Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-11-13
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Friday, November 5.


The new Dreadnought North Dakota
made a speed of 22.25 knots on her
trial trip. making her the fastest
Dreadnought battlsship ahoat.
Albert Koch, a merchant at Bern
stadt. KY. was shot and killed In his
store shortly after drawing $4,000 from
bank, and robbery was the motive
Rev. =. r. willard, OF Akron. O..
the first American pastor to hold chill.
dren's day services, has retired from
the ministry because of Ill health.
Custaf Bischof. western representa-.
tive OF the Nathan Manufacturing
company. OF New York. committed
suicide at his home In Chicago by
shooting.
Saturday, November 6.
Fire in the market house at Hous
ton, Va. spread rapidly. destroying
two hardware stores. one grocery.
hotel, a drug store and several cot
tages.
Miss Fanny Scott discovered that
profanity In Millviiie. N. j.. is expen
sive. when Mayor Smith fined her
1925 for saying two swear words to
Albert Reid.
Colonel A. S. Hutson was found
guilty at Charleston. w. Ca. of EN-.
bczzling $641 from the state OF West
Virginia In 1905. while holding Office
as assistant adjutant general.
Monday, November 8.
Cotton mills at New Bedford. Mass.
employing 1900 employees. will cur.
tail operations two hours per week.
Dr. C. J. Otto. who thirteen years
ago purchased the Lieser farm. on the
outskirts of Allentown. Pa. for $1,000.
has just sold it for $4,000.
Frank Petrovicz. north Scranton.
Pa, miner. fell down a seventy-foot
shaft at the Manville mine. cut on
the face being the only injury.
The Cumberland Presbyterian
Presbyterian church for possession OF
Missouri Valley college. at Marshall
Mo.
Tuesday, November 9.
The Carnegie Steel company issued
Official notice of Its intention to build
an immense finishing mill plant at
Girard. Ohio. adjoining the Ohio works
at Youngstown, o.
Walter Hyde. twenty-eight years OF
age, of Brooklyn, N. Y. an attache OF
the Barnum & Bailey shows. was killed
and placed on the tracks of the South
ern railway near Central City park. at
Macon. Ca, according to Coroner
Young.
Charles w. Howell. charged with
holding up the clerks in the Great
Northern express Office at Seattle
Wash, and stealing $4,000. was iden.
tilted as the bandit who boarded a
Great Northern mail car at Bonner's
Ferry. Idaho. on March Is, 1908, and
rified the registered mail.
Wednesday, November 10.
Three trainmen were killed and
thirty-five persons injured In a wreck
at Kleinart's station. twenty miles
north of knoxville. Tenn.
After 'yhree minutes elaboration,
the jury III tue Casc vi "aNSiis VIII
der. boy OF sixteen years. charged
with killing George Swift at Norfolk,
Va. rendered verdict of acquittal.
Walter Osborn. a wealthy lumber
dealer. shot and killed himself in a
loft in the warehouse of the Byron w.
Green. Jr.. Lumber company at New
York. OF which he Is vice president.
Orders have been issued at Charles.
ton, W. Va. that Company A. Second
infantry. West Virginia National
Guard. located at Gassaway. be mus.
tered out on account of the failure OF
a majority of the members of the com.
pany to report as ordered last Thurs
day to protect the lives of two negroes
suspected OF implication In an assault
upon Miss Alfredo Rockhold.
Thursday, November II.
Cash Moody. of Berea. KY. killed
his wife with a butcher knife. set
fire TO the house and took carbolic
acid.
The tipple and power house Of the
Neff Coal company at Neffs. o.. six
miles from Wheeling. W. Va. was
burned. entailing loss OF $125.000.
The body OF Clarence Mcdowell.
who disappeared from South Bend.
Ind, month ago. was found In the
st. Joseph river. with his skull
crushed.
Handsome and lavishly gowned.
Maud DAILY. twenty-four years old.
tearfully pleaded guilty In police court
at Toledo. o.. OF shoplifting. and was
given an aggregate sentence of i'm.
prisonment and hnes which. II fully
enforced. will require her to serve
nearly two years In the county Jail