Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-12-12
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Friday, December 4.

Major George T. West paymaster Of
The Texas National Guard. fell four
stories down an elevator shaft at Fort
Worth. Tex. and was killed.
AS result OF over-exertion al cham
pion roller skating. Charles Mackerlck.
q Pottstown tPa.) high school boy. Is
In critical condition with append
citis.
DR. Frederick @. Davis. Of Blossburg
Pa. has been appointed a member Of
the board OF trustees of the Cottage
State hospital at Blossburg. vice Ham.
ilton b. Humes, resigned.
Saturday, December 5.
Richard Evans. OF Philadelphia. was
shot and fatally wounded at Superior,
Wis. by a man whose demand for
money Evans had refused
The treasury has purchased 5000
ounces OF silver for delivery at New
Orleans and $4,000 ounces for delivery
at Denver at 1921 per fine ounce.
A man who registered at the ST.
James hotel at BaltimorA Md. as ].
L. O'Neal. OF Harrisburg. Pa. commit.
ted suicide in his room by shooting.
Captain Robert Hanna L. s A.. re-
tired. died suddenly in the office OF
DR.. George L. Brewer in New York
when just about TO submit TO an ex.
animation by DR. Brewer
Monday. December z.
A state tuberculosis dispensary has
been opened in Bangor Pa. with DR.
H. S Sherrer In charge and Mrs. J.
Halsey Miller as nurse
Rev. Mary Hanna Graves. the first
woman to be ordained TO the Unitarian
ministry in Massachusetts. died at her
home in Boston. aged seventy-one
years
Postal officials at Chicago are inves-
tigating a letter received by Rev w.
o. Waters threatening TO damage his
church unless $4,000 was placed al
designated spot in Lincoln park
Twelve hours after being freed from
the rocks in Buzzards bay and while
being towed to New Bedford Mass.
the cruiser Yankee sank in six faith
oms of water
Tuesday, December 8.
The safe in the jewelry repair store
OF W G. COxeler, al Hartford. Conn,
was blown open and jewelry to the
value OF about $4,000 taken.
Rev. W. H. d Hatton chaplain Of
the First Pennsylvania Volunteers
known as the "Bucktails died at Har
risburg Pa, aged eightyoSe years
IottIe and Ida Kaplan. Sisters re-
spectively nineteen and seventeen
years old. were found dead in their
room in an East Side tenement in New
York. having been asphyxiated by illu.
minating gas.
Wednesday. December 9.
The French chamber Of deputies by
q vote Of 33G to pol decided in favor Of
continuing the death penalty in France.
While returning home from a party
Michael Dorsey a cripple. was struck
by a train at Gilberton, Pa. and in
stantly killed
James j Corbett. former heavy.
weight champion OF the world. has
consented 10 referee the tight between
Hugo Kelly and Billy Papke the night
of Dec is at Los Angeles Cal
A big seven.story building at 1874
Franklin street. New York. used by
the Western Union Telegraph com
pany as a storehouse was destroyed
by Are. causing loss OF $4,000.
President Roosevelt notified the sec
rotary OF war that as soon as It can
be done without injustice he desires
all negro regiments in the army 10 be
supplied with negro band masters.
Thursday. December 10.
The senate confirmed the nomina
lions OF Luke L Wright. of Tennessee
to be secretary OF war and OF Truman
II. Newberry OF Michigan. to be sec.
rotary OF the navy
After living together for over sixty
years. Mr.. and Mrs John Paul aged
eighty.six and seventy-fve years re
spectively. Of Sarnia. Ont. were as
phyxiated in their home
PJ. O'Connor. former national pres
ldent of the Ancient Order of Hihern-
ians and former national president of
the Catholic knights Of America. died
OF pneumonia at Savannah, Ca
With full military cer-~lonies. the
body OF the late Rear a ~lral Joseph
b. Coghlan. who died Saturday at New
Rochelle. n. Y. was inferred in the
Arlington National cemetery at Wash.
In at0n