Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-05-08
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Friday, April so.

| Inc l<OnBmeau coon company ana
other iron companies at Norristown.
Pa. increased the wages Of puddlers
from $3.75 to 81 o ton.
The comptroller OF the currency Is.
sued call for a statement Of the con.
dition of all national banks at the
close of business Wednesday. April rs.
The jewelry store Of John 8. Town.
send in Chicago was robbed of articles
valued at $4,000 by burglars who tested
their plumber with acid before taking
II away.
A monument to Sam Davis. q Con.
federate scout, who. rather than di.
vulge the source of information which
he had secured, suffered death on the
| gallows at the hands of the Federals
at Pulaski. Tenn. on Nov. 81. 1863.
was unveiled at Nashville. Tenn.
| Saturday, May I.
Willie Carter, negro. was hanged
at Bamberg, 8. c., for the murder OF
his paramour.
Officers of the Worlds Christian En-
deavor union completed the purchase
of a lot In Boston for the site of an
international headquarters building.
Clifford G. Raynor. formerly manag-
ing clerk for the Jenkins Trust COM
pany. OF Brooklyn. pleaded guilty to
forging notes to the amount OF $4,000
while employed by that company.
The Phi Kappi Psi fraternity con.
cluded It's annual convention at Har.
risburg. Pa. by selecting Meadville
as the place for next years meeting
and the election OF e. 8. Sprowls. OF
Washington and Jefferson. as worthy
junior archon.
Monday, May 8.
The will of Governor Lilley. of Con-
necticut. devised an estate Of $1,000
900. one.third of which was In life In
surance.
Henry w. Gazell. officer of q bank
in Cleveland. was sentenced to seven
years in the penitentiary for the theft
of 100000.
Admiral George Dewey and q num-
Der OF naval officers who sailed with
him into Manila bay on May /. 1898.
at banquet in Washington celebrated
the eleventh anniversary Of that mem
orable victory.
President Charles w. Eliot, of Har
ward university, will be honored by the
mikado of Japan on May IL with the
decoration OF the Order OF the Rising
Sun. which will be bestowed upon him
by Ambassador Takahira at Boston.
Tuesday, May 4.
Samuel Eberly Gross. sixty-ive
years of age. was married at Battle
Creek, Mich. to Miss Ruby Louise
Haughey. eighteen years OF age.
William Zeltyt was shot and In
stantly killed and Simon Michwerski
was fatally wounded during a fight
with Frank Linski In Chicago dance
hall.
Tired OF life. Ellsworth 8. Fl. Sandel,
a painter and paperhanger OF Read
ing. Pa. committed suicide by swal
lowing q big dose of chloroform and
arsenic.
A. II. Demerick. an electrical engi.
neer. was drowned in sluicing tun-
nell 800 feet long, which was cut
through a solid mountain at one end
OF the Roosevelt storage reservoir at
Phoenix. Ariz.
Wednesday, May s.
| Peter Wells. q veteran undertaken
Of Elwood, Ind. who had made 1874
collins by hand. is dead at the age OF
e!Shty-.hree years.
The supreme court Of Colorado held
that clubs in prohibition towns have
no right to dispense liquer even to
their own members.
Dependent because OF continued Ill
health. William F. Dose. a newspaper
man OF Belleville. ILL.,, committed sui
eide in Central park. New York. by
shooting himself through the head.
| On a charge Of having murdered q
railroad section foreman in Texas
thirty years ago, a man known as
John Adams. who had been working
as a laborer, was arrested at Fred
erick, Okla. by deputy sheriff.
Thursday, May 9.
| DR.. ]. Counterman. of New Albany
seventy-five years of age. pleaded gull
ty In the United States district court
at Fort Scott. Kan. to the charge OF
counterfeiting.
| Addison S. Beardsley. confidential
secretary to Carpenter & Co.. real es-
tate brokers In New York, was SEN
fenced to prison for FIVE years for en-
bezzling $4,000.
Delirious from illness. Captain VIII
liam Cook, prominent Elk and
noted drill master. leaped from
fourth-story window at Toledo. O.. and
| was instantly killed.