Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-07-24
CONDENSED NEWS lTEMa
Friday, July 10.

Claude Tator. twelve years old, OF
Rhfnebeck. N. Y, died at vassar hos
pital, Poughkeepsie, Of tetanus. az the
result of burns received on July 4.
Benjamin Wilmot Hasgard. for the
past three years disbursing offHer Of
the United States house OF represen-
tatives. died in Algona. Ia. Of tuber-
culosis.
State Senator Oscar O. Bayles was
shot and killed by David X. Smith at
Monroeville, Ala. result Of Bayies'
efforts to obtain pardon for Isaac
and Jesse Shirley, who are serving
terms for the killing OF Jim Smith. q
brother of David.
Saturday. July IL.
Myrtle Cross. eighteen years old
was acquitted at Cripple Greek. Colo.
on the charge of having murdered her
sweetheart John Phillips.
Reports from points in northern
Ohio show that an estimated loss OF
100000 vas caused by a storm that
swept over that section on Friday
Three men were killed and two in.
jured in a head-on collision between
southbound passenger train No. IS
and northbound train No. &c on the
Chicago 8 Eastern Illinois railroad at
Royal. Ill.
Jennie Smith. a young white woman
from New York. was sentenced to the
city stockade at Macon. Ga. having
been arrested In a room with Miles
Reid. a negro waiter who was sent to
the chain gang.
Monday. July 10.
A Chicago woman, about to be com
mited to an asylum. killed herself and
her two sons.
Two sisters were drowned at Port
Huron. Mich, one trying to save the
other from death.
The Diehl-Schilling furniture plant,
near Easton. Pa, was destroyed by
fire. entailing loss of 100000 partly
insured.
Secretary of War Dickinson has or
dered the commissary general OF the
army not TO purchase any goods from
trusts or combinations in restraint of
trade.
George p Richardson, facing trial
for larceny and temporarily in an in
sane asylum. applied to the courts in
Boston not to release him alleging he
is still insane.
Tuesday, July 20.
Residents of Catawissa. Pa. unable
to withstand the binding clouds of
dust. sprinked number of the streets
with oil.
Matthew Gill. retired iron mer-
chant shot and killed himself at his
home at Radnor. near Philadelphia
while Respondent from illness.
An omnibus bill authorizing the con.
struction OF bridges across various
navigable waters of the United States
was passer by the house OF represen-
tatives.
Samuel S. Spellman. whose wife Is
millinery store proprietor in Cleveland,
Killed himself by inhaling gas at st.
Louis because he did not have money
to give TO a grandchild.
Wednesday, July 81.
John w. O'Hara. American consul to
Santos. Brazil. has resigned because
of Ill health.
A sufferer for some time from heart
disease. Miss Ida Gray. nineteen years
old. dropped dead on the street In
Philadelphia.
Baillie p. Waggener celebrated his
sixty-secon6 birthday by entertaining
10000 children of Atchison Kan, and
Atchison county at Forest park.
Joseph H. Norris. of Guthrie. Okla,
who in 1908 was chairman of the Re-
publican state central committee OF
Oklahoma. was appointed Indian in
spector for the department Of the In
terror. to succeed z. Lewis Daily. re-
signed.
Thursday, July az.
Robbers blew open the safe In the
State bank. OF Tulare, g. D.. and es-
capped with $1,000.
William Franklin Willoughby, OF
Alexandria, Va, at present secretary
of state of Porto Rico. was appointed
assistant director of the census bureau
at a salary OF $4,000 per annum.
After having cut his wife's throat
with a razor in their room in hotel
at Hartford. Conn. William Arnold
killed himself by shooting in the back
of the head
James o. Troup. attorney for the
Standard oil company in northwest
ern Ohio and a prominent member OF
the Ohio bar. died at his home at
Bowling Green. o.
Without firing a shot, mob took
Albert Lawson. a negro. who shot
Sheriff r. NJ Compton. from the Paris.
Ky. jail and hanged him to n null