Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-02-20
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Friday, February IL.


at Salem. Mass.
Rev. G. p. Pledgcr. assistant
Evangelist BILLY" Sunday. who b
just completed six weeks revil
service at Spokane. Wash. died in t
city of pneumonia.
Thomas Lewis. postmaster at CIR
Works. ILL.,. who pleaded guilty to
beszling sSS2.05 of postoflice fun,
has been sentenced to serve two yei
in the penitentiary.
Joseph Adams. twenty-six years &
who claims he is wanted by the
thorities OF Quebec. Can. upon {
charges OF false pretense. has SURF,
dered himself TO the Pittsburg pol
and is bein6 held pending word fr,
Canada.
Saturday. February 10.
Rev. DR.. William Dunn Mitchell.
Baltimore. widely known Methot
evangelist. died suddenly at Princet
n. j.. from heart disease.
Two men were killed and one
badly injured that he may not reco
by an explosion in the McAdoo tun
along the Hudson river at Jersey G
n J.
Mrs. James Lamberton aged eigf
min =. T.amberton. OF the Uni
States navy. died at her home in G
Isle. Pa.
James Herman. a saloonkecper. 6
Charles Winters. a driver. were 81
and perhaps mortally wounded in $
pleton. s. l.. IN quarrel over a
owned by Winters.
Monday, February is.
Caspar l.. Simonds. son of the |:
Commissioner of Patents William
Simonds. was accidentally asphyxiai
at Hartford. Conn.
Francis Heine. of near Orwigsbu
Pa. obtained from his seventy-five 4
onics OF bees last year two and thps
quarter tons of honey.
The United Mine Workers will sen
100 organizers into the Schuylkill. Pa
region to get recruits to line up fc
next April'y scale contest.
A small fire in the Algonquin hote
New York. caused partial pan
among the $50 guests. who rushed
the lobby in their night clothes.
Declaring that when he pleade
guilty to larceny he was promised
sentence OF one year, and that he no
discovers he is lin" for twenty year
James O'Neill demands his releas
from the Illinois penitentiary.
Tuesday, February 16.
Andrew Carnegie gave Cincinnati
O.. sl00.000 with which TO build thre
branch libraries.
The Bank of Oaktaha. sixteen mile
south of Muskogee. Okla. was broke
into and robbed of $4,000.
r. l.. Woodruff, of Atlanta. Ga. drol
ped dead from heart disease on pal
senger train near Detroit. Mich.
Battalion Chief Michael Graham, on
of the five flremen who were injure
by the collapse OF wall in fire |
the packing sheds of the Pratt O
works in Brooklyn. died.
bill authorizing the acceptance b
the United States from the women
relief corps. auxiliary to the Gran
Army of the Republic. of eighty-eigh
acres of land contiguous to the Ande
sonvlle National cemetery Georgia
was passed by the senate.
Wednesday, February II.
Rear Admiral James G. Green. |
s. n. retired. died at Edenton. n. c.
The house of representatives passe
the bill providing for separate STATE
hood for Arizona and New Mexico.
Leslie Coombs. aged nineteen year,
was put to death by electricity in tn
state prison at Dannemora N. ". fc
the murder of Harry Hosmer. in s
Lawrence county, Sept. 26. 1908.
General William +. Mickle. adjutar
general OF the United Confederat
Veterans. gave out statement sa,
ing there would be no joint session {
the "Blue and Gray" at Memphis.
Thursday, February 10.
Four miners were killed by an e.
plosion in the Deering Coal company
mine at Benton. III.
Fred II. Haight. city editor of I'll
New Haven. Conn. Register. kille
himself by cutting his throat on I'll
Yale campus.
The Air Line Manufacturing con
pany's Port Norfolk. Va. furniture fa
tory was destroyed by fire, with a los
estimated at $4,000.
Just after having finished two verse
OF a song he was writing. Edward Ga
denier. a song writer. killed himself
his home in Brooklyn by cutting b
throat.