Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1904-03-24
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.

The colored people of Kennett
Square, West Chester, are fighting ior
coeducation of the races. The whites
George Merritt Clark, OF Buffao, Il
well-known member of the American
Water-Solor Society of New York,
died at his California home.
John Mahnkcn, who claimed the
body of an Iroquois Thcater victim as
a relative il, order to enter suit, was
arrested in Chicago.
The borings of the rapid transit sub
way were completed between the Fort
George terminus and the City Hall, in
New York.
Charles w. Eliot, president of Har.
ward University since 1860, celebrated
quietly the SEVENTEEN anniversary OF
his birth.
The worlds cotton crop is est.
mated by the Department OF Agricul'
turc at 17,I7O765 bales, valued At
$75o,oS2,45I.
Robert Iceland, an actor and writer
Of melOdramas, committed suicide IN
a lodgnghouse at Detroit.
Albert Ferguson, nonunion hack
man, was shot and killed by unionlsts
in Kansas City, Mo-
Representative Charles w. Thomp.
son. of the Fifth Alabama district,
died in Chicago.
The cable ship Scotia, which on
March II was reported ashore on the
Spanish Rocks, Island OF Guam. will
be a total lost.
Capt A. X. Piper reported to the
Chicago City Club that the police torcc
OF that city was a disgracetul insti-
tuition.
Prairie fires have burned over 40, 1oc
acres OF splendid range land nCrth
and south of Hcmingiord, Ncb.
Superintendent Hendricks, Of the
New York State Insurance Depart
mcnt, says the Baltimore fire should
be a lesson to insurance companies
to continue the policy of accommodating
large reserve funds.
George a. Secor, formerly cashier
Tor the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western Railroad, was sentenced III
New York to two years and SIX
months in states prison for en-
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Winthrop college, the South Garo'
lima state college for women, at Rock
Hin, has received Il gilt OF $4,000
from Andrew Carnegie for library
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Inc New Or,cahS frcncn Opera
company mas d'spA''H'" dl NeW i"'N
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vcntion was incorporated III spring
lhc taking, ot evidence IN the case
wounded ana several o'hcr persons
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.ouiS II. Mot was hanged III Mi'?'
QUA Mont, 1or the murder OF ms
WIG
Lieut.. G.. S. Richards and +, B
Nelson have returned from Manila
under arragnmcnt to appear before
military court-mart'aI on the charge
ot Duplicating ther pay accounts l"
the Philippines.
COMPANY passed the dividend on the
company'S common stock; the usual
quarterly dividend ot 34 per cent
on the preferred stock was declared
Second Deputy Police Commits
Sioncr Henry +. Haggcrty was re
moved by Commissioner McAdoc
after he had refused to hand III his
resignation.
Eugene Allison, the builder Of the
wrecked Hotel Darlington, IN New
York. was closely questioned dur
me the corOners inquest
The Citizens Alliance of Telluride
Col, has shipped a number of Union
men and their SyhpathizerS OUT o'
town.
William f. Miller a member OF the
Light Brigade which made the famous
barge at Balaklava, died at Grotan
Ct.
prec;dert Hill nd other officials oi
the Northern Securities Companies
held a conference in New York.
n.y. ..o,s voro l;,,od and scver,'
,.oro wv ;p;,rcd H,roI' IN an cxnlosion tha,
"..oc,.oI m.o aI''n Tow f,ctorv in Chicago