con
gress making 1t a misdemeanor for
any person to keep an establishment
for the purpose of dealing in cotton
futures.
"Wednesday, May IS.
John Alexander Dowie denied in the
federal court at Chicago that he was
insolvent.
Allen Smith. farmer worth 800,
300. residing near Akron. o.. commit
ted suicide by shooting.
Rev. Dr. Rufus r. Johnston. OF
Cleveland. o., denies that he has been
offered the presidency of the Univer-
sity of Chicago.
Henry 4. Muhlenberg. leading
member OF the Berks bar. was found
dead in bed at his home In Reading.
Pa.
Brigadier General John c. Tiddall
retired. first governor OF Alaska. and
for many years commandant at West
Point. died at Montclair. n. j.. aged
81 years.
Thursday, May II.
Four hundred Scandinavian excur-
sonists left Minneapolis for Norway TO
see King Haakon crowned.
The 10th annual convention of the
American Cotton Manufacturing Asso-
citation was held at Asheville. n. c.
Governor Pennypacker has appointed
William H. Stake judge OF common
pleas court. No. 5, OF Philadelphia.
Miss Florence White. a stenographer
was run down and killed by an automo-
bile in Milwaukee, driven by an editor
OF the Free Press.
Thomas A. Blake, OF Boston, was ar
rested az Long Beach. Cal. charged
with embezzlng $4,000 worth OF min
ing stock at Boston.
Edgar Clark. second mate of the
schooner Sycamore. was burned to
death fighting fire aboard the vessel As