Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-12-19
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Friday, December II.


The Nobel peace rizes were award
ed to X. p. Arnoldsen. OF Sweden. and
NJ f. Bajer. OF Denmark. Both the re-
cipients are neutrality-suspicious..
Despondent because o. falling health.
Miss Carrie $. Burns. forty-eight
years old. OF San Francisco killed her
self at the home OF Mrs. J. +. REQ. in
Newark. n. j.. whose guest she was.
/ Five hundred employees at the Erie
railroad shops in Scranton were re-
duced from full time to two-thirds time
by an order from the head offices of
the mechanical department In New
York city.
Saturday, December ~.
The town of Patton. Ia. was destroy
ed by fire entailing a loss of $3.50
William Fiddler was sentenced to
four years in prison at GAINESVILLE
Wis for attempting to wreck a train
on the st. Paul railroad
Slipping as he was about to stab a
| hog Israel Hines. farmer OF Man
chester township. York county Pa.
fell upon the blade of his butcher
knife and gashed open his throat. al
most severing the jugular vein.
DR. G.. G.. Mcconnell medical ex-
aminer in chief OF the knights of Ply
thias announced that Il has been for
mally decided that santarium for tu.
berculoss patients affiliated with the
| order shall be established in New
Mexico.
Monday. December IA.
Mort l.. Smith of Athens. Pa. died
TO induce sleep.
Eight dozen high-bred eggs laid at
Scrantons poultry show and so rated
al s. each were sold for charity
Mike" Rosa. blind mendicant in
Chicago, has so much money that
Judge Gemmill has forced him to re
| tire
| Three Italian miners of the North
western Mining & Exchange company
we're killed by fall OF rock in the
West Clarian mines at Brockwayyille
Pa
So bad have the rats become at Re-
! hoboth Del. that when Henry Frazier
went out into his barn he found that
they had badly chewed the hoofs OF
both his horses. which are badly lame
as a result
Tuesday. December is.
The president sent to the senate the
nomination OF William Hall Harris to
be postmaster at Baltimore. Md
C. f. Spencer. OF Hugo Va, went TO
| Norfolk to do his Christmas shopping
and was found asphyxiated in hotel
Fifteen persons were injured one
fatally in an explosion OF boiler at
the cement factory of A. T. Nelson.
/ Minneapolis MINI.
| The Lutheran summer assembly
committee decided to hold the meet.
ing at Irving college Mechanicsburg
] Pa. July rs to Aug 8.
Rodollo Gaona a famous Mexican
bullfshter was fatally injured in a
night in Pucbla the horns Of the ami
mai penetrating the abdomen.
Wednesday, December IS.
Charged with forging about twenty
checks aggregating $4,000. Edward E.
! Perkins was arrested at Chicago
Having reached the age OF sixty-two
years Rear Admiral John Z Pillsbury.
chief Of the naval bureau OF navga-
ton has been retired
The body Of Chief OF Police Biggy,
OF San Francisco. who was drowned
recently from the polce launch Pa
troll has been found floating in the
bay
Walter Boldt. aged twenty years OF
Louisville. Ky. a hospital apprentice
at the training station az Newport
r. l.. committed suicide by swallowing
strychnne.
In the presence OF Bishop Talbot
and large number Of other distn.
guished men tho new temple of the
local Mystic Shrners at Wilkes-Barre.
Pa. was dedicated
Thursday, December II.
After eight years OF torture from q
broken back Frank Sandoval died at
Monroya Cal
While playing with his fathers re
yover. Harold Brouse six years old,
shot and killed his two-year-old sister
at Seinsgrove. Pa
The Russian Grand Duke Alexis.
whose sudden death occurred recently
in Paris died intestate, leaving huge
fortune Of $50 900 900.
Wesley NJ owen, Of Leroy. III. has
been appointed a justice of the su.
| preme court on the isthmus OF Pan.