Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-04-24
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Friday, April 10.

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treaty between the United States and
Germany which was agreed to by the
committee on foreign relations.
Senator Stone introduced bill pro.
viding for free trade with the Philip
pine and for the independence OF the
islands within fifteen years.
The body of Alernon Charles Swim
burne. the poet. who died April 10 at
Putney. was laid at rest In the church
yard of St Bonifact, Bonchurch. Isle
of Wight
The Youngstown (O.) Sheet and
Tube company. one Of the largest In.
dependent concerns in the country,
will let contracts for three new tube
mills to cost 100000.
Saturday, April II.
Berry Seaborn. q negro. was cleo.
trocuted in the penitentiary at Rich.
mond. Va. for criminally assaulting a
negro woman.
Mabel Johnson charged with killing
her husband. Louis Johnson. on Feb.
10. was acquitted at Norfolk. Va. the
Jury being out only ten minutes.
Miss Harriet Suter. principal OF one
Of the girls high schools Of New Or.
leans. celebrated the fiftieth anniver.
sary OF her service as o teacher In the
public schools.
Ed Snyder. nineteen years old. was
arrested at Birmingham. Ala. ON the
charge Of infiicting what will prob
ably prove fatal injuries upon his
mother. by throwing vessel OF boiling
water on her back.
Monday, April 10.
William +. cambridge. O conflden-
tial agent of the United States treas
ury department. killed himself in
Paris.
Colonel James r. Montgomery.
member Of General Grants staff dur
ing the Civil War. died In Pasadena.
Cal. aged eighty-two years.
Mrs. Elizabeth Booth Harrington,
mother OF Newton Booth Harrington.
the author, died at her home in In.
dianapolis. Ind. OF heart disease.
Two brothers. Isaac and Louis
Abrahams. flfty-five and fifty years Of
age respectively. were found dead in
their home in New York. having been
asphyxiated by Illuminating gas.
The will of the late Charles p. Ellis.
OF Philadelphia. bequeathed the bulk
of his estate. estimated at $4,000. 900.
for the building Of q home for father.
less girls. on lines similar in many re.
spects to Girard college.
Tuesday, March 20.
Mrs Lucy Palmer Willard. q grand
niece of the late President James A.
Garfield. died In Seattle. Wash.
A washout sent Grand Trunk
freight train from Grand Haven. east
bound into the ditch one mile west Of
Grand Rapids. Mich. and three men
were killed and one was fatally in
jured.
A bolt of lightning shot down
through the vestibule of the Methodist
Episcopal church In the little hamlet
OF Meade. near Detroit. Mich. and al.
though about fifty persons were crowd
ed together. there were but five in.
jured.
Wednesday, April 81.
Four robbers blew open the safe Of
the Bader Savings bank. at Badger.
Ia. secured $500 in silver and gold
and escaped
Miss Rose Fremel fell dead at the
funeral of her brother In Chicago as
the last words of eulogv were being
said over the casket.
John Macarthur. twenty years old.
captain of the Huntington. Ind. foot.
ball team. is dead as the result OF in.
juries received in game here with
the Wabash high school eleven.
st. Louis Compress. No. 2. one OF
the largest cotton congresses in Lit
tie Rock, Ark, was practically de-
stroyed by fire. causing loss which 1t
is estimated will approximate almost
| 100000.
Thursday, March 22.
Roland p. Falkner has accepted the
presidents tender of membership on
the Liberian commission.
Former United States Senator David
Turpie. born in Hamilton county. o.,
in 1929. died in Indianapolis. Ind.
Robbers visited the Office Of the Nor.
ris nursery at West Chester Pa. blew
open the safe and wrecked the place.
but secured less than 81 In cash.
An appropriation Of $4,000 to pay
the travelling expenses Of the presi-
dent. to be expended In his discretion.
during the fiscal year OF 1910. Is pro-
posed in an amendment to the census
appropriation BILL introduced by Sen
ator Guggenheim OF Colorado.