The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-08-19
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.

mess man of Chicago, and former
president of the Union League OF that
city, is dead, aged So years.
The Standard Oil Company has de-
clared a dividend of SIS per share,
the three dividends of the. year ag-
gregating 28 per cent.
At jacksonville, KY, Miss Clara
Bouland was killed by lightning while
talking through telephone during a
thunder storm.
Two thousand cloakmakers are on
strike in Cleveland, O., for more
wages, recognition of their union and
CLOSED shop"
Education and the Religious Life"
formed the subject of discussion at
the meeting of the Society of Friends,
in Toronto.
One man was killed, another prob
ably fatally wounded and 10 were in
jured in an elebator accident in New
York
The report of the Geological Sur
vey shows the production OF iron ores
in the United States in 1903 was great
er than that of any other country
A large fortune has come to Mrs.
Julia S. Cowan, of Manchester, N. H.,
who was estrahged from her family
because of her marriage.
| Poison has been found in the stom-
ach of Mrs. Jones Watson, of New
London, who was supposed to have
been drowned.
James A. Place. Berwick (Me.)
farmer, has sold two ponds which
have valuable deposits of chalk on
their bottoms.
Eva Booth will probably succeed
Commander Booth Tucker as head OF
the Salvation Army in the United
States.
Mrs. Charles Cohen, of Brooklyn,
choked a thief who was trying to
break into the apartments of neigh
Dor.
Jesse Pomeroy, the famous New
England convict, made another at
tempt to escape from prison.
Western railroads are seeking
cheaper method of locomotion than
that furnished by steam.
Mrs. Sadie A. Lyle sued her hus-
band for divorce because OF his con-
slant desire to pray.
The admissions to the Worlds Fair
last week were considerably larger
than the week before.
Mrs. G. Guenther of Germania. N.
j., beat off two thieves who attempted
to rob her
The Kansas City police were led in
raid on an opium joint by a -
year-old girl.
The excessive importation of food
stuffs caused a decline in the value of
English farms.
John w. Gates lost 100000 because
he was on the wrong side of wheat.
William Kilday shot and killed Owen
Cunningham in Philadelphia.
The coal miners have decided to
submit to Judge Gray the entire ques-
ton of acknowledgment and check
docking bosses.
Hereafter the conventions of the
Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen
will be held every two years instead OF
annually.
DR.. Frank G. Sanft, a prominent
physician, of Roxbury, Mass, has been
arrested on charge of counterfeiting.
Seymour D. Thompson, former as
sociate justice of the Court OF Ap-
peals at St. Louis, died at East Or
ange, N. ].
Chairman Cortelyou announced that
President Roosevelt will not make
any political speeches during the cam
paign.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion announced its decision regarding
the fruit transportation charges.
Half a dozen men were injured IN
various encounters between strikers
and nonunion men in Chicago.
Former Congressman George Brick
ner died suddenly of heart trouble at
Shegoygan Falls, Wis.
Prince Henry, of Prussia, his wife
and eldest son will visit the St. Louis
Exposition.
Three persons wre killed and three
were injured in trolley car wreck
at Defiance, o.
Twenty-one mines of the Lehigh
Valley Coal Company will shut down
for a week.
Eight mn were arrested for counter
feiting in a raid at Chicago.
A meteor struck the earth near Con-
cord Station, Pa.
A $4,000, 900 mortgage from the
Norfolk and Western Railroad Com
pany TO the Guaranty Trust Company
OF New York was filed for record at
Columbus. 0.
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Stationary Firemen Endorsed the ac-
ton OF the packing-house hremen in
going out in sympathetic strike.
A summer trolley car ran away in
Beaver Run Valley. Ii turned over
at the bottom of grade and 10 people
were injured, fatally.
Mrs. Charles w. Fairbanks was
tenderc4 q reception during the cele-
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Marvsville, o.
The Citizens Alliance has threat
ened the bondsmen of the miners
charged with the riot at Victor with
deportation.
President Roosevelt has appointed
Regis II. Post to be secretary and
E. S. Rockwell TO be auditor OF Porto
Rico.
Vincenzio Mannino. the Italian con-
tractor, of Brooklyn. whose six-year-
old son, Antonio, has been kidnapped,