Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1904-03-31
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.

ftay, OnteQ StateS SendtOT DlCk,
Governor Durbin. of Indiana; John
Mitchell, president of the United
Mineworkers.
Snowdrifts block railroad traffic in
Manitoba, Montana and North Dako-
ia, and floods in Michigan are causing
trouble. Numbers of towns are mum
dated and families homeless.
The sugar imports at New Orleans
have grown to great proportions since
the reduction duty on Cuban imports
went into effect.
The body of Anna Newkirk, who
had been missing from her home,
near Salem, N. J., since January ~,
was found floating in creek.
The American Locomotive Company
discharged one-half of its employees
in the Scranton shops.
Wallace H. Ham pleaded guilty in
Boston to indictments charging him
with the larceny Of $238,ooo.
The various transatlantic companies
came to an agreement to restore the
castbound steeragc rates.
Colonel Clough, vice president of
the Northern Securities Company,
denies that a new company is being
planned. In spite of official dcnialS,
there are indications that differences
exist between the Union Pacihc and
the Hlll-Morgan interests.
Evidence was given in St. Louis in
West Chelmsford, Mass, are on strike
charged with having illegally accepted
fees from the Rialto Grain and Securi-
ties Company, of St. Louis.
Three hundred quarryworkers en-
ployed by Winston Locher & Co., at
the trial Of Senator Burton, OF Kansas,
against an order fixing 10 hours as
days work
Samuel c. Hazard, of Pottsvllle,
Pa, was sentenced III Minneapolis to
two years in the pentcntiary tor
bigamy.
One life was lost in the fire that
ragged on the Nebrask prairie between
Atlanta and LoomiS.
Eighteen Minneapolis -four mills
shut down indefinitely.
Wrecks. landslides and snowslides
in the snowshcd region OF the Sierra
Nevada Mountains have impcdcd trat,,
hs. carried away telegraph wires and
cut of telegraphic communication with
the East.
Alexander Pclmslcy, chemist, was
killed by the explosion OF quantity
Of flash powder while experimenting
in Philadelphia.
The public schools Of Chicago w'll
be Organzed into immature national
state and municipal governments.
The National Bank OF Holdcnvlllc,
ono of the largest in the Creek Nation
suspended payment
President Roosevelt delivered a lee
turc to number OF young indians on
the evils of gambling.
The East-bound Pittsburg and But
iaio express ran into an open swltch d.
Northeast, Pa.
Officers were elected at the annual
meeting OF the Disciples OF CnriS''
held in Chicago.
Eacario Sakay, the so called preSl-
dent OF the Filipino republic, has been
killed
Three persons were killed by illum-
mating gas i'll New York tenement
house.
Andrew Carnegie, with his wife. and
daughter, sailed for Cherboug from
New York on the steamer ST. faul.
A woman was saved by a living
bridge from a sevcn-story building IN
New York which was gutted by hre'
Three whitecappers were sentenced
to the pententiary Tor intn,ua''"e
colored workmen in Helena. Ark.
The plant of the Bayway Refining
Company in Ellzabethport, N. ~
was destroyed by fire.
f. Henry Richardson, editor OF the
Atlanta Journal, died at his home, IN
Atlanta. Ga.
Two negroes accused of murder
were lynched by a mob near CieVe-
land. Miss.
Andrew Carnegie has given another
S,,ooo,ooo for educational purposes.
Michael Brush, burgler, shot Po'
lceman Hugh J JEnrlght and Jacob
Eachman III New York. The latter IS
dead and the other mortally wounded
The colored people of kcnnett
Square, West Chester, are lighting tor
coeducation Of the races. The whites
want them to have separate schools
George Merritt Clark, OF Buftao,
well-known member of the American
Water-color Society of New York,
died at his California home.
John Mahnken, who claimed the
body of an Iroquois Thcater victim as
a relative i'll order to enter suit, was
arrested in Chicago.
The borings of the rapid transit sub.
way were completed between the tort
George terminus and the City Hall, in
New York
Charles w. Eliot, president of Har.
ward University since 1869, celebrated
quietly the SEVENTEEN anniversary OF
his birth.