The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-12-02
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.

James ii. Stevenson, head OF the
firm of ]. H. Stevenson, Brothers 6.
Co., wholesale dealers in oil, died sud
denly on the street in Philadelphia OF
heart disease.
William Dunning and John Doyle.
who escaped from Governors Island
where they were serving sentences fer
desertion, were recaptured in New
York.
Ten fishing vessels, owned in East
port. Me, and Lubec, were seized by
the Canadian fisheries protective cruis-
er Curlew near St. George, N. B.
John P. Soule, photographer. well
known in New York and Boston, died
from an apoplectic stroke at his home
in Seattle, Wash, aged II years
One man was killed and IA othci
passengers were bruised and cut in a
Bellefontaine street car that jumped
the track and overturned.
Frederick Meieris in jail in Aber-
deem, S. D., charged with the muir
der of his wife, whom he stabbed to
death with jack-knife.
Mrs Margaret Keller was found
murdered in her home, in New York.
Her head had been crushed with a
coupling pin.
One of the effects of the long
dronth in Kentucky has been seri-
Gus falling off in the milk supply
Gen. Alfred c. Barnes. president of
the Aston Place Bank, died at his
home, in Brooklyn.
DR.. w. L. Coleman, an authority
on yellow fever. died at his home, in
Houston, Tex
NJ Delcasse, the French foreign
minister. protested in the Chamber
Of Deputies against the criticism OF
the Franco Russian alliance in the re-
port of the committee on the foreign
budget
Continuous heavy rains interfere
with the inspection of the Panama
Canal zone by the American congress
sional party. The members had a
conference with President Amador.
Samuel Gompers was reelected
president of the American Federation
OF Labor, only one delegate in the
leader. voting against him.
Mrs. Rosie Lusander, aged rs years.
wat shot and killed in Philadelphia by
her husband, to whom she had been
married but two months.
The body of Mrs. Emma Brigham.
of Leicester. Mass, was found ia the
woods covered with leaves. She had
been murdered.
Arrangements have been made for
beginning the work of dismantling the
Worlds Fair promptly on Deem
Der I.
Frank Brady, against whom several
charges were pending, was shot and
killed by officers at Rock Creek, near
Bonita, Mont
The Big Bend National Bank Of
Davenport, Wash. was closed by d.
rection of the Comptroller of the Cur
rency.
Mrs. Maria B. Wilkes. the oldest
actress in the country, died in the
Prince of Peace Hospital in Philadel-
phia.
The National Grange decided in
Portland, Ore, to hold the next an
nual session in the State of New
Jersey.
Otis Loveland was electrocuted in
Columbus, O., for the murder of Geo
Geyer, farmer, near Alton.
By the overturning of patrol wag-
on in New York several policemen
were seriously injured,
The Union Pacific Railroad is re-
ported to have bought the Chicago
Great Western.
Frank Duncan, a notorious safe
blower, was hanged in Birmingham,
Ala, for murder
The United States South Atlantic
Squadron sailed from Rio Janeiro for
Bahia
A Confederate monument was I'M
yelled in Eufaula, Ala.
James Wallace, who was secretary
to James Breitung, of Marquette,
Mich, and who was acciised of steal
ing 100000 worth of securities from
him, was arrested in Liverpool.
The American barkentine Webfoot,
waterlogged and dismasted. arrived at
Astoria, Ore. with three of her crew
missing and the survivors exhausted.
Col. William Moore, once promi-
nent in Tennessee politics, died at his
home, in Nashville, Tenn. He was "a
old