The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-11-18
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapit
Reading.
Domestic,

OomSSntA
Delegates OF the American commits
sion met at Pittsburg to consider the
basis of union between the Reformed
and Presbyterian Churches.
he sixteenth annual convention OF
the National Association of Railroad
Commissioners began at Birmingham
Ala.
The report of the executive coun-
Gil of the Federation of Labor was
made to the San Francisco conven-
ton
The last instalment on the govern
ment loan to the St. Louis Exposition
has been paid.
The miniature railroad at the
Worlds Fair was held up and rob-
bed by masked men,.
Much valuable property was de-
stroyed by fire at the United Stock
yards at Jersey City.
Eight students of the University oil
Michigan are suffering from small
pox
A. L. c. Atkinson, secretary Of
Hawaii, arrived at San Francisco.
James Speyer is to become di-
rector of the Rock Island system.
Vice President-elect Fairbanks Wis
tied the St. Louis Exposition.
The congressional committee head
ed by Congressman w. B. Hepburn
as chairman, which was appointed to
inspect the location of the Panama
Canal, sailed from New York on the
United States transport Sumner for
Colon.
The American Line steamer Meri-
on, from Liverpool, went aground on
Chester Island Flats, IA miles below
Philadelphia, during the storm, and
the 1000 passengers were taken to
that city on river steamboat
Mrs. Emily H. Cow. of Seattle,
Washington, sister of Rebecca Hard
ing Davis. the well-known author, and
aunt of Richard Harding Davis, died
at Catalina Island, California.
Jacob Daniel Hutson, aged 62, for
20 years foreman of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railway shops, of Chicago,
and later of Newark, O., dropped dead
in church in GAINESVILLE, o.
One life was lost and several per-
sons injured by the storm at Cleve-
land, o. The tug Gregory foundered
at the mouth of the river and Capt.
Dell Minney was drowned.
An attempt was made by the manu-
lecturers to open the cotton mills in
Fall River, Mass, but comparatively
few of the operatives returned to
work
One outlaw is dead and another is
in jail mortally wounded as the re-
suit of desperate battle between
cattle thieves and officers near Deeth,
New
Adam Weiss, of Chicago, passen-
ger on the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm
H., committed suicide when the
steamer was two hours out from New
York.
The Chicago police were notified
OF the robbery of the Bank of Rio,
at Rio, ILL.,. by eight men, who Sc
cured $4,000 in cash and escaped
Joseph Marsden, farmer, of Sus-
sex, Wis, made so much money in
election bets that he gave an oyster
supper to the whole town.
Mrs. Mary Zimmerman, of New
York, after a quarrel with her hus-
band, drank cyanide of potassium and
died instantly.
The small steamer Wyoming foun-
dered in Lake Huron. The crew was
saved
A fire in Knoxville, Tenn, caused
loss of $25o.ooo. Six frcmen were
injured
A list of prizes has been arranged
-for the Elks' reunion in Buffalo, in
1905.
United States consul at Belfast, w.
w. Tonvelle, died in Toledo, o.
Bishop Warren, of Denver, speak
ing to the General Missionary Com
mittee of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in Denver, said he regarded
the occupation of the Philippines by
the United States government as prov
idential
A boiler attached to threshing
machine on the Samuel Kaufman
farm, near Laporte, Ind, exploded
and killed Warren Bassett. 10 years
old, and John Boltenhouse, 60 years
old, both of Elkhart Six others were
hurt.
Judge Brawley, in the United States
Court, in Charleston, s. c., signed an
order directing the resale of the De
Kalb Cotton Mills at Camden on De-
cember Fl at not less than $4,000.
roresyu.
General Andre, the French minister
OF war, as result of the fierce as
saults made upon the administration
of the War Office, has resigned. and
Henry Berteaux, stock broker and
Il.