Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-11-27
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Friday, November 10.

Friday, November ~.
The city hall at Elmira. n. Y. was
destroyed by fire. but the records and
tax rolls were not injured.
The comptroller of the currency is
sued call for statement OF the con-
dition of all the national banks at the
close Of business on Nov. 49,
Paul Wesley Collins, four years old.
died of hydrophobia on a Big Four
train at Indianapolis. Ind. while he
was on the way home from Chicago.
where he had been for treatment.
Death due to his profession is the
verdict OF the friends OF Dr. Francis
q. Sprague. one of the foremost ear
and throat specialists in the country.
who died at Providence. II. l.. of blood
poisoning contracted while operating
on a charity patient.
Saturday, November 20.
Two masked men dynamited the
safe in the Bank Of Alleman. at Allie
man. Ia. escaping with $1,000 cash.
Charged with eight highway robber-
les. twice shooting victims and escap.
ing three times. Bud" McLaurin was
caught at Durham. N. G.
Governor Brown, of Georgia. com.
muted to life Imprisonment the death
sentence of DR.. J. NJ. Elliott. of La
Grange. who was to have been hanged
at Atlanta for the murder of G. l..
Rivers.
II IL stated In New York that the
earning power of the copper refining
and other companies that will enter
the proposed copper merger is be.
tween $25.000.O00 and $30.000.000.
based upon l3-cent copper.
Monday. November 90.
Peter Kroeyer. Denmark's foremost
rnd only world renowned painter. died
in Copenhagen.
Pittsburg announces that Republic
Steel company puddlers' wages will
go back to $3.50 a ton
While cunning near Lincola!on. N.
c.. Wood Rogers. aged eighteen years,
was killed by Earle Caldwell. com.
rade OF the same age.
The gross receipts from the sales
of North Dakota public lands during
the fiscal year amounted to $1.2S2. $50.
while Montana lands brought s712.333.
Quarreling with his sister-in-law,
Mrs Josephine Edwards. at Brooklyn.
Adolph Ochs shot her In the back.
then shot himself In the head. Both
probably will die.
Tuesday. November %.
Frank King. president of the Iron.
workers union of Cleveland. o.. who
was waylaid and shot. died of his
wound
Philip Latourette. an insurance
broker. of New York. dropped dead
near the New Jersey Central station
at Somerville. N. J.
Edward Miller, known to the police
as the "hugger." was sent to Jail for
six months at Paterson. N. j.. by the
policerecorder for annoying young
women after dark.
Mrs. Philip Snowden. the leader OF
the persuasive suffragettes of Eng
land, was presented to President Taft
at the White House and had few
minutes conversation with him re
garding women's rights.
Teodoro Rizzo. who murdered The.
resa Proconia seven years old. and
Freddy Infusino. two and half years
old. in a lonely culvert in Utica. n. Y.
the night of Sept. ~ last was elec.
trocuted in Auburn prison.
Wednesday, November "a.
Vespasian Warner. United States
pension commissioner received from
President Taft an acceptance of Mr..
Warmers resignation.
Lonely without the wife who had
been dead for eight years. John Hart.
man. an aged Englishman. of Cleve-
land. o.. cut his throat.
The large wholesale dry goods store
ef the Bernard Frank company. at
Montgomery Ala. was struck by light
ming and totally destroyed.
Bloodhounds In running down the
assailant of seventeen-year-old Myra
Smith. who was attacked on the street
at Lima. o., came near causing the
death of the wrong man.
Following a conference between
Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland.
and the administration councilmen In
the formers Office. ordinances grant
ing franchise for a $50 .000. 900 sub.
way system to the Cleveland Subway
company were introduced in the city