Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1902-07-24
THURMONr THURSDAY, JULY p, 1902
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.

Richard Day, former private secre-.
in San Francisco that the multimillion-
aire could not accurately estimate the
value of his big estate.
Victor Rouillot, secretary of the brok-
erage firm of the Rouillot Commission
Company, Philadelphia, was found dead,
suffocated by gas at his home, at Ger
mantown.
President Roosevelt received a letter
from Senator McLaurin declining the
proffered appointment on the bench OF
the United States Court of Claims.
Frederick Morrison, of Salem, o., Kill
cd himself while out riding in Cleve-
land, O., with Miss Mary Cowley, who
had refused to marry him.
Robert +. McMahon, special police
man for the Auditorium Annex in Chi,
cago, killed one of two holdup men and
captured the other.
The monitor Terror went aground on
Taylor Island, in Chesapeake Bay, and
was pulled off by the tug Hercules.
James +. Robinson, late president OF
the Rock Island and Central Trust and
Savings Bank of Rock Island, Ill.,, lett
bequests to the Northwestern Unlver-
sity and the American University, at
Washington.
The American Line steamer Belgen-
land, from Philadelphia for Queenstown
and Liverpool, was towed into Haliiax'
N. S., by the British steamer Scholar.
Tho Belgenland's shaft is broken,
President Williams, of the Seaboard;;
denied that Chesapeake and Ono and
Norfolk and Western stock had been
purchased by John w, Gates and others
in the interest of his road.
1t is reported that several coal opef-
ators will attempt this week to operate
their mines in the anthracite region, al
though the strikers declare they will be
unable to do so.
Judge Witt, OF the Hastings Court in
Richmond called special grand Jury
to investigate the charges OF city iath-
crs, which have caused sensation,
Mrs. Daniel Grant, her daughter, Mrs.
John Reeves, and a man named Muck
les were shot and killed while returning
from church near Atoka, |. /.
The American Window Glass Com
pany has asked the manufacturers III the
independent company to unite with the
American and Federation companies IN
shortening the length of the hre and
maintaining prices.
Edward Congdon, a New York lnsur-
ance broker, was arrested on the charge
OF kissing Mrs. Marie Farrell, OF Madi-
son. N. J., as the Lackawanna train on
which they were riding entered a tun-
mel
1t was reported in Philadelphia rail-
road and financial circles that the Penn
sylvania had through friendly interests,
secured enough OF the Reading Kali
road stock to give it control.
Commonwealth Attorney John q.
Tilton, OF Norfolk, instituted suit
against the Virginian- Pilot Publishing
Company in the sum OF $4,000 Tor al
legged libel.
The chief Of police of Harlem, near
Chicago, and 10 members Of the village
board were arrested on the charge OF
permitting gambling at the race tracks,
Ninton Gregory, white, was arrested
on the charge OF criminaly assaulting
Mrs. John Romans, near Saltvllle, Va.
The striking chainmakcrs OF York,
| Pa, have been assured OF financial Sup
port by the American Federation OF
Labor.
Fred Lee Rice, young criminal, who
! had a sensational career, was hanged in
Toronto, Canada, for murder.
| The Gould interests are said to have
secured an entrance into New York tor
their transcontinental system.
Hyman Hoffman, a Russian tailor,
shot his wife in New York and then
committed suicide.
John Hardy was shot and killed near
Media, Pa by Thomas Duff, whom he
was tOrmcntlng.
BENJAMIN Faughn was shot and killed
by Jasper Abbott at Metropolis, III.
In the closing hours of the North
| Carolina Democratic Convention State
! Senator Ward characterized Cleveland
as the arch traitor of the Democracy,
/ and, in turn, Mayor Boyden, OF Sails
bury, N. C., called Ward liar.
Foreign.
The Bank of England has Offered
$1,000 reward for the discovery and con
viction of gang of forgers. Several OF
the men who passed the forged notes
upon the bank have been convicted AM
sentenced.
The steamer Primus. of Hamburg
with I85 passengers on board, was Gu
in two and sunk in collision with ;
sea tug on the river Elbe and some Sc
persons were drowned.
Emperor William will confer decora
tons upon several hundred Americans
who had to do with the tour of Prince
Henry in the United States.
DIR. Garmault, who inoculated himsel
from a tubcrcuous COW in order to dis
prove Dr. Koch's theory, declares thai
consumption resulted.
Panopoulus, a gentleman brigand
who committed some remarkable rob
berries. has been arrested in Athens.
Minister Bowen has cabled the State
Department at Washington that the
President of Venezuela has abandoned
the idea of attacking the revolutionlsts
at Barcelona.
King Leopold OF Belgium visited
King Edward aboard the English royal
Yacht King Edwards condition con,
tinues favorable.
The contract was signed in London
for the manufacture and laying OF the
cable between Honolulu and Manila.
The Vatican, in a note to Governor
Taft. of the Philippines, says: The
main lines for future negotiations, in
dicated in the notes, having been &C
cepted by Secretary Root, the repre-
sentative of the Vatican in the Philip
mines will enter into relations with the
authorities in the Philippines"
Countess de la War; was granted, a
divorce in London on the ground OF the
Earl's desertion and misconduct. The
Countess was given costs and the GUS
tody OF her children.
Financial
The British Indies wheat crop is pu
at 224,ooo,ooo bushels, decrease OF