Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-10-30
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Friday, October %.


DR.. James II. Carlisle. e!ghty.four
years old, president emeritus Of Wof
ford college. died at Spartansburg. s. G.
II. s. McAllister has been appointed
superintendent Of construction OF pub.
lie buildings In the treasury depart.
ment at Washington.
The General Education Board In
New York announced conditional ap.
preparation Of $4,000 to Ohio Yves.
leyan university. at Delaware. o.
Twenty-Five persons were drowned.
following the bursting of a dam at
Lake Derkos, thirty miles northwest
OF Constantinople. which supplies wa,
ter for the Turkish capital.
Saturday, October %.
One murder. two riots. scores OF
street fights and the severance Of
three business partnerships is the re-
suit OF four days Of political strife at.
tendant upon the election Of the first
mayor of Gary. III.
Louis BALKAN. negro preacher. was
hanged at Grove Hill. Ala, for the
murder OF a deputy sheriff last August.
David Taft Robinson. aged ninety.
four years. a cousin of President Taft,
died at Redwood. o.
Edward w. Pecker, shoe manu-.
facturer of Boston and Lynn. Mass.
died at the University hospital at Bal.
timore from the effects of injuries re.
ceived when his automobile turned
turtle near Savage. Md.
Monday, October IS.
A slight earthquake shock at Mem.
phis, Tenn. did no damage.
Toney Tomalitus and wife were ar.
rested at Chicago on charges of coun.
terfeiting.
Charged with stealing $500 from his
eighty-year.old grandfather. Jesse c.
Evans was arrested at Altoona. Pa.
Salvatore Pinello. of Chicago. made
q dying statement that Black Hand.
ers. whose demands he refused. had
shot him.
Returning to his home at Pottstown,
Pa, from the firemen's celebration at
Phoenixville. Harry McCrea. member
of the Philadelphia Fire company. was
found dead in bed at his boarding.
house. with the gas turned on.
Tuesday, October 26.
Matthias Collins, aged fifty years. o
well known farmer near Laurel. DEL,
committed suicide by shooting at his
home.
While Respondent from III health,
Henry c, Carpenter. cashier of the
Queens County Savings Institution. AT
II Broadway. Flushing. N. Y. shot and
killed himself in the vault of the bank.
Fear that his family would have him
adjudged insane led Martin C. ThayH,
aged sixty.seven years. a laborer. OF
Hutchinson. Kan, to shoot his wife.
Mary A. Thayer. and then shoot and
kill himself.
Austin Wright, of Hightstown. N. j.,
attending the convention of the Uni.
versalist church with her husband at
Detroit. Mich, was seized with pull.
monary apoplexy while walking on
Cass avenue and died in hosDital.
Wednesday, October ~.
Jacob Dold. aged eighty-three years
head OF the packing house which bears
his name, died at Buffalo. N. Y.
The dying wish of Francisco An.
dreola was gratified when he had the
biggest funeral ever seen here. and
which cost $1,000.
Leonard Kohler. an electriction, was
cremated in fire that destroyed the
car barns of the Peoria. ILL.,, Terminal
Railway company. Loss. 100000.
Without fear and expressing his for.
giveness for all the officials. Rocco
Racco. a well known Italian. alleged
leader Of Black Hand organization,
and convicted OF the murder OF Selee
Houk. a state game warden. year
ago. was hanged In the county Jail
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