Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1906-05-19
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
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
q Ohio railroad was wrecked near
Duena 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 Mucchio 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 we're destroyed by fire at Sa-
nersville Pa. near Pittsburg.
Charles Archer. colOrcd, was sen
fenced TO L. wears In jail at Philadel'
mia for assaulting 6.yearold co!ored
girl
II Jalmar Westleldt. of Brokaw.
Wis. drank poison in a New York
barber shop. and died while being
shaved.
Major Joseph Il. Phipps. an active
officer OF the Maryland National
Guard. died suddenly in Baltimore of
heart disease
Monday, May "a.
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.
war veteran, fell from a trolley car;
his neck was broken and he died In
few hours.
DR. Themas c. Chamberlain. head OF
the University OF Chicaeos depart
m.nt OF geology. declares the earth will
be- habitable for at least l0O,OOO.OOO
years longer
s Wctherbee. travelling telephone
lineman from HammontOn. y. j.. was
thrown under the wheels while trying
TO board a freight train at Lewistown
Junction. Pa. and cut In two.
Tuesday, May IS.
John d. Rockefeller denies that DR..
william Livingstone. who died re-
Gently In Illinois. was his father.
The supreme court of the United
States has denied the petition for
rehearing in the Chicago traction
asses.
Fifteen men were injured. two ia
tally. by the bursting OF ladle holding
so tons OF molten metal in the Illinois
Steel works AT Chicago.
A bill has been introduced in con
gress making II a misdemeanor for
any person to keep an establishment
for the purpose of dealing in cotton
futures
Wednesday, May IS.
John Alexander Dowic denied in the
federal court at Chicago that he was
lnsOlvent
Allen Smith, farmer worth $780,
300 residing near Akron. o., commit
ted suicide by shooting.
Rev. Or. Rufus p Johnston. of
Cleveland. o., denies that he has been
offered the presidency of the Univer-
sity of Chicago.
Henry A. 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 ".
Four hundred Scandinavian excur-
slonlsts left Minneapolis for Norway 10
see King Haakon crowned
The 10th annual convention OF the
American Cotton Manufacturing Asso-
citation was held at Asheyille. n. c.
Governor Pennypacker has appointed
pleas court. No. s. OF Philadelphia.
Miss Florence White. 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 embezzling $4,000 worth of min
ing stock al Boston.
Edgar Clark second mate OF the
schooner Sycamore. was burned TO
death fighting fire aboard the vessel as
she Law M her dock I'm South BOSTON