Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-12-04
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Friday. November 2e.

Friday, November 20.
The steam barge Flint. loaded with
limestone and salt, was burned on
North Point, Mich, but the crew was
rescued.
Mrs. Harriet Hill. twenty-nine years
old. was killed In roadhouse at Nun.
sing. Mich. the shot coming through
the window.
The Virginia Western railway was
chartered at Richmond to build line
100 miles long from point in High.
land county, Va. to Clifton Forge. Va.
Bradham hail. the girls dormtory
of the South Carolina State Agricul-
tural and Mechanical College for Ne
groes. at Orangeburg, s. c.. together
with the dining hall and kitchen. were
burned.
Saturday. November ~.
BENJAMIN s. Cable. the Chicago law.
yer. has accepted the assistant secre.
taryship of commerce and labor.
After cutting the throats OF Burt
Woods and John S. Smith. at Jackson.
vile. Fla. Jesse Altman was shot and
killed
Sixteen persons were injured when
a car at Denver. Colo. left the rails.
crashed over the curb and overturned
on the sidewalk
With two automatic revolvers. Will
liam Ward. sixteen years old. OF Gin
cinnati. held at bay a crowd OF angry
racrone until rauound hx, th. ..oitno
Edward Braun. a bartender. was ar
rested at Cleveland o.. on the charge
of assault to kill Arthur Dunn. an Off
cial of the Marine Firemen's union.
Monday, November 20.
The Logan Natural Gas and Trust
company. at Tifin, o.. has sued Jo-
seph Loudenslager for $3O7S for stolen
gas.
The Burnley Tobacco society has Of.
fered to sell 120.000.000 pounds of to-
bacco to the American Tobacco com
pany.
A feud at Houston. Tex. resulted in
the killing OF Paul and Lee Durham,
for whose death Ed Weber is under
arrest.
Caught by machinery. Michael Bo-
loga, fourteen years old. was dragged
into the elevators at Morea, Pa. and
fatally crushed.
Tuesday. November 80.
One hundred and forty horses were
cremated in livery stable fire at
Kansas City. Mo-
In a street duel with knives at Alicia,
near Bradford, Ark. Miss Nora Owens
was stabbed over the heard and killed
by Miss Stella Belk.
George Benton, youth who tried
to rob the Peoples bank of Mazo-
mamie Wis, was sentenced to four.
teen years in the state reformatary.
After killing William Walls and
probably fatally shooting Hal Holland
while returning from a dance near
Dalton. Ca. Pickett Collum surren
dered to the police
Mrs. Mary Jones. whose chicken
coop had been looted in Chicago seven
times recently. shot negro whom
she saw by the light of the moon
crouching near the coop.
Wednesday, December I.
Baron Rosen. the Russian ambassa-
dor to the United States. arrived on
the steamer Kronprinzessin Cecilia in
NewYork from abroad. accompanied
by his family
The congressional party which has
been inspecting the progress OF the
work on the Panama canal and exam.
ming conditions In general In the
canal zone. have returned.
Photographers employed by the I'LL.
nois Central Railroad company in Chi
cago have demanded wage increase
and improved working conditions for
the 400 operators employed.
Five hundred million feet of lumber
was destroyed by the recent tornadoes
in the south. according to John A.
Bruce. of Strader. La, president of
the American Lumber Traders Con.
gress.
Thursday, December 2.
The Utica Cotton company. of Cap.
ron. N. Y. capitalized at 5000. 900, has
been forced into bankruptcy.
After n. strike of five months. four
mills OF the American Sheet and Tin
Plate company. at Bridgeport. o.. re-
sumed operations with old employees
who returned voluntarily.
Six young men charged with en-
bezzling amounts ranging from $4,000
to $4,000 from national banks In In.
diana were taken TO Fort Leavenworth
prison to begin sentences of five years
each
During a fire at the Lake street
school In Kalamazoo. Mich. 400 pupils
marched from the building in perfect
order. Smoke was filling several of
the rooms before the fire was dis