The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-06-24
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.


CHc person was klllSu diiu d liuiiiDSi
injured by an accident to a mixed pas
senger and freight train on the
Pemigewasset Valley Branch of the
Boston and Maine Railroad near
Plymouth, N. H.
The big No. Hoist of the Ontario
Mine, located near Park City. Utah,
was destroyed by fire, throwing 200
men out of employment and causing
a loss of about 5000 900.
Twenty firemen had a narrow es-
cape from death in fire on the fifth
and sixth floors of building in Grand
street, New York.
The Ancient order of United Work
men decided in Chattanooga, Tenn,
to hold their next convention in Mont
real.
A. P. Biglow, general Western
freight agent of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad died at Chicago.
Henry W. Potter, former partner
of Chauncey Depew, died at his home,
in Titusville, Pa.
Philip Krantz leaped from the
Brooklyn Bridge and swan ashore
without sustaining any injuries.
Judge ]. Soule Smith died at his
home, in Lexington, KY.
The educational board of the Pres
byterian Church proposes to establish
university at Mckinley, Tex, and
$I75,ooo of the necessary 5000, 900 with
which to start work on the buildings
has been subscribed
Frederick A. Gilman, a banker, of
Indianapolis, Ind, prayed fervently in
church one night and disappeared the
next morning with all the funds be-
longing to his customers that was
in the bank vaults.
Dr. Joseph and Count Frantz Mar
velde, Austrian commissioners to the
ST. Louis Exposition, arrived in New
York on the steamer Bluecher, from
Hamburg.
The United States Cereal Company,
a get-rich-quick concern, in New
York, was closed up on Saturday,
when the investors called for their
weekly dividends.
Thomas W. Lawson, the Boston
multimillionaire, published the first
chapter of his expose of the methods
of the Copper and other trusts.
J. B. Mills, treasurer of Summit,
Miss, committed suicide at hotel
at Jackson. Miss. His accounts as
treasurer of Summit are all right.
Miss Charlotte Gcbhardt, of Yonk-
ers, N Y, drowned while three men
on raft nearby looked on and made
no effort to save her
President Roosevelt visited Wash
ington's headquarters, at Valley
Forge, and other historical sites in
that vicinity.
Frank Burmese, who is to be exc
cuted in Sing Sing, wanted to sell his
body, so that he might pay his debts.
Edmund Moorewood Ferguson, a
Pittsburg multimillionair}, is dead, at
the age of 70.
Two robbers entered the home of
Mrs. Barbara Young, an old woman,
at Altoona, Pa, beat her insensible be-
cause she would not give them money,
and after obtaining $IS set fire to the
beds in the several rooms and left.
Mrs. Young was rescued by members
of a fire company.
Charles Stimmell, prisoner in the
Ohio Penitentiary, who had been con-
demned to death, received reprieve
from Governor Herrick three minutes
before the time set for the electrocu-
ton.
The court dismissed the suit brought
in Chicago court by one of the VIC
Tins of the Iroquois disaster against
Klaw & Erlanger, deciding that SER
vice had to be made personally.
Special inspection of passenger
steamboats, plying from Chicago have
been ordered as a result OF the Cen
eral Slocum disaster.
The one hundredth and twenty-ninth
anniversary of the Battle of Bunker
Hill was celebrated, in Boston and
adjacent towns.
Santos Dumont arrived in New
York with his dirigible airship
mo. u to compete for the prize at
the Worlds Fair.
mated Mrs. Fannie j. Clary for secre-
tary of state.
Charles +. Mccoy, a Chicago law
yer, committed suicide in Jacksonville,
Fla.
A new cotton bug has appeared in
Alabama
Charles H. Meyer, president of the
Western Federation of Miners, who
was released by Federal Judge Thayer
on habeas corpus, Is now a prisoner
in the county Jail in Telluride, Col.
Counsel for Mrs. Nan Patterson,
who is under indictment in New York
for the murder of Caesar" Young,
made motion for an inspection of
the minutes of the grand jury.
Ten thousand Confederate veterans
marched in the parade which was the
closing feature of the fourteenth an
nual reunion of the United Confeder-
ate Veterans.
Testimony was begun in Boston in