Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-03-13
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Friday, March 5.

AltAduuIe OndTpcultcfi thc Wtt
known French sculptor. died In Paris.
A bill designed TO grant equal suf.
frage to women was rejected by the
Massachusetts legislative committee
on constitutional amendments.
Fire In big tenement building on
Seventh avenue. Brooklyn. caused the
death OF two members OF family OF
Ave and serious injury to the remain
ing three.
Captain William Ferguson and his
wife Mary were drowned by the sink
ing of the barge George II. Bates. at
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad docks.
between St George and New Brighton,
Staten Island. during Thursdays big
storm.
Saturday, March 9.
r. Mead Shumway. convicted OF the
murder OF Mrs. Jacob Mstin. was
hanged at the Nebraska penitentiary
in Lincoln.
Chicago manufacturers and mer-
chants believe that Taft's inaugural
speech will have a stimulating effect
on business.
James Hill was called to the door OF
his home near Eccles. w. Va. and
shot to death by Lon Jones. negro,
with whom he had some trouble
After making extensive alterations
to the furnace at Topton. Pa. the En-.
pire Steel and Tool company resumed
work. giving employment to several
hundred men.
Monday, March 8.
In a 1T OF dependency Mrs. Louisa
Jones. OF New York. committed sui.
eide at San Francisco.
An explosion at the Glass Run Pow.
der works. near Pittsburg, lost 1900
pounds OF powder and almost killed
two men.
Rolling out OF bed. the four-year-old
son OF Bradford Norton. OF Monroe,
Mich. sustained broken neck and
died in few minutes.
For stealing $500 from the Ira
verse City tMich) National bank. of
which he was auditor. Ellsworth Hale
was sentenced to five years In Jail.
A band OF Mexicon ore thieves at.
tackled an American mining plant at
Guanajuanto. Mex. but were repulsed
by the Americans and one OF them was
killed
Tuesday, March 8.
The 5000 employees OF the Phoenix
Iron company. at Phoenixville. Pa.
had their wages reduced 10 per cent.
Hereafter the English language will
be taught In the public schools OF Qua
temala under an order OF the minister
of education.
First Lieutenant Edward l.. Raines.
Twentieth United States infantry. has
been dropped from the roll OF the army
for desertion.
William Jones. negro. was put to
death In the electric chair In Sing
Sing prison in New York for the MUIR
der OF Llewellyn Bum. at Hampstead,
l.. H. on Sept. l, 1907.
While six-year-old Irene Smith was
playing In Ninth avenue at the corner
OF Forty.ninth street in New York. an
automatic penny-in-the-slot weighing
machine fell over on her and inflicted
fatal injuries.
Wednesday, March 10.
Charles Quimby, who shot and killed
his wife on Christmas morning, 1907.
was hanged at New Castle. Pa.
Mrs. Margaret Ellen Liscom. the
first white child born In Chicago after
its incorporation as a city in 1886. Is
dead in Bloomington. Ill.
]. S. Richardson. Of South Carolina.
chief clerk of the internal revenue
bureau, has been promoted to be reve-
nue. agent at Philadelphia, and he will
be succeeded by F. j. Starek. now In
Commissioner Capers' Office.
Peter II. Smith. formerly judge OF
the common pleas OF l.ackawanna
county. and later a Judge OF the state
superior court. from which he retired
four years ago because OF failing
health. died in Scranton. aged fifty
seven years.
Thursday, March II.
Five persons were drowned In the
Alabama river at Montgomery. Ala.
during a food coused by heavy rains.
Six negroes were killed at Cuthbert.
Ga. by a tornado and twelve business
buildings were almost totally de-
stroyed.
Lloyd NJ. Tillman has been assigned
Il the bank examiners district OF Penn
sylvania made vacant by the death OF
Examiner Charming Bingham.
In street duel at Emporia. Va. J.
Thomas Brantley. police sergeant.
was shot and instantly killed and p. b.
Sheffield was so badly wounded that
he died later.