Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-07-31
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Friday, July 70.

nounceu the selection OF SOutn Omhnh,
Neb.. as a reserve city for the deposit
Of government funds.
Oficial announcement was made at
the Erie railroad general ONCE in New
York that the board of directors had
passed resolutions restoring salaries
OF officers and employees which were
reduced some time ago.
Knocking out the wrong prop under
o cupola at the Pennsylvania South
Altoona. Pa, foundries. Ludwig Ach-
actz was caught under a shower Of
molten metal and burned from head to
foot, dying few hours later.
Saturday, July "a.
President Taft has added Columbus,
Ga, to the list OF places he will visit
on his trip In the fall.
Fred G. jenkins. receiving and pay
ing teller of the Farmers National
bank at Cynthiana, KY, and a promi-
nent Baptist. shot and killed himself
John Davis. road overseer OF Floyd
county, was killed at Rome. Ca. by
Micajah Landrum. sixty-year-old
farmer. in a pistol duel. the result of
a feud OF years.
Mrs. ]. NJ. Holloway. her sister
Mrs. George Myers. and two OF the
formers daughters. aged three and
five years, were killed at Columbus.
Miss, when a Mobile & Ohio freight
train backed into carriage In which
they were crossing the road.
Monday, July 26.
James Crichton, captain Of the
steamship Tuscany. committed suicide
as the vessel. under a pilot, entered
New York harbor.
Edward Ludruff. fourteen years old.
Of Winsted. Conn. accidentally killed
his sister. sixteen years old. as she
was watching him clean and load a
rife.
Frederick w. Moore. an exporter OF
hosiery in New York, sued for separa.
ton from his wife on the ground Of
cruelty. inasmuch. he AYERS. that she
insisted that her father and mother
should live with them.
An automobile containing Ole Erick.
son. president of the State bank OF
Escanaba. Mich. his wife and brother.
in-law were struck by Northwestern
passenger train at Birch creek. and all
three were instantly killed.
Tuesday, July 81.
A concentrated attack on the recent
revival of prize fighting in Butte,
ha. IA ht.f hs.v mi. LETT
Miss Josie Pomfret. one OF the
claimants to the $17.OO0O00 Pomfret
estate In England died in the county
poor farm In independence. Kan.
DR.. Albert NJ. Curry. of Brooklyn
was stricken with heart failure while
bathing at Atlantic City and died be.
fore he could be taken to hospital.
Rev. William n. Huntington. aged
seventy-one years. rector of Grat ;
Episcopal church. New York city. died
at Nahant. Mass. after lingering i'll
ness caused by intestinal trouble.
Wednesday. July 20.
Dilla Killebrew, colored. aged one
hundred and sixteen years. probably
the oldest person In Tennessee. died
at her home near Needmore.
Fire destroyed the Peterboro Lum
her company's mills and the store.
hc-sc Of Florence g. Co. at Peter
boro. Ont. entaillng loss of s125.000
Any woman in Georgia who rides
astride will become felon If the bill
introduced in the house by Represen.
tative Wright, OF Stewart county. be.
comes law.
Robert Wilson. one of the four ne
groes under arrest at Elkton. Md. fol-
the murder of Railroad Detective
Harry H. Boon, confessed and exon
Grated the three other negroes.
Thursday, July 20.
Miss Morgan, daughter of ]. Pier
pont Morgan, OF New York. made q
trip aboard a dirigible balloon at
Nancy. France.
The union scale has been signed &c
cover the tin plate mill at Cumber
land. Nd, of the N. & G. Taylor Co.
Of Philadelphia
The Western Federation Of Miners
instructed the executive board to print
Socialist literature in number OF Ian.
guages for distribution.
While working in bayfield, at Lack
awack. Ulster county. n. j.. John Hon
ST., seventy-eight years OF age. drop
ped dead from heart disease.
One man was killed and two were
injured when a mortar exploded dur
ing a fireworks display in connection
with the convention of the National