Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-08-14
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Friday, August Q.

a. ldauthTu, Hebu Oh tne Amefichu
Veterinary hospital. New York. has
been made a chevalier OF the Legion
Of Honor In Paris.
Ole r. Holton was arrested ION In.
formation" at Moose Jaw, Sask. charg-
ed with stealing $4,000 from various
savings banks in Norway
Herman Bell. thirty years old. shot
and killed Sarah Bell his twenty-year.
old niece, at Chicago. and later con-
fessed to the police that notwlthstand-
ing the fact that hc,is married and the
father OF family. he had secretly
loved the girl for the past six years.
Saturday, August 7.
Miguel Antonio Caro-. a former pres
ident of Colombia, and well known as
an author. died ip Bogota.
Lightning struck Charles Kitzmil-
hers home at Marion o.. and ignited
the bedclothing in the crib OF a sleep
ing baby. who was not even awakened.
Gold bricxs weighing 2400 pounds
and worth more than half million
dollars were received at the govern
ment assay Office at Seattle. Wash.
coming through the mail from Fair
banks. Alaska. via Vancouver. B. G.
To commemorate the valor Of both
Union and Confederate soldiers at the
battle of Gettysburg monument to
cost approximately $l50.000 will be
erected on the old battlefield by a Chi.
cago business man, c. II. Mcconnell.
Monday, August o.
The new battleship South Carolina
will be officially tried out Aug. "a OF
the Maine coast.
Struck by a runaway horse at Leav-
enworth. Kan. J. Miles Moore. one of
the city's founders. was killed in
stantly
Trying to catch chicken. Dorothy
Wilson. aged one year. of Altoona. Pa.
fell from her high chair on her head
and may die.
Lightning at New Richmond. Wis,
killed every other one OF six horses.
standing side by side, three OF them
not being touched.
Mrs. Flora Newton Brown. OF New
York city. and Miss Doris MacHol. OF
New Haven. were drowned while bath
ing In Lake Waramaug. at New Pres
ton, Conn.
Tuesday, August 10.
Edgar r. Stackhouse. OF Philadel-
phia while on a visit to relatives at
Elkton. Md. dropped dead from heart
trouble.
Secretary Nagel. of the department
of commerce and labor. has accepted
an invitation to address the National
Negro Business league at Louisville.
KY. on Aug. IS.
A Missouri Pacific passenger train
northbound was derailed in South
Leavenworth. Kan. the locomotive
was torn to pieces and all the cars
left the track. but no one was injured.
Lightning struck the Liberty Bell
mine at Telluride. Colo, and indirectly
killed three miners. who were over
come by the smoke that filled the
lower levels of the mine after the
lightning had set fire to the building
at the mines mouth.
Wednesday, August II.
Robert Womack, famous as the dis
coverer OF Cripple Creek. died at Col
orado Springs. Colo. aged sixty-six
years. after a lingering Illness.
Richard Golden. the actor. died sud
denly on board the houseboat Stroller
In Gravesend bay. ". Y. where he was
the guest OF John Newton Porter.
Receipts reported Tuesday from the
operation OF the new tariff law amount
ed to $s30.si4. as against the receipts
under the Dingley law for the same
day last year amounting to $676.57s.
Manning c. Palmer. former presi-
dent of the American Exchange Ma
tional bank. of Syracuse. N. Y. was
discharged from Auburn prison on a
pardon granted to him by President
Taft
Thursday, August II.
Charles White. twenty years old. OF
Philadelphia. fell down hatchway In
to the hol! of the steamer Etresea
Mendea at Girard Point and broke his
neck
Despondent from III health. Mrs.
James II. Ritter. OF McComb. o.. clasp
ed her baby In her arms and commit
ted suicide by jumping into an aban-
doned well.
Oscar Cassel, aged sixteen years.
fell from train on the Philadelphia
& Reading railroad at Chester. Pa.
while stealing ride and both legs
we're SO badly mangled that they had
to be amputated.
Masked men. styled might riders"
by the country people at Brownsville.
Ky. wounded Harden Minton, far
mer and took Andrew Farris. another
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