Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1904-05-19
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.

United States Commissioner Hca-
cock, in San Francisco, held Henry
A. Hyde and Henry P. Dimond under
$4,000 and $4,000 bail, respectively,
on charges of being involved in the
public land frauds.
Surgeons in Louisville, KY, per-
formed a take operation on woman
of New Albany, Ind, who insisted that
she was suffering from tumor, which
the surgeons say did not exist.
The United States squadron sailed
from San Juan, Porto Rico, for the
Canary Islands, the Brooklyn and
Castinc fo- TeneriHe and the Atlanta
and Marietta for Las Palmas.
An order was issued in New York
directing the members of the bank
rupt brokerage firm of Floyd, Craw-
ford & Co. to appear before spc-
cial examiner.
William Marconi arrived at New
York on the Campania and said that
with present appliances a daily paper
may be published at sea.
Mrs. Johnnie Owens, convicted OF
numbering her husband, was sentenced
in Steubenville to life imprisonment.
Dennis Grummel, sentenced to 10
years in the Eastern Pennsylvania
Penitentiaiy for postal robbcries, con-
fcssed that it was he and his pals who
attacked and robbed Jacob Baker and
his wife and not the six men who
have been convicted OF the crime.
George ID. Morgan, the nephew of
the hnancier, will return to Japan with
his japanese bride The cool rcccp-
ton accorded TO her by his family and
friends was not to his liking.
One hundred and thirty graduates
OF the Normal College of the City of
New York sued out a mandamuS to
compel the Board OF Education to
grant them licenses to teach.
Charley Cummings, negro, 70
years old, was taken from Jail by a
mob of masked men and lynched in
Columbia county, Ga, lie confessed
to attempted criminal assault
Bookings for the transatlantic liners
shov that the exodus to Europe dur
ing the coming summer will be larger
than ever, despite the unusual home
attractions.
Representative of Swiss, French,
Turkish and Portuguese newspapers
arrived at Nc>r York on the steam
ship La l}rctagnc to attend the con-
grcss at St. Louis.
DR.. Wcntz denies making rem Arks
dcrogatorv to the coroncr's jury that
rendered the verdict over the death
OF his son III Wise county, Va.
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Nh;tncv Pnnsland g. Co. the lead
ing commission firm of Boston. filed
, ToIuntarv net;tion in bankruntcy,
lanes Gray Thomas. a prominent
physician and surgeon of Mobile, Ala,
died there, aged 90 years
Everett Abbott. former treasurer OF
the American Marine Transportation
Company of Boston, who left that
city on March IS, was arrested i'll
San Francisco on a charge of having
embezzled from his employers S5,o52
The committee on state OF the
church has decided to recommend to
the Methodist General Conference
relaxation in the present prohibition
OF certain amusements.
Two officers and IS enlisted men
of Company +, Seventeenth Infantry,
which was ambuscaded by the Moros
in the Philippines, were killed.
The nominating committee has de-
cided on Judge George Gray, OF Del.
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