Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1904-06-23

NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.

The educational board of the Pres
bytcrian Church proposes to estaonsI
a university at Mckinley, Tex, and
Su75.ooo of the necessary 100000 with
which to start work on the buildings
has been subscribed
Frederick A. Gilman, banker OF
indianapolis, Ind. prayed tervent!y i'll
church one night and disappeared the
next morning with all the tundS DC
longing to his customers that was
in the bank vaults.
DR.. Joseph and Count frantz Mar
veldc, Austrian commissioners to the
ST. Louis Exposition, arrived Ill New
York on the steamer Bluechcr, IRON
Hamburg.
The United States Cereal Company,
gct-rich-quick concern, III New
York, was closed up on Saturday
when the investors called tor their
weekly dividends.
Thomas w. Lawson, the Boston
multlmillionaire, published the hrst
chapter of his expose OF the methods
of the Copper and other trusts.
J. B. Mills. treasurer OF Summit,
Miss. committed suicide at hotel
at Jackson, Miss His accounts. as
treasurer Of Summit are all right.
Miss Charlotte Gcbhardt. of Ionk-
crs, n y, drowned while three men
on a raft nearby looked on and made
no effort to save her.
President Roosevelt visited Wash
ington's headquarters. at Valley
Forge, and other historical sites III
that vicinity.
Frank Rurncss, who is to be exc
cutcd in Sing Sing, wanted to sell his
body. so that he might pay his debts
Edmund Moorcwood Ferguson.
Pittsburg multimlllonairS is dead, at
the age OF 20.
Two robbers entered the home OF
Mrs. Barbara Young, all old woman
at Altoona, Pa. beat her inscnSlble be
cause she would not give them money
and after obtaining $IS set fire to the
beds in the several rooms and lett
Mrs. Young was rescued by members
OF a fire company.
Charles Stlmmcll, prisoner in the
Ohio Pcnitcntiary, who had been con-
dcmncd to death, received repricve
from Governor HcrriCk three minutes
before the time set for the eIectrocu'
tlOn.
The court dismissed the suit brous hi
III Chicago court by one OF the VIC
TINS of the lroquois disaster against
Klaw & Erlanger, deciding that ser
vice had to be made personally.
Special inspection ot passenger
steamboats, plying from Chicago have
been ordered as result OF the Cen
eral Slo-um disaster.
The ore hundredth and twcnty-ninth
,rr;vcrsarv nf the Rattle of Bunker
iii ,,,s ce1chratcd IN Boston and
ad,acert towns
San,ns-Dumon arrived in New
NnrL Win his d,riglbIe airshir
"Nn :" to compctc for the prize at
,Lo Nor,d's Eair
It,..,rhr..,ts pro';h,tiorists nom.
,,atcd NIrs FANNIE | Clarv for sccre-
,ar,. ~ .t,te
CharIes = Meow Chicago law
,.er rnmn,;t,cd de N Jacksonville
Ia,
nov, cotto, buo has anoeared in
AI,h,r,
N'"ba,ia charia. Il Mover ,rcs;dent of the
N.o.,nrn j:odnr,,inr ~ Miners who
wv. roin,sod Nv Federal Iudge Thaver
wa w" ahoas cornns ~ ,s now = prisoner
- ,he county i,;i IN Telluride. Col
Counsel fGr Mrs Nan Patterson
,.,,o ;Y under ;nd;r,ment in New York
for the murder of Caesar" Young
molc motion for an inspection OF
Tho minutes OF the grand Jury.
Ten thousand Confederate veterans
marched in the parade which was the
closing feature OF the fourteenth an.
nual reunion OF the United Conieder-
ate Veterans.
Testimony was begun III Boston III
the case of the Western Union Te le-
graph Company against the Bell Tcle-
phone Company for $4,oooooo
\ number OF papers on pertinent
subjects were read before the Ma.
,ional Conference of Charities and
Corrections. in Portland, Me.
DR.. Nathan Smith Davis, ono OF the
most prominent physicians III America,
died in Chicago at the age OF 81 years
The theatrical managers and pro
prictors OF Philadelphia formed an
organization
William a. Snyder. former
evangelist, was arrested III PM adcl-
phia and confessed that he had OBJ
taincd money in Maryland towns and
elsewhere by raising the amount on
I.redcrick Warren of Buffalo, lost
$1,000, the savings of lifetime, WhIIs
playing English faro III New ors
upon recommendation OF a TREND
whom he attack with cane.
Warrants have been issued for 8;
miners in the Cripple Creek distric'
tor compllclty IN the ayiialll'te Tuu ass
at Independence All are eld' Sc
/ with murder.