Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-01-04

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VIII. watching men hoist . piano
when the rope broke and the piano
crushed him.
John L. Sullivan. switcknssn en-
ployed on the Erie at Susquehanna,
Pa. was murdered by an unknown
strike-breaker.
Leopold viisack. sixty-eight years
old millionaire banker. brewer and
property owner OF Pittsburg. dropped
dead of heart failure at his home.
Henry Meiser and Antonio Obert
we're burned to death and two other
men were seriously injured in fro
which destroyed tho home Of Andrew
Baltow, at Bradford. Pa.
Saturday, December %.
Former Governor of Maryland Elihu
e. Jackson died at his city home In
Baltimore at the age of seventy years
Kinsa Belt, one of the captors OF
Jefferson Davis, the president OF the
Confederate States. died at Thornville.
o.. aged slxty-three years.
President Roosevelt has sent a let
ter and a $40 bill to Jacob Kriesfeld.
fourteen.year-old boy OF Worcester.
Mass. in return for Christmas gift
which the boy sent to the president.
Kate, Mary and George Clark. all
under ten years Of age. were drowned
and six others barely escaped the
same fate because OF the breaking Of
thin ice on a skating pond at Castle
ton. n. II.
Monday, December 80.
Frank Mitz. aged seven years. while
sliding on pond at Yatesville. Pa.
fell through the ice and was drowned.
a fractions mule rolled over upon
Isaac Hollenbach driver employed in
n mine at Tamaqua. Pa. killing him
instantly.
Mrs Boyer and one child were
burned to death and another child was
severely burned in a fire that destroy
ed their home near Hamden. Vinton
county. o.
Two men attempted to hold up
party of seven Italians at Snohomish.
Wash. with revolvers. but the Ital-
ians gave fight. killing one robber and
seriously wounding the other.
Tuesday. December 81.
James Allen Bloch. OF Chicago. ap-
piled to the police station at Jean
nette. Pa. for lodging. and was found
I'm his cell with his throat cut
Joseph u Ford. OF Williamsburg.
Brooklyn. left a children's Christmas
party at the house OF friend Monday
night. walked out on the veranda and
shot himself To- death.
Robert Perry. a negro, was arrested
by the police OF Scranton. Pa. on sus-
picion of being the assailant of the
three young women who have been
knocked down and left for dead by
some apparently crazy or degenerate
flend.
Wednesday. January I.
The Robesonia Iron company near
Reading. Pa. has posted a notice OF
reduction OF wages from five to eight
per cent
Albert Zein. thirty years old. OF Phil.
adelphia. committed suicide in tho
basement OF the Pennsylvania railroad
station at Pittsburg by drinking car
bolic acid.
Director Frank Ridgway. prominent
~ known in connection with the
United States weather bureau. died in
a hospital at Pittsburg of typhoid
pneumonia.
Two foreign miners We're probably
fatally injured and two dwelling houses
partly wrecked at Wilcox. near Pitts
burg. when a keg Of blasting powder
became ignited from an open lamp
which one Of the men was fastening
to his cap.
Thursday. January ?.
The report oil Coroner Stein. OF
Lackawanna county Pa. for 1907
shows l0l deaths in and about the
mines.
The l3lst annual session Of the New
York state legislature began at noon
Wednesday. James W. Wadsworth. Jr..
was reelected speaker of the assem-
bly,
Two fremen were seriously injured
and damage estimated at 100000 re.
suited from fire which completely
destroyed the Excelsior building at
Pittsburg.
While alighting from the rear end
OF a trolley car on which he was steal