Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1910-01-29
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Friday, January n.

william and Charles Mullins, ne
groes. were publicly hanged at os-
ceola. Ark, before 5000 spectators for
the murder Of A. Robinson and his
daughter. houseboat jewellers.
Colonel Robert Lowry. twice COVER
nor OF Mississippi. died at his home.
at Jackson. Miss. aged seventy eight
years. Colonel Lowry in the Confeder-
ate army commanded q Mississippi
regiment.
Mira. Louisa Bradley. thirty.ssven
years old. wife of -. e. Bradley, gen
eral manager OF the st. Louis Post
Dispatch. shot and killed herself in q
rooming house. whittier she had gone
after escaping from two trained nurses.
Saturday. January %.
The Virginia Anti.Saloon league con-
vention at Richmond adopted site
wide prohibition as its policy.
Joseph c. Lance. alias W. II. Borne.
fifty years old. was arrested In Chi
cago on charge OF swindlIng more
than a hundred persons out OF total
OF more than 100000
Roasted TO q crisp, the bodies OF
Mrs. J. A. Mullis and her three-weeks-
old infant were found In the fireplace
OF tho women's homo In the Daniels
Mil settlement. near Lincolnton. N G.
Joseph Durkln. nine years old. was
the hero OF fire In threestory fiat
building in Chicago. when he rescued
his sister. six years old. and CROPPED
his way through the smoke and reused
q man and wife. both invalids. who 90.
capped.
Monday, January "a.
Suit was entered against former
State Treasurer Cameron OF Ohio. and
his bondsmen to recover $2il. 900 a..
legged to have been wrongfully taken
from the state as interest upon state
funds.
Edward Worthine. aged twenty-five.
a laborer In the Barnum mine. died in
the Pittsfan. Pa. hospital with
broken back having been caught be
meath a fall OF roof in the mine a few
days ago.
While Bishop Fawcett was planning
to prevent II. Professor Raymond
Riordan carried three teachers and
forty-three pupils OF Jubilee college
from Peoria. H.. to Laporte. Ind. TO
open another school.
Tuesday. January rs.
Mary Mailie. thirty years old and
single, a lodger at house In Pitts
burg. died at the Allegheny General
hospital OF burns received while smok-
ing cigarettes In bed.
Thirty persons convicted OF running
turkey rafiies and slot machines In the
recent crusade against gambling in
Harrisburg. Pa. we're sentenced by
President Judge Kunkel 10 a fine OF
$50 and costs each.
A gift OF $1,000 900 has been refused
by the six leading Jewish charitable
institutions OF New York city. The
conditions OF the gift of the late Lewis
A. Heinscheimer stipulated that the
benefciaries form federation for col
lection and distribution OF funds They
refused to consolidate.
Wednesday, January 26.
Headquarters OF the Rockefeller
Hookworm Commission has been open.
ed in the Union Trust building in
Washington
W. C. Hayes. former banker OF San
Francisco. was placed under arrest az
Memphis. Tenn. at the request Of the
California authorities. charged with
having violated the banking laws of
that state.
For smuggling Chinese into the Unit
ed States from Mexico. Nick Strato-
kos. OF New Orleans. and Chew Duck
Fun. OF Galveston. Tex. we're sen
fenced at Galveston. to year in the
United States peniteniary at Fort
I.eavenworth. Kan.
Thursday. January 81.
A large section Of the business dis
trict OF Coffeyvllle. Miss. was wiped
out by Are. The loss is about 100000.
The supreme court at Boles. Idaho.
has handed down an opinion declaring
constitutional the local option law that
has been attacked on almost every
provision since It's passage.
John Hoagh. eleven years old. was
killed; Walter Smith. fifteen years old.
was fatally injured. and MaJory
Houghton. aged fourteen. had her leg
broken in coasting accident at The
resa. near Syracuse. n. Y