Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-06-06
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Friday, NAV %.

National Exchange bank OF Lexington
KY committed suicide at his home
near Lexington by shooting himself in
the head
Ralph j. Lehman. the ten.yearold
son OF MIR and Mrs Peter Lehman. OF
Lebanon Pa. was accidentally drown.
cd in POND In the Wcstenburger
stone quarry
The trolley chain connecting Phlla
delphia with Reading was made com
plete when the first car made the run
from Pottstown to Boyertown. dis
lance OF eight miles. In forty minutes.
Saturday, May 80.
Governor stuart appointed Robert )
Conkln. OF Columbia Lancaster cOun
". Pa. ~ be state commissioner OF
forestry
Mrs Harriet Belt Stevens. Of vii
mington Del. we'll known IN society
and as an author committed suicide at
Portland. Me. by shooting herself
President Roosevelt has appointed
David f. Barry. OF Providence. Il. L.
and Herbert L. Satterlee OF New York.
as members OF the board OF visitors to
the naval academy
President Roosevelt issued an order
that IN honor OF the memory OF the
late General stephen u Lee com
manderiuchief OF the United Confed
crate Veterans. the flags in the Ma
tional Park cemetery at Vicksburg
should be halfmasted
Monday June
Winning approximately s2O0O.0Oc
by his corn corner. James A. Patten
Of Chicago. gave sl5o.00o Tor gymna
Stun al Northwestern university
While snoozing in the Matchbox
James Kaser. switchman In the
PENNSYLVANIA railroad yard at Sun
bury Pa burst blood vessel In his
leg and lost two quarts OF blood
During Memorial Day exercises a,
Calvary cemetery at ST Paul MINI.
Timothy f Mccarthy. an aged rail
road man. fell dead of heart disease
while placing flowers on his wles
grave
Tuesday, June 2.
Charles " Sharpe OF Camden n
~ AANEH't w Ut q Oauh SNAA4ulIlt wa
arrested at Newark y j. on the re
quest OF the police OF Atlanta Ga
President Roosevelt pressed an
electric button which gave the sigma
In Kingston y Y. to start the parade
IN celebration OF the 250th anniversary
Jf he founding OF that town
Leaving the side of his mother at
Pitman y j. George NJ Park. four
and-a-half years old son OF MIR anC
Mrs Alexander Park OF Philadelphia
wandered to the shore OF Tylcr's LAX.
and was drowned
II is probable that several meu
elected superintendent OF schools II
will have 10 be elected over again be
cause OF failure to give advertised no
tcc OF the election
Wednesday. June 3.
FIldohrand Fitzgerald one Of tht
propretors and business manager OF
the Philadelphia Item. is dead aged
fittynine
Safe blowers blew the safe and rob
bed the postofiice al Maryvile. Tenn.
securing s5ll65 in cash and stamps
worth $500
owing to a general decrease in the
demand for anthracite coal the Read
ing companys Schuylkill collieries
closed for three days.
Frank Johnson, negro, who killed
a married woman at Clarksburg, w
Va because she refused to elope with
him. was sentenced 10 be hanged on
July Il.
Thursday, June 8.
Four persons Mrs Mary Doermar
and her three children. were accident
ally asphyxiated by Illuminating gas
AT heir home in Chicago,
News that Harry lexis, a govern
ment mining expert. and companion
We're killed by Moros on April ] while
asleep in hut has been received al
Manila
Colonel Charles NJ Sloan promi
nent insurance broker. who for many
years was a director OF the Girard Fire
Insurance company OF Philadelphia
died at Mt Holly. n J.
Captain A J. Standing widely
known as an Indian educator and one
OF the founders Of the Carlisle Indian
school. died Of paralysis at his home
AZ Dickinson college, Carlisle Pa.
aged sixty Years