Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-07-10
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.


Friday, July q.
Policeman Henry Schnadie was kili-
ed In Chicago by burglar he was at
tempting to arrest.
George w. Reik, Of Maryland. was
appointed private secretary to Post
master General Hitchcock.
Rev Parry Thomas. formerly pas
tor of the Little Church Around the
Corner" in New York. died in Pueblo.
| Colo. in a sanitarium.
About 5000 employees at the bureau
Of engraving and printing at Wash
ington were shifted from the monthly
pay roll to the per diem basis.
The wages of the $500 men and boys
employed In the plant of the Maryland
| Steel company at Sparrows Point. Nd.
were increased 10 per cent thus re-
storing the scale in effect prior to
April last.
Saturday, July ;.
While worrying over debts Mrs.
Mary Erckins committed suicide at
Harrisburg. Pa. by shooting herself
through the heart.
With a razor Daniel McNichols, Of
| Yonkers. ~ T.. killed his wife Alice
and then inflicted probably fatal
wound on himself.
Martha Gray King. OF Ulster. Pa. a
grandniece OF former President of the
United States James X Polk. was mar
ried al Binghamton. n. Y. TO Charles
| Scott Miller.
Judge Kinkead. Of the common pleas
court at Columbus. o. fined Nelson
| Cannon. former agent of the Trinidad
Paving company. of Cleveland. $500
on plea OF guilty OF bribing members
of the board of public service in the
| paving scandal.
Tuesday. July 8.
From the shock OF breaking an arm.
ninety.year-old Mrs. Christina Richie
died near Washington Pa.
One white man and three negroes
were drowned when a skin capszed
in n squat AZ Hickman n. Y
Through installing carbolic acid
bottle for one containing whisky, l..
D. O'Kelley. a policeman. of Salisbury.
| n. c.. Is dead.
For sending threatening letters to
Rudolph Spreckels. Benjamin w.
| Soule OF San Francisco was sentenc-
| cd to four years in the penitentiary.
Because she insisted on going to
moving picture show. Edward Bailey.
OF New Orleans. fatally shot his step.
daughter. Doris Sweeney. aged sixteen
years.
Wednesday, July z.
Emily Morgan. colored. probably the
Oldest resident OF Georgia. is dead at
| Columbus. at the age OF III years.
Lieutenant Commander William X.
Gise. executive officer of the gunboat
Annapolis. station ship at the naval
station at Tutuila. Samoa. died at that
place.
BY the collapse OF bridge over a
swollen stream near Maryville. Mo-.
| Charles Daniels and John Brewer. two
farmer boys. with their team, were
| drowned.
Benjamin Simcox seventy-seven
| years old. veteran of the Crimean
war, and who claimed to have taken
part in the famous charge at Bala-
| klava. died at Lexington. Ky.
Thursday, July 8.
While insane. George Knerzer killed
his wife at Lodi. Wis, and then com
mitted suicide by drowning in shall
| low pool.
Following long established Gus
tom. the senate voted six months sal
airy to the widow of its late chaplain,
Rev. Or. Edward Everett Hale
Colonel Atilla Cox. president of the
Louisville Henderson & ST. Louis and
director OF the Louisville & Nash
vile railroad and widely known
financier. died at Louisville. KY, after
long illness.
Anna Spangler the four-year-old
daughter OF a wealthy farmer of Sun
Prairie. near Madison, Wis. who was
thought TO have been kidnapped by
two men in an automobile. was found
three miles from home, unhurt.