Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-09-26
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Friday. September 10.

A. +. BOnclli, former banker or
Cleveland. O.. charged with the theft
VI $4,000. arrived In New York as a
prisoner on the steamer Afghan Prince
from Brazil.
In a collision between a trolley car
and an automobile at Newark. n. j..
Estella Traphagen. aged eighteen. suf
fercd possibly fatal injuries and Mar
celia Connell. aged seventeen, the
fracture OF an arm
The great council of the United
States. Improved Order of Red Men.
selected Detroit. Mich. as the place
Of the great council session next year;
Cleveland In 1910: Columbus. o.. In
1911, and Cincinnati in 1912.
Saturday. September 10.
For some inexplicabe reason Silver
Well. fourteen. year.oid schooboy.
committed suicide by hanging himself
In the cellar Of his home ia Mount
Vernon. N Y.
Carroll w Ashby cashier OF the
Southern Railway company for thirty
years an employe Of that system. was
found dead in a Turkish bath estab.
lishment in Washington
The VIrginian railway is running
copper wires along It's lines in Vir.
ginla and West Virginia for the pur-
pose of inaugurating the use OF tho
telephone exclusively for the dispatch
ing OF trains
Monday, September 81.
The Georgia senate passed the bill
abolshing the convict lease system
practically as ii came from the house
OF representatives
Harry Domain. TWENTY-FIVE yesrs Of
age. OF Nanticoke. Pa. was avn
through the huge rollers Of Il coal
breaker and ground to piece
William H. Gray an! -. liam 5
Rule. government clerks w. irown.
ed in the Potomac river AT Washing
ton. when gasoline launcn caught
fire
One man was killed and three 9TH
ers injured. one fatally when an
eighteen.inch steam pipe burst in the
teninch mill OF the Cambria Steel
company at Johnstown Pa
Tuesday, September %.
Robbers dynamitcd the safe In the
Albion postoffice near Erie. Pa and
escaped with over $1,000 in cash AM
stamps
Clarence Richardson, Of Ashland o.
shot and killed his sweetheart Miss
Lydia Corbin. at Portsmouth o.. after
they had quarreled. and ESCAPED
John Rowley. nineteen years Of age
employed in paper mill at Tarentum.
near Pittsburg beca!ne entangled IN
the machinery and his body was badly
mutiated.
In a fight with ordinary p cket.
knives at Hot Springs Arb. Charles
Dunfield. OF Pennsylvania was killed
elimination of a quarrel
Wednesday. September %.
The Pennsylvania state llomeo-
pathic Medical society held is forty
fifth annual session At Harrisburg.
Fearing that he would 60 insane and
have to be confined in an asylum
lanes Cogan clerk in the law office
u DeForest & Brother New York city
committed suicide at Washington by
shooting
John Murray Dowie aged eighty
three years. father Of John Alexander
Dowie. the founder OF Zion City AMI
who was repudiated by his son died at
The home of his sons widow. Mrs. Jane
Dowie. on White lake. Muskegon
county
Thursday. September "a
Ned Bowles and Jim Burlinson ne.
groes. were hanged at Charleston
Miss. for the murder OF John Nathan,
a white man.
4. Russell Peabody. one Of the at
torneys who had leading part in thu
defense OF Harry X Thaw for tn
murder OF Stanford White died sud.
denly at Babylon. +. l.. of pneumonia
President Roosevelt has committed
the fye-year sentence in the Baltimore
city Jail imposed on William II White.
the bookkeeper and paying teller Of
the Canton National bank. OF Canton.
Md. to three years and -four months
with allowance for good conduct
The Egg-O.See Cereal company with
headquarters in Chicago and factories
in Buffalo. n. Y. and Quincy. H. has
been placed in the hands OF com
mittee OF creditors, the assets being
valued by the company at sl5oo,0 900,
but the creditors are said to regard
them as about equal to the indebted
ness.