Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1902-10-23
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.

the case of Mrs. Ida Wilkins. who shot
her husband while trying to commit
suicide.
The jury for the trial of Roland Mol
ineux for the murder of Mrs. Adams
in New York was completed and the
taking OF evidence was begun.
President J. J. Hill, OF the Northern
Securities Company. testified i'll St
Paul in the big merger case before
Special Examiner +. e. lngcrsoll.
Col. Edward Butler, St. Louis poll
tician and millionaire. was indicted tor
being implicated in the municipal BIB
cry scandal.
President Mitchell, OF the miners
union. now says that III others had
been as fair and reasonable as Mr.. Nor
gan was the strike would have hecn
settled long time ago" Both Mr.
Morgan and President CasSatt OF the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad. were working
for a settlement when President RooSc-
welt made his successful move.
The Western Union Telegraph Con'.
pany has entered suit in equity agains,
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
to restrain it from taking away from
the former the right to use the tc'c-
graph lines along the railroad.
At the meeting of the board OF gov.
ernors in Philadelphia Admiral DeWe!
was elected president OF the Ihon'a
Jefferson Memorial Association.
The lighthouse and coast guard ser
vice in the Philippln under eo,n-
mander Marix. consists OF 81 vessels.
manned by 600 men
The Provisional Society OF Georgia
was admitted to membership i'll tho
Society OF the Cincinnati.
Hall Caine. the novelist. arrived III
New York on the steamship Lucan'a
from Liverpool
There will be a contest III tho NM
ers convention at Wilke sbarre over
the question OF the companies reta'o-
ing nonunion men and barring onS
r,anv OF the strikers. The union may
decide to provide for all members:
John T. Redmond chairman OF the
Irish parliamentary party: John Dllloh
and Michael Davitt arrived at boston
to attend the national convention OF the
Irish League in that city.
/ Ida Craddock. who was to have been
sentenced in the United States Courf
in New York for sending obscene ht
crat,lre through the mails, committed
suicide.
William {. Turner shot and kllTh
/ ". J. Mallard and Robert Hamilton
in New York alter quarrel about oo'-
mess affairs. and then killed himself,
At the closing session OF the an'ua
meeting oi the American Board OF
Foreign Missions in Oberlin, o.. a gen
cral committee was nominated.
Frank Strong was Installed as chan
ccIlor OF the University OF Kansas
I The principal address was made by
P~esiicrt Hadley OF Yale.
The indications are that the Ere:
merger oi Southern cotton mills "'l'
be success
Foreign
The British government has INFORM
ed Russia in connection with the LAT
tcr's proposal that direct relations be
established between Russia and Afghan
js;an that it was impossible to consider
any change in the existing arrange
mcnts without more precise iniorma
tion regarding the proposed relations,
Ernest Roche. Nationalist. introduc
ed bill in the French Chamber OF
IDENTITIES providing ior the separation
oi ch-rch and state. the bill being
intended as a challenge to the govern
r,crt to carry out the Radical pro
cram. The Chamber rejected an ur
gency motion.
Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman, the
,heral leader. Joined the Irish III the
House of Commons in supporting then
demand that the government flX Gay
to discuss the state OF Ireland
The tenth annual Congress OF the
ar
ened at Leeds John Chandler, the
president. made a vlrulent attack upon
trade unionism.
The Boer generals left Berlin for
England to consult with friends there
over the practicabilitv OF opening :.
subscription in London Tor relief OF
the Roers The collections i'll Germany
amounted to $4,000.
H. A. Walker the British expert. re,
ported that there were more railroad
casualties in America than III Great
Britain, in proportion to the number
OF passengers carried.
The report OF the British army COM
mission investigating the re'noulltt
scandal declares American horses and
mules to be spcndidly adapted to army
uses. :,
The American generals LETT England
for home on the American liner Phila-
dclphia. All were enthusiastic over
British hospitality.
\ British expedition fought an en-
pagement with the forces OF Mad Mul-
lah Two officers were killed and one
was wounded.
Great Britain has interrupted the nc
oo,iations for the departure OF the III
ternational troops from Shanghai.
Firmin, the revolutionary leader.
with 25o of his adherents, has lett Hayti
for the Bahamas and the commander
of the United States cruiser CINCINNATI
reports that the Haytian revolution is
practically at an end.
Nincenz kraemer. director OF the
Anplo-Austrian Bank in Vienna, has
been arrested on the charge of obtain
ING S.. 200 from the bank by false pre-
lenses.
Earl Roberts has accepted an invita-
ton OF the American generals to Visit
this country.
Chancellor Won Buelow. in a speech
in the Reichstag on the Tariff i5i''.
referring to the economic conditions
of Europe and the United States. sa'd;
"Nc must strengthen Our po'it'co-
commercial armor, so as to enaole us
to meet our opponents.
Volcanic dust from Sou'riere vol
cano is falling on the town OF Bridge
town, Barbados. There were two
earthquakes at Les Saintes Islands.
Financial.
Pullman stockholders receive quar-
| .axl,. d;uidend ni o.ncr cent.