Democratic messenger., 1909-05-01
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Friday. April e.


Thrown out OF his position rs o
baker because the Arm that employed
him was forced to shut down. owing
to this Patten corner In wheat. Joseph
Zilberger. sixty years old. committed
suicide In New York.
Dr. william l.. Cell OF Doylestown,
Pa. a noted explorer. who has trav-
eled extensively in Africa and China,
and has just returned from q trip
around the Great Wall OF China. called
on President Taft.
The expenditure OF $3.250.000 on the
canal zone during the month OF Jan
uary has brought the total'expenditure
on the zone toward the construction
OF the canal. civil administration. san.
itation and plant building, to ss3.915.
900.
Saturday. April "a.
James l.. Dixon. OF Chicago. inner
tied 100000 from rich uncle and two
days later enlisted in the U. s. Marine
corps.
Lawson Addison. a negro. was hang
ed at Chester. s. c.. for the murder oi
two women near Lowrysville, Chester
county.
James E. Clark was found guilty at
ST. Louis OF killing Joseph Flood. q
telegrapher. last December. and ne
was sentenced to serve fifteen years
in the penitentiary.
General Clement A. Evans. com
mander-in.chief OF the United Confed
crate Veterans. has accepted an invi
tation to present to the United States
government the monument to General
Stephen ID. Lee at vicksburg. Miss.
on June II.
Monday, March 2e.
The National bank. OF Arrowsmith
ILL.,. was robbed by safe blowers. who
secured $1,000 and escaped.
Four persons were burned to death
in the destruction by FIRE OF the Cen
trail hotel in Topeka. Kan.
Henry NJ. Bolger. a hotel and saloon
proprietor OF Pittsburg. was found
guilty Of accepting $l7,500 for the
purpose OF briging councilmen OF that
city to secure city deposits for local
bank.
Harry Rheams. q sixteen-year-old
train robber. who killed William
Dempsey. a passenger on a Great
Northern train. in hold-up near Great
Falls. Mont. year ago. was sentenced
to life Imprisonment.
Tuesday, April 27.
Rear Admiral Joseph Nelson Miller
U. S. ~. retired. died at his home In
East Orange. n. J.
Pacy Hill was electrocuted in the
Auburn. ~ Y. prison for the murder
OF his cousin. Chloe Hancock. on
March IS. 1908.
Clifford Rutherford. assistant post
master at Lenox. Ca. was shot and
killed by a negro burglar, who had
robbed the postoffice. two stores and
bank.
Mrs. Mary Hoffman. wife Of a Har
risburg, Pa. business man. committed
suicide in the Pennsylvania Hospital
for the Insane In Philadelphia by hang
ing herself with a sheet.
Wednesday, April %.
George Barton was sentenced to five
years Imprisonment and $1,000 fire al
Greenville. s. c.. for robbing the post
office.
Rev. s. v. williams. pastor Of the
Christian church at Kankakee. Ill.
committed suicide by drinking carbolic
acid while mentally deranged.
Brigadler General John breckenridge
Babcock. T. s. A.. retired, died at sea
on board the steamer Prinz Friedrich
Wilhelm. which arrived In New York
Tuesday from Bremen.
Justice Harlan. Of the United States
supreme court. denies that he intended
to be a candidate for the ONCE OF
moderator OF the Presbyterian general
assembly. which meets in Denver next
month.
Thursday, April 20.
One person was killed and ten were
injured by tornado which wrecked q
large portion OF Douglas, Kan.
Charles Scarborough. the negro who
attempted TO assault Hrs. Taylor Frier
son. OF Fort Myer. near Barlow, Fla
was captured and lynched.
Chasing a rebellious COW home from
pasture resulted in the sudden death
from heart disease of Joseph Allard
a farmer. near Vineland. N. ].
The woman suffrage bill which
passed the Wisconsin senate som'
time ago was killed in the assembly
after a long debate by a vote OF %
to "a.
Fire destroyed the plant OF the Lock
port Rubber company. at Lockport. N
Y, and damaged the adjoining works
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