Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-01-09
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Saturday, December 2s.


Notice was issued that the Buch
Ridge colliery at Shamokin. Pa. oper
ated by Irish Bros, would resume OPP
erations Jan. 4.
Thomas Jackson. young farmer OF
Bath county. KY. shot and fatally
wounded his father, Henry Jackson
during quarrel.
Herman Wade. sixteen years old
and Lyle Misener. fourteen years old
were drowned in Stone lake. at Cas-
sopolis. Mich. by breaking through the
ice while skating.
In collision between an automobile
and trolley car in ..ew York. George
c. Hurlburt the aged librarian of the
American Geographical society. and
his daughter were fatally injured.
Monday, December %.
Sixteen West Point cadets have beer
dismissed for deficiencies in discipline
and mathematics.
While skating at Jewett City. Conn.
Robert Jeffrey and Hector Gingras
boys. were drowned.
John Kusaloris. well known must
clan and all-around athlete, was fatally
burned by gas explosion at Mapehil
colliery, near Shenandoah. Pa.
Claus Spreckels. one OF the foremost
German-Amerlcan citizens of the Unit
ed States and known as the sugar
king of the Pacific coast. died of pneu
monia at San Francisco.
Harry Erwin died at Locust Gap
Pa. from injuries received by being
flung under a train Christmas eve
when he was in a hurry to reach Ash
land to see his mother before she died
Tuesday, December 20.
The annual encampment of the G
A. Il. will be held at Salt Lake Cit!
from Aug. 8 to 10.
Judge Hart. at Nashville. Tenn. ha.
refused bail to Colonel Cooper. Robir
Cooper and John ID. Sharp. charged
with the murder of Senator Carmack.
Out of work and heart broken over
the loss of six -months-old boy. who
died two weeks ago. Louis Lott sho'
and killed himself in his home in Phil
adelphia.
DR.. w. G. Weaver. for thirty years 6
member of the WilkesBarre. Pa.
board of health. and one of the hes.
known physicians in northeastern
Pennsylvania, died of abdominal trou
bles.
Wednesday, December 80.
Fire destroyed the sawmill plant ant
basket factory of the Lovelace Lum
Der company at Brewton. Ala, entail
ing loss Of 100000.
Three trainmen were killed and ont
was seriously injured in headon col
lision between two freight trains OF
the Big Four railroad at Knightstown
Ind.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Nasiuin. o.
Cleveland, o., were found dead from
gas poisoning in their room in tn,
home of the husbands stepbrother
Peter Palownka, in Brooklyn.
Steel has arrived and work begun or
the new 20.000.ton battleship Florids
at the Brooklyn navy yard. and there
is talk of laying the keel on March 4
as a mark OF honor to the Inauguration
OF Mr.. Taft
Thursday, December 81.
The treasury purchased 75,00t
ounces of silver for delivery at New
Orleans and 10000 ounces for delivery
at Denver. at 5O.i79 per fine ounce.
A. w. Troutman, an employee of !
Kansas City produce company com
mitted suiciie after confessing he hac
embezzled 1920 of the firms money
Professor Benjamin Franklin Clarke
professor emeritus OF mechanical engi
neering at Brown university, died al
Providence, X. l., aged seventy-sever
years.
In coasting accident which tool
place in Upland. near Chester, Pa.
John Morris. aged twelve years. re
ceived injuries which will probably ter
inmate fatally.