Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-05-15
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Friday. May 4


Matthew Bynum and willard Wylie.
brothers.in-iaw. shot and killed each
other at DIkedom. near Mayfield. KY.
Senator p. c. Knox. of Pennsylva-
mia. celebrated his fifty-sixth birthday
anniversary in Washington on Thurs.
day.
Fire wiped out the buildings Of the
North Pacific Lumber company. at
Barnet. near Vancouver. B. c.. entail.
ing loss Of t350.000.
Frustrating a plot to kill an italian
and his wife. who lived ut East
Vivian. near Blueheid. W. Va. four
officers raided a iodgeroom. and In the
scrimmage that followed two Italians
were killed and eleven arrested.
Saturday. May Q.
Passed Assistant Surgeon James p.
D. Bruler. medical ofiicer Of the United
States gunboat Paducah. died aboard
that vessel at San Jpan. Porto Rico.
Jacob E. Ridgway. president Of the
| Quaker City National bank. OF Phila'
delphia, and we'll known as anancier.
died OF general debility. aged eighty
Eve years.
While sleeping In the anteroom Of
his study. Father Scrippo. Of the West.
Vile Roman Catholic church at Dan
vile. ILL.,, was fired upon by three men
armed with shotguns. but escaped in
Jury.
Monday, May 10.
Fire destroyed the plant Of the Lib.
erty Hat company. at Newark, N. j..
causing loss Of 100000.
The entire plant Of William Godfred
g. Co.. lumber dealers at Cheraw, 8.
c.. was destroyed by FIRE. with $4,000
loss.
Lorenzo d. Cunningham, q negro
employee OF the United States mint at
New Orleans. Is under arrest, charged
with stealing $500 worth OF gold.
Mary Sullivan. 107 years old. an en-
ploye end pensioner in the Chanler
family for r.ore than fifty years. died
at Barrytown. near Poughkeepsie,
N. Y.
James Renfrew. manager Of the
Western Union Telegraph company at
Chambersburg. Pa. committed suicide
by hanging himself In the cellar Of his
residence.
Tuesday, May ~.
Francis O'Connor, formerly editor
of the Catholic Union and Times and
o magazine writer OF note. died at
Rochester. N. r.. aged ssventy.seven
years.
President Taft sent to the senate
the nomination Of Henry Groves Con.
nor, a Democrat, to be United States
Judge for the eastern district Of North
| Carolina.
Emmert Schoolcraft. a Civil War
veteran. eighty years old. and his
wife Emily. sevsnty.seven years old.
were burned to death at Detroit. Mich.
when their home was destroyed by
fire.
Charged with having embezzled
| $1,000 from local insurance company.
J. B. Mccormick. one Of its agents.
who was arrested on the Pimlico race
track. Baltimore. was taken to Read.
ing, Pa. when a warrant was served
on him.
Wednesday, May t2.
Another cut Of cents barrel in
all grades of oil was announced by
the Standard Oil company.
J. Pope Brown has been appointed
state treasurer cf Georgia by Governor
Hoke Smith to All the vacancy caused
by the death OF Robert Il. Park.
John Borefnac was killed and three
other foreigners were seriously injured
at HOLLYWOOD. near Indiana. Pa. in a
riot which was participated In by fully
a hundred men.
Charles Bright. an eleven-year-old
Camden. N. j.. boy. confessed that he
and a companion of the same age had
broken into many unoccupied houses
to rob slot-meters.
Thursday, May 10.
President Taft sent to the senate
the nomination Of John @. Ziegler. Of
Pennsylvania, TO be an assistant sur
geon In the navy.
Dominick Acdierdi. two years old.
was killed by falling from the IRE
escape at his home. 327 West Sixty
ninth street. New York.
The Pemigewassett house, one OF
the largest hotels in the White noun
tains. near Plymouth. N. H.. was de-
stroyed by fire. entailing loss Of
100000.
DIR. Lucien Treadway. Walker Tread
way. William Treadway and Samuel
Amen were held for the grand Jury at
Beattyville. KY. on the charge Of at
tempting 70 assasslnate Charles Wi.