Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-05-22
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Friday, May "a.

Engineers In wireless telegraphy
will be trained In the engineering de-
partment at the Ohio State university
at Columbus
Joseph Sickle. veteran of the
Civil War. committed suicide by In
haling gas IN the room of Post To- G..
a. r.. at Manayunk. Pa.
The Christian Herald sent the Red
Cross $4,000 for relief work in Turkey.
and this has been cabled to the Ameri-
can ambassador at Constantinople.
Neal Harris. negro. is held in the
Madison county Jail. at Brooklyn. ILL.,.
in connection with the killing Of
Charles Cheatham over game of
craps.
Saturday, May IS.
General" Means, a negro. commit
ted suicide at GAINESVILLE o.. follow.
ing his arrest on the charge OF muir.
dering his twenty.two-yearold wife.
Mansfield Harodson. one of the
Jurors who tried the eight night rid
srs at Union City Tenn. last January
six of whom were sentenced to be
hanged. committed suicide.
Some liquors confiscated at speak
easies" by Pittsburg police and given
to hospitals were found to contain
knockout drops" after patients and
attendants became unconscious.
A new speed record for typewritig
was made at Kansas City. Mo. by E.
A. Trefzger. of New York. when he
wrote an average of 109 words from
copy each minute for fifteen minutes
Monday, May IL.
Three men were killed and one ia
tally injured when the starboard boiler
Of the steel steamer James H. Hoyt
exploded at Cleveland. o.
President Taft has sent a letter TO
Governor Stubs. of Kansas. in which
he makes 1t clear that the administra-
ton will not be drawn into state fac
tional fights.
Rt. Rev John Lancaster Spalding.
who recently retired from the direction
of the Catholic diocese of Peoria. has
been elevated to a titular archbisho-
pric by Plus X.
large number of persons were In
jured. none fatally. when a terrific
electrical storm broke over Cory. Pa,
and blew down the main tent of Cole
Brothers circus.
Tuesday, May 10.
Fire at Fort Smith. Ark. destroyed
compress and 5000 bales of cotton.
causing loss of 100000
Andrew Carnegie was received in au-
dience by King Victor Emmanuel in
his palace in Rome.
Two miners were buried alive in a
mine at Negaunee, Mich, and when
rescuers reached them they were
dead
Irwin W. Schultz. former judge of
the Warren county. n. j.. courts. died
at his home in Phillipsburg. n. j.. Of
cancer.
Smith NJ. Lindsay. for years a prom
inent lawyer and post supreme regent
of the Royal Arcanum, died at Utica.
". Y, after long Illness.
Wednesday. May 10.
The Delaware militia will camp from
the cath to the 31st OF July on the
state rife range below New Castle.
President Taft has decided to ap-
point Oscar L. Whitelaw as assistant
treasurer of the United States at st.
Louis. to succeed T. J. Atkins. recently
appointed postmaster at that place.
On behalf of George B. Dewey. presi-
dent of the Boston National league
team. Senator Lodge presented to
| D.a.i1o,. T.of+ n epooiaI pacc m tho
gates of that club in Boston this sum-
mer.
Aram Zartanian. nineteen years old.
shot and killed himself at Providence,
r. l.. after innicting dangerous
wound on Mabel Arabian. a sixteen
year.old girl. who objected to marry
ing him.
Thursday, May 20.
An earthquake 1900 miles away and
another probably of quite distant
origin" were recorded by the Chelten-
ham, Md. magnetic observatory.
A divorce has been granted by
Judge Van Nostrand to Mem Sing, a
Chinese from Lee Shen Lena Sing, to
whom he was married in Oakland.
Cal, last July.
While testifying In court in dam
age case. DR.. r. Bruce Burns. promi-
nent Philadelphia physician, was
stricken with paralysis and removed
to a hospital in critical condition.
The survivors of the famous fight
ing Fifteenth Pennsylvania cavalry
will erect tablet in memory of The
late General William ]. Palmer. of
Colorado Springs. in prominent place
In Palmer hall. Colorado college.