The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-07-01
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.


Bonded the American government OF
the Philippine Islands, and pointed
out what the government hoped to ac-
complish.
John Bailey Tyler, who was believed
to be the youngest Confederate. sol.
der, died in Chicago. He enlisted
when IL years old as cavalryman.
Walter Scott, an Alaskan miner,
says he was robbed of $4,000 in gold
on a Pullman car between Pittsburg
and Harrisburg.
Thousands of persons are ready to
make the rush into the new tract
thrown open to homesteaders in Ne
braska.
The personal estate of the late Levi
Z. Letter, of Chicago, is appraised at
$3,466,oIo.
Four new Galleries viii be opened
by the Reading Company.
Unable any longer to support her
three children, her husband being IN
an insane asylum, Mrs. Fred kolodzlk,
of Chicago, laid down on bed with
the little ones, turned on the gas and
neighbors found them all dead.
The romantic marriage one month
ago of Miss Anna Virginia Diver, of
Philadelphia, to Shinzo Morita, Jap
anese merchant of Atlantic City, has
just come TO light.
Miss MAZE Stewart, of Los Angeles,
CAL, has sued her mother-in-law, Mrs.
w. c. Stewart, for $4,000 damages
for the alienation of the affections of
her husband
Governor Green McCurtain, of the
Choctaw Nation, has written to the
department authorities claiming that
the Indians are being robbed by the
white grafters.
Gen William Hartsruff, Inspector
general of the Army of the Ohio dur
ing the Civil War, is dead at his home,
in Port Huron, Mich.
The Federal Grand Jury in New
York is investigating the Slocum dis
aster with view of finding iHdiet-
ments for manslaughter
One hundred and sixteen steerage
passengers from Marseilles, where
smallpox prevails, were detained at
quarantine in New York.
Christopher Frese, an ex-city conn
Gilman of Cleveland, O., and his wife
were struck by Lake Shore electric
car and killed.
Elmer Oliver, of Plymouth, Pa,
has sued Miss Elizabeth Alspaugh
for $1,000 damages for breach of
promise.
General Miles is still the leading
possibility for the nomination of the
Prohibition party for president
A cablegram was received in Wash
ington announcing the death of Arch
bishop Guidi in Manila.
Mrs. R. P, Hinchman was found
dead in her home, in New York, hav-
ing shot herself and taken carbolic
acid. Her husband is wealthy.
E. M. Harris, ex-governor of the
Chickasaw Nation. was severely hurt
by being thrown from his horse and
striking against tree.
Benjamin and Edwin Goskey, of
Wabana, Pa, were electrocuted by an
electric wire which ran through their
cherry tree.
A party of prospectors who lost
their way in the Death Valley region
were found when on the verge of col
lapse.
The Twentieth Century limited. on
the Big Four, jumped the track. Two
persons were killed and number in
jured
Marcus Graham, of Providence, R.
L., was sentenced in st. Louis to IS
years in the penitentiary for counter
feiting.
Justice Greenbaum, of the New
York Supreme Court, enjoined the
Norfolk and Southern from placing
mortgage of 100000 on the
property Of the Chesapeake Transit
Company.
The lockout of the union wood
workers in Chicago has spread. Eigh-
teen factories are now closed and the
furniture manufacturing industry in
Chicago is at standstill.
The United States revenue cutter
Thetis has captured 81 shipwrecked
Japanese poachers on an island in
the Pacific and will send them back
to Japan.
j. J. Jusserand. ambassador of
France to the United States, was a
passenger on the steamer La Sayoie,
which sailed from New York for
Havre
v. R. Valentine, a North Carolina
Trainer, fatally shot his wife and then
killed himself He was temporarily
insane from alcoholism.
The Citizens Alliance of Cripple
Greek has ordered 5000 lapel but
tons bearing the incription They
can't come back"
Three Italians held up o. c. Long
year, paymaster of the Hudson River
Bluestone company, and robbed him
of $2,766.
Foreign.
1t is semiofficially stated in Berlin
that the satisfaction which Germany
and France will demand from the gov
eminent of Hayti for the attack on the
respective ministers of those countries
by the palace guards at Port au Prince
will consist of the punishment of the
guilty persons.
Gustave Flamm, passenger on the
steamer Kaiser Wilhelm H., furnished
the American officials at Paris with
written statement to the effect that
he saw Kent Loomis on the gang
plank going from the steamer to the
tugboat at Plymouth the day that
LOOMS disappeared.
Samuel l.. Clemens, MARK Twain"