The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-11-25
NEWS m SK0RT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
DomeoHc.

the Vulcanite Cement Mills, at Vu,-
canite. N. j., went on a strike. Po-
lice are now guarding the works.
Papers in suit for $4,000, 900
brought by the American China Com
pany against the Hudson Trust Com
pany, of Hoboken, were served.
A. F. Jaurett. the American news
paper man who was ordered to leave
Venezuela, came to New York on the
steamer Philadelphia.
The Philadelphia Presbytery of the
Presbyterian Church voted in favor OF
Affiliation with the Cumberland Pres
byterian Church.
The Chicago Subway Company was
incorporated in Trenton, N. j., with
an authorized capital OF $4,000, 900.
Mrs. J. R. .Nickum died in a board
ing-house in Topeka, Kan, from in
juries inflicted on the head with an AK
The suspension of Alfred M. La
mar was announced on the New York
Consolidated Exchange.
Secretary Taft and party sailed
from New Orleans on the cruiser
Dolphin for Pensacola.
Secretary of War Taft and party
have reached New Orleans. They
were received by committee of
prominent citizens, members of the
governors staff, and a military detail
of regulars and members of the state
guard
Andrew Meaders, Jushua Cummins,
Bee and Edward Hollsomback are
under arrest at Williamsburg. KY,
charged with the murder of George
Curd and Emma Durham near Cum
berland Falls.
The Liberty Bell was brought back
to Philadelphia from ST. Louis and es-
corted to independence Hall by an
imposing military procession.
William Bate, chauffeur, was found
shot dead in an automobile on lonely
road near Chicago He is believed to
have been killed by robbers.
Reuben Loree, aged S., and his son,
Fred Loree, aged 80 years, were suffo-
| Gated to death in the village lookup in
Columbiaville, Mich.
George Mack, chauffeur for Anna
Held, was arrested in New York on
the charge of running down aged ia
cob Clemens.
Three election officers in Denver,
Col, were convicted of frauds at the
recent elections. They were fined
and sent to jail.
The Central Vermont Railways
freight steamer Mohawk was burned
off Horizons Point. L. 1. The Mo-
hawks crew was taken off by the
Fall River Line steamship Boston.
Henry Meldrum, formerly United
States surveyor, was convicted of for
gerry, being the first man to be con-
victed in the so-called land fraud
cases.
A premature blast in the excava-
ton for the Pennsylvania Railroad
Tunnel in New York did $4,000 dam
age to neighboring buildings.
Announcement was made in Chi
cago of the completion of the fund OF
5000, 1000 for the erection of the Nc
kinley monument.
After the death of DR.. T. c. Conk-
lin, physician of Pennington, H.,
the discovery was made that he had
two wives.
William P. Hayde, for many years
county license inspector in Kansas
City, Mo-, shot and killed himself
while in bed.
President Francis and other officials
of the St. Louis Exposition were dec
GRATED with Legion of Honor insignia.
John and James Black. twin broth
ers, and John Murphy were arrested
in Indian Territory on the charge Of
being the men who held up the Rock
Island train at Fort Logan, N. M.
William Pollworth, 20 years old,
shot and probably fatally wounded
Conrad Boxman at Bartlett. ILL.,, and
then barricaded himself in his moth
er's home and dehed citizens and po-
lice. but finally surrendered.
John G. Heckscher. secretary of the
| National Horse Show Association, was
run down and trampled upon by pair
| of horses in the ring at the New York
Horse Show. His injuries may result
in conclusion of the brain.
All the shipbuilding cases brought
in the United States Court in, New
York against Schwab. Morgan, Gates
and others were discontinued with the
consent of the complaintants.
| The Hotel Olympia, the largest
frame hotel building in Olympia, Wash,
has been burned to the ground The
loss is 100000, with $4,000 insurance.
All the guests escaped safely.
One man is dead and three Others
are seriously injured as result of a
fire which destroyed the tar plant of
the Denver Gas and Electric Com
pany, in Denver. Col.
Foreign.
The betrothal is announced Of the
Grand Duke of hessc. who was d.