Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1903-08-06
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
Domestic.

Rev. Dr. W. Fl. Roberts, stated clerk
OF the General Assembly OF the Pres
bytcrian Church, there is a steady
growth in the membership OF the
church.
Antonio Turckowski Pole who was
put to death in electric chair at OssIn-
ing, N. Y, for the murder of Brook
lyn saloonkceper, declared to the last
that he was innocent
William Law, a wealthy coal opera
tor OF Scranton. Pa, has engaged at
torneys to bring action against the
Mayor for police interference will,
Carrie Nation last week.
I, La Rix, chemist OF Merlin, Ore,
claims to have made silver from gold.
and to have developed new metal
from slate from which he expects to
produce gold. :,
A special grand Jury was convened
at Jefferson City, Mo. to inquire INTO
charges OF boodling preferred against
certain members Of the Legislature.
The trial of former Secretary OF State
Powers, OF Kentucky, on the charge. OF
completely in the Goebel assassination
began at Georgetown, KY.
Miss Clara Barton proposes the or
panization OF national relief body,
with branches ip every town and city.
Thomas S. Lippy, the Klondike mil
lionairc, was held up by masked men at
Seattle and was robbed.
The first bale OF the present cotton
crop was marketed at Albany, Ca Tor
Is cents per pound. =,
Joseph Saxtor, aged 70 years, the
last surviving uncle Of Mrs. Mckinney,
died at Canton, .. -,
The trustees of the Newport Hospital
have received from Mrs. Vanderbilt the
formal transfer of the $25oooo ward
which she has caused to be erected as a
memorial to her husband the late Cor
nclius Vanderbilt.
Judge Lochrcn, of the United States
Circui, Court. in the case of the State OF
Minnesota against the Northern Secur'-
ties Company, decided in favor OF the
defendants and dismissed the bill OF com-
/ plant.
| Ida NJ. Tritt, the first woman to hoid
/ an executive position IN any railroad IL,
! the United States. has been electcd
treasurer of the New York and Queens
County Street Railway.
! It ia expected in Boston cotton-i1la't-
/ featuring circles that more than 2'ooo'ooo
spindlcs will be idle throughout the
/ North during the month of August.
Eighteen British subjects were refused
landing bv the United States immigrant
commissioner at San Francisco because
they were contract laborcrS.
Further evidence was given IN the
trial at Cynthiana Ky, OF Curtis Jeu
and Thomas White for killing j. L.
/ Alarcum that Jctt admitted the killing,
A freight train ran into a halt-open
drawhridgc on the Delaware and fud-
son, killing the fireman and seriously III
turing the engineer.
The mobilization OF the greatest iIeet
Of warships in American waters has been
successfully accomplished at Frenchmans
Bay
three men were found crushed to
death on a gondola car, loaded with i'im-
bcr, from Williamsport, Pa, Tor fhiia-
del pha.
Lawrence Murphy, former treasurer
oi the Journcymcn Stonccutters Union,
who vas arrested last December,
charged with cmbczzling $1,000 'ol''
the labor organization, and who was
convicted in New York on Monday OF
grand larceny, was sentenced by Judge
Ncwburgcr, in Part II OF General ScS'
siDns, to five years and six months
in states prison
The French steamer lie Lion arrived
in Philadelphia, having on board the
crew OF the Italian bark Vermont,
which capsized in the Atlantic during
4 fisherman in the Mississippi river
near Lacrosse, Wis, was pulled over
board by an enormous catfish ana was
drowned ,,.
Ben W. Stcarncs, the one armed hlt
prisoner who escaped from the iedera
prison at Fort Lcavcnworth, Ran, was
captured. H., ,,,, po
,;ccman Massey in Evansville, Ind,
died from effect OF wounds inflicted by
Massey.