The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1888-08-24
TELFGRAPHIC SUMMARY

Major William Mckinley made a speech
on the tariff at the Georgia Chautaugua,
near Atlanta.
Judge Thurman arrived by steamer Mt De-
troit from Toledo O., and was given an en-
thusiastic reception.
The Interstate Farmers Convention met at
Raleigh, N. c., delegates attending from all
the cotton states
A fallen tree derailed train on the Gin
cinnati Southern Railroad, and five passen-
gers were injured.
Mrs. Christiana Keefer and her daughter
Lena have been arrested at Terre Haute,
Ind, charged with defacing and raising the
value of money.
Samuel Williams, his wife and child, were
struck by falling tree near their nome at
Little Rock, Ark, and the husbands neck
broken, the child crushed to death, and the
mother seriously hurt.
General Harrison started on his trip to the
lakes and at all the stations in Indiana and
Ohio at whica the train stopped he was
greeted by cheering throngs.
A large malt house, containing thirty
thousand bushels of malt owned by Neld-
linger, Schmids & Co., ut Rondout N. y,
was destroyed by fire; loss, S60.OOO
Judge William w. Wiltshire is dead
There is a terrible epidemic of dysentery
in Galena, Ill.
An easterly gale has done great damage at
New Orleans.
The Illinois Central Railroad is stretching
out in grand railroad scheme to Denver,
Mercie's model of the equestrian statue of
Gen. Lee for Richmond has been accepted.
Charles Anderson and Thomas Holderness
fought duel with knives in dark room in
Chicago.
Sitting Bull and the Sioux show no dis
position to yield to the government reserva-
tion commissioners.
Colonel Roger Jones has been appointed
inspector general of the army, vice Brigadier
General Baird retired.
James W. Wright, wealthy retired tea
merchant of New York, took dose of croton
oil by mistake, and his life is in jeopardy.
"Billyn Cole, who shot two men at dance,
at Guide Rock, Neb., was taken from Jail by
twelve masked men and hanged to a railroad
bridge,
George Geger, German of Philadelphia,
was struck by a brick and fatally injured by
William Miner, colored, whom he had been
tormenting.
Because Henry Page, at Richmond, Va,
repriinanded his cook for not having his
breakfast ready, she split his head open with
O Ratchet
Rockies, fell down gully twenty-five feet,
breaking his legs and lying there for six days
without drink or food When found he was
in dying condition, and soon expired.
Richard Collins, ex-chief of the Superior,
" is, police, shot and seriously wounded his
wife at the residence of James Myers, who
was also wounded in defending the woman,
and who in turn shot the jealous husband in
the head.
al hot fvrO
youn men, named respectively ellison and
Richards, on q canal boat at Delaware CITY,
the latter pushed the former down, and in
falling ellison struck his right temple on a
corner of the hatchway, killing himself in
stantly.
Horace M. Slater died at Woonsocket, r
Chicago brewers deny the attempted or
ganization of beer trust
The Knights of Pythias of Pennsylvania
are holding a reunion at Williams Grove
Chief Mescott of the Kickapoos, his squav
and five children were killed by lightning.
James O'Brien beat and fatally injured
his sweetheart, Jennie Smith, at Kalamazoo
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Enigueer
is celebrating its twenty fifth anniversary al
Detroit.
There are fears of further trouble between
the towns Of Hogoton and Woodsdale, Kas-
saS.
The Northern Pacific Railroad is thought
to have secured an entrance of its own into
Chicago.
Thomas L. Kimball, general manager Of
the Union Pacific Railway, is seriously i'll al
Omaha.
The Brooke Iron Company's works al
Birdsboro, Pa, have stopped on account OF
the heat.
Reports from Northwestern Nebraska are
to the eff ct that the grain crops are almost
a total failure.
housekeeper Mrs. Richardson, were killed by
lightning, at Gill, Mass.
By the wreck of a freight train on the
Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Rail
road, two tramps were killed.
All business at Livingston and st. Thomas,
Central America, is at a standstill, owing to
The abolition OF the free zone.
The wellhouse at the powder mills at Wind
sor, Quebec, was blown up. One employee is
missing and one badly injured.
In a wreck on the Norfolk and Western
Railroad two men were severely injured,
and one is supposed to have been killed.
A collision on the Pennsylvania railroad
bridge over the Delaware at trenton delayed
travel for several hours. No one was in
jured.
/. Over thousand Danes, Swedes or Norwe-
gians have been naturalized, or declared their
intention of becoming citizens, at Chicago
this year.
Edward Otis Hinkley was reelected secre-
tary of the Bar Association, at Saratoga.
Benjamin Harrison was chosen one of the
vice presidents
General Lew Wallace, the distinguished
author of "Ben Hur" and lifelong friend of
General Harr son, has just completed an au-
thorized biography OF him. w. U. Hensel,
a staunch leader in national councils of the
Democratic party, has just completed an adj
miracle biography of Cleveland, with e