Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-10-09
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Friday. October I.


sic publishing Arm of Bigelow & Main.
New York city. died at his summer
home at Ridgefeld, Conn. In his sew.
enty-second year.
Three passengers were injured and
dozen others badly shaken up when
the Niagara Falls train on the New
York Central collided with an east
bound through freight at Wilson. N. Y.
DR.. Alfred NJ. Webster genera sec
rotary OF the New Era association. a
life insurance organization. was found
lying dead on the floor in the Offices
OF the association at Grand Rapids.
Mich, with bullet hole In his head.
Saturday, October 2.
George Washington Moore. founder
Of Moore and Burgess Minstrels, and
known In sporting circles as Pony"
Moore. died in London.
Jewelry valued at $4,000 and $1,000
in coin was stolen by robber who
shot and killed Con Ying. wife of All
Luis a rich Chinese merchant OF San
Luis Obispo. Cal
Presumably struck by rock while
leaning out Of the cab window. Engi.
neer T. Conley. of an Iron Mountain
freight train. was killed while passing
through tunnel near Cricket. Ark.
The state of Oregon will collect from
the estate OF the late f. II. Hartman.
as soon as the appraisement of his
railroad property is made. approx
mately 100000 as an inheritance tax.
Monday, October q.
Run over by fire engine respond
ing to an alarm in Altoona. Pa. A. Del
Blonde. aged nine years. dice.
Mausdale and Danville junk dealers
confessed stealing hot-air furnace
from c. c. Barger in Bloc msburg. Pa.
Charged with dynamiting the home
of a steel trust official at Youngstown.
O.. John Bailey has been arrested at
Muncie Ind.
| Alarm is caused among white neigh
bors by the restlessness of 5000 Chey-
enne Indians on the Sheridan reserva-
ton. Wyoming.
Because she refused to marry him.
Charles L. Miller. an engineer. broke
into the room of Miss Phoebe Arm
strong at Chicago. murdered her and
then killed himself.
Tuesday, October S.
Mrs. Eta Jarvis Shepard. wife OF
Seth Shepard. chief justice of the Dis
trict of Columbia court of appeals. died
in Washington.
Ray Lamphere. who was convicted
as an accomplice Of Mrs. Belle Gun
ness. is dying from consumption In the
jail at Laporte. Ind.
Delirious from fever. following wounds
received in a fight in saloon. Police
man w. II. Irwin threw himself from
a third-story window of hospital at
Detroit. Mich, and was killed.
John White, twenty years old. sen
fenced to four years for robbing a
store at Rayville. La. now admits that
he stole In order to be with his moth
err. Mrs. Bette White. who two years
ago murdered her husband and was
sentenced to twenty years.
Wednesday. October 6.
The body OF Charles B. VAIL, aged
thirty.one years. missing for some
days. was found in the Schuylkill river
at Reading. Pa.
The Governor John Albert Johnson
Memorial commission has been organ
lied at ST. Paul Mimi. to raise fund
OF $500 for a memorial to the late
Governor Johnson.
| u,Lz..~. nsnrian ITpftad Ctotau
ambassador to Japan. sailed from San
Francisco for his post in Toxic. after
visit to his old home in Michigan
and other points in the east.
Hugh Mcintosh. the fight promoter.
left London for Paris TO try and ar
range a meeting between James j.
Jeffries and Jack Johnson for the
worlds heavyweight championship.
Thursday, October 7.
Dudley Buck. the organist and COM
poser, died suddenly at the home of
his son at West Orange. n. J.
Walter H. Watson, of Philadelphia.
has been appointed customs inspec-
tor. with headquarters at Philadelphia.
One pass niger was killed and thirty
five persons were injured in collision
between trains on the Illinois Central
railroad near Springfield. III.
WANDERING to a lonely spot in the
woods of the government hospital for
the insane at Washington. william
Ohle. sixty-,wo years Of age. veteran
! soldier, committed suicide.
l.. l.. Heller. of Binghamton. presi-
dent of the Sterling Motor Car com
pany. was instantly killed when an
eastbound ,ehigh Valley train struck