Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-08-15
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Friday, August 7.

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Swanson shot his friend. Regnow Mel.
son. and then shot himself.
Unable to sleep because OF the heat,
Henry Thiele. OF Jersey City. ". j..
tried to end his life by shooting him.
self and Is In a critical condition.
Captain ID. G. Purse. a noted devel.
oper. Industrial writer and promoter.
and having connections in New York.
Pittsburg and other centers. commit.
ted suicide at Savannah. Ga.
Governor Stuart approved Nov. II
as the date upon which the memorial
to Pennsylvania regiments at Freder.
icksburg. Md. shall be dedicated. his
approval being required by law.
Saturday. Au1uat 8.
Mrs. Eliza d. Stewart. the noted
temperance advocate. and known all
over the country as Mother" Stewart.
died at her home in Hicksville. o.
Two negro children were killed one
was fatally hurt and one seriously In.
jured when a double tenement AT Cam.
den. Ark. was blown up by dynamite.
Governor Stuart fixed Sept "a az
the date for the execution OF Francis
NJ. Schuts. who killed his little daugh.
ter in Paramount park. Philadelphia
and then tried suicide. and Raphael
Peric. also OF Philadelphia.
Monday, August 10.
For assaulting a three-year.old girl.
Henry Johnson. colored. was hanged
at Memphis. Tenn.
Smoke from burning tobacco ware
house at New York oyercame thirteen
firemen. three seriously
Six hundred men won fight to save
the famous Calaveras grove OF big
trees In California from forest fire.
While cunning for groundhogs in
lower Lehigh county. Pa. Milton Dor
ney. OF Centre Valley was seriously
wounded by the accidental discharge
OF his gun.
While picking coal on the Pennsyl
vania tracks near Coatesville. Pa.
Mrs Mike Gembarche a native of Po
land. was struck by the Chicago linn
tied and instantly killed.
Tuesday, August II.
G. c. Bantz was appointed assistant
Treasurer of the United States in the
place OF the late j. f. Meline.
Mrs Louise Chandler Moulton. the
wellknown authoress. died at her
home in Boston after an Illness OF
nearly nine months.
Charlie Lokie. colored about eigh
teen years OF age. was lynched at Tif
ton. o.. for making insulting remarks
to young white woman.
Secretary II. +. Van Norman Of the
Pennsylvania State college. announced
that the next convention of the Penn.
sylvanIa Dairy union will he held in
Harrisburg the same week as the
meeting OF the state board of agricul.
ture and the Live Stock Breeders as
sociation. Jan. 25-29. 1909.
Wednesday. August IL.
One man was killed and three were
badly injured ms a result OF boiler
explosion al the plant OF the Break
water Construction company AT Sa-
chem's Head. Conn
Three-year.old Cornelius Morey
who drank a half pint OF whiskey
which he found on the table OF his
home. 1921 Sullivan street. in Phla
delphia. died from commissions, de
spite the efforts OF two physicians.
While holding nozzle and direct.
ing a stream OF water upon fire In
an abandoned building Of the Consoli.
dated Ice company al Pittsburg a
brick wall twelve feet high. fell upon
William Poppinger. driver of engine
No. ~. and instantly killed him.
Thursday, August 10.
DR. Alexander Lowber. a leading
physician and secretary OF the Della
ware board OF health. died at his home
in Wilmington of an affection OF the
liver. aged sixty-six years
Stephen Bocbeck was killed and
Edo Haycock fatally injured by two
runaway freight cars on the Read
ing railway at Coatesyille, Pa. which
dashed into a company OF men on the
way to work.
Edward Kaiser. OF New York. was
killed. and James ]. Johnson. OF
wIlkes.Barre. Pa. painters. was prob
ably fatally injured at Elmira, ~ Y.
when a scaffold on which they were
working gave way
Levi Fannan. seventy-three years OF
age. shot and fatally injured his wife.
Margaret. fifty-three years of age; Sc.
verely injured his fifteen-year.old
daughter Effie and then ended his own
life AT his home in Dallashurv q