The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-06-10
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic,

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Northern Securities Company.
The King and Queen of Portuga
attended ball given by United State:
Minister Bryan in Lisbon in honor
of officers of the American squadron
Bank-wrecker George NJ Valen
tine, of New Brunswick, N. j., was
released after having. served out {
term and was Immediately re-arrested
Fire that broke out in the seven
story drug warehouse of McKesson &
Robbins, in New York did $Ioo,ooc
worth of damage.
| Edward F. Rooney cut his wife's
throat at the summer home of the
Mystic Shrine, on the Connecticut
| River, near Hartford.
Members of the Russian war party
in ST. Petersburg are trying to force
the resignation of Foreign Minister
! Lamsdorff.
The town of. Northampton, Mass.
celebrated its two hundred and fiftietf
anniversary.
Judge Wickersham, of Alaska, has
ruled that Russian half-breeds and set
tied tribes of Indians in that territory
are citizens of the United States.
Albert Pouch died in the hospita
at Elizabeth, N. J., making the fourth
victim of the murderous frenzy o.
| Joseph NJ Pouch.
The Department of Physical Culture
of the Worlds Fair will present Alice
Roosevelt with a souvenir belt.
The biennial convention of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
was concluded at Los Angeles.
| Fraud in contract regarding IT.
negative lands has been charged
against F. c. Rutan, of Chicago.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Pennsylvania Railroad
was held at Pittsburg.
Bad weather interfered with the
| Maccabee jubilee celebration at Bat
tie Creek.
The Minnesota Building at the St
Lo,ris Exposition was dedicated.
lncensed over their failure to see
a Spanish bullfight, which the au-
thorities had stopped, riot took place
near the Worlds Fair grounds, in
volving $500 men and boys who were
unable to get their money back, and
the building was burned to the ground
Mrs. Eliza Ross, of Cincinnati, sued
in the United States Court the Jack
sonian Club, of Omaha, Neb., for the
return of $2,oSo of her money which
her son lost at the club at poker.
The entire sophomore class of the
University of Vermont, including
several women, was put on probation
for kidnapping three freshmen to keep
them from attending the banquet.
Frank Barker, of Webster county
Neb., who killed his brother and the
latter's wife to secure the farm in
order that he might marry, was con-
demned to be hanged.
w. Fl. Dorry and his wife were
found dead in their home, in Philadel-
phia. 1t is supposed that Dorsey sho.
his wife and then killed himself.
Edward Mccormick, young farmer
of Brownburg, KY, shot and killed
John B. Wade and Arthur Blackwell
who had attacked him.
A number of millionaires have pro-
missed District Attorney Jerome to
testify, when called upon, against the
gambling houses in New York.
An electric car in Burlington, Ia.
jumped the track, ran against tree
and I woman was killed and I6 other
persons hurt.
Worrying over the charge of being
cruel to her child, Mrs. Charles Eve
land, of Doylestown, Pa, went in
! sane.
DR.. Isaac H. Estey, famous faith
cure doctor, who would not accept
pay for treatment, died in Cutler, Me
Statistics show decrease in the
foreign iron and steel trade for the
fiscal year that will end this month.
Wind, rain and electrical storms
caused considerable damage in Ark
ansas and other states.
Mrs. Frances Crane Lille argues
in favor of putting girls in boys
clothes
Frank T. Young, we'll known on the
turf as horseowner and bookmaker,
was found dead in hanson cab in
New York, having been shot. Mrs.
Nan Patterson, who was in the cab
with him, was hysterical.
Michigan commission men testi-
fed before the Interstate Commerce
Commission that Armour agents had
threatened them if they testified be-
fore the commission against the COM
pany.
Curtis Jett, under life sentence for
the murder of Attorney J. B. Marcum
at Jackson, KY, was taken to the
prison at Frankfort.
DR.. John S. Fulton, of Baltimore,
was elected president of the Conven-
ton of State Boards of Health, in
| Washington.