Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-04-17
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.



Boston Symphony orchestra. commit
ted suicide In Boston.
John Nevin Hazlett. dean OF the
newspaper profession in Pittsburg.
died after long illness Of stomach
trouble.
President Taft sent to the senate
the nomination OF Charles ID. Hilles.
OF New York. to be assistant secretary
OF the treasury.
Two men. injured by flying debris
during the terrific wind storm at Pitts
burg on Wednesday. died at hospitals
and a number Of others are In q seri.
GUS condition.
Saturday, April 10.
Joel Payne. q negro. was hanged in
Bedford City. Va. for the murder OF
Reed Swaine. his father-in.law. a year
ago.
During the last ten years the United
States exported $16.000.000 worth OF
condensed milk. according to reports
made by customs officers to the bureau
Of statistics.
Glove workers from 1853 factories In
Johpstown and Gloversville. N. r..
have sent sixty-nine separate petitions
10 the finance committee Of the United
States senate praying for the same
protective rates on women's gloves as
on mems. so that the manufacture OF
women's gloves may be established In
this country.
Monday, April II.
BENJAMIN +. Holland. for forty years
a New York letter carrier. was caught
stealing from letters and acknowledg
ed his guilt.
Miss Rose L. Fitz. at close Of contest
In Providence. r. l.. retained the type
writing championship. with so 1880
words to the minute as her record.
Under the new criminal code OF the
state OF Washington. effective June 1.
Il is provided that women shall be
barred from saloons under penalty OF
misdemeanor.
Ernest Wilkerson. q married man OF
Waco. Tex. convicted Of having q
mock marriage performed with Miss
Myrtle Morgan. was sentenced to Ave
years in the penitentiary.
Tuesday. April 10.
Chloroforming J. w. Watkins and
his wife. burglars robbed them Of
$500 In jewelry while they slept In
their home at Oceanview, near Nor
folk. Va.
Major William A. Stanton. sixty.
Ave years old. former United States
army officer and a wealthy mining en-
gineer. OF Goldfeld. New. committed
suicide in Los Angeles. CAL. by shoot.
ing himself.
For the murder of his mother. Su.
san Carlin. In her home in Brooklyn
one year ago, Bernard Carlin. aged
twenty-five years. was put to death by
electricity in the state prison at Os-
shining. N. Y.
The Eagle hotel and another frame
building adjoining. at Pine Beach. Va.
were destroyed by fire. and the seven.
year-old child OF Night Waterman Ba-
sharas. OF the virginian railway. was
probably fatally burned.
Wednesday, April IA.
In a quarrel over the payment OF q
LIQUOR bill three Italians were fatally
shot at Baggley. near Pittsburg.
During March 1913 settlers from the
United States entered Canada at North
Portal. GA the Soc ::Is. -.:s zee cars
of effects.
Mrs. Charles Dehaas. aged forty-two
years. who was badly burned by her
clothing becoming ignited at rubbish
n. T.. . -. a., xxytfito -, ororf Do dtad
from the effects Of her injuries.
One fireman was killed. two fatally
injured and several others slightly
hurt when wall collapsed during a
fire at the pottery plant OF the Sher-
wood Brothers Company. New Brigh.
ton, Pa.
Thursday, April IS.
Seven men were injured. two prob.
ably fatally, in Youngstown. O.. in an
explosion at the converting depart
ment of the local plant OF the Carnegie
Steel company.
Charles Sullivan was killed and four
other persons were injured In Mem
phis. Tenn. when an automobile ran
down Sullivan as he was alighting
from a street car.
Offlcial announcement was made at
the White House that the president
has leased as a summer home the cot
tage OF Robert d. Evans. at Woodside
Point. Beverly. Mass.
Oliver Hazard. broker was &C.
quilted in Allentown. Pa. OF the charge
OF ching implicated in the dynamiting
OF the safe In the store OF Recorder of