Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1904-07-21
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Lates, Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic,

The New England Dredging Com
pany, OF Boston, assigned tor the
benefit of its creditors. The liabilities
are given as 100000, with assets
nominally the same.
B. H. Marsh, who went from Chlca-
so to China in 1893 as a mission ry
and member Of the faculty Of the
Anglo-Chinese College, at Foochow,
is dead
Daniel J Sully & Co. made formal
offer to compromise at 40 per cent
but would not show to the ,at'otac-
ton Of the creditors meeting the
funds to pay it.
The captain and crew of the
steamer Adborough, which went
ashore at Fortune Island, were
brought 10 New York on the steamer
Altai
The rush to the Rosebud country
increases as the time for the regis
tration expires, and it is estimated
that about 10000 persons have thus
far registered.
The Insular Bureau of the War
Department issued a ular inviting
proposals for the sale of 100000
Philippine 4 per cent, bonds.
Charles G. lockwood, for many
years president of the National New
ark On. j. Banking Company, is
dead at the age of 90 years,
Charles ID. Rogers, of Chicago, who
was injured in an automobile accident
Saturday. died at the Elm Tree Inn
in Pennington, Ct.
Lightning struck two of the Enter
prise Powder Company's mills, at
Grandale, Pa, exploding 600 kegs of
powder.
The new reservoir of the Citizens
Water Company, at Scotdale, Pa.
burst, destroying crops and other
property.
The two factions of the Window
glass workers, in convention in Clcve-
land, O., agreed upon amalgamation.
Henry l.. Wilson, the American
minister, left Santiago, Chill, OH leave
of absence.
Three negro brothers, killed a
white boy whom they held up in Hol-
ton, Kan.
Property worth 100000, on the
waterfront of Duluth, Mimi. was de.
stroyed by fire, and a cook named
George Smith was drowned in his at
tempt to escape from tug as the
flames swept over 1t.
Judge Bradford, in the United States
Court, in Trenton, n. J., granted a
preliminary injunction restraining the
proposed distribution of stock by the
Northern Securities Company.
A freight train ran down a hand
car near Emporia, Kan. One young
man was killed and his three com
panlons, including two young ladies,
were seriously injured.
Osccola Kyle, OF Alabama, took the
oath OF office in Washington as a
Judge in the canal zone in Panama,
and will sail from New York next
week
William f. Sugdcn. for Fl years
president of the Hartford County
Mutual Fire Insurance Company, died
III Hartford Ct, aged 50 years.
The National Wholesale Liquor
Dealers Association has brought
charges of discrimination against 81
railroads
The Worlds Fair has made the
first payment Of $500, 900 on the gov
crnment loan of $4.6oo,ooo
Having secured decree OF divorce.
Mrs. Ella Swoboda, OF Chicago, COM
mitted suicide
There was a large attendance at the
funeral OF Mayor Samuel Nj. Jones,
in Toledo.
The minority members of the Gu
ban Congress refuse to meet for the
purpose of passing a bill covering the
Df IL,
cecds OF the $35,ooo,ooo loan for the
payment OF veterans or to authorize
an additional loan because the ad-
Indication of soldiers claims is not
likely to be completed until Novem-
Der, when it is supposed that another
session of Congress will begin.
The beef packers in Chicago re-
jected the proposition of the union
that all strikers be taken back pend
ing arbitration, and proposed instead
to retain all help employed since the
strike began The various packing
houses in the West have resumed
slaughtering,
President Roosevelt will receive a
committee of the United Mineworkers
of Pennsylvania at Sycamore Hill re-
garding the Colorado labor trouble
petition.
George Wilson, believed to be one
Of the men who held up the Northern
Pacific train near Bearmouth, Mont,
was arrested in Spokane, Wash.
An eastbound passenger train on
the Rock Island Railroad was wreck
ed four miles west of Havana, Ark,
and FL persons injured.
Mrs. Louise Bruseke, of Washing
ton, committed suicide on her hus-
bands grave, in Prospect Hill Gene
terry.
A conspiracy among the employees
of the admission department at the
Worlds Fair is said to have been un-
earthed.
Foreign
The coroner's jury investigating the
death of f. Kent LOOMS, at Kings