Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-05-09
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Friday. May I.

Friday. May T.
Douglass Grant wellknown resi-.
+ ient OF Mount Holly. ~ j.. was burned
! death In fire which destroyed his
/ residence
By unanimous consent the United
I States senate will vote on May on
/ the bill for the regulation OF child
] labor In the District OF Columbia
Mrs Sarah Bean. wife OF former As
+ sistant District Attorney Theodore L.
I bean ol Norristown Pa, died OF in
j juries received by fall down a flight
vi stairs
A man. supposed 10 be Francis J
Black poisoned himself in Central
park In New York and a note in his
pocket said he was tired Of life and
requested that his body should be de.
+ lNcred 20 medical college and the
mone, found on him about $3.50 be
given to some poor worthy people
Saturday May ?.
y Farmer chairman OF the Trunk
+ Line association and prominent rail.
ruai man died suddenly at his home
in New York
The breaker Of the Mountain Lake
/ Coat company near scranton Pa aud
three nearby dwellings were destroyed
h, IRE euiailing loss OF s25.oon
The Farmers Telephone company.
4 which operates lines In Burlington.
i Mercer. Ocean and Monmouth coun.
ties y ] was sold o. The 8ell rele.
! phone company
Z William Steacr brakeman was
/ KILLED AMI Conductor rhume sustained
a hroheu lex and was otherwise badly
injured. IN a wreck uf o roal train on
i the Baltimore a Ohio railway al Bra.
I shaw MA
Monday. May =
Edward Haucock of Shamokin Pa
found his wiie dead in bed of heart
failure
Truman N Dodson Of Bethlehem
Pa The pioneer uua operator leii has
/ estate valued al s nou Uuo "a hts
widow
No more milk viii be- sold from
cans in small stores III Chicag" only
sanitary bottled products being per
mittcd ny the health board
j Calvin Smith. oi Nazareth Pa las
resigned as United States runsul at
Zanzibar South Africa. and VIII again
engage in The practice 81 law
Tuesday, May 5.
Thomas j sullivan director 81 the
bureau OF engraving and printing died
in Washington
DISCOURAGED b, his failure To secs.re
employment Charlie, Neuss.r Ia
borer Shot and hilled himself a, Read
ing Pa
Because his parents opposed Als
marrying TIN girl OF his choice. Arnold
l'rcuzcl OF Camden y j. committed
suicide By shooting himself in the Doe al
al his hons
Struct down by a tc4l-tou rocl, al the
collierl 81 jhe 81 Clair Coal company
at PottsViie Pa John Andrek 81
miner and Michael Tarhis his labo. er
were killed
Wednesday May 6.
In the local option election held ai
Fredericksburg Va. out OF vote II
80" The dr. won by majority OF 81.
FranS Paesc was hanged IN the Dan
phin county jail yard at ilarrisbl <
Pa for the murder 81 Charles ~.
man trolley conductor, in August
90G
Jonn Mccarthy. one OF the B. 81
known newspaper men in Pennsyi q
mia died suddenly from paralysis OIL
the heart at his home at WeatherlA
near Hazleton Pa
The ninety sixth annual commence
ment exercises OF the Princeton Theo
logical seminary were held Monday
and seven students were awarded lei
lowships Of $500 each
Thursday May z.
Jesse King aged seventy.sX years
well-known geologist was found
dead in bed al Norristown Pa
Two women and two girls are be
lieved to have persisted in a fire which
destroyed Ire Shaw building IN the
heart Of the business section OF Hous
ton Tex
Judge l.anning in the United States
, court at Trenton n j.. appointed
Frank Wyant and Edmund Price re
ceiyers for he New Jersey and West
Virginia Bridge company
The president entertained al lunch.
con at the White House Cardinal
logue Catholic primate Of Ireland
Cardinal Gibbons. Mgr Falconio the
papal delegate. and other church dig
nitaries