The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-05-27
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.


Angeles, resigned The Conference
indefinitely postponed the election Of
his successor
The Congressional Merchant Marine
Commission began in New York hear
ings on the question with view of
recommending remedial Legislation
lnr Inc present unsatisfactory condi-
tons.
The thrcc-masted schooner Fanny
Adele, laden with oil and merchandise
for Cape Nome, was set on FIRE by an
explosion md burned to the waters
edge at San Francisco.
Mrs. Frank Burt, who shot her
manager, has been arraigned on a
charge of shooting with intent to kill:
Z Frank H. Slyder, superintendent OF
county schools from 1887 to 1898, COM
mitted suicide in !he attic of his
home, near Chambersburg. Pa.
Peter o. Elliott, the crank who
caused stir several weeks ago among
the White House police, committed
suicide in Minneapolis.
David Rothschild, the New York
bank president convicted of larceny,
was sentenced to nine years i'll the
state prison.
The General Federation of Women's
Clubs resumed its sessions on the
Worlds Fair grounds, in ST Louis.
The Dunkards, or German Baptists,
in conference in Carthage, Mo-, de-
cided to drop the name Of Dunkards.
The annual meeting Of xthe Ameri-
can Baptist Home Mission Society
was held in Cleveland
The Pennsylvania Railroad has laid
off 500 additional employees at the
Altoona shops.
1t has been ascertained that the
victim of an attack by an unknown
assailant in New Haven. CT, was
Miss Emily B. Richards, daughter of
Professor Richards, of Yale Scientific
school,.
Harry D. Babcock. Yale fresh
man, died at his home, in New York,
from the effects of blow from a
polo mallet received during game
with the Princeton team.
Judge MacLean, of the Supreme
Court of New York, appointed a
referee to examine into the charges
of fraud made by Zoltan Doeme in
the Nordica divorce case.
Brigadier General Funston explains
that he did not swim across the Rio
Grande, but did swim across the Bag
Bag River during the Filipino War.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster Cen
cral Bristow is on an inspection tour
in Texas He is looking up the work
ings of the rural free-delivery sys-
TEN.
The United States transport Kill
patrick arrived at New York from
Manila with a number of civilians
and discharged soldiers, and the bod
les of e. soldiers who died in the Phil
ippines.
Steve Boltrich was killed and his
three cousins injured in fight at
their shanty, at Enola, Pa
Nine persons were seriously injur-
ed in head-on collision on the Bos-
ton Elevated Railway.
Richard c. Dale, prominent Phil
adelphia lawyer, died at his home,
in Chestnut Hill.
The concluding session of the
Worlds Press Parliament and the
opening of the session Of the Inter-
national Order of Machinists were
held on the Worlds Fair grounds.
Joseph Humphreys, for 10 years
general stage manager for Charles
Frohman, died on the American Line
steamship ST. Louis of consumption.
John Redcay and John Horst were
killed and John D. Weaver was in
iured by an explosion of dynamite
in stone quarry near Lancaster, Pa.
Frank Davis, colored, under SEN
tence of death in Edensburg, Pa. for
the murder of Laura Taylor, confess
ed that he also killed Susie Battles.
The flagship Kentnckey, with Adj
miral Evans on board, which left
Funchal for New York May IL, ar
rived at New York after a record
run.
The report of the committee on
ministerial relief was read to the
General Assembly of the Northern
Church, in session in Buffalo.
The Chicago police raided the office
of the Baldwin Cotton Company, said
to be a get-rich-quick concern.
One man was killed and al injured
in wreck on the Denver and Rio
Grande Railroad, near Salida, Kan.
The Clarion Steel Company was
formally transferred to the United
States Steel Corporation.
The Newark Savings Bank, of New
ark, O.. closed its doors.
: The National and International Good
Roads Convention, in 81. Louis, Mo,
continued the discussion of plans for
aiding the work of improving roads.
The police have recovered some
jewelry that was STOLEN from the
coffin of Lady Mary" Livingston, on
the family estate, below Hudson, N. Y.
Papers on newspaper topics were
read at the Worlds Press Parliament
in Festival Hall, on the Worlds Fair
Grounds. in St. Louis.
The Cumberland Presbyterians, at
their session in Dallas, Tex, discussed
the subject of reunion with the Pres
bytcrian Church.
Knights of Labor lecturers are or
ganizing the textleworkers in Phil
adelphia with the object of making
contest against the American Fed
Grafton of Labor for supremacy.
Foreign.
The French government has with
drawn Nj. de Navenne, minister to
the Vatican, as well as M. Nisard, the