The Democratic advocate., 1909-12-24
GENERAL NEWS.

in the kitchen of their home here at
noon Friday in quarrel over money
matters.
Mr. John H. Carnes, assistant chief
in the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing at Washington, ended his life Fri
day morning at the Relay Sanitarium,
Relay, by hanging himself from a radir
ator pipe in his room.
The canning warehouse of ]. Oaln
Clark, of Ridgley, was burned to the
ground at an early hour Saturday
night. One thousand seven hundred
cases of tomatoes, to be delivered on
Monday, were destroyed
Seized with an attack of heart fail
ure as he stood in the Protestant Epis-
copal Church of the Saviour, Philadel-
phia. Mahlon N. Kline, a well-known
merchant and church worker, toppled
over the back of a pew and fell dead
Saturday.
r. Henry Lynn, of Leesburg, Va,
president of the American National
Bank of Washington, ID. c., was
drowned Friday while cunning for
ducks on the Susquehanna fats at the
mouth of the Susquehanna River, off
the shores near Elkton.
An unknown well-dressed man, evil
IDENTIFY from Columbus, Ohio, was
found murdered early Sunday after
noon in a shed. The mans pockets
were turned inside out and there was
a gag in his mouth. Evidently he had
been dead since Friday.
Despondent because he has been
dismissed as thirdasst. engineer
on the new steamer Wilhelmina, New
port News, Va, which leaves next
week for San Francisco, John J.
Simpson, a marine engineer, of Nor
folk, committed suicide Friday.
The Order of Railway Telegraphers
has started campaign to obtain an
increase In salaries About so mem
bers from divisions OF the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad terminating at
Fairmount and Clarksburg held meet
lngs Friday in those cities.
Dennis Kelly, a flagman for the
Northern Railway at Kenosha, ILL.,,
gave his life Saturday TO save a wo-
man who stood, bewildered. on the
track before an approaching train
Kelly lost his balance and fell under
the train while trying to rescue her
Pete" Kosse, Dimitti Rossica. John
Gocherock and Pete" Peshone, Aus.
trians, were badly injured by an ex-
plosion Of dynamite while blasting
on the Bedford andHollidaya Railroad
near Bedford, late Sunday. and all
save Gocherock are in a critical con-
dition.
In terrific gale that ragged De-
cember over the British Isles the
steamer Thistlemor went TO her
doom OF Appledere, England. in Barn
stable Bay. II is believed that her
whole crew OF 80 men perished Four
bodies have already been washed
ashore
The hunting season In Upper Michi-
gan and Wisconsin this year promises
to be the most fatal for years 10 hunt
ers. for already the number killed is
equal 10 the highest figure In nine
years, with the exception OF 1907, the
worst on record so far the number
killed totals 2S and injured q.
George W. Purcell. Il well-known
labor leader and for several years
member OF the State Labor Commits
sion, was shot and fatally wounded in
a blind tiger at Atlas. Indiana, Satur-
day and is now In Terre Haute hos
pital In a dying condition Taylor
charged with the shooting. is
in Jail.
Miss Goldie lnberg was murdered
and robbed at her home. PittRburg.
Kan. Her assailant forced carbolic
acid down her throat. robbed her Of
her diamond earrings and then drag
ged her out on the front porch. where
she was found later by her mother. /
who was awakened by her daughters
and calling
Agnes Smith and Annie Luedke.
each q years old. who escaped from
the industrial school Milwaukee, via.
on the night Of November 20, made d
iO-milc trip TO Jefferson Junction
TO the rods underneath q pas
5enger car, and then walked 10 miles
across the country In an attempt to
outwit officers they knew would be
seeking them.
John J, Flatch, OF Denver, col. was
Instantly killed early Sunday morning
IN an unusual railroad accident on the /
New York Central between Buffalo
aud Rochester. He was "a passenger
aboard the fast Lake Shore limited
and as he was crossing the ycstibule
between a Pullman sleeper and the
dining ear, the train broke In two. and
be was thrown to HIS death under the
trucks
While riding toward Cumberland
from Patterson's Greek on the Knob .
ley road In Mineral county, West
Virginia, shortly after dusk Monday
night, j. S. Myers, of O.dtnwn. agent
for the United States Lumber Com
pauy was robbed Of $40 in cash after
bis horse had been shot from under
him. The animal was killed and two
men pOunced upon Myers and took his
money He was not injured.
Pursuing his clipping daughter. who
bad run away from home with COL .
lmbus Huey. T. j. Sellers. one OF the .
farmers Of Camilla, Ca. .
was shot to death In the public road F.
ten miles southwest Of here Saturday
afternoon when he caught the fleeing
couple Leaving his body In the road
Huey and Miss Sellers, Il Is alleged, F.
went on driving rapidly in o buggy, /
intending 10 complete the elopemcnt
with a wedding,
Bessie Cahill, of Pittsburg, Pa, still F.
In short dresses. is under $500 bail as
he leader Of band OF robbers. She
Is accused Of having instigated large .
number Of thefts, some OF large
amounts, by d number Of boys. whom !
she gathered about her. Five OF the
boys are in Jail and warrants have
been issued for nine others The girl .
refused 10 speak when questioned, but I.
The five boys, each about rs years Of /
age, blamed her for their troubles.
Considering his are the rennNarn of |