Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-10-31
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Friday, October %.

HtI NItiiF AliHES III Htl
ried life. Mrs. Jennie f.. V. Jarrett. of
Fort Wayne. Ind. asked divorce from
James l. Jarrett.
Crazed at the cancellation OF his en-
gagemcnt to Nellie Diemeyer. nineteen
years old August Sauererein aged
twenty.three. shot her twice and then
sent bullet into his brain d. Grand
Rapids Mich
Benjamin +. Gilbert. aged Is years,
was found guilty OF murder in the first
degree at Norfolk. Va. for killing his
sweetheart. Miss Amanda Morse. when
she refused his suit for the attentions
of another young man.
Saturday, October "a.
City Detective Clyde Edgeburn. of
Pittsburg shot and almost instantly
killed Policeman Thomas Farrell.
whom. II is said he mistook for a
highwayman
While driving across a Baltimore &
Ohio railroad crossing at Derby o.. a
peddler's wagon in which were Albert
Lewis and Harry Bernfeldt was struck
by an express train and both occu-
pants were killed.
Despondent over long illness from
nervous prostration. Oscar j Sell. who
slanaged five and ten-cent syndicate
stores at Roanoke Va. and Bristol.
Tenn. and who returned to Allentown.
Pa, fourteen weeks ago. shot himself
in the head at the home OF his father
in.law.
Monday, October &c.
dummy election will be held on
the Isthmus Of Panama with Bryan
and Taft as candidates.
Major Harry Benson succeeds Gen
eral Samuel NJ Young as superintend.
ent of Yellowstone park.
While picking coal on the railroad
at Island park. near South Bethlehem.
Pa. Mrs Michael Wasco was killed
instantly.
DR.. w. H. Jones, OF Milerstown.
Pa. has received from his friend = J.
Scanlon. In Cork. Ireland piece Of
the original blarney stone from the
castle in Ireland.
An injunction has been issued at
Terre Haute. Ind. restraining the Ma
tional United Mine Workers officers
from deposing leaders Of the district
organization at that place
Tuesday. October 27.
Cardinal Francis Matthew. OF France.
died in London after an operation.
Rev DR. Hiram Bingham. the noted
Congregational missionary. who un.
derwent surgical operation az Johns
Hopkins hospital at Baltimore. died
The supreme court OF the United
States set Jan for hearing OF argu-
ments in the case OF the commodities
clause" Of the Hepburn railroad rate
act
Because of i'll health Secretary Met
calf has been obliged TO cancel his en-
gagement to address political gath
ering at Charlestown. W Va, next
Friday. and has declined an invitation
20 speak at Akron. o.
Wednesday. October %.
Miss Therese Heinfurter ninety
seven years old. died at Hudson. Wis.
and e said to have been the Oldest
spinster in .America.
falling down stairs at Milwaukee. Wis.
Herman Haedkeb, aged forty-four.
lived twenty-eight hourN before he ex-
pred
The greater portion Of the thickly
housed summer colony at Salisbury
Beach. Mass was wiped out by fire
which destroyed more than 100 cot
tages. entailing loss of 100000
Rev T. H. Nelson, who until two
weeks ago was pastor OF the Camden
On. JJ Methodist Episcopal church.
died suddenly at the residence of Rev.
+. e. White. at Delaware City. Del.
where he was visiting.
Thursday, October 20.
DR. NJ. w Stryker president OF
Hamilton college. was seriously in
jured in a runaway accident at Clin-
ton ~ Y.
Private Mike Beecham. OF the First
cavalry who ran amuck at Camp Stos-
tenburg last May and killed four Of
his comrades was sentenced to life
imprisonment at Manila.
While sitting in rear room OF her
home at Pooler. near Savannah. Ga.
Mrs. w. Z. Terrence, wife of an engi-
neer was fired upon and instantly
killed by Solomon Riley. a negro boy,
who was arrested.