The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-29
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.

state that all arrangements tor pay
ment have not yet been completed.
1t is believed, however, that from $780,
100000 to $3o,ooo,ooo gold will be
shipped to Paris.
Frank Mcnamara pleaded guilty. in
Brooklyn to the charge of killing
Capt. George R. Jennings, president
of the Jennings Adjustable Shade
Company, in Brooklyn.
A woman disguised as a nun hand
ed money to one of the Welland ca
nal dynamiters in the Kingston (Ont.)
Penitentiary to be used to bribe the
guards.
The Tulane Medical College, in Lou
isiana, will get the bulk of the es-
tate of the late A. c. Hutc hinson, who
was president of the Louisiana and
Texas Railroad.
Rev. Victor Garav, of the Polish
Catholic church at Snowshoe, Pa,
was arrested on the charge of beating
Andrew Sosko, boy, to death.
The steamship Haverford brought
to Philadelphia the captain and crew
Of the French barkentine Union,
which was wrecked.
A chauffeur trying Edwin Gould's
new automobile ran it into pile OF
building material, killing one man and
injuring three.
George Holcombe was killed and
Capt. E. T. Breese injured as the re-
suit of an automobile accident in
Trenton, N. ].
Judge Charles H. Simonton, of the
r. 81, Aor n n
died in hospital in Philadelphia.
A chip of wood cut from the door
post of the Page residence bearing the
bloody hnger-prints of the murderer
is believed to be the most important
bit of evidence against Charles l..
Tucker, held in Waltham, Mass, on
the charge of numbering Miss Mabel
Page.
James J. Jeffries, the champion
heavyweight pugilist, was married at
Oakland, Cal, to Miss Freda Meyer,
OF New York city. The couple lett
for Hardin Springs, where Jeffries will
train for his coming fight with Mon
roe.
The interior of the four-story build
ing of the Victor Talking Machine
Company, in Camden, N. J., was
Quilted by fire, the loss being estimated
at 100000,
Ex-State Senator Henry S. Little,
prominent New Jersey hnancier,
railroad man and Democratic leader,
died at his apartments, in Trenton,
N. J.
The factory of the Empire Furniture
Company, at Jamestown, N. ", was
destroyed by fire. Loss, 100000; in
surance, $4,000.
Gen. Thomas T. Brady, one of the
defendants in the famous star-route
case, died at his home in Jersey City.
The Steamer Etruria brought to
New York large number of Irish
exhibits and people for the St. Louis
Fair.
Judge George Gray will preside over
the Lake Mohonk Conference, which
opens on June I.
Former Judge Stevenson Burke, of
Cleveland, died in Washington OF a
paralytic stroke.
President Charles H. Meyer, (of the
Western Federation OF Minefs, who
is under arrest, had a hearing before
the SOlOId uO oupi SlilC Nopt oi VIZ
eli habeas corpus. w. d. Haywood,
secretary of the federation, struck a
captain of the military guards, and
angry soldiers then bsat the labor
official with the butts qf their guns.
At a special stockholders meeting
of the Northern Securities Company
in Hoboken, N. J., ,fhe proposed dis
tribution plan was ratified despite the
protest of the Hartman interests.
James Broderick, president, and w.
L. Collins, cashier, of the Indiana
National Bank, at Elkhart, were SEN
fenced to 10 and 6 years in prison
for violating the banking laws.
James Nelson Abeel, who posed as
!. O.asn Goelet and became engaged
to Miss Eleanor Anderson, in New
York, was found guilty of forgery in
the third degree.
Charles O'Hare became demented
while returning from abroad, and ere
ated something of panic among the
steerage passengers on the steamer
Majestic.
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