Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-05-02
a WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Friday, April "a.

Morris Bengston shot and fatally
wounded Miss Sigrid Appleholm and
then killed himself at Rockford. III.
Charles Seipelt. tobacco farmer
three miles from Ripley. o.. was com
peeled to stand with upllfted hands
while about thirty.flve or forty might
riders" destroyed his tobacco beds
Mrs. Margaret Wolfram was killed
end her husband and -four year-nll
child seriously injured when they were
thrown from buggy nj Pittsburg
ened By the barking Of dog and ran
away.
Saturday, April rs.
Daniel Jackson. "a negro. was hanged
AT Emporia. Va. for wife murder.
An entire family Of five Kickapoo
Indians were drowned by cloudburst
or waterspout near Old Fort Arbuchle
okla.
Joseph Miller. a prominent oil oper
ator at Butler Pa. was shot In the
breast and seriously wounded by a
burglar. who escaped.
Twenty-Five buildings were destroy
al By tornado which struck Valley
Springs. near Sioux Falls. 5. d.. but
no loss OF life resulted.
William Jones. who was a member
of the Roosevelt Rough Riders and a
personal friend OF the president, died
Oh pneumonia at Trinidad. Colo.
Monday, April 81.
ttrht RfdGrc" prnccQd
into Ohio near Ripley and burned a
large tobacco barn with 2000 pounds
oi tobacco.
The first floating Christian Endeavor
convention ever held will meet at
Seattle May %. while the Atlantic
feet is in the harbor.
While working his way through a
medical school at Chicago by switch.
Ing elevated trains Hugh NJ Watson.
Of Charlotte. n. G.. was killed.
Caroline Pierce. OF Lancaster. Pa.
was in the enjoyment OF good health
less than a week ago. when her hus.
band was buried but while returning
from the funeral. she caught cold.
pneumonia developed and death en-.
sned
Tuesday. April %.
The damage by frost to the orchards
in the Arkansas and Grand valleys and
other fruit growing regions OF Colorado
Is estimated at $1,000 900.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Stone and
Boyd Ward were drowned In lake al,
Muskegon. Mich. when their boat was
overturned by the high waves.
Despondent because of financial
troubles. Long Wundo forty years old
Chinaman prominent among his
countrymen In New York city. com.
mitted suicide BY jumping from the
root of six-story tenement house In
Eighth avenue.
Wednesday, April 20.
The Reading Railway company put
its $50 car shop employees at Reading
Pa. on ten hours a day.
Brigader General Alfred Lacey
Hough. retired. died at his home at
Princeton. ~ j.. aged eighty-two years.
Airs. Belle Gunnerson and her three
children persisted in an incendlary fire
which destroyed their home In the
country north OF laporte. Ind
William Mcleod Mcdonald. of Cos.
port England was hanged at Pitts
burg. Pa. for the murder of his com
mon law wife. Bessie Hyslop. last Sep.
tember
Selie Silverstein. the anarchist. who
attempted 10 throw bomb into a
group of policemen in Union square,
New York. several weeks ago and was
injured by the premature explosion OF
the bomb, died In hospital.
Thursday, April 80.
Matte Wells. aged thirty-nine years.
committed suicide AT the home OF
Stacy -Prickett. at Medford. N. j..
where she was employed.
Miss Elinor H. Wilson. daughter o.
General James r. Wilson. OF Whining.
ton. Del, and Edward Cary Williams.
OF Boston. were married at Whining
ton.
Rev. Alfred NJ Abel. house father
and chaplain of the Episcopal church
Home for Children at Jamestown. Leb.
anon county. Pa, died at that institu.
ton after an Illness OF several months
Jacob Dumas. Russian. of Coates
vile. who has been on trial at West
Chester. Pa, for the murder OF fel.
low countryman. Gregory Smulka. was
convicted OF murder OF the second de
gree