Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1910-01-22
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Friday, January "a.


sion OF gas in palm garden owned by
Henry Messerschmidt at Tarmington
Wis.
A plan was launched at the meeting
o fthe board OF directors OF the George
washington university. In Washington,
70 raise 100000 as an endowment
fund within the next three years.
Carl Washer. fifteen years old,
stopped a Baltimore g. Ohio passenger
train within ten feet OF a burning
bridge west Of Weltsboro. Ind. by sig
Mailing the engineer with a red hand.
kerchief Passengers In the four crowd.
ed coaches made up purse OF 800.
Saturday, January is.
Calogaro Siragusa. who was SEN
fenced to three years following his
conviction OF a charge Of circulating
counterfeit money at Williamsport,
Pa. was given an additional two years
for an attack upon a deputy United
States marshal.
Trembling and pleading that he be
taken TO some other place for fear OF
mob violence. Henry Smith. the negro
convicted with three others OF muir
dering Walter F. Schultz. an artist Of
Chicago, at Alexandria. Va, was sen.
fenced to be electrocutcd. Smith de-
cinred that he was not afraid to die in
the chair. but he did not want TO be
thevictim Of mob
Monday. January II.
Arrested at Terre Haute, Ind, Harry
Epperly admitted having three wives
living
Pellagra killed Mrs. Sadie Clemens
an inmate OF the State Hospital fer the
Insane at Elgin. III.
Blood poisoning. following an Injury
to one foot. killed John W. Greiden-
thai. former state bank commissioner,
at Kansas City. Kan.
The death sentence was imposed at
Belleville. H.. on Willis Clark. DOL.
orcd. who killed a motorman and
wounded and robbed a conductor on an
East St Louis car
Tuesday. January 10.
The bill admitting Arizona and New
Mexico to statehood was adopted in
the house and will now be sent to the
senate.
Frank Phillips. an employe Of the
r. NJ. Holt plaid mills. at Burlington,
Va. was caught and wound around =
shaft. receiving perhaps fatal injuries
Former Governor George p. werts.
one of the best known Democratic
politicians in the state of New Jersey.
died at his home in Jersey City from
pneumonia.
James Lavine. colored. employed at
the Friends school at Arlington. near
Norristown, Pa. who was convicted OF
robbing the pupils of that institution.
was sentenced to eighteen months i'm
prisonment in the county jail
Wednesday, January 10.
Mrs. Margaret Collier Graham, au-
thor and magazine writer. is dead At
her home In Pasadena, Cal. aged
sixty-two years
About 1000 operatives In all have
gone out on strike In Fall River. Fish
erville. Fitchburg and AT several other
points in Massachusetts because OF
reduction in wages caused by the new
fifty-six hour law.
Losing his balance rs he WAS cross
Ing plank over the elevator shaft Of
the new Union Theological seminary
In New York. Alexander Does. fore
man OF a gang OF plasterers. fell seven
stories and was killed.
Papers have been signed In Balti.
more by two OF the three interests
controlling the A. S. Abel estate trans.
ferring to, Charles II. Grasty control
OF the stock in the A. S Abel COM
pnny. which publishes the Baltimore
Sun.
Thursday, January 20.
David Abel and Biddle Gist. negro
convicts on the chain gang at Chester.
S. c.. were instantly killed by the ex-
plosion of stick OF dynamite. which
Abel was thawing out.
Harry Rife vas electrocuted at Co
lumhus. o.. for the murder on July 8.
1909. OF Mrs. Ida Griswold librarian
at Eaton. o. The woman refused TO
marry Rife.
As result OF quarrel over the set
Element OF a sisters estate at San
Francisco. Of which they had been ex-
ecutors. Michael J. Erby. aged sixty
two. shot and killed his brother Pat
rick in the entrance TO the superior
court.