Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1903-09-17
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
Domestic.

the Federal Constitution.
Isaac Mcclellan and George II.
Huntington, charged with conspiracy to
dcfraud the government, surrendered to
United States Marshal Henkel in New
York.
Harry McElmoyle, deputy of Lehigh
Coal Company, was placed on trial at
Norristown, Pa, for the murder OF
Patrick Sharpe, union miner.
One on the earliest autumnal storms
experienced in the Northwest swept
over Southern Canada and the north
ern part of Wisconsin.
Seven persons met death i'll the
storm which prevailed south Of Jack
sonvilc and much damage has been
done to property.
Clarence Egner was clectrocuted at
Auburn for the murder OF Archibald
Benedict, keeper at the prison.
The first memorial to the late Pres-
dent Mckinley erected in Ohio was un-
yelled at Toledo.
Charles Pfstcr, of Maysvillc, KY,
who was friend Of Casslus M. Clay,
is dead.
Patrolman Schancman, OF the Seat
tie police, was shot and killed by a
highwayman,
Senator Nathan B. Scott, OF West
VIRGINIA, is i'll in Denver, Col.
A Carnegie observatory will be built
on top OF Mount Whitney.
d. f. Loewe & Co., hat manufac-
turers, of Danbury, Conn, sued the
national officers of the American Fed
Grafton of Ii or and the United Hat
tiers, under ! Sherman antitrust la>',
for declaring boycott on the firm.
William A. Hoffman, who shot and
killed his fathcr-in-law, William
Brandt, near Macystown, ILL.,. and
threatened to take the lives of others,
is under arrest in Bellevillc, Ill,
Federal officials have not been able
to find Isaac S. Mcclellan and George
II. Huntington, New York lawyers,
who are wanted in connection with
the postotiicc scandals.
Mrs. Leslie NJ. Shaw, wife OF the
Secretary of the Treasury, and the
Misses Shaw arrived in New York on
the American liner New York, from
Southampton
Frank Day. OF Detroit, was killed
in an automobile accident at the State
Fair at Milwaukee while riding Tom
Coopcr's big machine in a hvc-lr-lc
race.
Another accident to the propeller
OF Professor Langleys aerodomc pre-
vented the test at Whitewater, Va.
Heavy SHOWS iell upon the Colorado
mountains and i'll portions OF Mime
sofa and North Dakota and snow is
several inches deep.
Mrs. Georgia S. Hatcher, proml-
ncnt club woman of Washington, died
at the residence OF II. c. Barnard, i'll
Chicago.
Morris Read, aged 20, tried to COM
NIT suicide by taking chloroiorm at
his home, in Philadelphia, and Lillian
Schaeicr. his sweetheart, on learning
OF his attempt upon his life. tried to
throw herself in front OF trolley car
Harold Vynnc, newspaper man, poet
and novelist. and once editor OF Town
Topics, was sent to an insane asylum
in Chicago a mental wreck.
Sheriff McCord, OF Clark county, KY,
has been declared entitled to the $500
offered for the arrest and conviction
OF the assassin OF J. b. Marcum.
William A. Hoffman, farmland OF
Maycstown, ILL.,, shot and killed his
father in law, and told his wife he had
two more persons to Kill.
Rev. James V. McGill, provincial OF
the Eastern Province OF the Congrega-
ton OF Missions, celebrated his golden
jubilee in Philadelphia
ioieign.
Rumors OF the approaching rcSlgna-
ton OF Mr.. Richie, chancellor of the
British Exchcqucr, are said to be well
founded. At a meeting OF the Cabi-
net the predicted division over Cham
bcrlain'S fiscal proposals occurred and
partial reorganization OF the MINIS
try is probable.
An orthodox archpricst, NaSSlov,
was stabbed to death in the streets OF
AleXandropol. Transcaucasia, and the
murder is reported to have been one
OF a series OF aSSaSSinatlons committed
by TIE Armenian Maiia.
Mrs. Alice Gordon GuliCk, the pres
idcnt oi the International Institute for
Girls, in Spain, died in London. She
was we'll known i'll educational and
church circles in many cities OF the
United States.
The revolutionary leaders have now
decided to adopt guerilla tactics i'll
Eastern Macedonia, thereby hoping to
exhaust the Turks. The Turkish forces
in Eastern Macedonia are estimated at
I7OCo
1t is understood that the powers will
take no action to avert war IN the Bal
kanS until after the conference between
the Gar and Emperor Francis Joseph
the latter part OF this month.
Another Scrvian military plot has
been discovered and several officers ar
rested.
Seven persons we're killed and II
wounded in a fight between several
thousand Armenians and police and
troops at an Armenian church near
Elizabethpol Russian Transcaucasia.
Negotiations between representatives
OF the large steel works in Germany,
Belgium and France for the formation
OF a European steel trust are progress
ing iavorably.
Turkish official circles are exercised
over tile dt'loh vi tIe b''NN '''''Ni
in protesting to the powers against
the atrocities perpetrated by the Turks.
Russia has requested permission of
China to postpone the evacuation of the
frontier provinces OF Manchuria for
several months after October 8.
One French warship will be sent to
Turkish waters without waiting for
the other ships of the French Squad
ron to get in readiness.
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