Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1904-09-15
Po|ics-Osvoed to Literature, Local and General News.
NEWS IN SHORT OLDER.
Tho Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading
Domestic,

cape DSt|NilNS J'i'i i''''t
the City Detective Bureau.
The new battleship Ohio has been
delivered to Capt l.. c. Logan as
the representative of the government,
preliminary to being placed in com
mission.
1t has been shown that the confcs-
sion of Romano, the deported miner,
involving IL others i'll the dynamite
outrage at Independence, Col, is a
fake.
County Attorney Boardman moved
in court, in Minneapolis. for the dis
missal of all the indictments against
ex- Mayor A. A. Ames.
Mrs. Gertrude Roberts, who shot
Warren ]. Ferguson, in New YORK,
was held without bail Fergusons
condition is critical.
Raw Glover. who is alleged to have
robbed an express car on the Oregon
| Short Line, was arrested in Fellow
stone Park.
Mrs. II. NJ Flagler is reported to
have been robbed of money and Jew
els at lawn party i'll Newport, X. l.
Fred Strubc, who killed his sweet
heart in Havana, ILL.,, was sentenced
to prison for life
Two-dollar wheat was predicted by
the bulls on the Chicago Board OF
Trade.
| Forest fires are raging III the pril'-
cipal timber districts of California,
All Knights Templar trains scheduled
to leave for the East via Ogden were
Cancelled.
Charles Nlichacls, New York book
keeper, committed suicide to avoid be-
ing killed by the brother of a stcnog-
raphcr with whom he h.d become en-
tangled.
William f. McMullcn, ~. opera
tor of the spot light at the lroquois,
Thcatcr, in Chicago, at the time OF
the disaster, has disappeared.
Banker Eiland has returned to his
home. in Portalcs. n. NJ. with a story
of being held up by Mexican br1gands
! and held for a ransom.
The National Executive Board oi
! the MincwOrkcrs advises the men III
| the Knoxville district to accept the
proposed reduction,
New York police broke by force
into the flat Of Mrs. Elizabeth Calder
the woman who was driven mad by
her husbands death.
In quarrel at Glcnwood Springs
Col, Sergeant Boyle shot and killed
Private Pearl Allen, OF Fort Robn-
son cavalry troop.
1t was officially denied that Judge
Parker proposes to 80 to New YORK
and take personal charge OF the cam
! paiGn.
/ The steamer Longfcllow sank OIL
the Highland Light, on the MaSsa-
chusetts coast. All the crew were
saved.
The new cruiser Milwaukee, was
launched from the ways Of the Union
Iron Works, in San Francisco.
Thrilling rescucs were made by hre'
men at a tenement house fire III New
/ York.
Fire attacked the snowsheds in tn,
ncighboringhood OF Blue Canyon
I Cal. destroying, according to the
mcager reports received about 5o'
| feet of the inClOsurc.
Minister w. w. Russell the Amer
lean minister to Colombia, called tc
] see Acting Secretary OF State Looms
with reference TO his mission.
The British schooner Fraulcr
struck on Pollock Rip Shoal. OFT thS
Massachusetts coast. and is a tota
wreck. The crew was taken OFT
Forest fires are raging violently or
the shores of Spirit Lake, near Cocur
d'Alcnc CITY and Rathdrum, all II
Kootenai county, Idaho.
Three persons were injured in flttS
burg, Pa, in collision between
large racing automobile and a park
trap. All will probably die.
The voting trust of the Reading
Railroad has been dissolved, leaving
the affairs of the company in the hands
Of the shareholders,
Mrs. Charles Evans, Of Monterey
Ta. committed suicide because he'
husband went to the ball game, con
trary to her wishes.
Investigation OF the lynching of the
negro Naples was begun by a spcc1a
grand jury in Huntsville, Ala.
Larkins Johnston, colored wa:
hanged at Columbana, Ala, and An
drew Burton at Admission, Ala.
a fine OF $4,000 was imposed ii
Boston on the Royal Exchange AS
surancc Company of London.
Two robbers looted the safe o
County Treasurer Chase. i'll Pomcroy
O., OF $4,000.
Three prisoners under indictment fo'
burglary walked out of Jail in Glen
Falls, N. Y.
Jesse Allen, a negro, was legally
executed in Oxford, N. G., for felonl
Gus assault.
Thousands of acres of valuable lane
in California were destroyed by for
est fires.
The three big tobacco organization!
are to be consolidated.