Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-02-06
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Friday, January 20.


William Gaffney an iron ore miner at
Belvldere, N. j.. shot and killed him
self
Lumber prices in ancouver H. c..
have advanced 81 per 1000 feet ON
common grades. and within a short
time there will be an advance affecting
all outside points.
Since the devil tracks" were first
reported In South Jersey IL has been
noticed that not chicken roost rob
berry has been reported although pre-
vious to that time hardly night pass
ed but that a number of chicken rob.
berries were not reported.
Saturday, January 80.
The treasury has purchased 100000
ounces Of silver for delivery at New
York, at 5l.920 per fine ounce.
One man was killed and four others
seriously injured in collision between
q freight and construction train on the
Pittsburg g. Lake Erie railroad at
Beaver Falls. Pa. near Pittsburg.
Theodore Adams. of Poughkeepsie.
N. Y. was arrested and charged with
the murder OF his brother.in.law. John
Kiln. of that place. after Mrs. Kiln
had accused Adams of robbing her
Frances Folsom Cleveland widow
of the late President Cleveland. and
Mary Lord Harrison. widow of the late
President Harrison. were granted the
franking privilege during their life
time by congress.
Monday, February I.
The Kansas house passed bill pro.
hibiting the making or selling OF Gig
arctic papers.
Caesar Mattucci. of Slateford, Pa.
has started suit for $1,000 against the
Lackawanna railroad for the loss OF an
eye.
Fire starting In the White Front
dry goods store at Freeport ILL.,. de.
stroyed three business houses. Loss.
100000.
A fire which destroyed their home.
near London. Ont. cost the lives OF
Philip Vansickle. his son. daughter and
son-in-law
Charged with embezzling $4,000 re-
ceived as license money. former Coun-
~ Clerk William w. Wallace. OF Nc
Minnville, Tenn. was arrested In Cali.
fornia.
Tuesday, February 2.
Two children of Nathaniel Work
man were burned to death in fire
that destroyed their home In Bath
county. Ky.
Charles II. Brent. Protestant Epis-
copal bishop of the Philippines. was
elected chairman OF the international
opium commission at Shanghai. China.
President Roosevelt has accepted an
invitation to attend farewell meet
ing of the congregation of Grace Re-
formed church in Washington on the
evening of Feb. IS.
Panic stricken because OF the pres
ence of scarlet fever in the institution,
thirty students of the Mercersburg
(Pa.) academy broke the quarantine
and fled In body.
with the gas radiator turned on
full. Frederick Valley. forty years old.
and his wife. Marie were found dead
from asphyxiation in their apartment
in Jersey City. n. J.
Wednesday, February 8.
The United States senate agreed to
vote on the Brownsville bill Feb. %
Ben l.. Jones, one of the wealthiest
men In Georgia, while In a depressed
condition. shot himself through the
head at Macon, death resulting in.
stantly
John Gilmer Speed. the author and
journalist. committed suicide by shoot.
ing himself in the head while in his
bedroom at the Phoenix house at
Mendham. n. ].
Rev. John Foster Dodd. until last
July general secretary of the Newark
conference. and secretary of the Inter-
national Missionary society. of the
Methodist church died at Phillipsburg.
". j.. aged seventy-two years.
Thursday, January 4.
A bill was introduced in the Colo
RADIO legislature making II a misde
meanor to give. accept or solicit tip
except on sleeping car
Rear Admiral William J. Barnette.
superintendent of the naval observa
tory at Washington. was transferred
to the retired list by reason of age.
The PENNSYLVANIA state board of
health ordered that sixteen cows af
fected with tuberculosis at the poor
district almshouse at Freeland. Pa. be
killed.
Three trainmen were killed and one
was fatally injured when two stock
trains on the Chicago. Milwaukee 4
st. Paul railroad collided head on at
Briceville. Mo.
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