Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1910-02-26
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Friday. February Is.

superintendent OF the Anti.Cruelty
Society. and he recommends that the
surplus be put out of existence.
Rabbi A. |. Levy pastor of a large
congregation in Chicago. has closed
the purchase OF $4,000 acres OF farm
lands in Pierce County. Ga. to be
used In the Jewish agricultural move
ment which was inaugurated in 1850.
with a view OF checking an cpl
demic Of typhoid fever, the Health
Board. City Council and Waierworks
Board decided to erect di,lnf.ctlng
plant on the Mississippi RRiver.
There are 500 cases of typhus in Min
neapolis.
Saturday, February 10.
In pistol duel on the streets OF
Georgetown Ga. G. d. Keigler. shot
and fatally wounded his brother.ln-
law. Walter Vining.
Three elephants owned by a show
man broke away from a street parade
In San Francisco Many persons had
narrow escapes from being trampled.
Entering q butcher shop. the beasts
half wrecked the place. then headed
for n winery. where they tossed bar.
reIs and kegs about. They were final.
~ cornered in vacant lot
William Terry. mechanic. IL
deal at Memphis. Tenn. and Hem
Spencer. clerk. is held on charge Of
murder as n result OF pistol duel.
Enndav Eehr,tarv 81
While cutting down trees. John
Weiss. Of Ackermanville. Pa. acciden-
tally cut slice out Of HIS head as the
axe slipped.
For the first time in years ice has
formed in the Gulf Of Mexico. follow
Ing drop Of "a degrees in tempera-
ture at Galveston. Tex.
William r. Holloway. OF Montgom-
cry. Ala. was elected president OF the
HungarIan.American bank at New
York. to succeed T. s. De Lima.
J. II. Hawthornwaite. a Socialist
member OF the provincial parliament
OF Nanaimo. b. c.. will introduce bill
excluding Oriental children from pub
lie schools
Tuesday, February %.
AS result of continuing tests. the
Commercial club OF Omaha Neb.. an.
nounced that only 27ls per cent of
corn held by farmers for seed In Ne
braska win grow
The validity OF the ordinance Of the
San Francisco supervisors prohibiting
burial OF the dead within its limits.
except that part under Jurisdiction of
the United States vas upheld By the
supreme court.
Hogs sold at the Chicago stock
yards at 81 80 a hundred. topping all
previous records since 1870. when the
SO point was reached Small receipts
ut the principal picking centers caus.
ei the advance
Wednesday, February %.
Two men were killed by prema.
turc blast in the East Side coal mine
at Equality. Ill., Forty other miners
escaped.
Rev. Oman Eilyson. aged eighty.five
years, a native Of Richmond. Va. for
halt century and well known as a
Baptist minister died at Lynchburg.
Va. after a brief Illness.
In the presence OF his victims
twelye.yearold son. Pete Dynlch. a
boarder stabbed Mrs. Thomas Marko-
vich to death in Duauesne, Pa. Dynich
then went 10 the cellar and sank the
knife In his left breast.
Baron Dailkora KiFnchi. deputized
by the Japanese government to pay
tribute to the memory of the late DR..
David Murray. who was instrumental
In establishing the public school sys-
TEN OF japan. visited Or. Murray's
grave at New Brunswick. n. j.. and
decorated II with wreaths of roses.
Thursday. February "a.
Solomon Shepard. sentenced for
neer Holt. at Durham. escaped from
the convict gang at Laurinburg. n c.
Thirty.seyen states were represented
at The meeting of the Rural Free De.
livery Carriers Mutual Benefit assoc
citation convention al Cincinnati. when
a national organization was formed.
The discovery was made that
thieves had been plrndering tho Soy
enit regiment armory IN New York.
of fixtures and decorations worth over
$4,000 Among the loot We're two bronze
candelabra. each ten feet tall and
weighing ton.
Visions Of fortune were shattered.
along with the interior OF n kitchen.
In Roxbury. Mass. when Charles Dia-
mond and Atkinson Sayles were seri.
ously injured in an explosion result.
Ing from their attempts to cook" a
new washing powder Of their own in
ventlon.