Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1902-06-19
THURMONr FREDERICK COUNTY, Md THURSDAY JUNE 49, 1902
SUMMARY or THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.

The striking puddlers in four rolling
mills at Columbia, Pa, although granted
an increase in wages, refused to return
to work because the management re-
fused to treat with the Amalgamated
Association.
Vice Chancellor Emory, in Newark, N.
J., made permanent the injunction re-
straining the United States Steel Corpo-.
ration from converting $2oo,ooo,ooo OF
preferred stock into bonds.
DR.. George II. Denny, president of
Washington and Lee, has been Notified
that Furman University, Greenville, 5. Z.
has conferred the degree of Ii. d. on
him.
Abe Rothschild, who is accused of be-
ing the principal in the unsuccessful at
tempt to swndlc New York diamond
merchants, was arrested in Harrisburg,
Pa.
The 2o-hour schedule between New
York and Chicago was inaugurated by
the New York Central and Pennsylvania
| Railroads.
A freight train ran into washout
caused by cloudburst at Middlesex, w.t.,
and FIVE railroad men lost their lives
A memorial arch was dedicated at
Camp Chase, near Columbus, erected in
honor OF $500 Confederate dead buried
there. The speakers were Governor
Nash and General Gordon
Oliver Williams, the gypsy who
cloped from Nanscmond, Va, with Fan
ny Smith, was arrested in Emporia, Va.
A conversation between two colored
hagmen was the cause of the wreck
on the Seaboard at Macon, N. c.
William Collins, colored, aged Sc
years, was nearly cut to pieces with an
ak by William Dixon, aged 70 years:
Joseph A. Swain, president of Indiana
State University, has accepted the pres
idency of Swarthmore.
Blenheim, the home of DR.. B. L. VIM
ston. in Hanover county, Virginia, was
destroyed by fire
The combine plate glass works of the
country have agreed to shut down tor
month
The city of New York will prosecute
corporations to force them to stop using
soft coal.
Counsel for Charles L, Raymond, OF
Boston. asked permission of Vlce-Chan-
ccllor Emery at Newark, N. j., to hle
bill for a preliminary injunction to
restrain the United States Steel Corpora
ton from retiring S2oo. 100000 of pre-
ferrcd stock and issuing bonds instead.
The Imperial Glucose and Starch Com
pany, recently formed to compete with
the Glucose Trust. or the Corn Products
Company, will construct S3oooooc
plant near Chicago with a daily capacity
of $4,000 bushels of corn.
John Wanamakcr is reported to be
back of deal i'll progress IN chicago
for the purchase of the Palmer House
block for the erection of gigantic de
partmcnt store.
The wholesale milliners of Chicago
upon notice of the Audubon Society
agreed to stop the importation as wei
as the sale of the plumagc OF singing
birds.
Lieut.. r. c. Croxton, Twenty-thlrrtc
United States Infantry, attempted to XII
himself by shooting in Richmond, va.
where he had gone on sick leave.
Thosvald Hansen, who murdered
boy in Montreal to get II cents, wa'
| hanged. tCkctS or ADMISSION oe'ls SUN
to see the hanging.
Charles W. Reynolds, a pioneer citi
zen of Newport News, Va, died there
of a complication of diseases.
Ed Franks. a moonshiner living in the
mountains of Virginia, shot and killeo
Samuel Engle.
John Fox. a farmer, of Elbow Lane
Mimi. killed his brother, his mother
and himself.