Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1910-01-15
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Friday, January =.

WIN *Af,VVV VI uEhito anu Chsu VA
his person. Harry Wilson. OF Knox
Vile. Tenn. has disappeared from
Denver. Colo.
John Elliott was killed and Alonzo
Hatteras probably fatally injured by
being struck by tho Delaware railroad
pay train at Delmar. Del.
Hugh wellick and John Lacocach
were instantly killed when a Pennsyl-
vania railroad passenger train struck
the wagon In which they were cross
ing the railway tracks ut Latrobe. Pa
Saturday, January 9.
City Judge Edwin s. Cochran, Jr,
Of Wilmington Del. was seriously in
trred by falling on the ice at Delaware
avenue and Rodney street.
The Guatemalan consul and friends
OF Nine. Barrios. widow Of the former
president Of Guatemala. who entered
an almshouse on New Years day at
New Orleans. have persuaded her to
return TO her native country. She will
receive a pension.
The postmaster Of Charleston. w.
Va. Is In receipt OF two-cent stamp
from young woman living In Los An.
geles. who states In letter that two
years ago, while here. she mailed q
package and the government was done
out OF the amount she enclosed.
Monday. January 10.
The Christmas storm cost the tele-
graph and telephone companies $780,.
900 In New England alone.
Grief over the disappearance OF his
twenty-yearold daughter caused the
death at Shamokin. Pa. OF John Sock
oloski
Her clothing fred by defective
lamp. Miss Emma Turner. who lived
alone at Danville. Pa. was fatally
burned.
With chloroform soaked handker
chief across his face. the body of VII.
liam Berkemeier. Baltimore machin.
list. was found in freight car at Hol.
yoke. Mass. and suicide is believed
Tuesday, January II.
President Taft has re-appointed 10
seph A. Bosler assistant United States
treasurer In Philadelphia.
For stealing IS from poor box In a
church In New York. Iohn De Lange
was sent to the penitentiary for one
year
Mrs. Sarah f. Partridge. one OF the
best rife and revolver shots In the
world. shot and killed herself at Med
ford Hillside. near Boston. while de.
spondent because of Illness.
Three persons were killed and one
was fatally injured In a collision In
the Texas & Pacific freight yards a.
Shreveport. La. between Kansas
City Southern switch engine and q
westbound Texas a Pacific passenger
train
Wednesday, January ~.
Maritz Meinhard. n waiter. leaped
through the balustrade OF the second
mezzanine floor OF the Metropolitan
Life building in New York and was
killed Instantly.
w. P. Whitaker. cashier OF the Bank
of Kennesaw. at Kennesaw. Ga. Is be
ing sought by the police and the bank
is closed as the result OF an alleged
shortage In the cashiers accounts OF
$4,000.
Kansas quail and other birds are
dying In large numbers from starva.
ton. The ground has been covered
with snow and Ice for forty.two days.
and the birds are unable to and grains
or ground seeds TO eat.
Caught robbing the store of Rudolph
a Son Company. near the central pc
flee station In Cleveland. o.. a burglar
who said his name was William Reh.
feldt. was shot by Detective McFar
land. Of the city force. Rehfeldt died
half an hour later.
Thursday, January 10.
Charles Travers. section hand onl
the Trenton Cutoff railroad. was kill
ed at Rambo station. near Norris
town, Pa. by being struck by a freight
train.
John Adams. forty-five. an employee
OF the Oliver Sands company. was shot
and killed at Warwick. a village south
OF Akron O.. in n quarrel with Bert
Petty foreman of the same concern