Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-02-29
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Friday. February 81.


murdered his wife Rebecca johnson,
ON oct 20. 1906 was hanged In fhila
delphia
Mrs. Elizabeth Barnum one Of he
few surviving widows of the War OF
1872. died at East Orange. \. j., at
the age OF ninety-siX years
BY the explosion OF a can of gaso-
line. Mrs. l.. l.. Dodder and her sister.
Mrs. Hamilton. OF Glade Pa. were ia.
tally burned at Omaha Neb
Ward Hanahan. twenty years ol !. an
Invalid was burned TO death In the
home of his mother in Kansas City,
Kan. when his clothing caught fire
from an oyerheated stove
Saturday. February %.
Fourteen miners lost their lives by
an explosion in the Glebs pit near
New Castle Upon TYNE. Eng
The plant OF the Dayton tO) Motor
Car company with It's contents was
destroyed by Are, entaiing loss esti
mated at 100000
The comptroller OF the currency is.
sued a call for a statement OF the con
dition OF all national banks at the
close Of business on Feb. "a last
Kansas Democrats in state conyen
ton at Hutchinson. Kan. Instructed
all delegates to the Denver convention
10 vote for William ] Bryan for presl
dent
Monday, February "a
Conscience stricken Stewart
Mills has surrendered himself TO the
police at Middletown. n. Y. confessins
to several burglaries.
Eighty-two delegates. representing
the Death Benefit association Of the
Sons OF Veterans OF the United States
held their fifteenth annual convention
IN Bethlehem Pa.
Pleading guilty 10 embezzling sS2.
600 from the First National bank. OF
Hattiesburg. Miss. w r Smith and
]. W. Harper have been sentenced &c
six wears in prison.
For a second time within two years
Miss Myra Silverdale Of Norfolk
Conn. is in a New York hospital. SUI
fering from a disease Of the tongue
contracted by licking postage stamps.
Tuesday, February IS.
Edward Gaylord Bourne, professor OF
history a. Yale University. died at New
Haven. Conn. after long Illness.
Or. Isaac X. Trimbe. well known
surgeon. died at Baltimore. Md OF
blood poisoning contracted while per-
forming an operation.
Three children of Mr.. and Mrs w
A. Davis the eldest four years old were
burned 10 death In fire that destroy
ed their home in Santa Rose, n. NJ
Mrs Mary Adelaide Yerkes widow
OF Charles T. Yerkes. the Chicago H.
naneier and traction magnate. an
nonnced that 1t was Ter desire to de-
vote portion of her $40 100000 estate
to the erection OF a magnificent hospit-
al IN Chicago
Wednesday, February 26.
] p. Morgan. the banker sailed
from New York for Europe on the
steamer Adriatic
George Rogers. who was with Al
mlral Farraeut at the battle OF Mobil.
uaNt Was ioHuN utdA dN Hl0 HNiHN ~
Mobile Ala.
The collier Caesar now at Hampton
Roads. Va Will proceed 10 New York
where she is to be fitted out to az
commodate the submarines Pmugei
and Porpoise. which are to be taken
10 the Pacific coast aboard her.
Lee Hart. at Lamar No shot and
killed Mrs. Joseph Edwards his moth
er-in-law shot and seriously wounded
the latter's husband and then commit
ted suicide by living across the rail
road track and letting an express train
run over his body.
Thursday, February 27.
Frenzied by jealousy Andrew Kali
nosh murdered his wife Katie and
Jacob Schneider. hoarder In his
wiie's home at Cleveland o. and es
capped
Despondent over the fact that he
had been discharged from a position
he held for twenty-five years Ernest
Eugene Meier. chief clerk in the Ger
man consulate al Cincinnati commit
ted suicide by shooting himself
Rear Admiral Converse. testfyine
before the senate committee on naval
affairs. declared that the United States
IS building the best battleships In the
world and refutes the charges made
against the efficiency of the navy.