The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-02-26
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER
The Latest Happenings Condensed for
Rapid Reading.
Domestic.

MAY wheat broke 81 cents then f1uctu-
ated widely in the Chicago wheat pit.
Senator Hanna's will leaves his estate
of So, 900, 600 to his family, none being
devoted to charity.
Failing to agree in st. Louis, commit
tees of the factions of the Populist party
may call two separate conventions
Two men asleep in caboose at vii
Transport, Pa, were killed by the eX-
plosion of locomotive.
Nine. Eleanore Petralli, once famous
opera singer, died in want in Chicago.
Seven persons were injured in rail
way wreck near Bridgeport, Tenn.
Robert j. Rich of Iowa, Yale stu
dent was found dead at the foot of cliff
in New Haven park.
Col Frederick Myers, Il years old, and
a negro nurse were arrested upon the
discovery that the former wife had died
of poison.
Five men were killed by the explosion
of Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive
near Johnstown, Pa.
President Don Parry addressed the
Citizens Industrial Association al In
dianapolis in opposition to the proposed
Eight Hour bill now before Congress
Ex-Secretarv of War Elihu Root, in a
speech in Chicago, defended the Panama
policy OF the Administration.
Six lives were lost in the wreck of the
schooner Benjamin c. Palmer, off Bell
port Long Island.
Six men, including Capt. Harvey Nc
Clean, were lost in the wreck of the
three masted schooner Benjamin Z.
Cromwell, of Bellport, L. |.
A Chicago fire cost three lives and par
TALLY destroyed the building occupied by
the Alhambra Theatre, Hotel and Apart
ments.
1t is virtually conceded that Congress
man Dick will be elected by the Ohio
Legislature to succeed Senator Hanna
Serious floods are threatened lin the
Susquehanna and other Pennsylvania
rivers.
Three men were killed in a gas ex
plosion at Buffalo.
Unions are being strengthened and
miners are saving money in preparation
for an extended soft-coal strike.
The Salvation Army held a Hanna
memorial service in New York.
A movement is on foot to label all
buildings erected with union labor.
The Parkersburg Iron and Steel Com
pany is to sue a labor union for damages
for losses by unlawful acts of strikers.
Mr. F. J. Campbell of Nelson county,
Va, who had 400 descendants, is dead
at the age of "a.
Two boys were drowned while skating
near Wakefield, Va.
Twenty five persons were killed and 10
injured in collision of trains at
jackson, Utah, that exploded a car of
dynamite,
Three men were killed in an explosion
at the Latin Rand powder mills, Wayne
n. J.
The insane asylum at Racine, Wis,
was burned, but the 1873 inmates were
rescued,
Four passengers were injured in at
tempting to escape from a burning street
car running rapidly at Pittsburg.
Perry Heath resigned as secretary of
the Republican National Committee.
Governor Herrick refused to run for
Senator
Mrs. Kittie Duffy, of New York, hunt
ed for seven weeks for the slayer of her
husband and at last found him on the
Bowery.
A large electric fan is believed to have
drawn the fire across the Iroquois Thea
tre Chicago.
C. H. Troutman, Milledgeville (Ga.)
bank cashier, who had lost large
amount in speculation shot himself.
Otis Pierce, Munice (Ind) elevator
boy, made nine trips in burning build
ing, saving its inmates. I
Glenco Bays, negro murderer, was
burned to death by mob near Crossett,
Arkansas.