Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-01-23
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Friday. January IS.

Friday, January IS.
Feb. 10. 1909, at o'clock. was desig-
mated as the time for counting the
ELECTORAL vote In the house of represen'
tatfves.
Fire damaged the Blissard Dancing
academy's building. In North Warren
street. Trenton. N. j.. to the ext mt oil
$4,000.
Charles Stanberger. once rich and
prosperous merchant. was found living
In a stable at Altoona. Pa. and sent to
the almshouse.
Miss Jane Beatrice Mills. daughter
OF Ogden Mills. was married to the
Earl OF Granard. a British nobleman.
NJ the home OF her parents In New
York.
Saturday, January 10.
The Bank of Coal Center. Pa. was
closed by State Bank Examiner James
Cover because OF bad loans.
Mrs. Nathan l5herrard and four chill
dren. aged from one to six years. were
burned to death when fire destroyed
their cabin at Echlin's lumber camp.
srsy miles north OF Ashland. Wis.
cholson Mathewson. brother Of
.,nristy Mathewson. the pitcher OF the
New York baseball club Of the Ma
tionaI league. died from bullet wound
self.inflicted at his home in Factory
Vile, Pa. near Scranton.
Andrew Carnegie has subscribed
$3.50 towards fund for a new pipe
organ for Old Swedes Protestant Epis-
copal church. at Wilmington. Del. pro.
vided the remainder OF the $4,000 re-
quired Is made up.
Monday. January 10.
Joseph E. Merrill who recently died
at Newton. Mass. left 100000 to Bow
dom college.
Z. A. Laurent. OF Nashville Tenn.
was shot and killed by Charles Smith.
a planter. at Artesia. Miss.
Professor B. II. Gilbau. OF the Louis
lana State university. committed sui
Gle 81 shooting at Baton Rouge.
William Meighan, carpenter. fell
from a coal breaker In course of con-
struction at Wilkes-Barre. Pa. and
was instantly killed.
A shortage of $15.536 has been found
in the treasury of Stark county. o..
and Treasurer Knoblock. OF Canton.
has been asked to resign.
Tuesday, January 10.
Burglars entered the State bank at
Carrier. Okla, wrecked the safe and
escaped with $4,000.
]. G. Wood, of Salt Lake. millionaire
mine owner and perhaps the largest
sheep owner In the west. was instantly
killed BY a train at Salt Lake City.
Utah.
AS Judge Murphy. at Hamilton. o..
sentenced Buck Cottongame. feudist.
to the penitentiary for life for the
murder OF Parrish Arnet. the father OF
Arnet fell dead In the courtroom.
Rev. Asberry Wilkinson. ninety-one
years old. said to have been perhaps
the Oldest Methodist minister In the
entire country. both In years and In
point OF service. died at Lake Charles.
La.
The famous Spring Hill college. at
Mobile, Ala, one of the Oldest Jesuit
colleges In the southern states. and
which was well known in the United
States and Europe. was destroyed BY
Are.
Wednesday, January 20.
The anniversary OF the birth OF Gen
eral Robert z. Lee. on Tuesday. Jan.
10. was observed as a holiday in Au-
gusta, Ga.
Three persons. woman and her two
children. were burned to death in
IRE in a onc.story and basement house
on Bergen street. Brooklyn.
President Roosevelt has accepted an
invitation OF the University OF Berlin
to give a lecture to the students and
faculty Of the university In May. 1910.
John Bentley. farmer living on n
claim near st. John. N. D.. killed his
wife and himself as a result of
quarrel. In the presence OF their six
children.
Thursday, January ~.
Arbitration treaties with Costa RIGA.
Austria Hungary and Chile were or
dered favorably reported by the SEN
ate committee on foreign relations.
Thieves secured $1100 worth of pre-
cious stones from William Rassweiler.
a diamond merchant OF Chicago. dur.
ing his temporary absence from his
store.
Fire destroyed the buildings com
prising the Brookside Woollen mills
and the George z. Moore wool securing
plant at Lowell. Mass. entailing loss
Of $650.000,
The board Of overseers OF Harvard
college confirmed the nomination OF
Professor Abbott Lawrence Lowell as
president Of Harvard university. to
succeed President Charles William
Eliot.