Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-04-10
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Friday. AnrII 2.


10 attend the annual banquet or the
National Manufacturers association In
New York on May ~.
Barney Devine. Leonard Stevens and
Matthew Taylor. indicted eight years
ago for the murder OF Clarence War.
rick. fifteen years old. ut 5omerton.
o.. have been arrested at GAINESVILLE. o.
The marriage OF Miss Mary Hoss.
the only daughter OF Bishop r. n.
Hoss, OF the Methodist Episcopal
Church South. to John McCurdy Head
man. a civil engineer. OF Philadelphia.
took place at Nashville. Tenn.
Saturday, April 3.
Twenty priests. members OF the
Order OF st. Mary. In Chicago. had q
narrow escape from suffocatlon when
q fire broke out In the dormitory where
they were sleeping
President Taft accepted an invita-.
ton to attend the 250th anniversary
OF the founding OF Norwich. Conn. to
be held on July I. II congress shall
adjourn by that time.
George Sterling. a mute, and his
wife were arrested In Chicago. ac-
cused OF kicking their two-year-old
baby under the stove. where II receiy.
ed injuries from which II Is expected
to die.
Monday, April 5.
DR.. II. G. Potter. OF Saginaw. Mich.
founder and builder OF the Pere Mar
quette railroad banker. financier and
manager. died In California.
The postofllce at Enola. near Har-
risburg. Pa. was robbed for the sec
ond time in two months. the safe be-
Ing blown to pieces and 800 In stamps
taken.
Eugene and ]. l.. Williams. brothers,
were shot In q street In Hazlehurst.
Ca. by v. +. Showers. formerly OF Con-
yers. Ga. the latter probably fatally.
as the result OF business quarrel
The supreme court OF Tennessee de-
cided that the Cumberland Presbyter.
ian Church still exists. and those who
refused to recognize union with the
mother body are entitled to all the
church property.
Tuesday. April 8.
The senate ratified the extradition
treaty between the United States and
France.
Dave Alexander. a negro. WAS lynch.
ed at Pensacola. Fla. for the murder
OF Policeman Canton. whom the negro
stabbed to death while resisting ar.
rest.
Fire supposed to have been Of In
cendiary origin destroyed the -four
mill OF J. A. Kinds & Co. at Rochester,
N. Y. together with $1,000 bushels Of
wheat. entailing loss of 100000.
Christopher Holland. arrested In
Philadelphia and extradited to Toron.
to, Ont. on charge of attempted
fraud on nine banks OF Canada. was
found guilty and sentenced to FIVE
years in the Kingston penitentiary.
Wednesday, April 2.
Adjutant General Thomas w. Scott
died of heart failure at his home at
Fairfield. III.
Leaving notes telling of a suicide
pact, Herman Bartlett and Belva Pugh
Joined hands and jumped into the Mis-.
sissippi river at Alexandria. Mo.
Upwards of 500 saloons and ten
breweries will be forced out OF bust
ness in iiie nineteen counties os Mich:
gan which voted dry" at Mondays
election.
Two persons were killed. many 9TH
ers hurt and considerable property
damaged by tornado which struck
Marion. I'll.
Two boys were killed and six others
injured. several seriously. when a car
on the St.. Clair incline. In Pittsburg.
broke away about the center Of the In.
cline and plunged to the bottom.
Thursday, April 9.
John Flood. eighteen years old. In.
dicted for forgery at Des Moines. Ia.
was sentenced TO enlist In the navy or
to serve a term In the reformatory.
Mrs. David Coat. aged twenty-eight
years, OF Evansville. Ind. has been ar
rested here, charged with stabbing her
husband with q case knife because he
came home drunk
President Taft accepted an invitation
to attend a celebration OF the 10th
anniversary OF the first inauguration
OF George Washington. TO be held at
Alexandria. Va. on the afternoon OF
April 80.
william Heysham Sayre, second vice
president OF the Lehigh Valley Coal
company. died at Bethlehem. Pa, from
the effects OF an operation performed
at st. Luke's hospital on Monday. aged
seventy eight wears.