Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-11-21
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Friday, November 10.


Charged with cutting on half OF ia
was fined $35 in the criminal court at
Camden. ". j.
Judge Tayler, OF the federal court
named Warren Bicknell and Frank A.
Scott as receivers for the Municipal
Traction company, OF Cleveland. o.
DIR. William Keith Brooks. professor
/ OF zoology at Johns Hopkins univer-
sity. Baltimore. Md. and since the
| founding OF that institution continu-
Ously In its service. died after pro
longed Illness
John j. Miller. eighty.seven years OF
age. who has been employed in the
government service continuously for
thirty-three years. died at his home
in Washington as the result OF an at
tack OF acute indigestion.
Saturday, November IA.
The general assembly OF the Knights
OF Labor will meet in st. Louis in 1910.
Echo river, in the Mammoth cave.
near Louisville. KY. is almost dry as
q result OF the drought
The president appointed George s
Terry to be assistant treasurer OF the
United States at New York. In success
sion to Hamilton Fish.
Brakeman John Carter Of Wilkes
Barre Pa was killed. and Fireman
Z. T. Bradshaw Of Wilkes Barre, Pa.
was fatally injured when the boiler OF
the engine drawing fast freight train
on the Delaware & Hudson blew up
near Windsor y. Y.
Monday. November 10.
The big cotton mills at Iaurens. S
c.. are to be greatly increased In ca
pacity.
Caught between car and the walls
OF a coal mine at Portage Pa. John
Rebosh was fatally squeezed
The University OF Illinois may es-
tablish a $3.50. 600 veterinary school In
the Union Stock yards at Chicago.
President Roosevelt has been asked
To plant tree Feb. - next on the
campus of a new colored school ut
Lexington. Ky.
The Home Missions Society Of the
Methodist church has Appropriated
10000 toward rebuilding San Fran.
cisco churches destroyed by the fire.
Tuesday. November II.
The treasury has purchased 100000
ounces OF silver for delivery at New
York at 50.50l per fine ounce.
William Jennings Bryan has been
unanimously elected by the seniors OF
Westminster college. at New Castle.
Pa. to deliver an address next June
during commencement
Lying in pools OF blood. with their
throats cut from ear 10 ear Mrs. Ag-
mes l.idner and her two children. aged
Ave and three years respectively. were
found in their home at frankfort. Ky.
One Italian was shot to death and
three others probably fatally injured
at East Mllsboro. near Uniontown.
Pa IN a general fight over the owner
ship Of a we'll which was located be-
tween two foreign boarding houses.
Wednesday, November 10.
William S. McKinnon. treasurer OF
Ohio. died at his home in Cleveland
after an Illness of more than a year.
Herman Bilik convicted Of the muir
der OF FIVE members OF the VZral fam
lily. was sentenced by Judge Barnes in
Chicago TO hang on Dec. IL.
Gene Doudell. sixteen-year-old ne
gro. confessed To killing Ernest Walsh.
twelve years old also colored at Ham.
ilton. Ga. by beating him on the head
with a rock and throwing the body
into a creek. after robbing him OF 81.
Charles y. Hanscom. president OF
the Eastern Shipbuilding company an
nounced that the plant at Groton.
Mass. where the battleships Mime
sofa and the Dakota were built would
be sold at auction and the yard dis.
mantled.
Thursday, November 10.
Fire OF unknown origin destroyed
Green Brothers shoe factory at Fred
ericksburg Va.
Bitten in the hand on Aug 80 while
rescuing several children from a rabid
dog. Gustave A. Wolf died in Chicago
OF hydrophobia.
Major General W r. Duvall has
been selected to succeed Major Gen
eral John F. Weston in command of
the troops in the Philippines.
Fire. supposedly OF incendiary orr
gin at the Wabash Screen Door com
pany. at Memphis Tenn. destroyed g.
800. 900 feet OF lumber. entailing a loss
OF $l25,000.