Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1904-10-06
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic,


A prairie fire which for several days
has swept the Rosebud Reservation
and portions of Trip and Gregory
counties, S. D., was quenched by a
heavy rain. The loss has been enor-
nous.
The Trenton IN. j. cork life-pre-
server manufacturers indicted tor con-
spiracy against the government in
spcction laws pleaded not guilty and
were released on bail
The International Peace Congress
was begun in Boston. The principal
addresses were delivered by Secretary
of State Hay and the Bishop of Here
ford
Charles +. Kelly, former speaker of
the st. Louis House of Delegates,
confessed his part in the bribery COM
bine and told of its methods and re-
suits.
Funeral services were held in Wor-
cester, Mass, over the remains OF
Senator Hoar, Rev. DR.. Z. L. Hale
delivering the eulogy.
Two men were killed in terrific
explosion in the Corning Mill Of the
DuPont-De Nemours Co.'S plant, near
Peckville, Pa
A record run was made by train
in the new New York Subway on
special trip from the City Hall to
Harlem.
Fire destroyed the rug factory of
the Fries -Breslin Company. in Cam
den, N. J., entailing loss Of $500. 900.
The assignee of the Federal Trust
Company of Cleveland will pay the
depositors Of that institution in full.
Thomas Allen, a despondent ARTIST,
committed suicide in Kansas City, Mo.
Mrs. Emma Frcyer committed suit
eide in the Allegheny River at Pitts
burg.
Secretary Of the Interior Hitchcock
gave out statement showing the
falsty of the charges that the land
fraud cases had not been diligently
prosecuted. His statements show how
the fraudulent combine has been
broken up and the indictment OF the
leaders secured.
Virginia H. Bowles, of Roanoke, Va,
has entered suit for 100000 against
Charles S. Johnson. of New York,
whom she charges with having de-
ceived her by pretending to be an
unmarried man
According to his confession. Biglcr
Johnson, of Macedonia, Pa, offered
is mother and other members OF his
family S. each to put his wife out
Of the way.
Floods have done an immense
amount of damage in New Mexico.
Half Of the town of Watrous was de-
stroved and at least IL persons were
drowned,
The Oxford Local Of the United
Mineworkcrs, which was the FIRST to
be organized in the Lackawanna Val
ley, disbandcd and surrendered its
charter.
Shcila Keddy died in Detroit from
ptomainc- poisoning, and other mem
bcrs OF the family are reported to be
in serious condition.
Three hremen were overcome by
fumes while fighting a FIRE in the. +.
b. Newman Charcoal Company's fac
tory, III New York
Charles Fraga, OF Mexico City, and
Mrs. Julia Miller were found shot in
St Louis. The woman was dead and
the man dying.
Meetings Of the three tobacco com
panies TO arrange details OF the pro-
posed consolidation were checked by
proceedings to enjoin the combine.
The BODY Of Frances Parkhurst, the
student Of Lake Forest Col
lcge, was found, after long search,
in Lake Michigan.
The floods have caused washouts
on nearly all the railroads entering
New Mexico and traffic is practically
at a standstill.
Fire in a block in New York occu-
pied by meat packing plants caused a
loss Of nearly a quarter OF a million
dollars.
The scaffolding on a railroad bridge
near Malone, N. V. gave way. One
man was killed and four seriously in
jured.
DR.. Thomas d. Hogg, of Raleigh,
n. G., 81 years of age, allowed
freight train to run over him.
II. w. Walker, owner OF the Acad-
envy of Music, in Pittsburg, died in
that city.
Frank Lewandoski. convicted of
wife murder, was hanged in the Jail-
yard in Chicago.
Stephen W. Townley died from sun
stroke in Mobile, Ala.
Expressions of regret by Governor
Bates and Special Justice Phelps, at
Lee, Mass, that lack of knowledge OF
international law had resulted in the
imposition of fine by Judge Phelps
upon Hugh Gurney, third secretary OF
the British Embassy, were forwarded
to the State Department. at Washing
ton.
The years record of the American
Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions shows larger receipts from
gifts and smaller receipts from legacies
than in the previous year.
The battleship Connecticut was
launched at the New York Navy Yard.
Miss Alice B. Welles, granddaughter
of Gideon Welles, being the sponsor,
Trthur D. Wyman and Charles F.
Wyman died at Cambridge, Mass,
from injuries received by being run
over by an automobile.
Foreign.
Lieutenant General kleigels, gov
ernor general of Kief, Russia, has
La,, rrooted Ieaye of absence and