Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1903-10-08

THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER
Domestic.

A man giving the name OF Langdon
was arrested in Helena, Mont, on the
charge of trying to secure $4,000 from
the Northern Pacific officials by black
mail.
A boat containing George Hoether,
his wife and three children, upset in
Pigeon river, near Casevile, Mich, and
the three children we're drowned.
Enoch L. Cowart, cashier OF the
wrecked Navesing On. j. National
Bank, pleaded guilty to the charge OF
embezzling $4,000 from that instltu-
ton.
As the result of riot i'll Montpelier,
VT, between Italian socialists and an
archists, Eli Corti, an anarchist, died
from bullet wound.
The ive-year-old son of Frederick
Wagner, of Neigh, Neb., died as the
result of the attempt of his playmates
to force him to eat sand.
A fire truck collided with street car
in St. Louis, Mo. One fireman was ia
tally injured and five others more or
less seriously hurt.
The Morse Iron Works and Drydock
Company, in Brooklyn, closed down its
plant on account of continuous labor
troubles.
In his annual report President But
Ter, of Columbia University, says the
university needs 100000 to carry
out its plans.
The cotton mills of the Edwards
Manufacturing Company, in Augusta,
Me-, resumed, after being idle for two
months.
As the result OF fierce color-rush
at Buchtel College, in Akron, o., the
faculty suspended all but three students.
Arthur T. Johnston's bride confessed
in Portland, Ore, that she had assist
ed her husband in highway robberies
N. L. Hammond, the mail-pouch
robber, confessed in Denver, Col, that
he has committed many crimes.
The Chicago City Railway having re-
fused to accede to the demand OF Its
employees, a strike is threatened
Suit was begun in San Francisco to
ioreclosc the mortgage held by the
United States Security and Trust Com
pany against the shipbuilding combine.
The North Mahanoy Colliery OF the
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron Company. at Mahanoy City, was
closed, rendering idle 900 mine works
crS.
William Cox, of Hancock, shot his
wife at Petersboro, N. H., inhicting a
serious, though probably not fatal
wound, and then committed suicide.
Jack Stewart ONcill, who had been
forced into a bigamous marriage III
Orange, Tex. by the brides father,
committed suicide in New Orleans.
Excitement was caused in the cotton
exchanges OF New York and New Or
leans by the publication Of the govern
mcnt cotton report.
DR.. Frederick A. Cook and two COM
panions were unsuccessful in their at
tempt to reach the top of Mount Nc
Knlcy. in Alaska. ,
Employees OF the American Sheet Steel
Company threaten to go out unless
their grievance at the Philadelphia
plant is settled.
Receiver Carrutt, of the Consolidated
Lake Superior Company. has issued an
appeal to the stockholders to pay an
assessment OF so cents share to pre-
vent the sale OF the properties by the
Speycr syndicate.
Charles H. Cramp resigned as presi-
dent of the William Cramp & Sons
Shipbulding Company OF Philadelphla,,
and was made chairman OF the board
a new Office.
An attempt was made to save the
Van Wormers from execution by send
ing the warden bogus telegram from
the President of the United States for
bidding it.
One passenger was killed and num-
Der injured by the collision OF an ex-
press train on the Southern Paclhc
| with a freight train.