Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-02-27
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Friday, February 10.

I'm Chicago for appendicitis Jan. %, has
recovered completely.
John Stansbury Wallace. president
Of the National bank of Fredericks.
burg. Va. died. aged forty.one years.
Crazed at the thought of Anna Wis.
gent becoming the wife of another.
Anton Tunanls killed himself at Chi.
cago. after firing several shots at the
girl and her father.
Charles Gillespie. negro. who a
month ago attempted an assault upon
young lady of this city while she
was on her way to church. was put TO
death in the electric chair in the peni.
Tertiary at Richmond. Va.
Saturday. February 20.
Rear Admiral Charles Stanhope Cot.
ton. u. S. n. retired. died at Nice.
France.
The explosion OF salt works boiler
at Hartford. w. Va. killed William
Smith engineer. and William Barnett.
fireman.
Two Italians were killed and several
injured when Pennsylvania railroad
freight train struck work train neal
Olean. n. Y
Carl Loose. who shot and killed his
sixteenyearold daughter last Novem-
Der in New York. was sentenced to
die in the electric chair at Sing Sing
prison during the week OF March 80.
Monday. February %.
Suspicion hat her husband persisted
by poison has resulted In the arrest
at Rockford. H.. of Mrsh Henry Kauf-
man.
All saloons of Kenosha. Wis. have
publicly blacklIsted nine habitual top.
ers. and the latter threaten suits for
damages.
The mysterious death by shooting
Of Mrs Ida Cooper. bride of four
lays. has resulted In the arrest OF
five men AT Chicago.
The stringent Oklahoma corporation
laws have caused the Royal Exchange
and I.loyds Fire Insurance companies
70 Withdraw from the state.
Lizzie Nezelowsky. crossed in love.
drowned herself at Benton Harbor.
Mich. by leaping from bridge to the
st. Joseph river. seventy feet below.
Tuesday, February %.
Group five of the Pennsylvania State
Bankers association held its annual
meeting and dinner at Harrisburg.
The British battleship Vanguard. the
seventh vessel OF the Dreadnought
class. costing 100000. was success
fully launched at Barrow. Eng.
Jesse benson. a well known farmer
living near Marshall Tex. shot and in.
stantly killed Mrs. Samuel w. Ford
and dangerously wounded her hus-
band.
John Dolby was fatally injured at
Columbus. O.. when he ran in front
Of Toledo & Ohio Central freight
train in an effort to save his poodle
dog from destruction.
Two of Harrisburg's (Pa.) well
known residents and war veterans.
jeremiah Uhler. former banker and
builder. and John A. Bigler. who had
been living retired died Monday
Wednesday. February "a.
The president nominated the follow
ing captains to be rear admirals: Giles
B. Harder and Uriah II. Harris.
Fire of unknown origin completely
wrecked the Evening Journal plant at
Richmond Va. entailing loss of $40.-
600
The coal breaker of C. NJ. Dodson
e. 60. at Beaver Brook. Pa. near Ha-
zleton. was destroyed by fine. entail
ing loss of $4,000.
Secretary Bacon and Count Won
Bernstorf. German ambassador. sign.
ed a patent agreement between the
two countries. negotiations for which
have been under way for some time.
Thursday, February rs.
An extradition treaty with France
was ordered favorably reported from
the senate committee on foreign rela.
tions.
Bernard Fl. Rawl. of Lexington. s.
c.. was appointed chief of the dairy
division of the department OF agricul-
ture. at s2500 per annum.
Frederic Gooding Mason. assistant
superintendent of the liability depart
mcnt of the Fidelity and Casualty Co.,
of New York. died at his home at East
Orange. n. J.
Two laborers working in one of the
McAdoo tunnels at the edge OF the
Hudson river in Jersey City were in
stantly killed by coming in contact
with an electric light wire.
Giuseppe Campagnolo thirty years
of age. and Raffale Carfaro. twenty
years of age. were hanged at Weth-
ersiield. Conn. for the murder OF Da.
vid D. Sheehan in New Haven on the
night OF Aug. Is last.