Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1910-06-04
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Friday. May AZ.

Friday. May AZ.
The Panama Railroad company has
contracted for semi.bituminous coal,
totalling $4,000 tons. for next year.
Owing to the danger OF spontaneous
combustion. due TO excessive moisture
nthe zone air. no bids for bituminous
coal were considered.
u. w. Ebeien. a well known horse.
man OF Henderson. KY. was shot and
killed. and Matte White. q coiored
servant. was fatally wounded by Mrs.
Ebclen. Mrs. Ebelen gave herself up.
saying either she or her husband had
TO die. Jealousy was the cause
Roy L. Hickman. twenty-one years
old. son OF DR.. Glyndeur Hickman. was
clectrocuted at the Metropolitan Elec-
trio company's plant In Reading Pa.
his foot coming in contact with a
charged wire. He was engaged to be
married to Miss Gertrude Devine.
Saturday. May 20.
Goaded by schoolmates. who made
fun OF his suffering. Leonard. the fif-
teen.year-old son OF 8. d. Lawrence. a
lumberman at Genoa, ILL.,, drowned
himself In Fox river.
The total catch OF fur seals by ma.
tives of the Alaska coast this season
will not be more than 1875 pelts. Japa-
nese sealers using mufiied power boats
will reap a harvest.
Clad only In a night robe. Mrs. VIII.
liam Stroker. forty.three years old. Of
Chicago. committed suicide by throw.
ing herself In front OF q train. Her
body was badly mangled. She was de-
ranged.
Monday. May 80.
His axe slipping, Edward Dietz, OF
near Marietta. Pa. cut his left foot so
seriously that he tainted as he hobbled
In to his home.
Fourteen hundred employees Of the
Malleable Casting company. OF Toledo.
o.. are thrown out OF work through a
strike of seventy men In the moulders'
department.
Her apron catching fire from a stove
about which she was doing some cook
ing. Mrs. Margaret McGarvey. aged
eighty.four years. OF Wilmington. Del.
was so badly burned that she died at
the Delaware hospital.
Under the guidance Of Father John
G. Hagen. director OF the Vatican OBJ
servatory in Rome. the pope has made
an observation OF Halley's comet. His
holiness remarked that what he saw
scarcely warranted the commotion that
the comet has caused throughout the
world.
Tuesday, May 81.
Bernard Dierkes. city auditor Of st.
Louis from 1901 to 1909. shot and kill
ed himself.
The output OF the governments
smokeless powder factory at Picatin-
ny. N. j., arsenal is to be trebled and
the factory will turn out 5000 pounds
daily.
Two houses In the village OF Guth.
RE. W. Va. we're destroyed by a tor.
nado which passed up the Elk valley.
Several persons were injured and
much live stock killed.
Van Pressly shot and killed his faith.
er. John Pressly. at Laurel Hill. near
Nashville, Tenn. because the latter re.
fused to let him have horse to ride
The young man is barricaded In his
fathers house and declares he will not
be taken alive.
Wednesday, June I.
Three hundred and fifty coal men.
representing associations OF Ohio.
Michigan and Indiana. met in Toledo.
o.. and effected a merger OF the th,cr
organizations.
The statute OF Missouri. passed on
March 10. 1907. prohibiting foreign
corporations from doing business with
In the state II they seek litigation in
the United States courts. was declared
unconstitutional by the supreme court
Of the United States.
Shuford Abernehty. thirty.sik years
old. lumber dealer OF Bridgewater.
near Hickory. n. c.. was instantly
killed. and Robert Hodges. aged thirty
seven years. also OF Bridgewater. was
seriously injured by a Southern freight
train while walking on a siding.
Thursday, June 2.
Six fishermen lost their lives when
the brigantine Manve. OF Cancalc.
France. struck on Point Blanche while
entering St. Pierre. Miquelon. In a
thick fog.
Mrs. Sarah Caldwell. sixty years Of
age. who had long been III. jumped
from an upper window OF her home in
Newburgh. N. Y. and died OF frac-
tured skull.
One workman was killed and seven
we're injured yhen a scaffold collapsed
at the plant Of the Forged Steel Wheel
company. under construction at Lyn.
dora. near Pittsburg. Pa. The men fell