The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-08-12
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
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vany for $1,000, 700.
Three cases of yellow fever were
reported at Vera Cruz, three at Coat
zacoalcos and FIVE at Tehuantepec.
There have been no deaths at the
latter place.
Miss Lizzie Carson and Miss Mar
garet Gillie, both from Philadelphia,
were drowned while bathing at dan
gerous part of the Cape May beach.
Many business houses of Pueblo are
closed, and several persons have lost
their minds because of the railroad
wreck
The right to sink neutral vessels
with contraband on board has raised
a question of importance to the Unit
ed States.
Governor Pennypacker has issued a
proclamation designating August 20
as Pennsylvania Day at the Worlds
Fair.
The valuable jewels owned by Mrs.
Ogden Goelet, which were reported to
be missing. have been found
Lillian Reed, a stenographer. COM
mitted suicide in the private Office of
her employer in New York
General Greedy has received the first
Geographic message ever sent direct
from Nome, Alaska.
The leading furnace and coal min
district will reopen.
The plant of the American Refrig-
orator Transit Company of St. Louis
was damaged by fire. .
Three. workmen were seriously in
H., =,
Boston subway.
National Bank, Camden, N J., died at
Atlantic City.
The residence of Mrs. Bella Powers
was blown up at Butte, Mont.
The end of the fourth week of the
meat-butchers' strike in the West finds
the controversy as far from settled as
ever. There is no sign that either side
will give in.
The hiding-place of $4,000 worth
OF securities, part of the loot stolen
at the Bear Mouth train robbery, was
revealed by one of the robbers. 1t
was near Hope, N. D.
The State Department has taken
measures looking to the improvement
of our foreign trade by cooperation
between the diplomatic and the con-
sular services.
George Wheadon, travelling sales
man for Minneapolis yeast company,
has been placed unJer arrest in Chi
cago on the charge Of bigamy.
George K. Davis, who was divorc-
ed from his wife, formerly Helen c.
Gallatin, has been ordered to pay a
dressmaker's bill of over $4,000.
The anniversary of the Battle of
Antietam will be observed by the I'M
yelling of 10 monuments erected by
the state of Pennsylvania.
Verne Lowe died in Dresden, O.,
from the effects of an injury caused
by his being struck by a pitched ball
during game.
The will of Bertha Dolbeer, the
San Francisco heiress, who commit
ted suicide in New York, will be at
tackled.
The United States transport Buford
arrived at Seattle, Wash, with troops
from Nome and Skagway, Alaska.
The attendance at the Worlds Fair
during the past week was 6oI,4II a
new record being made.
The new Republic of Panama has
invested 100000 in New York real
estate mortgages.
c. M. Alexander, Chicago evange-
list, married Miss Helen Cadbury, an
English heiress.
Indiana teachers are raising SEC, 900
to bring the murderer of Sarah Schaf-
er to justice.
Abraham B. Myers, of Hanover, Pa,
has no hands, but he is an expert pool
player.
Michael Gallery, of Plainfeld, N. J.,
was shockd by 1000 volts and still
lives.
Max Arnold Hess, the blind com
edian, died at a sanitarium in Phila-
delphia.
Joseph Shearer and his wife, Eliza
beth, who were married about month
ago, were shot and killed by Harry
Fisher, aged 80 years, the woman's
brother, in their home, in Philadelphia.
Fisher also shot himself and died
later. The motive for the crime was
robbery.
Benjamin Brown, of Philadelphia,
aged ~ years, will wed widow aged
Is years. This will be his fourth mat
rimonial venture. Brown has figured
in several accidents and on three oc-
casions had been pronounced dead.
There was a run on the Drovers'
Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago by
strikers in retaliation for the action
of one of the packing firms in making
the bank an adjunct to its pay de-
partment.
Rear Admiral Rivet and party OF
officers from the French cruiser Du-
pleix visited the statehouse and city
hall in Boston and paid their respects
to the governor and mayor.
An express train on the West Jersey
and Seashore Railroad, bound for
Cape May, ran into an open switch
at Woodbury.. NJ ]. A number OF
passengers were injured.
An Italian quarryman was wedged
for two days in the Palisades rocks,
on the Hudson. He was without food
or water and lost his reason because
of his sufferings.