Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-01-30
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.


tssG&lf S&N@a'y 49,
United States Senator James p.
Clarke was reelected at q joint session
OF the legislature OF Arkansas.
Four unknown men were drowned at
Marine City. Mich. while crossing the
st Clair river on the ice from Port
Lambton.
During q fanny quarrel at fronton.
O.. James Taylor was shot and In
stantly killed by his wife. after he
hacked her with butcherknlfe.
Fire OF unknown origin nearly wiped
out the business section Of McAdoo. q
small borough near Hazleton. Pa. and
caused loss estimated at $4,000.
Saturday, January 23.
Ratihcations Of the arbitration treaty
between the United States and Italy
were exchanged by Secretary Root and
the Italian ambassador at the state dc.
partment.
William o. Bethea. young man.
shot and instantly killed his father
George Bethea. without provocation as
the aged man was entering the home
Oh MS uhuHutNt AT $50.
After fifteen years rebellion against
the authority OF the Catholic church.
Rev Father Anton r. Kolaszewski. Of
Cleveland. o., has returned TO the fold
has been forgiven and granted absolu
ton
Fireman Philip Radle was killed and
Engineers John J. Van Buskirk ane
haAIv N rod
IN a head.on collision between a coal
train and a shifting engine near Scran
ton, Pa
Monday. January IS.
Sixty guests at a Grand Rapids.
Mich. hotel are under rigid quaran
tine because fellow guest has devel.
opend smallpox.
John Claypole. aged thirty.eight
years. was shot and killed by Deputy
Sheriff James Motter during the raid
of a large cooking main at Prayville,
near Butler. Pa.
In the presence OF 100 persons on q
Cleveland street. DR.. Christian Sihler.
proprietor OF sanitarium. cut his
throat with pocketknife. but he will
probably recover.
Said to have rifed private boxes In
n bank at Fort Worth Tex. OF jewelry
and money valued at over $4,000.
Leftwich Holland. q clerk In the bank,
has been ARRESTED.
Tuesday. January rs.
The Hotel Roy, at Fonda. N. Y. was
totally destroyed by Are. entailing .
loss of 100000
Rev. DR. Alfred Harding on Monday
was consecrated as bishop of the Pro
testant Episcopal diocese OF Wash
ington.
Richard X. Wallace. a freight con
ductor. was crushed to death by coal
car on the Pennsylvania railroad al
Philadelphia.
Harry Condron. twenty.four years
old. who lost his way. persisted In the
ice and snow within a stones throw
| OF his home at New Castle. near Potts
Vile. Pa.
William Ingersoll Bowditch. a co
worker with William Lloyd Garrison
and John Brown In the anti.slavers
DAYS. died at his home at Brookline
| Mass. aged eighty.nine years.
Wednesday, January 81.
Short In his accounts $500. Post
master ]. W. Kennedy. OF Searchlight
| New. blew out his brains.
The annual reunion OF the United
Confederate Veterans will be held In
Memphis. Tenn, on June 8. 8 and 10.
Henry Miller. yardmaster at the
Reading railway wards at Mahanoy
City. Pa. das run down and killed by o
train.
An explosion of natural gas at Brad.
ford. Pa. wrecked the plant OF the
Tuna Valley Pressed Brick company
and seriously injured r. C. Gordon and
Philip Derry.
Thursday. January 20.
| The senate ratified an arbitration
treaty with Brazil.
| Wilson Heckdom. q miner. was
struck and killed by train at cross
ing fifteen miles north OF Lebanon. Pa
William Spooner. farmer. and hi
en-year.oid son. Wilfrid. were killed
instantly at the Montreal street grade
crossing. Kingston. Ont.
| Curtis N. Buzbey Is under arrest IN
Philadelphia. charged with embezzline
$4,000 from his employers. Vance &
Peters. a hardware Arm.
Frank Clarke. a chemist. was shot
and MORALLY wounded In a quarrel
with Clyde Butterfeld. mail carrier
In hotel at Fort Henry. N. Y.