Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1902-05-29
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic


Clarence Meeser, Harry McCabe and
James T. Sheehan, tried in Philadelphia
on the charge of ballot-box stufflng, were
found not guilty.
John L. Semple, the Camden lawyer
who was tried in Philadelphia on the
charge of being involved in the Bridell-
Taylor counterfeiting case, was acquit-
ted
The municipal election in Martinsburg,
W. Va, resulted in the election OF Geo.
f. Evans, Republican, over w. H. Craw-
ford. Fusion candidate.
Mrs. John Einstinc, wife of a farmer
of Windsor Township Pa, was feloni-
ously assaulted and murdered while on
her way home from Red Lion.
Sixteen prominent students at North
western University, at Evanston, ILL.,,
were arrested at the instance of the alum
nj for hazing a student. Il.
1t was officially announced that a Semi
tic seminary will be established at
Princeton in connection with the Iheo-
logical Seminary.
The sixth biennial convention of the
Worlds Womans Christian Temperance
Union will be held in Geneva. June, 1903
One effect of the teamsters' strike IN
Chicago has been a shortage of supplies
at hotels and small dealers.
Rev. Dr. John Henry Barrows, presl-
dent Of Oberlin College, is dangerously
i'll with pneumonia.
All the mills in the Augusta (Ga)
district resumed with full compliments
of operatives.
The independent electrical supply deal
ers will file complaints with Attorney
General Knox alleging that the electrical
Supply Dealers Association of the
United States is trust, and will ask the
Attorney General to proceed against the
association under the Sherman Law.
The Countess of Bucna Vista sued
General Brooke in New York because he
abrogated certain alleged slaughterhouses
she claimed in Havana by virture of
royal decree from the King of Spain in
I7o4. .,
The United States troopship Butord
arrived at San Francisco from Manila
with some soldiers and Felipe Bucn-
camino, secretary of war under Agul-
naldo. who will call on President Rose
welt.
1t is now estimated that between $50
and US men met instant death by the
disaster at Coal Creek Mines, near Fer
ME, B. c.
Mamie Grubbs, 13 years old, was abb
Quoted from Winchester, Va, and it is
feared she was kidnapped by circus men
The John A. Roebing Sons Company
of Trenton. N J., increased the wages
of their employees 10 per cent.
Decoration Day was observed at Lees
burg, Va, S. w. T. Lanham, of Texas,
being the orator of the day.
Volcanic dust from Mont Pclce was
the means of furnishing beautiful sun
set at San Juan, p. r.
The United States Commission has
made English the official language OF the
courts. customs service and the Court OF
Appeals in the Philippine Islands. =,
In accordance with a plan to die side
by side, John Curry shot and killed his
sweetheart, Susanne kecskemeti, and
then killed himself, in South Bend, Ind.
The proposition made to the General
Conference of the Southern Methodist
Church in Dallas, Tex, to give presiding
elders a term OF four years was tabled
Alfred Hamilton, who was hanged IN
| Whatcom, Wash, for the murder OF
! ID. M. Woodbury., cursed the sheriif
when he read the death warrant to him
Senator Daniel and Judge Harrison
spoke at the Virginia Constitutional Con
venton in favor of submitting the Con
stitution to popular vote.
H. H, Mateson. former cashier OF the
First National Bank of Great Falls,
Mont was indicted on the charge OF EN-
bezzing $IoS,ooo.
Frank Berkeley, fisherman, found a
mans body in his net when he pulled it
up in the river near Richmond. Va.
The town of Clover, on the Southern
Railway, in Halifax county. Virginia
was almost completely destroyed by fire,
Tommy Noonan died i'll Boston hos.
pital from the effects of blow received
in prize-tight.