Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-10-24
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Friday. October t6.

others were less seriously injured at
Amherst. O.. when tank car filled
with gasoline on the Lake Shore road.
exploded. following wreck
Antoine Muzzarelli. aged sixtyone,
veteran OF the French army and
prominent both In this country and
abroad as an educator and writer,
committed suicide in New York by
shooting
Yonkers. n Y. the place. and the
second Tuesday in October. 1909, the
time were selected for the next an
nual convention OF the supreme castle.
Knights OF the Golden Eagle.
Saturday, October II.
DR. Won Tiedmann postmaster at
Cortez New. was arrested charged
with embezzling $4,000 Of the funds Of
his Office
The treasury purchased $4,000
ounces OF silver for delivery at New
Orleans and 50 900 ounces for delivery
at Denver at 5lS07 per fine ounce.
Fire destroyed 10000 900 feet OF
lumber and two saw mills and devas.
tated an area of ten acres at Rock
Island Ill. causing loss Of $500 900.
One child was killed and another
seriously injured and n whole neigh
borhood was thrown into a tumult as
result OF an explosion in the paint
shop OF Louis kersberg, in New York.
Monday, October 10.
Pitsburg has a girl dying Of too
-. fsg ,xstts.
she worked.
Captain Joseph r. Brown. OF Birney
Mont. Democratic candidate for presi.
Dental eleetor. died in ST. Louis hos
pital
Government experts at Yuma. Ariz.,
declare tests have shown both Egyp.
tian cotton grown there ana an i'm
ported roller gin are great successes.
Slipping from freight train on
which he was riding at Williamsport
Pa. thirteen-year.old Emcrsan Guthrie
had his left leg taken of at the knee
Tuesday October 20.
Gus Rogers the comedian Of r. gers
Brothers. died suddenly at his home
In New York
Mrs Jchn A. Blackburn was burned
to death near her home at Schell.
w. Va. while fighting forest fires.
Harry = Crout manager OF the Club
hotel at Baltimore Md. was stricken
with heart trouble while attending the
performance at the Gayety theatre and
died within five minutes in the theatre
lobby.
John Karle. porter in the plant Of
the American Rope Manufacturing
company. in Brooklyn was mangled
to death by carding machine in the
presence of 300 screaming girl oper-
atiyes
Wednesday, October q.
The skeleton Of prehistoric animal
forty feet long ana twenty-five feet in
height has been found in the Bad
Lands south OF Glasgow Mon
Stepping from train side-tracked
at Burlington n j. Walter Stack
house or Bridgeboro. walked in front
Of the westbound milk train and was
fatally injured.
Harry and Lewis Kanarr We're killed
and their mother Mrs James Quick.
was fatally injured at Clare. Mich. by
the explosion OF sixteen pounds Of dy-
Mantle which had been placed in their
oven to dry and was forgotten.
An attempt to light fire with kero-
sene cost the life Of Mrs. Mary Petlak
at Cleveland. O.. inflicted burns upon
her husband. Lawrence. from which
he will probably die. and came near
burning their infant child. asleep In an
adjoining room.
Thursday. October %.
Four workmen were burned to-
death in a fire that destroyed the Hud
son river steamer New York at New
burgh. n Y
Charles Eliot Norton. the well-known
philanthropist and scholar and for
many years a member OF the Harvard
faculty. died at his home at Cambridge.
Mass
William A. Gerton. an engineer on
the Reading railway was struck and
instantly killed by a stone projecting
from bridge at Fort Washington.
near Philadelphia.
Three persons were killed. four 9th
ers badly injured and the lives OF
hundred more were imperilled by fire
in the sixstory tenement hous at SO
East Third street. New York.