Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-09-18
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.



Friday. September 10.
Alice Webb Duke. divorced wife Of
Brodie L. Duke, the tobacco magnate.
was committed to the asylum for the
insane at Kankakee. I'll.
During a quarrel at the dinner table
nj San Antonio, Tex. Edward Black
shot his wife twice. fatally wounding
her. and in turn was shot and killed by
Arthur Clifford. his wife's brother.
The dead body OF Tony Maralle, o
young Italian. who had lived here the
past three months. was found with the
throat cut from ear to ear. in the water
Of the old Erie canal on the outskirts
81 Rome. N. Y.
Saturday. September n.
A bequest of $4,000 to Berea college
II Berea. KY. was made by the will Of
Dr. william r. Wesselhoeft. which
was fled for probate at Boston.
Fire destroyed the summer cottage
Of Robert A. Walsh, at White Bear
lake. Mimi, and three children OF Q
family Of thirteen were burned to
death.
The Tennessess. flagship Of the Pa
cific feet. broke all records for the
journey between San Francisco and
Honlulu. making the voyage In four
days and seventeen hours.
James Brennan. aged seven years.
was run over and killed At San Fran
cisco by an automobile In which Al
Kaufman. the prize fighter. was re-
turning from the arena at Colma after
his fight with Jack Johnson.
Monday, September 10.
Bishop Walden, Of the Methodist
church. has been made chaplain Of the
Ohio grand lodge Of Masons.
when Mrs. James Remaley. Of Weiss
port, Pa. returned from visit. she
found her husband dead In bed OF
heart disease.
The Louisiana cotton crop being
short. Governor Sanders has asked the
growers to sell 1t as slowly as possible
so as to get higher prices later.
After vainly pleading with his young
yife to return to him. John Veg. aged
twenty.six years. of Pittsburg. shot and
fatally wounded the woman and then
fired bullet into his own abdomen,
dying moment later.
Tuesday, September "a.
The Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition
at Seattle entered its last quarter
Monday with every cent Of it's float
ing Indebtedness paid.
John Washburn, fourteen years old,
shot and killed himself in the woods
near Freeport. Mich, when about to
be arrested for burglarizing grocery
and hardware store.
Fifteen.year-old AIDE de Pratt tried
to kill herself at Nevada, Mo-. when
she learned that two prisoners at the
county jail had told the sheriff that
she had given them a saw with which
TO cut through the prison bars.
Judge Martin F. Morris, formerly
chief justice of the court OF appeals OF
the District OF Columbia, and one OF
the Oldest and most prominent mem.
bers fthe bar in Washington. died
at his home. aged seventy.four years.
Wednesday, September IS.
Secretary of the Interior Ballinger
declares that he has no intention OF
resigning as q result of the Pinchot
controvers:'.
Five women and a baby were seri'
ously injured when taxicab In which
they were riding was wrecqed by o
street car in Pittsburg.
With a 22-caliber bullet imbedded In
the center OF his brain. fred there with
suicidal intent more than two weeks
ago. Frank Blaine left the Casualty
hospital In Washington. discharged as
cured.
Members OF the American Bankers
association oppose postal savings
banks and will urge congress to amend
the law so as to permit national banks
to conduct a savings department and
thus meet demand for savings In small
communities.
Thursday, September 10.
John J. Swanger's -four mill at My
erstown. Pa. was destroyed by Are
entailing a loss of $4,000.
Lister Philips, twenty-five years old
was crushed to death at New Holland
Pa. when six tons of rock fell from
the side of a quarry in which he was
working.
Pay Director James A. Ring. senior
officer of the pay corps Of the navy
and for many years In charge Of the
pay ONCE at Portsmouth, N. H.. retired