Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-10-10
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Friday. October 2.

Friday, October 2.
Owen Moran English featherweight.
won the decision over EddieN ianlon.
q lightweight. at San Francisco, after
twenty rounds Of fighting
by the explosion OF the boiler OF u
freight engine on the Trenton cut-on
ut Fort Hill. near Norristown, Pa.
three members OF the crew were badly
injured
Thieves ransacked the apartment In
Washington OF Major c. l.. McCauley,
one OF the presidents aides. stealing
jewelry and bric-a-brac valued at
$500
Three laborers were killed and seven
injured In collision between work
train and freight train on the Cen
trail New England railroad at Clinton
Corners. near Poughkeepsie. N. Y.
Saturday. October ;.
Montreal was selected as the con
yention city OF the League OF Ameri.
can Municipalities for 1903,
Dr. George w Holstein. aged eighty
eight years. the oldest Odd Fellow In
Pennsylvania. died at Norristown.
John O'Brien. a longshoreman and
iron worker was held up in the yard
or the Pennsylvania railroad at WI.
mington. Del. by five men and badly
beaten
Masked men held up a Steubenyille-
East Liverpool lnterurban car as the
car was entering Wellsyille. o. ant at
the point Of revolyers took s2l from
the conductor.
Monday. October s.
Gus Jones negro cut the throats
OF his wife his son and himself at
Gallipolis o. and all will die.
Oliver l.oders. OF Bethlehem. Pa.
went to Bingen TO gather chestnuts
and was killed by a fall from a tree
his neck being broken.
Charles Lee negro. Of Houston.
Tex. has invented method OF exter,
minating the boil weevil in cotton
fields by means of chemical fumes.
Lewis Korzon was imprisoned at
Sunbury Pa. charged with breaking
the neck of Alex. Chikillo in Mount
Carmel. by hurting him over a high
porch
Tuesday October 6.
F. j. Geissinger. Of J. X TAYLOR
Post. No lS2 Bethlehem. Pa dropped
dead in Philadelphia while waiting TO
view parade.
Mary Deyine. two years old. was
burned to death on lot near her
home in Philadelphia when her cloth
ing caught ablaze from rubbish fire.
Ten persons were killed and more
than do2e injured in an incendiary
fire which wrecked the tenement
house at 7lia Mulberry street, New
York
Thomas Morrison prominent in
railroad and business circles, dropped
dead in the office OF the Spring Grove
Cemetery association at Cincinnati,
O., just as meeting Of the cemetery
trustees was about TO be called to
order.
Wednesday. October 7.
General Louis Fitzgerald for more
than half a century a prominent figure
In New York died at his home CARR.
SOn-OH- the tiutSol, dhfu atN'liNs -oii'
years.
Andrew Zydusa. a retired hotel
keeper at Jessup. near Scranton Pa.
shot and killed his wife and. turnin :
the revolver on himself. committed
suicide.
Charged with criminal assault on
his own daughter Ben Price. negro
was seized by mob at Glenhora. Tex
taken TO the center of the town and
hanged to tree.
As the result OF collision between
yard engine and a special freight
train on the Grand Trunk railway near
Brantford. Ont. three persons were
killed and two injured.
Thursday, October 8.
Practically every manufacturing
plant is idle in lockwood w. Va. and
over 1000 men out OF work on account
of the drouth.
Cardinal Gibbons. who attended the
Eucharstic Congress in London last
month after several visits 10 the pope.
returned from Europe Wednesday on
the steamer Caronia
After reseuing all aged woman from
a burning house. Policeman Nicholas
Nestor OF Jersey City n. J., again
plunged into the blazing building and
met death by suffocation.
Harry Augustus Garfield. son OF
President James 4 Garfield ana a
brother Of Secretary OF the Interior