Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1910-04-23
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Friday. AnrIl IS.

Friday, April IS.
Hurled from telegraph tower when
II was demolished by small freight
wreck. G. II. Deasley wac instantly
killed at Thompson station. near Pitts
burg Pa.
At a meeting Of the directors Of the
American Hardware corporation at
New Britain. Conn. II was voted to in
crease the capital stock from $780,.
600 TO s12.500.000.
The Nebraska state railway COM
mission has started movement to In
auence President Taft against the ap.
pointment OF any person who has been
railroad attorney TO the United
States supreme court.
Saturday, April IS.
A fully equipped "moonshine still"
was found at Memphis. Tenn. by
PostofTice Inspector Kline in shanty
boat
A freakish tornado at Parsons. Kan.
swept away barns and outhuoses In
its 2O0.foot path and sucked dry the
Bachelor creek for considerable dis
lance.
u. Il. Kuhns. chief engineer Of the
Mariana mines at Mariana. Pa. was
struck by pieces OF a bursting fy.
wheel. his skull fractured and an arm
torn on
II. c. Kennedy. OF Charlottesville.
Ind. an expert in the manufacture Of
matches. was killed In an explosion
at the plant OF the Acme Match COM
pany at Roanoke. Va.
Monday, April 10.
One fireman was killed and three
were injured In a 100000 fire at Nash.
Vile. Tenn.
Sisters OF Charity carried patients
from their burning convent hospital at
Cleveland. o.
A temporary shutdown OF cotton
mills at Fall River. Mass. has thrown
%, 900 operative out OF employment
Falling over a fifteen-foot wall into
the creek at Mahanoy City. Pa. eight.
yearold Anthony Wassell was fatally
hurt.
| Insanity Is thought TO have prompt
ed Mrs. Cora Van Orsdale. OF Fair
berry. Neb.. to kill her two-year.old
daughter with hammer.
Tuesday. April 10.
A lightning bolt descended upon a
fishing camp on the bank Of creek
eight miles from Salisbury. n. C.. In
stantly killing Charles Carroll, sixteen
years old.
Thirty.five OF the 1900 convicts al
the western penitentiary at Pittsburg.
Pa, appeared for the Sunday dinner
| dressed in neat black suits instead OF
the regulation prison stripes.
Three Milwaukee boys. aged fifteen.
armed with bowie knives and revolv.
ers. bound for the home OF the late
Jesse James. in Missouri were ar.
rested by the Chicago police.
After they had danced 10 hours and
| IS minutes. contest In which four
| San Jose. Cal. men were the only ones
on the floor out OF list Of twelve en-
trants. was stopped by the police.
Wednesday, April 20.
Robert l.. Bradford, thirty-nine years
old. was shot and killed at Fayette.
VILE W. Va. by Romeo Bennett. son
e. Circuit Judge William Il. Bennett.
James Jackson. president OF the
Eclipse Coal company at indianapolis,
Ind. has been sent to jail 10 answer
10 the charge OF swindling customers
BY selling shor, weight coal.
Herbert W. Tiers. who pleaded
guilty in Pittsburg. Pa. 10 abstracting
funds Of the First National bank and
was sentenced TO Ave years imprison-
ment. has had his sentence committed
By President Taft 10 four years.
james Bryce. British ambassador.
has accepted invitations TO address the
Kansas City MOI Knife and Fork
club and the students Of the univer.
sity OF Kansas at Lawrence. Kan. on
April 2s and 30. respectively.
Thursday. April 81.
South Dakota Prohibitionists made
material gains In local option cleo
ton. winning Pierre. which has been
wet for several years.
Reports from the fruit growing sec