The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-03-08
0he 1aliOIallo 1ournal
Rising sun, Cecil County, Md.
THE NEWS.

tion of opening millinery establishm mt,
was robbed Of 50, 900 in Chicago railway
station. In the burning Of a Pittsburg
tenement three men were seriously injured.
The New York Security and Trust Com
pany was organized with capital of one
million dollars "A brilliant pageant, rep
resenting the treasures Of the earth, was the
feature OF the New Orleans Mardi Gras
Hacks Mountain City theater at Altoo-
ma, Pa, was burned; loss SIS, 900; insurance
$4,000. The Columbia Avenue Market
House AMI Han in Philadelphia was destroyed
by fire; the losses aggregate $l50,000-
The Committee on Prohibition in the Rhode
Island House of Delegates reported in favor
Of repeating the amendment The Read
ing iron Works has failed, and twenty-five
hundred workmen are thrown out. -Chas.
Well was killed and George Schook seriously
wounded at Golcanla, Ills, while FREEING
q cannon in honor OF President Harrisons
inauguration-S J. Hoot janitor of
bank, was elected Mayor Of Waterloo, iowa,
as the candidate of the Knights of Labor.
The amendment to the Interstate Conn
merce law passed by Congress has caused
excitement in Western Railroad circles, as
it makes Imprisonment a penalty for viola
tion of the law Newton Watt, a life con-
Wet in Joliet, Ills, Penitentiary, for COM
plicity in the Rock Island train robbery and
the murder of Express Messenger Kellogg
Nichols died Of consumption, declaring his
innocence with his dying breath.-A bill
has been introduced in the Illinois legisla
ture for the formation of state mutual
cyclone insurance company. Ernest j.
Knobelsdorf, aged twenty two years, a prom
inent insurance man of Chicago, committed
suicide.-An axle broke under the Scran-
ton express, on the Lehigh and Susquehan-
ma Railroad, near Bethlehem, Pa, and David
Baker, truck man was killed. The South
at Montgomery, Ala. Peter L Kimberly
has won his missing claims suit against
Charles D. Arms. of Youngstown, o., inyol-
wing over million Henry S. Long, for
twenty years presiding judge of the Lam
caster county, Pa, courts, and the last sur
viying member OF the constitutional con-
vention Of 1887, died, aged eighty-five years.
The heavy rains caused floods in Franklin
county, Pa, and in other ports of Southern
Pennsylvania and Maryland. TIE mem
bars OF the Board Of Trade of Hanover, Pa,
are receiving threatening notices that unless
the poor of the town arc given work enough
to earn fair living the rich must suffer-
The dead body of young man was found
in the top Of an overturned buggy near New
Chester, Adams county, Pa.-In all the
large Northern and Western cities Inaugu
ration Day was observed by the display of
the national flag on State and municipal
buildings. Nellie Matthews tried to kill
city Postmaster j. L. Krouse, of Goleta,
Tenn, was murderously assaulted by w. II.
Harris, nephew OF Senator Harris, of
Tennessee, because the postmaster requested
him to not put off calling for his mail until
after hours Tho South Carolina legisla-
tive committee that Investigated the charges
against Charleston merchants of a combine
on the cotton exchange to buy cotton at
undervaluations,, report that no ring exists.
While testing steam pumps at Smith q
Wales establishment, Dayton, Ohio, the
testing tank exploded, wrecking the building
and killing John Fl. Hemer. Mardi Gras
celebration opened at Mobile, Ala, with
brilliant display.
Mrs. Mic oil Donohue aud her baby per.
ished in the flames that consumed her home
in Sullivan county, New York.-Artie B.
Cleveland, president and organizer of tue
Cleveland Company, limited, seed dealers Of
New York, has disappeared, AMI ugly ru-
mors are afloat about him.-Tho Amalga-
mated puddlers of the Republic Iron Works,
Of Pittsburg, went on a strike and eight hun
dred were thrown out of work-The fur
mace employees of the Mahoning and Shengc
valleys, Ohio, have decided to accept the re-
duction of ten per cent. to take effect March
- Levin W. Neck, wealthy farmer OF
Accomac Co Va, is dead. -C Cornelius Annis
was shot by an unknown party, while visit
ing the house Of Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor, in
Accomac county, Va, Mrs. Taylor separat.
ed from her husband last December.-A
fye-year old child at Waterfowl, N. Y,
was killed by heavy icicle falling upon her
head The National Bankruptcy Law Con
vention is in session in ST Louis. ID. NJ.
Sleep, bookkeeper for Jeffrey g. Co., fur
niture dealers, Of Minneapolis, has gone to
Canada, s., 900 short in his accounts. The
cotoner's jury in thu fatalities FUSED by tho
squib factory explosion at Plymouth, Pa. !,
exonerate the owner Of the factory from ali
blame, and find that Katie Jones, one of the
victims, threw handful of what she sup
posed to be worthless squibs into a stove,
which caused the explosion. - The shir
Annie NJ. Law, from Bordeaux, took fire
when OFF Sandy Hook, but was saved by one
OF the New York fire patrol boats FIX.
Councilman William Sears Wood, one Of the
oldest merchants of Richmond, Va. is dead,
at lineage of eighty-seven. The Pinkerton
detectives now believe they are on the right
track Of the barn burners. Anthony
Laree, a Hollander, aged thirty years, fatally
stabbed his wife, at Paterson, N. Ed.
ward Colhuru. travelling salesman, shot
and killed his wife, in Boston, an then at
tempted suicide,
WERE THEY POISONED.