Democratic messenger., 1908-04-11

Friday. Aprll 8.

master of the steamer Park Foster
was run down and killed by a New
York Central engine at Buffalo. N. Y.
Mrs. William W. Weave. OF Hyner
wife oil the president OF the Karthaus
Fire Brick company. committed sui
eide by drowning in the river at Lock
Haven. Pa.
Three persons were killed. fifteeL
were injured some Of them seriously
AMI the lives Of nearly 100 persons
were endangered by fire in "A five
story tenement house at A Hester
street. New York
Saturday. April 4.
James jeffrey Roche, American con
sui ~ Berne. Switzerland. died after s
long illness
Mexico has accepted the invitation
OF the Japanese government to partici
pate in the worlds fair to be .held in
Toxic in 1912
Burglars blew open the safe in the
postotiice al Princess Anne Court
House Va. and secured $500 In cash
stamps and registered mail
The dead body OF Mrs Elizabeth
Highfill tlftv.two years old. fortune
telling medium. was found in an arti
fetal lake in Lafayette park. she hav
ing committed suicide by drowning
Monday. April 6.
Alvin Weiser. residing near Lyons
Bcrks county Pa. has a goose which
recently laid an egg that weighed ex
actly one pound.
While returning 10 his home after
delivering produce. jeremiah Hamper
Springtown. Pa. farmer fell In with
n trio OF men who buncoed him out
of $500.
Their oyster skin upset by high
sea Captain W. v Miles and two sons
of Captain James II Tyler. of Somer
set county Nd. were drowned In vii
loughby hay. Va.
Because of overproduction. the
mines OF the Delaware & Hudson com
pany at Lyon Mountain. ~ Y. have
been shut down. throwing out Of EN-
ployment $50 men.
Tuesday. April 7.
The president sent to the senate the
name OF John $. I.eech. of Illinois. tc
be public printer.
William II Milton. OF Florida. was
sworn in rs United States senator. tc
succeed the late Senator William j
Bryan.
Burglars ransacked the countr,
home ot c. Emory McMicilael at Dev
on near Philadelphia and escaped
with goods valued at $4,000.
After shut down OF three weeks
duration. tn" plant OF the Nationa
India Rubber works at Bristol H. L.,
employing about l400 hands. resumet
operations.
"Wednesday. April 8.
Robbers dynamited the safe at the
State banl, at Huron. Atchison county
Kan. and escaped with $4,000.
Benjamin Rusenberger. aged seventy
years dropped dead OF heart disease
while at work on his truck farm near
Norristown Pa
Congressman Abraham Lincoln
Brick. OF the Thirteenth Indiana dis
tricl died suddenly in sanitarium ai
Indianapolis. Ind.
tl huth g. VI Rea. widow OF
Judge james D. Rea. and mother oi
Samuel Rca third vice president OF
the Pennsylvania Railroad company
died in phtsburg from the effects OF
a stroke oil apopleXy.
Thursday. April 9.
Mrs Fairy Mccain Miller Was shot
and instantly killed AT Kokomo. lnd.
by Worley Osborn. a discarded suit0r
Policeman Charles Miller was shot
and killed by burglar whom he dis
covered in the act OF robbing a resi-
dence al Salem. o.
William and Alexander Campbell
lost their lives in tenement house
fire at Paterson a. j.. which destroy
ed the building ana endangered eight
families
Knute Ohnstead died from starva
ton. after an attempt To fast for for,y
days in order to demonstrate his the
ory that the mind controls the body
and that mind Is mghtier than matter
The great liquor contest In Illinois
has resulted in a drawn battle. with
the saloons wning decisively in most
OF the larger cities but losing in
scores OF smaller ones. 1914 saloons
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