Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-07-03
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.


Captain Abraham T.. Culver. OF the
United States navy. died suddenly In
Washington. aged ffty-three years.
The comptroller OF the currency Is
sued q call on all national banks for Q
report OF their condition on June 20.
Following a trivial quarrel at Waco.
Tex, George Cohen. nine years old. Sc
cured target rife and killed Maggie
Farrell, eight years his senior
Joseph Bertucci. an alleged Black
Hand slayer. was found guilty by q
jury In Chicago and was sentenced TO
twenty years In the penitentiary.
Firm In the belief that she was to
die soon. Mrs. Mary Moore. of Salina.
KAN wrote her obituary notice few
days ago and Thursday she died.
Saturday, June 20.
Mrs. Albert Pulitzer. wife of the
we'll known New York journalist. died
suddenly.
Fifteen masked men took Albert
Reese. a negro. who assaulted white
woman. from Jail at Cuthbert. Ca. and
hanged him.
A resolution was adopted by the
Washington legislature inviting Presi-
dent Taft to attend the First National
Conservation Congress, to be held In
Seattle. Aug. 26.
After spending twenty-five years in
Japan serving as teachers. Miss Isa-
bella Graham Prince. aged eighty. and
Me. Manu- Gray prfpca aoad aavantv
six, arrived In Seattle. Wash, enroute
10 their old home In Portland, Me.
Monday, June %.
The No Name Hat company. en-
ploying 400 hands, decided to move It's
plant from Orange, N. j., to- Philadel.
phia.
Five explosions Of nitro-glycerine at
Wheeling Junction. o., ruined steel
Orders valued at 100000, which were
intended for q non-union operation.
Stock raisers got a judgment for
$4,000 against the Traders Live
Stock Exchange in Kansas City in a
suit under the Sherman antitrust law.
The Society OF Naval Architects. in
besSiOu dt DStioit, ichuSOu " anhie
Noah to the rolls OF honorary men,
bers, on the ground that he was a
gamekeeper. not a boat builder.
Charles Clark. the boy leper who es-
capped from the almshouse near Cam
den, N. j.. was a prisoner at the house
Of correction at Philadelphia from
June 10 to Saturday. having been sen
fenced for vagrancy.
Tuesday, June 20.
Two negroes were killed and five
others were wounded at stone
quarry near Ripley. Okla. in a quarrel
over crap game.
J. Frank Hawkins. of East Orange.
N. J.. formerly editor of the New Jer.
sey Standard, was killed at Newark
by falling under train from which he
was alighting.
Permission has been granted by the
United States to the Fifth regiment Of
Canadian artillery. armed and equip.
ped, to enter this country July l for
the purpose Of attending the Seattle
exposition.
Wednesday, June 30.
Former President Charles w. Eliot,
of Harvard university. has been elect
ed president emeritus of the institu-
ton.
A bid of $4,000 was reported made
for seat on the New York Stock Elk
change. equal to the record price. es-
tablished In 1906 and 1905.
Middlebury (vt.) college conferred
the degree OF doctor of laws upon Gov
ernor John Franklin Fort. of New Jer-
sey, and Governor George II. Prouty.
Of Vermont.
New York aldermen passed an ordi-
nance prohibiting peddlers or sales.
men from crying their wares on the
streets. but through political influence
"Paddy's Market" on Ninth avenue,
Is excepted.
Thursday, July I.
Five men of the torpedoboat Hull
were badly scalded by the bursting of
q boiler tube at San Francisco.
Charles Breneiser q well known to-
bacconist and one of the wealthiest
men OF Reading Pa. died, aged eighty
one years.
The pope confirmed the election Of
Rev. Edmund Michael Dunno. chan
cellor OF the archdiocese of Chicago. to
be bishop Of Peorio in succession to
Rt. Rev. John l.. Spalding. resigned.
In the presence of number OF
young persons at a lawn social at
Grundy Center. Ia. Laurie Rogers.
aged eighteen. was instantly killed
when he attempted to turn on an cleo
trio current to illuminate the place.