Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-07-18
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Friday. July 10.

Ei'uoyt Sh'J w.
Mr. and Mrs Edmund Smith. eacl
eighty years old. who lived on farm
near Rochester. \. Y, Va burned I
death in fire which destroyed thei
homo
In a gun and knife fight at pre-
tracted meeting near Backusburg. Ky
Wayne Lawrence shot and killed An
ME Bannister and was himself perhap
fatally stabbed
Governor Fort. OF New Jersey. ar
nounced that It would not be necessar
10 call a special session OF the legisla
ture to pro"ide extra appropriation
for state departments that did not re
ceive the full amount asked by then
last winter
Saturday. July II.
a hot coal from q North Penn trail
fell on leaky valve OF the Unite
Pipe Line eompany's line. near Allen
town Pa causing an explosion am
letting 2sS barrels OF oil flow away
Governor Stuart respited VI TX
Holka OF Venango county PA unde
sentence TO be hanged next Tuesday
until Aug IS. In order 70 allow IT,
case to be taken before the suprem
court
Rather than face her landlord Wh
she had no money to pay the rent o
boarding house in which she lost tn
savings OF lifetime Mrs Henrietta
Scadder killed herself in New York b.
inhaliug Illuminating gas.
Monday. July -.
BY court decree the name Of tn
Western University OF Penas. " nj
was changed to University OF PITTS
burg
Chicago city council has votel So
000 to employ 100 physicians 10 loo
after children OF the slums during tn
hot weather
Proceedings have been began in Sal
Francisco by MIR and Mrs Jane
Stead OF Philadelphia. to break an al
legged false viii bs which the late ia
cob T. Davis disposed OF s.,ooY.o o
y 5 Serer employed al the stand
ard Steel works. l.cwistowu. Pa wa
struck in the right eye by a piece g
flying metal ana his sigh, - badly IN
jured thai he viii lose tn eye.
Tuesday. July "A.
Rear Admiral Charles NJ Thomas
t. : * VINO died in Canlotn a, WA
buried at Newport r. T. vita Ia!
naval honors
The Carpenter steel WORKS an th
pudding departments ot the r NJ
Iron company Al Recalling Pa esa.n
ed after an illoness uf some wecas
Thomas VI Allen postmaster al Cass
vile near topl,n An was arre &c.
by postotIicc Inspector, charged via
opening mail addressed to ) K Rey
nolds.
a nervous wreck Thomas Il Mart II
once q prnMinent real estate dealer o
Washington pleaded guilty to chargei
OF embezz.emcut aud forgery aud wa
sentenced to two years Ia the penitcn
tIary al Moundsvile. V Va
Wednesday, July IS.
Fivcyca old Clara Hoffman. whil'
playing with matches. was fatal.
burned al the home Of her parents il
Philadelphia
Peleg Parker for several years III,
owner OF the Washington Post died a
his home at Portland Me. at the ag'
of eighty-lour years
Rosario Serge eighteen years OLD
was hanged at New Castle. Pa. to
the murder Of Antonio Bonu which oc
CURED at Illisyille June = 1907
n"ca.:.!o:.: ..;.;a :" ..,a!;!., ii,a. :
Maudal Chadwick. OF f.akemonl y
Y. committed suicide by drowning her
SELF IN hye feet Of water In a cisteri
in the cellar
Thursday, July TO-
During an electric storm al Marietta
Pa. William Fraim was clectrocutec
By coming in contact with a lyo wire
Charles Hetzel ana August Kel.i
were crushed and badly injured undci
heavy iron pipe at the March port
packing establishment at Bridgeport
Pa
Mrs Sally Hall Doromus. of notn,
New Jersey family died al the HON,
OF her granddaughter Mrs Thoma,
Surett, Jr at Newark y. j.. aged Ia
years
The PENNSYLVANIA state live s.ocl
sanitary board has detailed Dr. John
Bennett ot Tyrone to attend the Ma
tional Guard encampmeut as inspector
OF animals il being his work to pre-
vent the spread of any diseases among
the horses mules and other animals al
the camp