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

Mrs. Josephine Magino and Two OF
her children, Annie and Jimmie Lup1-
ca, of Cleveland, Ohio, were murdered
in the kitchen of their home here at
noon Friday in a 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 Sanitarinm,
Relay, by hanging himself from radl-
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 fall
ure as he stood in the Protestant Epls-
copal Church of the Saviour, Philadel-
phia. Mahlon N. Kline, a, well-knoWn
merchant and church-worker, toppled
over the back of pew and fell dead
Saturday.
r. Henry Lynn, of Leesburg, Va,
president of the American National
Bank of Washington, D. c., was
drowned Friday while cunning Tor
ducks on the Susquehanna flats at the
mouth of the Susquehanna River, OH
the shores near Elkton
An unknown well-dressed man, EVIL
dently 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 a third-asst. engineer
on the new steamer Wilhelm1na, 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 5O mem
bers from divisions of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad terminating at
Fairmount and Clarksburg held meet
ings Friday in those cities.
Dennis Kelly, a fagman for the
Northern Railway at Kenosha, ILL.,,
gave his life Saturday to save 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 andHollidays Railroad
near Bedford, late Sunday, and all
save Gocherock are in critical con-
dition.
In a terrific gale that ragged De-
cember over the British Isles the
steamer Thistlemor went to her
doom off Appledere, England, in Barn
stable Bay 1t is believed that her
whole crew of 80 men perished. Four
bodies have already been washed
ashore.
The hunting season in Upper Mich1-
gan and Wisconsin this year promises
to be the most fatal for years to hunt
erS, for already the number killed is
equal to the highest figure in nine
years, with the exception of 1907, the
worst on record. So far the number
killed totals 20 and injured 27.
George w. Purcell, well-knOwn
labor leader and for several years a
member of the State Labor Commis-
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
Shuttles, charged with the shooting, is
in jail
Miss Goldie Inberg was murdered
and robbed at her home, Pittsburg,
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 13 years old, who escaped from
the industrial school Milwaukee, Wis,
on the night of November 20, made a
40-mile trip to Jefferson Junction
clinging to the rods underneath pas
senger 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
and Rochester. He was passenger
aboard the fast Lake Shore limited
and as he was crossing the vestibule
between a Pullman sleeper and the
dining car, the train broke in two. and
he was thrown to his death under the
trucks.
While riding toward Cumberland
from Patterson's Creek on the Knob
ley road, in Mineral county, West
Virginia, shortly after dusk Monday
night, ]. s. Myers, of Oldtown, agent
for the United States Lumber Com
pany, was robbed of $140 in cash after
his 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 eloping daughter, who
had run away from home with Col
umbus Huey, T. ]. Sellers, one of the
wealthiest farmers of Camilla, Ca,
was shot to death in the public road
ten miles southwest of here Saturday
afternoon when he caught the fleeing
couple. Leaving his body in the road,
Huey and Miss Sellers, it is alleged,
went on, driving rapidly in buggy,
intending to complete the elopement
with a wedding.
Bessie Cahill, of Pittsburg, Pa, still
In short dresses, is under $500 bail as
the leader of band of robbers. She
is accused of having instigated large
number of thefts, some of large
amounts, by a number of BOYS, whom