The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-10-28
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.

Rev. Francis M. Taitt, rector of St.
Paul's Church, Chester, Pa.
Mrs. Rosa Di Pietro was indicted
in New York for the murder of Mi
chael Rogo, whom she killed wher
attentions upon her.
The St. Paul police arrested Karl R.
Kipp, former cashier of the First Ma
tional Bank of Saratoga Springs, N.
Y, who is wanted for embezzlement
Fred G. Matthews, a prisoner at
Fort Wayne, serving a sentence for
desertion, was shot and killed by Pri-
vate Frank ]. Hill while trying to es-
cape.
Verne Krall committed suicide be-
cause, as he stated in letter, tina
Dowieites had gotten all his money
and he did not want to start again.
The powder-house of Abbott &
Son, in the suburb OF Marshalltown
Ia, blew up, the explosion shaking
the entire city.
Herman Froelich, STRAW bonds
man." was convicted of perjury in
New York and sent to prison for &c
years.
Two freight trains on the Pennsyl-
vania Division of the New York Cen
trail collided near Geneva, N. Y. Three
trainmen &C. D. Rogers, Charles
Hickey and Engineer Rouse) were
killed
Miss Josephine Hiflhouse, daughter
of the late James A. Hillhouse, the
poet, and the last member of one of
the most distinguished families in
New Haven, was found dead in ner
bed
Secretary Morton has appointed a
board of officers to study the types
and qualities of torpedo vessels and
their machinery needed for the Navy
and as to the number necessary.
Allen Parker, cashier of the First
National Bank of Tullahoma, Tenn,
is missing. 1t is alleged that the
banks books show shortage of be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000.
New York and New England caught
which swept up the coast. Telegraph
wires were Frustrated in Connecticut
and Rhode Island.
DR.. George Purviance, aged 62, of
Washington, D. c.. plunged headfore-
most from the fourth-story balcony of
the Orthopedic Hospital, in Philadel
phia. and was instantly killed.
Robert S. Mccormick, American
Ambassador to Russia, arrived at New
York on the steamer Deutschland.
He came home on leave of absence
af nd to shtfc
Dr.. Auguste Frederic Muller, chief
of the staff of the Germantown Hos
pltal, died at his home in Philadelphia
of cancer He was 81 years old.
During the registration of voters
in Porto Rico for tine election, No
vember 8, several judges who at
tempted fraud were immc diately re-
moved
The International Congress of
Heads of Schools for the Deaf select
ed Indianapolis as the meeting place
of the tenth trienial conference.
The Pittsburg Steamship Company
placed an order with the American
Shipbuilding Company for four large
ore steamers, to cost $43o,ooo each.
George Jaggers, under sentence of
death in the county Jail at Newton,
N. j., for the murder of Mrs. Mary
+. Bcvans. committed suicide.
NJ. H. Phillips, balloonist, OF Hud-
son, Mich, was fatally injured while
making an ascension at the fair
grounds at San Angelo, Tex.
DR.. Henry G. Hatch, of Quincy, in
a paper before the National Prison
Congress, advocated the death penal
ty for degenerates.
American marines are to be re-
tanned on the lsthmus of Panama on
account of the unrest among the dis
gruntled elements.
R. ]. Laws. while on Southern
Pacific train, died from heart disease
when the train collided with stock
train.
A hurricane has prevailed on the
coast of Florida since last Sunday.
Many wrecks are reported and great
damage has been done to the fruit
crop. Eight people were drowned
from the schooner Melrose.
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commits
sion will make no awards until its
next meeting. which has been fixed
for January IS, 1905. Several cases
are now under advisement.
Mrs. Eva Lyons was married to
Frederick Mehren, a smallpox pa,
tent at the Municipal Hospital, in
Philadelphia, Magistrate McCleary Of
fciating ny telephone.
Marines have been sent to Cramps
shipyard to guard the armored cruis-
err Pennsylvania, now near compile
ton.
As a result of quarrel, Charles
Harding shot his wife three times and
then turned the pistol on himself, al
Mobile, Ala. Both are fatally wound
ed
William H. Kensington, leading
Mormon, has been arrested at Alton
Wyo., on charge of polygamy.
Two children were burned to death
in fire at the Middleswork Children's
Home, at Shelbyville, Ill.
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