The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-30
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic

to charge of speedy automobiling IN
a Pittsfeld (Mass.) police court.
Porto Rico's 1907 public schools
opened with 10000 pupils enrolled. In
the first school year during American
occupation there were 300 schools,
with $4,000 pupils.
Judge Gray, as arbitrator, decided
the controversy between the opera
tors and the miners with reference
to check weighman favorably to the
latter.
Cows on the track caused the wreck
of passenger train at Linwood, Mich.
Several persons were injured, the en-
gineer fatally.
Three foreigners were instantly
killed and one fatally injured by a
fast passenger train near Greensburg,
Pa.
One man was killed, 3 fatally and IL
seriously injured in wreck on the
Burlington Road near Elmwood.
Mrs. Russell Sage is seriously i'll
at her home, in New York. as the re-
suit of fall.
The price of wheat took a tumble
in the New York and Chicago mar
kcts.
The special train carrying the Arch
bishop of Canterbury and J. P. Nor
gan, with their party, to Washington
ran into locomotive at North Brook
field, Mass. The members of the
party were shaken up, but nobody was
hurt.
A cablegram from Caracas to New
York says that criminal charges are
fo he fto hol
Trust. which is accused of fomenting
revolution in Venezuela.
The First National Bank of Dun
dee, Ill, sued Tracy & Co.. stock
brokers, of Chicago, for SAL 400 lost
in margins by the banks cashier, who
embezzled the money.
In fight at the plant of the Pitts
burg Steel Company, at Glassport, Pa,
between strikers and unionists, G. w.
Fidlar, deputy, was fatally shot.
Senator German had conference
with Judge Parker at which Dan La
mont was present. General Miles is
to take the stump for the Democrats.
Sebastion Fasancillo was arrested in
New York on the charge of selling
bogus naturalization certificates.
Final arrangements were completed
for the national Convention of the
Republican Clubs at indianapolis.
Dr. George S. Conant, of New York,
willed his brain to the medical faculty
of Cornell University.
The National Council of Good Sa-
maritans closed its session in In
dianapolis.
A reunion of Wilder's Brigade was
held in Lafayette, Ind.
R. NJ. Alcivar,' a Mexican passenger
on the Hamburg American Line
steamer Prinz Oskar from New York
to Genoa, became insane upon the ar
rival of the ship at Genoa and shot
Captain Dugge, in command of the
steamer, and Frank R. Shattuck,
prominent Philadelphia lawyer.
Roy Fenton, the driver of the ex-
press wagon from which the dynamite
was dropped that caused the blowing
up of street car in Melrose. Mass,
was held on the charge of manslaugh-
ter.
Justice D. Cady Herrick, Democrat
ic nominee for governor of New York,
has arranged to resign from the SUI
preme Bench as soon as he can finish
Charges of discrimination were filed
with the Interstate Commerce Com
mission by John Compton, of Georgia,
against the Seaboard and the South
ern Railroad Companies.
Caspara Lamonica and Restiro
Franch, two Italians held for passing
counterfeit money, were discharged
by the United States commissioner at
Mobile, Ala.
An attempt was made to dynamite
the residence of President ]. c. Ma
ben, of the Sloss-S Sheffield Steel and
Iron Company, in Birmingham. Ala.
The executive committee of the
Continental party named Austin Hol-
comb, of Georgia, for president, and
A. King, of Missouri, for vice presi-
dent.
The Erie Railroad Company has
brought non-union men to take the
places of the locked-out boilermakers
at their shops in Susquehanna, Pa.
The Postmaster General has award
ed the contract to supply street letter
and package boxes to the Van Dorm
Iron Works of Chicago.
George Vollner, Brooklyn ma
CullllSl, dllu OdiIiuCl OSIOttCl. VI ISW
York, both committed suicide because
they could get no work.
In quarrel over the spoils of a
burglary Frank Shoemaker was fatal
ly shot in Jackson, Mich, by his pal.
Four Egyptian students bound for
the University of Missouri have been
held up by the Italian immigration
authorities at Naples.
The insurance commissioners of the
various states will endeavor to pre-
vent the use of the mails by wild
cat insurance companies.
Charles A. Senior, assistant CASH
Ter of an Akron (O) national bank.
has been arrested at San Francisco for
embezzlement
Foreign.
The unwilling of the monument to
Catherine the Great, at Wilma. Rus
| STA, was notable event. 1t is ex-