Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1902-05-15
THURMONT THURSDAY, MAY 15 1902
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic

Checks aggregating $Io,ooo,ooo, max.
ing the second distribution of profits,
were sent out by ]. P. Morgan & Co..
to the members of the syndicate that
financed the Steel Trust.
Guy Locke, aged I8, and Edward I
Buffey, 20 years old, were sentenced in
Chicago to penal servitude for life FOL
murder.
The Pittsburg structural workers ac
cepted the American Bridge Companyt
offer in Pittsburg and returned to work
The new steel castings combine will
control one fourth of the mills and be
capitalized at $Io,ooo,ooo.
Blackman Somers comitted suicide
while in New Jersey state prison, ii
Trenton.
The bodies of Paul Leicester Ford and
his brother, Malcolm Ford, were buried
in different parts of the family plot ir
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Tarrytown.
Walter Pearce, of Norfolk, Va, sued
the Supreme Council, Royal Arcanum
for the endowment of the death OF his
brother, John l.. Pcarce.
The government bill against the Beef
Trust was filed in the United State:
Court in Chicago.
A general strike of the miners of the
anthracite coal region was ordered by
the executive committee of the three dis
tricts upon receiving answers from the
various railroad presidents and coal op.
orators, all refusing to agree to the pro-
posed method of adjusting differences.
]. H. Wade, who gave 100000 to the
Fresh Air Camp at Cleveland, Ohio, tc
assist its charitable work, has given
similar sum of money to Lakeside Hos
pital in that city. The gift is in the form
of 400 shares of United States Steel Cor
poration preferred stock and 400 shares
American Shipbulding Company pre-
ferred stock, each bearing per cent
interest
Clara Taylor, who kidnapped her niece,
Margaret Taylor, from Cincinnati, is de-
tained by the Italian authorities to await
action by the United States government
The police chiefs, in session in Louis.
vile, KY, reelected Major Sylvester, OF
Washington, president, and decided to
meet next year in New Orleans.
The wife of Juan A. Perira, the Chill
ian consul at Oakland, Cal, died in the
dentists chair from heart trouble while
having teeth extracted.
During drunken orgie at the home
of George w. Herget, in Cincinnati,
Mrs. Hcrget was stabbed to death.
A receiver was applied for in New
York for the Morning Telegraph which
had become financially embarrassed.
The President sent to the Senate the
nomination of Eugene F. Ware, to be
commissioner of pensions.
Dispatches from Northern Minnesota
report heavy snowstorm. Early veg
etabes are said to be injured.
Ex-Gov. John P. Eagle, of Arkansas,
was elected governor of the Southern
Baptist Convention.
The President signed the Oleomarga-
rine Bill
Paul Leicester Ford, the novelist was
shot and killed in New York by his
brother Malcolm Webster Ford, writer
and athlete, who Immediately sent bull
let into his own breast, dying instantly.
Mrs Mabel D. Piggott, of Philadel-
phia, secured judgment of $1,000 in
Denver against her niece, Miss Char
lotte NJ. Byram, whom she charged with
stealing her husbands affections
The annual meeting of the American
Bible Society was held in New York 1t
was stated that special agency had been
established among the colored people in
the South.
Mrs. D. T. S. Denson was elected
president of the General Federation OF
Womens Clubs at Los Angeles, Cal.