Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1906-02-10

Friday. February 2


ton Hotel, committed suicide by shoot
Ing while Respondent.
Masked burglars entered the home
Of Walter Dickinson. postmaster at
Beaver Meadow. near Hazleton. Pa.
and escape dwith $500 in cash stamps
and registered letters
Tom Filter. father-in-law OF the col.
ored man who killed Sheriff Robertson.
OF Covington county. Miss. was lodged
IN Jail at Jacksonville to escape a mob
that formed to lynch him.
Ensign Wade, L. 5. ~ attached to
the Bennington al the time of the fatal
explosion is soon to marry Miss
Edith Fabregon who nursed him
through a critical fever while he was
ashore in hospital
Saturday, February 3.
Walter w Hamilton. negro. was
hanged at Washington. d. G.. for the
murder OF his common law wife.
The temperature in the Adirondacks.
near Malone. \. y. on Friday regis.
tered % degrees below zero. the lowest
this season.
Thomas Minehall. postmaster at La
Crescent MINI. for 80 consecutive
years. 1859 to 1899 IS dead at the age
Of 81 years
President Roosevelt has pardoned
Midshipman John Paul Miller. of Ken
lucky recently convicted OF hazing at
Annapolis naval academy
Monday, February 5.
The navy department has accepted
the resignation Of Midshipman Judson
l.. Hand. OF Pelham Ga
Fifteen persons were hurt. two ia
tally when an eastbound Rock Island
express train was deraied near Duran.
N. NJ
Mrs Mary Dougherty reputed TO
have been the oldest woman in Penn
sylvania died in Tamaqua at the age
OF los years
Wrapping his coat about her l0-year-
old Russell Fisher OF Catawissa. Pa.
saved his little sister from burning to
death after her dress had caught fire
Virginia manufacturers OF fruit and
vegetable baskets packages and bar
rels will lose heavily by the increased
price Of pine lumber, as the seasons
orders are nearly all in
Tuesday. February 6.
James Ryan alias New York Red"
was sentenced 10 ~ years imprison-
mcnt for murder al Reading Pa
One thousand mounted mon from
Fort sill. Okla. will participate in a
I
game preserve of wolves.
Frederick Kmball an insurance
agent and formerly an absconder. com
mitted suicide in Worcester Mass, by
inhaing gas while Respondent
A national convention Of the laymen
OF the United Presbyterian denomna-
ton viii be- held in Pittsburg for three
days beginning February II. TO ex-
change ideas on Christian work.
Wednesday, February 7.
William Milton was found in the road
frozen to death near Milton Pa
The South Carolina legislature has
passed bill to abolish the state dis
pensary
The funeral OF the late King Chris
tian ~ Denmark will take place on
February Is.
James b. Dohefty has been reap
4 pointed commissioner OF labor for the
! state of Virginia
Three little girls of j. Il Cypher
were burned to death in fire that de-
stroyed their home al Helena. Mont.
Jacob kohter 90 years old. of Thorn
asville. near York Pa. was seized with
cramps and died in carriage while
! being taken To doctor
Thursday, February 8.
a locomotive on the Erie railroad
struck an electric car AT Pittsburg.
Pa. wrecking it and njuring four pas
sengors
In dynamite explosion al Tank
Point. Utah on the Western Pacific
railroad. three men were killed and
four fatally injured.
The constitutionality OF the Louis.
lana state law prohibiting the posses.
sion of bird feathers for trimming
womcns hats has been upheld
President Roosevelt has announced
that he will appoint Griffith r. Davis.
OF Scranton. Pa. collector of internal
revenue Tor the 18th Pennsylvania
district