Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1910-05-28
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.


Friday, May 40.
Councilman +. s. Fernstrom startled
the Salt Lake. Utah city council by as
sorting that he had been offered
bribe. and charging Mayor J. 5 Brans.
ford with collision with contractor
In changing the terms of a sewer pipe
contract.
Complete returns from Tuesdays
election in Denver. Colo. show that
Miss Ellis Meredith. we'll known club
woman. has been chosen election COM
missioner. her total of 20.997 exceed
Ing the combined vote OF her seven
men competitors She Is the first wo-
man elected 10 Office In Denver.
Saturday, May Fl.
| Trade between the United States and
, Panama in the fiscal year ending next
month will exceed s22.00O.O00.
After unsuccessful efforts to take
her life with razor and an axe. Mrs.
j. H. Deal. twenty-scven years old OF
Maiden. n. C.. saturated her clothes
with oil and set fire TO herself. She
leaves two young children.
| Travelling alone one-third the way
around the world. ten.ycar.old Lois
Reed Mcclure arrived at New Castle.
Pa. from Bombay. India. The girl Is a
daughter OF the late Rev. Reed Nc.
Ciure. of New Wilmington. Pa. a
United Presbyterian missionary. who
died two years ago.
Monday, May 20.
| AS the result OF fall against an
iron bed during scufile at his board
ing house In Berwick. Pa. Steven Bar
shun has died.
| While Mrs. W. II. French. OF Craley-
vile. was preparing coal oil TO apply
to an injured hog she was burned al
most to death.
| Grieving over the dedath OF her son
from ptomaine poisoning. Mrs. John
Holland died at Tfiin, o.. and was
buried with her boy.
Previous smoking records were
smashed by Walter ". Soergel. at Chi
cago. who smoked an ordinary cigar
for lis minutes and thirty seconds
without relighting.
Tuesday, May "a.
| A fire destroyed the dwelling OF
James Alexander. in Hazleton. Pa.
and one OF the inmates. Mrs. Kate In.
Germ, was burned to death.
| Canaries constituted SO per cent of
the birds imported into the United
States during the past year. nearly
| 3I5.000 OF these pets singing their
way into American ports in 1909.
The department of justice is investi.
eating the subject OF the price of
lumber In the United States to deter.
| mine whether or not the lumber trust
may be reached by the Sherman anti
trust law.
Porter. twentysix-year-old horse,
has been given recognition by the Chi
cago commissioners. who have for
mally passed resolutions congratulate
ing him on his sixteen years of service
| and retired him. pensioned for life, 10
spend the remainder of his days In
luxury.
Wednesday. May rs.
| Two thousand coal miners In 81.
| Clair county, ILL.,. returned to work.
| having been out for two months. The
miners got 2 cents ton increase.
| Governor Sanders. OF Louisiana. has
signed constitutional amendment
submitting the proposal of s4.o0o.000
tn kin support Of the proposed Worlds
Panama exposition at New Orleans in
1915.
| A resolution requesting the authori.
ties 10 pro iibit railroads from using
wooden mail ears was passed by the
eighteenth annual convention of the
Railway Mail Clerks Association Of
| America at Kansas City. Mo.
The Grand army pos, at Bethel. Mo-,
having dwindled from 100 members to
ten. sold it's property. consisting OF
muskets. cartridge belts. swords flags,
| flfc and druIl. at auction. terminating
| the existence OF body organized over
thirty years ago
Thursday. May &c.
Through tine capsizing OF raft on
the East river at New York three ltal
ian boys were drowned. Two Others
We're rescued.
Alexander Combee. Of Breathi,i
county. Ky. was killed from ambush
while floating down the Kentucky
river on raft.
After being dry" for year. forty
model saloons were licensed in
Rockford. Ill., The new ordinance in
cludes the prohibition of treating and
free lunch counters.
Forty-eight pals of cloves. consgn
cd to a Cincinnati spice company will
he destroyed under the pure food act
by federal inspectors in New York
The oil has been extracted from the
cloves by chemical process and they
have been stained with iron to hide