Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1902-08-07
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.

II is ScHcIdly DclCNcu Ill w dill StlCSt
that the Southern is behind the pending
negotiations for the control of the Cen
trail Railroad of Georgia by the St. Louis
and San Francisco.
The discovery is reported to have
Allis Chalmers works paroled prisoners
been made that during the strike at the
strikers places.
from Joliet Pententiary were put in
Aaron Halle was put to death in the
electric chair at Sing Sing. N. Y, for
the murder of Mary Mccarthy in a New
York department store in 1000.
Committees of the G.. A. r. have
been appointed to urge the erection OF
a statue in Washington to Gen B. r.
Stevenson, organizer of the G.. A. r.
AT Newport the engagement of Regl-
nald Vanderbilt to Miss Cathleen Geb-
hard Nelson was announced.
Congressman Calderhead, of Kansas
announces his candidacy for United
States Senator from that State.
Commodore Joseph E. Montgomery,
the aged Confederate naval comman-
der, is dead
West Virginia coal operators dis
cussed trade conditions at meeting in
Cincinnati.
Because of strike in Huntington,
w. Va, non-union men are being en-
ployed.
A slight shock of earthquake was felt
at Helena, Mont.
The investigation into the Craven
lynching has brought out the names OF
several men alleged to be implicated.
Negroes testified freely before the cor
oner's jury.
J. c. McCaslin shot and killed Lottie
Russell, seriously wounded F, Max
Peters. and then committed suicide at
the Salt Palace Grounds, at Salt Lake
City.
Mrs. John Edwards. wife of the fore
man in charge OF double tracking work
on the New York Central near Will
Transport held a gang of mutnous ltal-
ians at bay.
Congressman Pugsley has gone abroad
to investigate the methods OF European
bankers He is member Of the Bank
ing and Currency Committee OF the
House.
Whi,claw Reid, United States ambas-
sador to the coronation OF King Ed
ward. has returned to this country.
George Gould has purchased the ma
jorty of the stock of the Union Rail
way Company of Memphis.
Light earthquake shocks are still be-
ing felt in Los Alamos Valley.
All the property of the Norfolk Heat,
Light and Power Company. together
with all franchises, power and privileges
granted to that company by the Legs.
lature of Virginia and the Councils OF
Norfolk. passed into the hands OF the
Norfolk, Portsmouth and Newport
News Company.
The Imperial Tobacco C"rr""y, ~
Great Britain and Ireland, will enlarge
their operations in Richmond. Va and
Immediately begin the construction OF
a mammoth plant. The company has
recently completed the purchase OF
site upon which the factory will be built,
Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard, the wife
OF Richard Henry Stoddard, the writer
and poet, died at her home, in New
York, at the age of 50. Mrs. Stoddard
was herself a writer OF some proml-
nence
Willard c. Won Dcrlip. Boston law.
yer. has been arrested on the q arge OF
embezzement lie had charge of sew
eral estates. He says his shortage IS
about 100000.
On Wolfe Creek. w. Va, Joseph
Hardesty was killed and his four sons
were in ured by the explosion OF the
boiler in his saw mill.
Governor Cummins. OF Iowa, will in
vestgate the right OF the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific Railway to reorgan-
ize in that State.
A California geo'ogIst says that the
recent earthquakes in that State are not
due to volcanic activity, but to local
causes. :,
Flora Lucier, II years old. eioped
from White Valley, Mass, with Harry
Moore, a Barre farmer.
Fifteen hundred boilermakers and
shipbulders and their helpers in Chit
cago are on a strike.