Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-02-01
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Friday. January %.


Prof. Ernest Darling. occupying the
chair OF physiology In the University
Of London. England. was received by
President Roosevelt In the White
House.
A bill was introduced in the Virginia
senate to appropriate $4,000 for a
copy Of IIoudon's statue of Washington
IN marble. to be placed in the Hall OF
Fame in Washington.
While attempting to start a fire with
Kerosene oil. Mrs. Sarah Horvitz was
fatally burned and the members Of six
families occupying a tenement house
In Pittsburg had to be carried to safety
by fremen.
Saturday. January rs.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-.
gineers will hold its annual convention
at San Antonio Tex. on Jan. 20. 80
and 81
DR.. Charles u. Eager. one OF FIar.
risburg's tPaJ leading physicians.
died of heart failure after an illness
OF one week.
while burning brush in their farm
near ildiAitAASNilits ohlds oEbt 50
Mover, aged sixty.hye. was burned to
death. and her husband. aged sixty.
eight was fatally burned.
In an effort to give work to the un.
employed. the pittsburg Railway com.
pany adopted new rule. providing
that all regular motormen and conduc.
tors shall lay of two days a week in
/ ~ 49, 4 sxf L.
men.
Monday. January 81.
A PENNSYLVANIA railroad train al
Plain City. o.. killed Section Foreman
Patrick Conley aud Assistant Foreman
john lIagan.
While convalescing from the effects
OF fractured ankle Griffith Jones. OF
Slatington. Pa. suffered stroke Of
apopleXy and died.
While on street car at Racine
| Wis. f. J. Cameron. a lumber dealer
| Of Milwaukee. was robbed OF $4,000 In
cash and securities.
Mrs. Antonio Lubinsh OF Maltby
Luzernc county Pa. got lost at night
on her way home from wyoming and
was run over and killed by trolley
car
Tuesday, January 20.
The Pittsburg Stock Exchange re
opened after being closed for three
months on account OF the recent finan
cial furry.
Chief Justice Fuller of the supreme
court of the United States. announce.
that court would on Monday. Feb. 8
take a recess for three weeks.
While attempting to avoid arrest o
man believed 10 be Henry Won Bar
gen was shot and killed by Rudolph
Brokcep. a Chicago policeman.
/ During severe storm at Mounds
willie w Va. lightning struck the new
high school building. destroying the
town clock and damaging the tower.
Wednesday, January 20.
1 Secretary Root and Ambassador
I Jusserand SIGNED the Franco.Ameri
can reciprocity arrangement drawn
under section three OF the Dingley act
Three hundred children marched
safely out of the school building at
/ Hooper. Neb. when It was discovered
that the structure was a mass OF
/ flames
William Sweeney. twenty years old
a freight brakeman ON the Reading
railway. stepped in front of all express
train near Norristown. Pa. and was
Instantly killed
| President Roosevelt sent 10 the sen
| ate a message recommending the Civ
Ing of pensions to members OF the life
| saving service such as are given 70
fircmen and policemen in the large
| cities
Thursday, January 30.
Pearl Pitts. nine years old. was
burned To death in her home at Phila
delphia while playing with matches.
Mistaking his father-in-law, William
Conner for "A burglar, A. c. Burr. shot
and instantly killed him at Dallas
| Tex
Rev. John w Venebal, for forty years
sovereign grand chaplain of the Odd
! Fellows in The United States, died at
Hopkinsvillc. Ky.
! Two negroes. charged with having
waylaid and killed their father near
here Monday for the purpose of rob.
berry. were captured by mob OF
negroes at Commerce Miss, and
! lynched