Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1902-07-17
T1RMONT FREDERICK COUNTY, THURSDAY, JULY H. 1902
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.

Mr.. Harry T. Walters called on Col
lector of Customs Stranahan, in New
York, and surprised that official by
declaring that he wanted to pay full
duty on the Massarante collection,
which amounts to about 100000.
Garfield Potter, leader of band OF
outlaws in Wise county, Va, was killed
by bullet from his own pistol, which
dropped from his belt, causing the dis
charge.
A cloudburst at Thatcher, Ind, wash
ed away nine buildings and caused
loss OF $4,000. Residents OF the town
barely had time to escape with their
lives.
The United States training ship Mo-
hican arrived at Dutch Harbor, having
encountered head winds and been driv.
en- out OF her course on her way to
Honolulu.
p. w. LETTER. of Chicago, invented
scheme to substitute electromagnetic
for the trolley in street-car propulsion
The long missing steamer Portland
arrived safely at St. Michaels, but no
tidings have been received of the Jen
ME.
The Peary relief ship Windward sail
ed from New York for the Arctic re
gions.
General Chaffee ordered battalion
OF infantry to the Island of Mindanao.
The striking freight handlers and the
railroad companies in Chicago have moi
yet come to terms, and many OF the
truck teamsters refused to haul goods
to the freight houses.
John Henry Warden, who eloped from
Montgomery county, Va, with Jennie
Austen, I3 years DID, whom he married
in Ohio, was arrested on the charge OF
abduction
Captain Greble. instructor in artillery
tactics at West Point, was seriously
hurt and three cadets injured during
drill there, a runaway horse causing the
accident.
The engagement is announced oi
Bishop Potter. of New York, to Mrs.
Alfred Corning Clark, who was the
head OF the Singer Sewing Machine
Company.
At meeting Of soft coal operators in
New York it was decided to hold their
present stock pending the threatened
trouble with the miners.
V. NJ. Crews. of Buckingham county,
Va. was shot during quarrel by w. ,.
Zimmerman, his brother-in-law.
The strike of the boilermakers on the
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
system was settled by compromise.
Otto Faust, a former wealthy farmer
of North Dakota, who, affected with
religious mania, gave away nearly all
his lands for charity, was dec IN
sane in Chicago and will be taken back
to his Dakota home.
DR.. A. B. Ryno. prominent physi-
cian has been arrested at Mcpherson,
Kan. on warrant charging him with
having some connection with the mys-
terious shooting OF Miss Maud
Holmes.
Fourteen miners still alive, and one
of them a raving maniac from his sui
ferings. we're taken out OF the johns
town mine. The dead, burned and
mangled by the explosion number over
100.
The court-martial OF Capt. James A.
Ryan, OF the Fifteenth Cavalry, at Ma
Mia, on the charge of unnecessary Sc
verify to natives was concluded and It
is believed he will be acquitted.
General Maxilon. convicted of trea,
son at Cebu, the Philippines, has been
sentenced to 10 years imprisonment
and fine OF $4,000.
Rhodes Clay, member of the Mis-,
souri, Legislature, was shot and killed
in a street duel in Mexico, a Missouri
town.
Mrs. Frank Lavelleur, of Newton,
Iowa. was bound over to the grand Jury
on the charge of numbering her hus'
band.
Police Captain John Fitchette,. OF
Minneapolis. was convicted OF tratfick'
ing in positions on the police force.
A bolt of lightning shaved David Full
lcr's head in Richmond, the victim sus-
taining no other injuries.