Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-06-05
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.



at his home in indianapolis. Ind.
The president sent to the senate the
nomination OF Captain Herbert Wins
low. OF the navy, TO be rear admiral.
Mrs. Edmund Bush. who was en-
ployed as an operative In silk mill
at Paterson. n. j., committed suicide
by drinking carbolic acid. because her
husband left her.
Robert F. Scott. formerly a mining
engineer. was sentenced in Chicago to
three years Imprisonment at Fort
Leavenworth on conviction Of having
made plates for the coming of money
OF the Argentine Republic
Saturday, May 20.
Breaking of Lake dam In Salisbury,
Nd, sends an immense flood through
town. causing much damage along the
strets and in the harbor.
In a saloon quarrel at Oakland. CAL,
about payment for O drink. Dominick
Cimella. a bootblack. stabbed J. c.
Burlisson. a carpenter. eleven times
with a pocketknife.
Isaac N. Leeds. for thirty years sta
ton agent of the Philadelphia &
Reading railway at Steelton. and one
OF the best known railroad men in the
county. died at Harrisburg. Pa.
Four men. with drawn revolvers and
in true western style, held up about
thirty women and men In Fishman's
restaurant at 444 Seventh avenue. New
York. and robbed them OF all the
money they had.
Monday, May 81.
The bones OF l57 soldiers. troops OF
General Zachary Taylor. found among
the old earthworks at Isabel, Tex,
were buried In the National cemetery
at Fort Brown.
For the first time since his grad.
uation from the naval acamedy in 1881,
Vice Admiral Uriu. of the Japanese
navy, visited his American alma
mater. the United States naval acad
envy at Annapolis, Md.
Big loaves of bread. selling rapidly
at 25 cents each. aroused the suspicion
OF Sheriff Hughy in Cherokee, Okla.
and led to his arresting local baker
following an investigation. which
showed that each loaf contained a
small bottle of whisky.
Tuesday, June I.
All lumber mills In western Canada
advanced prices so cents thousand
on common pine.
BY the premature explosion of a
cannon. Henry Mahan. aged seventy
years. former soldier. was killed at
ST. Marys near Wapakoneta, o.
Starr Hoyt Nichols, a broker of New
York. committed suicide by taking
chloroform in his apartments at the
Royal Hawaiian hotel in Honolulu.
Charles E. Jack. well known tackle
on the Colorado college football team
a few years ago. died in Denver. Colo.
from the effects of injuries received
in the Thanksgiving day game in 1906.
Wednesday, June 2.
Jesse Fletcher. a wealthy business
man of indianapolis. Ind, committed
suicide at Turtle lake. near Alpena.
Mich.
Battling Nelson has been matched
to fight Ad Wolgast for ten rounds be-
fore the Pacific Athletic club at Los
Angeles. Cal. on July IL.
A. d. Oliver. a bank president in
Climax. Ca. was arrested. accused OF
a remarkable series of swindles by
which the victims lost s250.000
Charles Werkheiser. veteran OF
the Civil War. who was bugler for
General Judson Kilpatrick's cavalry.
was overcome by heat at Riegelsville.
near Easton. Pa. and died a few min
utes later.
Worrall F. Mountain. OF East Or
ange. N. j.. was appointed by Governor
Fort Judge Of the district court of East
Orange. to succeed Franklin Fort. Jr..
a son of the governor. who sometime
ago resigned.
Thursday, June 8.
Albert Esberger. Cincinnati. o.,
jeweler shot and killed an unidentified
burglar in his home.
The Florida state senate passed the
Robertson bill. providing life imprison
ment for kdnappers.
Harold Flammer. OF Princeton.
student. was fined and paid 5000 In the
police court In Trenton. n. j.. for
reckless driving OF an automobile.
Bridget Tarfy. a cook. who died in
New York. at the age of seventy years.
bequeathed her entire fortune of $780,
600 TO James f. Johnson. her negro
assistant.
Vice President James S. Sherman
has rented the Truman cottage at Ne
Alta wanta. on Grand Traverse bay.
Mich. and will. II is said. spend the
summer there with his family.