Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-08-20
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
FrIday.. Auaust Is.

died ~ the county hospital at VIII
mington. Del, where she had been for
some time.
The Buckeye Rubber plant at Akron.
O.. was partially destroyed by fire.
with it's hundreds OF tons OF raw ma.
terial. cntailing a loss of 100000.
Fire at the Reading tPa) Abattoir
eompany's plant resulted In q loss es.
tImated by the Arm at close to $4,000.
about twothirds OF which Is covered
by insurance.
William Reed and fiveyear.old Eve
iyn Trautman were instantly killed and
Mrs. Guy Trautman. her mother. per-
haps fatally injured by being struck
by a passenger train while driving
across the Erie tracks ut North Center.
near Akron. o.
Saturday, August ~.
During an electrical storm at Hobbs
Island. Ala. Mrs. John Hornbuckle
was instantly killed and her little
niece. Matte Lemley, fatally injured
by bolt OF lightning.
The plant OF the Empire Graphite
company at Porters Corners. near
| s5AThtOHn. ~. tnCAuutnk .
mill and several smaller buildings. was
burned. with loss Of 100000.
| Despondent because he had been
| reprimanded. Sergeant F. A. Burger.
OF the marine guard of the cruiser
| Tennessee now at the Puget Sound
navy yard. committed suicide by cut
ting his throat.
Esther Detweiler. three years old. is
dead: her sister Rebecca. aged six
years. Is dying. and the mother Of the
children is seriously burned as the re.
suit OF lamp explosion at their home
at vandergrift Heights. Pa.
| Monday, August 16.
| The Hotel Arlington at Santa Bar
bara. Cal. was destroyed by fire.
which drove out several hundred
guests. Loss. $4,000.
Hugh c. Ward. u prominent Kansas
| City philanthropist. law partner Of
Governor Hadley. Of Missouri, died in
a sanitarium at New York OF apoplexy.
Samuel s. Martin. of voganville.
Pa. was seriously hurt by fall of
thirty.five feet while painting. both
arms being broken and internal In.
jurIes sustained
The International Typographical
union. in Sc ssion at st. Joseph. Mo-.
voted to require local unions to Anil.
ate with the central bodies of the
American Federation Of Labor.
| Tuesday, august II.
Harry Shellenberger. a York. Pa,
butcher. died OF blood poisoning. caus.
| ed by q small cut on the hand.
| Benson Miller. fourteen years old,
was killed at Chicago by a pitched
ball, which struck him on the ear.
| Lady Alma-Tadema. wife Of Sir
Lawrence Alma-Tadema the painter.
and herself an artist of note. is dead.
Because she Tilted him. Harry Bliss.
aged eighteen. shot and fatally wound.
ed Miss Minnie Clarke. aged seven.
teen.
Ned Marshall. who is described as
an American millionaire. was killed
at Monte Carlo by a hospital guard,
who escaped.
| Prince Albert Leopold. heir to the
Belgian throne. has arrived In Ant
werp from his trip to the Congo. and
was given an ovation.
| Wednesday. August 10.
| Carrying twenty-five passengers. the
steamer Seattle turned turtle 800 feet
from her dock at Couer D'Alene.
Wash. No lives were lost.
The petroleum fuel Of the steamer
Monte Blanco caught fire In the har-
Dor at Callao. Peru. and the steamer
was completely destroyed.
| The first bale Of new crop North
| Carolina cotton was sold at Norven.
N. C. II was classed as good middling.
and brought IA cents a pound.
Ella Bullock and her two small sis
tiers were burned to death In a fire
that destroyed the farmhouse near La
| Brosse. Kan. The fre was caused by
a gasoline explosion during the abb
sence OF the parents.
| Thursday, August 10.
| The first new bale OF Alabama cot
ton for 1909 brought 80 cents pound
at Montgomery. the highest price In
twenty-five years.
The British first class battleship
| Agamemnon stranded on the Long
sands range near Sheerness. Eng.
while engaged In target practice.
| Edward w. Excl, alias John w. Les
lie. ex-postmaster of Jamaica. West
Indies. was arrested In Philadelphia.
charged with embezzling $4,000 from
| the colonial government.
| Pickens Wells one OF the most
| famous barbecue cooks In the south.
dropped dead at Augusta. Ca. while
preparing o "cue." Pickens prepared
the famous C. s. Boiler barbecue. at
which President Taft was the honor
guest last winter.