The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-07-22
NEWS m SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic

against the government of San Do
mingo has been brought to sue
cessful arbitration.
Adab, perhaps the Oldest city in
the World, has been discovered by
the University of Chicago's excavat-
ing expedition in Babylonia.
Five deaths occurred from heat in
Greater New York, and there were
many prostrations.
The Western Federation of Miners
has appealed to the Red Cross So
ciety to take charge of the relief of
the deported miners.
The Immigration Bureau has issued
statement showing the number of
inmates in the penal and reformatory
institutions.
General Miles says he withdrew
from the contest because he did not
want to cause dissension among the
Prohipitionists.
The State Department has begun
a study of precedents relative to the
stoppage of neutral ships by bel
ligerents.
Assistant Secretary Loomis has a0
cepted the finding of the British
coroner's jury in the case of his
brother.
The triennia1 review of the Supreme
Tent, Knights of Maccabees, began at
Detroit
Capt, John l. Wood, grandson of
President Zachary Taylor, died at
Halifax
The Mexican National Pavilion at
St. Louis was struck by lightning.
The New England Dredging Com
pany, of Boston, assigned for the
benefit of its creditors. The liabilities
are given as 100000, with assets
nominally the same.
B. H. Marsh, who went from Ch1ca-
go to China in 1893 as missionary
and member of the faculty of the
Anglo-Chinese College, at Foochow,
is dead.
Daniel J.. Sully & Co. made formal
offer to compromise at 40 per cent,
but would not show to the satisfac-
ton of the creditors meeting the
funds to pay it.
The captain and crew of the
steamer Aldborough, which went
ashore at Fortune Island, were
brought to New York on the steamer
Altai
The rush to the Rosebud country
increases as the time for the regis
tration expires, and it is estimated
that about 10000 persons have thus
far registered.
The Insular Bureau of the War
Department issued circular inviting
proposals for the sale of $4,000, 900
Philippine 4 per cent, bonds.
Charles G. lockwood, for many
years president of the National New
ark IN. j. Banking Company, is
dead, at the age of 90 years.
Charles D. Rogers, of Chicago, who
was injured in an automobile accident
Saturday, died at the Elm Tree Inn
in Pennington, Ct.
Lightning struck two of the Enter
prise Powder Company's mills, at
Grandale, Pa, exploding GOO kegs of
powder
> The new reservoir of the Citizens
Water Company, at Scotdale, Pa,
burst, destroying crops and other
property.
The two factions of the window
glass-workers, in convention in Cleve-
land, O., agreed upon amalgamation.
Henry L. Wilson, the American
minister, left Santiago, Chill, on leave
of absence.
Three negro brothers, killed a
white boy whom they held up in Hol-
ton, Kan
Property worth 100000, on the
waterfront of Duluth, Mimi. was de-
stroyed by fire, and a cook named
George Smith was drowned in his at
tempt to escape from tug as the
flames swept over it.
Judge Bradford, in the United States
Court, in Trenton, N. j., granted a
preliminary injunction restraining the
proposed distribution of stock by the
Northern Securities Company.
A freight train ran down hand
car near Emporia, Kan. One young
man was killed and his three COM
panions, including two young ladies,
were seriously injured.
Osceola Kyle, of Alabama, took the
oath of office in Washington as a
Judge in the canal, zone in Panama,
and will sail from New York next
week.
William E. Sugden. for 81 years
president of the Hartford County
Mutual Fire Insurance Company, died
in Hartford, CT, aged 80 years.
The National Wholesale Liquor
Dealers Association has brought
charges of discrimination against 81
railroads.
The Worlds Fair has made the
first payment of 100000 on the gov
eminent loan of 100000
Having secured decree of divorce.
Mrs. Ella Swoboda, of Chicago, COM
mitted suicide.
There was large attendance at the
funeral of Mayor Samuel NJ. Jones,
in Toledo.
Foreign.