Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1910-04-09
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Friday, April I.

second lieutenant IN 1862. retiring az
ter forty years continuous service
Eleven hundred negro men. women
and children, In one OF the American
Tobacco company's stemmeries at
Louisville. KY. struck. The strikers
were disorderly and the police were
called out.
Harlow ~ Higglnbotham. seventy.
two years old. former president Of the
Worlds Columbian Exposition at Chit
cago. Ia reviving memories Of the Civil
War by tramping from Hot Springs.
Va. to clarksburg. W. Va. by wagon
roads Mr.. Higginbotham says he is
maging the journey for the pure
pleasure Of walking"
Saturday, April 2.
James A. Donnelly. British consul at
Savannah. Ga. died suddenly at his
home OF heart failure. He was born in
South America sixty-three years ago.
Two Italians fought duel in a New
York street not far from the East Side
water front. One of them was killed
by shot fred straight through his
head. His adversary escaped.
DIR. James G. Cumming director of
the Pasteur institute of the University
of Michigan. announced the discovery
of a new method for the treatment Of
hydrophobia. DIR. Cumming uses a
virus.
Monday. April 4.
Charged with embezzling $4,000
from the Bank Of Pine Valley. Wetzell
county, w. Va. Cashier Ezra Mayfeld
was arrested.
To succeed Robert NJ Lafollette in
the United States senate. Samuel A..
Cook. OF Nunah. Wis. has announced
his candidacy.
Elizabeth and Anna Ashton. Dan
vile girls. are in jail at Shamokin,
Pa. charged with breaking into a
Reading railway coach and starting a
fight.
The central convention of the Lay.
mems Missionary Movement OF the Re.
formed Church in the United States.
which meets in Sunbury. Pa. April IL
and 10. will be notable affair.
Tuesday, April D.
The First National bank. OF Ran.
dolph. Neb.. was robbed Of $4,000 by
three masked men. who bound and
gagged Town Marshal Carroll.
Rear Admiral Robley d. Evans. re-
tired. in an interview at San Antonio.
Tex. deplored the fact that congress
had authorized only two battleships
instead of four.
The two Japanese who were arrest.
ed at Manila for attempting TO pur-
chase photographs of the Notifications
of Corregidor. have been released upon
orders from Secretary of War Dickin.
son.
While singing a solo in the Grace
Episcopal church. at Honcsdale. Pa.
Miss Minnie Smith struck her head
against a lighted gas jet. igniting a
large picture hat The soloist coolly
removed her headgear and handed II
TO one of the male members of the
choir.
Wednesday. April 6.
Fred Iampey. fifty-nve years old.
was gored to death by an Infatuated
bull at Lawrenceburg. Ind. while his
mother, eighty years old. looked on
powerlcss.
Harry II. McAllister. son Of a promi-
nent city official of Baltimore. who
quit college to join the army and who
deserted. will be given term OF two
years in the federal prison.
More than 900 saloons have been
voted out OF business by the people Of
twenty Michigan counties. Sixteen
counties voted wet" There are now
forty dry" and forty.three wet" coun-
ties In the state.
The towns of Bramwcll and Poca-
hontas. W. Va. are terrorizcd over the
presence OF panther. which. accord.
ing to advices received here, badly
lacerated two children at Winding
Gulf and Killed thirty sheep ami six
| calves.
Thursday, April 7.
Customs officials AT San Francisco
boiled $4,000 worth Of con,rahani
opium and poured the valuable drug
into the sewers.
While roller skating in the street
at Harrisburg. Pa. Gcnevieve Gano.
the thirteen-yearold daughter OF Rev.
G. r. Gano. Of Carlisle. was run down
by street car and killed
Thomas Noel one Of the colored
mon under sentence Of death who rs.
capped from the Norfolk. Va. county
fail March 20. was captured in Drum.
monds' woods. on the outskirts Of Nor.
folk. He was shot with revolver and
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