The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-29
NEWS BRIEFS.

young man, who held responsible
position with the National Biscuit
Company, and Miss Annie Drexel, Is
years old and extremely beautiful,
were murdered and robbed by river
pirates while riding in Hise's yacht
along the shore of the Allegheny river
May IS, is now the belief of the po-
lice. Developments of the last few
days indicate that instead of the
young couple having met their deaths
by the yachts accidental collision
with a towboat, they were brutally
murdered.
Rioting became more general and
serious in the street-railway strike
at Cleveland, Ohio, May 1S. The first
death, not a part OF the strike, but
incident to it, occurred when Yetta
Wolkinski, 4 years of age, was run
over by a car operated by an mex
perienced motorman. A crowd quick
Ily gathered and would have lynched
the motorman had he not turned on
full speed and escaped.
How an effort was made to stop
hole in a cellar window with $500
oil painting was told to jury in the
Court of Special Sessions of New
York, where Charles McDermott, of
the Bronx, is on trial. He is accused
of stealing two oil paintings by Lam
ey,, valued at $500 each, from Sherry's
Fifth Avenue Assembly rooms.
Caught in a squall, three young men
were drowned by the capsizing of a
sailboat in Sandusky Bay, O.,May 1S.
The Minnesota Republican state con-
vention to select State candidates will
meet in st. Paul, July l.
By the explosion of an old cannon
bought to salute the fleet, one man
was killed and several injured, at
Ferndale, Cal.
The first Japanese women to be de-
ported from Los Angeles under the
agreement between the United States
and Japan were sent away last week
The Missouri Supreme Court has
declared unconstitutional the law pro-
hibiting the publication of reports Of
civic league associations concerning
candidates for office.
Kansas won it's suit against the
United States Fidelity & Guarantee
Company to recover $4,000 lost in
the failure of the First National Bank
of Topeka.
A committee to select permanent
headquarters for the international
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
appointed at Columbus, will choose
between Cleveland, Detroit, Indiana
polls and Birmingham.
Determined to prevent his father
George E. Sterry, Sr., a millionaire
drug manufacturer and coal operator
from marrying second time, George
E. Sterry, Jr, shot and killed him in
his Office, at No. 79 Pine street, New
York, May 1S, and then committed
suicide.
Buried to his waist in quicksand
after he had been thrown into pond
by three men, Tony Haas, "a years old,
of Alton, Ill, stood in the water three
three days, according to his state
ment When found he was wandering
along an interurban street car track
half crazed. He says he finally
caught hold of a log and pulled
himself out of the water. He could
not ascribe reason for being thrown
into the pond, and said the men were
strangers to him.
A new bridge under construction
on the Harlem branch of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford rail-
road at Baychester, N. Y, was wreck
ed by dynamiters May 21. Fifty
pounds Of the explosive were dis
charged under the first span, twisting
the huge girders and practically
wrecking the whole structure.
Fifteen years Imprisonment in the
United States military prison is the
fate of David Sheehan, the most no
| toriouS deserter the army has known.
Mae c. Wood, whose suit for an
absolute divorce from United States
Senator Thomas c. Platt, of New
York, has been on trial in the Su-
preme Court, New York, was commit
ted to the Tombs' Prison after Justice
O'Gormon had dismissed the COM
plant in her action and ordered her
held in 5000 bail on a charge of per-
jury.
Mrs. Ann Dahringer, charged with
killing her husband, pleaded guilty
of murder in the second degree and
was sentenced to serve eight years in
the penitentiary. She is alleged to
have shot her husband to obtain $15,-
600 life insurance.
One of the worst railroad accidents
in Europe in recent times occurred at
Contich, a station six miles southeast
of Antwerp on the main line May 21.
The exact number of victims had not
UCCh uOIOl lullSu, OWluS W Tie ulluCuI-
ty in removing the bodies from the
debris ut IT,. latest stimate places
the number at 80 killed and $50
wounded. The catastrophe appears
to have been due to defective switch,
where the main line crosses a local
| line.
| Fulfilling the terms of the death
sentence pronounced upon him, when
he was told he must die before Thurs
day of last week, Dr.William H.Marsh
succumbed to hydrophobia. His last
hours were eased and he was rendered
unconscious by opiates administered
by his physician, while his family
hoped against hope that unerring
science might for once be in error.
He made his funeral arrangements be-
| fore he died.
Fred Witemeyer, an 8-year-old Al
lentown boy, has received 1858 postal
souvenir cards.
| Shenandoah, Pa, huckleberry deal
ers declare the crop this year will
be one of the largest on record.
Two persons are dead and one miss
ing as result of f1re which destroy
ed the Queens Hotel, at Tilsonburg,
Ont.
While trying to board a freight at
Altoona, Pa, man supposed to be
John Helemba, barber of Philadel-
phia, was killed.
| A street car striking buggy, Col
onel Evan T. Williams was killed, and
Joseph Cloran fatally injured at Iron