Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1904-02-25
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER
The Latest Happenings Condensed for
Rapid Reading.
Domestic.

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II negro nurse were arrested upon the
discovery that the formcr'swif had died
Of poison
Five men were killed by the explosion
of Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive
near Iohnstown. Pa.
President Don Parry addressed the
Citizens Industrial Association at In.
hianapolis in opposition to the proposed
Eight Hour bill now before Congress.
Ex Secretary of War Elihu Root, in a
speech in Chicago, defended the Panama
policy of the Administration
SIX lives were lost in the wreck of the
schooner Benjamin c. Palmer, off Bell.
port, Long Island.
Six men. including Capt. Harvey Nc
Clean. were lost in the wreck Of the
three mastrd schooner Benjamin e..
Cromwell, of Bcllport i. l.
4 Chicago fire cost three lives and par.
tally DESTROYED the building occupied by
the Alhambra Theatre Hotel and Apart.
mcnts.
1t is virtually conceded that Congress.
man Dick will be elected by the ONO
Legislature to succeed Senator Hanna
Serious floods are threatened in the
Susquchanna and other Pennsylvania
rivers.
Three men were killed in u gus cx.
plosion at Buffalo.
Unions are being strengthened and
miners are saving money in preparation
for an extended soft coal strike.
The Salvation Army held a Hanna
memorial service in New York.
\ movement is on foot to label all
buildings erected with union labor.
The Parkcrsburg Iron and Steel Com
rany is TO sue a labor union for damages
for losses by unlawful acts of strikers,
Mr.. +. !. Campbell, Of Nelson county,
Va, who had 400 descendants, is dead,
at the age OF ~.
Two bows were drowned while skating
near Wakefield, Va.
Twenty five persons were kille'. and 10
injured in a collision OF trains az
Jackson, Utah, that exploded a car OF
dynamite.
Three men were killed in an explosion
At the Latin Rand powder mills, Wayne,
n, j.
The insane asylum at Racin2, Wis,
was burned, but the 133 inmates were
rescued,
Four passengers were injured in at
tcmpting to escape from a burning street
car running rapidly at Pittsburg.
Perry Heath resigned as secretary OF
the Republican National Committee,
Governor Hcrrick refused to run for
Senator
Mrs. Kittc Duffy, of New York, hunt,
cd for seven weeks for the slayer OF her
husband and at last found him on the
Bowery
A large electric fan is believed to have
drawn the fire across the lroquoiS Thea
trc, Chicago.
G. II Troutman. a Millcdgeville Ga
bank cashier who had lost a large
amount in speculation shot himself.
Otis Picrco, a Munice lInd.) elevator
boy made nine trips in a burning build
inc, saving its inmates.
Glenco Bays, q negro murderer, was
burned to death by u mob near Crossctt'
Arkansas
May wheat touched Sl.0ls in the Chi
cago Board of trade.
Capt. Geo. B. Jones, of Salisbury,
Md. and five sailors of the wrecked
schooner 5. C.. 1yron were rescued OIL
the Delaware Capcs.
Joseph b. Garfield, a wealthy rubber
manufacturcr and a servant were Killed
by coal gas at Bridgeport Conn.
The engineer and foreman of the Dan
River Power Company at Danvillr, Va,
were killed for working ON Sunday.
Plans are being made to hold nm auto.
mobile carnival ut Virginia Beach.