The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-07-08
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic,

Domestic,
George w. Beavers, former super
intendent of the Bureau of Salaries
and Allowances of the Postofice De-
partment, will be taken to Washing
ton for trial.
The Filipinos who arried in ST.
Louis for the Exposition were quaren-
tined because of an outbreak Of
chlckenpox among them.
The government registration books
for entry on the Rosebud Indian Res
ervation were opened at Bonesteel,
S. D.
Gen. Piet Cronje. of Boer War
fame, was married to Mrs. Stertzel,
widow of Boer soldier, at St. Louis
One person was killed and score
of others injured in headon col
lision at Frankford, near Philadelphia
The local board of steamboat in
spectors at New York has begun an
investigation of the Slocum disaster
The Socialist Labor party in ma
tional convention declared against
labor unions of the Gompers stamp
By the premature explosion of fire.
works at Ogden, Utah, two persons
were killed and FIVE were injured.
The American Cafe, in the Jerusa-
lem concession at the Worlds Fair
Grounds, was damaged by fire.
H. B. Freeman, prosecuting attorney
of Alger county, Mich, was fatally
shot by James Tyner.
Justice Robert w. Steele, of the
Colorado Supreme Court, filed an
opinion dissenting from the decision
of the majority refusing writ of ha-
beas corpus to Charles H. Meyer,
president of the Western Federation
of Miners.
The Louisiana Exposition paid into
the United States Subtreasury, in St.
stalmen on the repayment of the loan
made.
George L. Upton, prominent So
ciety man of St. Paul, and his wife
were killed by the explosion of
gasoline tank on his gasoline launch.
The police saved from a mob of
foreigners in Chicago Stephen Wac
lavik, who had shot and killed Mrs.
Annie Waclavik, his former landlady.
Capt. Edward Alfred Graham, divi-
sion counsel for the Southern and
Seabaord Air Line Railways, died in
Montgomery, Ala.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles R. Furst, of
New York, were robbed of their
diamonds at the Park Hotel. Mount
Clemens, Mich.
Two trolley cars collided near
Marshall, Mich, and three men were
seriously wounded and a number
shaken up.
Rev. DR.. Swallow has not decided
whether or not to accept the Prohibi-
ton nomination for president.
Pending the adoption of new
wage scale, 1880 union miners in the
Alabama district suspended work.
Rev. Charles Mayne, pastor Of the
Methodist church at Nevada, Ia. was
shot and killed by burglar.
The Gloucester fishing schooner
Harry G. French was sunk by the
Hamburg-American steamer Deutsch-
land and the crew was taken on the
steamer to New York.
Baron Speck Won Sternburg de-
livered the commencement address at
the University of the South, in
Suwanee, Tenn, and received the de-
gree of doctor of civil law.
DR.. Floyd Whitecomb, of Warren,
Pa, was drowned in Conewango
Creek, near Frewsburg, N. Y, while
driving on professional business.
A number of trainmen were injured
in collision between passenger trains
on the c., H. & D. Railroad near
Miamisburg, o.
w. H. Maxwell, superintendent of
instructions in New York, was elected
president of the National Educational
Association.
Henry F. Billings, manager of the
investment department of Granger,
Farwell & Co., brokers, of Chicago,
committed suicide.
The motion to quash the Brooklyn
indictment against George w. Beav-
ers was quashed by United States
Judge Thomas.
A locomotive boiler exploded near
Shoenfeld, Pa, killing three men and
injuring two others.
Yale University bestowed the de-
gree of doctor of laws on DR.. William
Stewart Halstead. of Johns Hopkins
University. Harvard University be-
slowed the same degree upon DR..
William Osler, also of Baltimore.
The report of the committee on
synod which was submitted to the
Conference of American Rabbis, in
session at Louisville, favors the es-
Enlistment of synod for the central
government of the church.
Foreign.