Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-11-07
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Friday. October 30.

Friday, OCTOBER 50.
Mr. and Mrs Andrew Carnegie ar
rived in New York from Europe on
Thursday.
Or Shirley Bragg. Alabama state
jail inspector and nephew OF General
Braxton Bragg shot and killed him.
self al Montgomery. Ala.
All the schools and amusement
places In Nanticoke. near Wilkes
Barre. Pa. have been closed because
OF an epidemic Of diphtheria.
Apparently in good health and In
the act OF making a medical examina-
ton. Or Edwin 5 Hutchins dropped
dead OF heart failure beside the oper-
ating table in his Office at Spokane.
Wash.
Saturday, october 81.
Hugh Kelly. banker sugar manu-
facturcr and philanthropist, died at
his residence in New York aged nfty
years.
James Wilson secretary OF agricul.
ture IL is reported. has been offered
the presidency of the Colorado Agrl-
cultural college at Fort Collins. and
Reports from Tampico. Mex. show
that over ifty lives have been lost in
the oil fields as a result OF the poison
Gus gases emitting from the big hole
in the ground caused by the recent
fire
As the result OF double shooting
in the MADEIRA hotel at Morgantown.
W. Va. John Watts. chief engineer Of
the hotel is dead and May Massele. q
waitress. Is in n critical condition from
a bullet wound near her heart.
Monday. November 2.
Three colorcd children were trapped
in hovel at Washington and burned
to death
Hiccoughs are slowly killing f. "
d. Haskell. III Tor several months at
Atlanta. Ga.
In an address at Bangor Pa. Bishop
Talbot rejoiced that Christians all over
the world were becoming more litur
gical.
\ burglar in full dress got $500 in
jewels from Mrs +. V. Roddin's home
in Chicago during an evening recep
ton
John b. Jackson president OF the
Fidelity Title & trust company. oil
Pittsburg. was killed by being thrown
from his horse while riding along
Grant boulevard
Tuesday. November 3.
John u. Rockefeller Jr. was sworn
in as "A member OF the New York No
vembcr grand jury before Judge Null
queen in the court OF general sessions.
Max Devorc and his wife. both aged
6fty. and their epileptic son. Charles
aged thirteen were found dead in their
home in Milo. near Columbus. o.. hav
ing been asphyXiatcd by gas escaping
from a stove.
As result of pistol fight in the
Norfolk 4 Western depot at Rocky
Mount. Va. btween Or J Semple Ca
hill and Robert Smithcrs, both promi
neut men. the latter probably will die
white Cahill received a bad flesh
wound.
Thursday, November 5.
James Mccullough was scalded by
the bursting OF steam pipe at the
Aberfuyle mills at Chester. Pa. and
may not survive.
The Holland Torpedo Boat company
won a suit in New York securing a
verdict OF s4S4S2 from Lewis Nixon
for breach OF contract
Gus Jensen charged with assault
and battery with intent 10 kill com
mitted suicide in prison in Philadel
phia by hanging himself with his shirt
While removing debris from the Gel
lar OF a building recently destroyed by
fire at Erie. Pa. two men were killed
and three injured when a wall col
lapsed.
Harry W Lynn. wife OF depart
ment manager of the Illinois Steel
company at Chicago, killed her four
year,old daughter by cutting her throat
with a razor and then committed sui