Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-11-06
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Friday, October 20.

Der company, at Schoeheld. near Ul'
mers. s. c.. was burned. the loss being
$1,000
George Earl went to sleep at Keno
sha. Ia. on Oct. 90 and is still sleep
ing. although he was aroused several
times. but falls asleep again at once.
A party OF fifteen men. headed by
Graham Burnham. a civil engineer,
will explore cave forty miles south
OF Sapulpa, Okla. Burnham declares
the cave rivals the Mammoth Cave Of
Kentucky.
Ohio leads all other states with the
largest number of war and naval SER
vice pensioners. the latest report OF
the pension agents crediting that state
with 92.507 men. women and children
who draw pensions.
Saturday, October 80.
A. s. Lyndon, a photographer. was
so badly burned by the explosion of
flashlight powder at Ann Arbor. Mich.
that his eyesight is destroyed.
Arthur Kringle. fireman. and Cur.
It's Nutter were killed and another man
was seriously injured when a boiler
exploded In a sawmill at Clarksburg.
w. va.
Harry T.. Crooks. aged forty-seven.
Dayton painter. was electrocuted in
the penitentiary at Columbus. o.. for
the murder OF his divorced wife. whom
he shot on the street near her home
during the summer of 1908.
In a collision between a westbound
immigrant train and an eastbound
freight train at Tocsin. near Fort
Wayne. Ind. on the Chicago & Erie
railroad. thirty-fve immigrants. men.
women and children. were injured.
some fatally.
Monday, November I.
Ralph Eachs. of Penn township.
Lancaster county. Pa. was fatally in.
jured by being kicked by a fractions
horse.
While going to the Vanderbilt cup
race, VILLA Burnett was killed in
east New York by his car running
into a wall.
First degree murder. with a plea for
mercy, was the verdict at Lima. O..
in the case of John w. Beam. colored.
who killed Mrs. Maude Dilts. white
Investigation of the stoppage Of
CRIES. & Co.'S large grist mill at Potts.
town. Pa, resulted In finding seven
large cells that had choked UP the
water power.
Tuesday. November 2.
In a duel following Mexican we'd
ding at Gonzalez. Texas. Demilio Err
royo and Marcus Morales shot and
killed each other.
While escorting strike breakers
from hotel at Steubenville. o.. to
the La Belle Iron works detectives
fired into a crowd surrounding the
plant. seriously wounding four.
Mrs. T. NJ. Fowler was killed and
her two children were seriously In.
jured when their home at Sloan
Springs, Ark, was destroyed by tor.
nado.
Julian p. Strauss. secretary OF the
Gross-Strauss Department Store com.
pany. of Worcester. Mass. was killed
and Arthur w. Beaman. OF Worcester.
was seriously injured in head-on col.
lision between two automobiles here.
Wednesday, November 8.
Two prisoners in jail at Lordsburg.
N. NJ. were burned to death In a fire
that destroyed the building.
The yard Of the Charles H. O'Neill
Lumber company at Jersey City. N. j..
was swept by fire. entailing loss es
t!mated at 100000.
A remarkable money-raising cam.
paign OF fifteen days waged by the
Young Mems Christian Association OF
Boston has resulted in $5l0.337 being
subscribed for n new home for the or
ganization.
Mrs Alpha Mack. widow OF In.
dianapolis. Ind. learned that she had
fallen heir to a hesitate worth $4,000
through the will OF John Hastings.
forty-three years old, sutton whom
she refused.
Thursday, November 4.
Shots werc heard in q room at Key.
stone. near Bluefield. w. Va. and
when the door was forced the dead
bodies of Connie Blackwell and a
Hungarian we're found.
Twenty-Five people were hurt. three
fatally when a car on the University
place line at Des Moines. Ia. jumped
the track at the foot OF Nineteenth
street hill while headed down town.
John Marrooney. negro. Is under
arrest at Battle Creek. Mich. on sus.
picion of being the man wanted In
Chicago for the robbery OF $4,000 worth
OF diamonds from Mrs. A. Hirsch last