The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-02-19
THE NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
Domestic.

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ed him.
1t is estimated an additional sum of
81, 600, 900 will be required to complete
the harbor Of refuge at the Delaware
Breakwater
The Virginia Legislature passed bill
allowing changes of venue in assault
eases and permitting victims to testify by
deposition.
Grant c. Havers, 1 years old, charged
with attempting to poison the family of
w. A. Clark, of Chesterfield was found
with both legs SO badly frozen that am
putation was necessary.
The Maryland. Society in New York
gave its annual dinner at Sherrys.
Mrs. Mary NJ Powell, foster mother of
Estelle Albin, who was found dead in the
garnet of the formers home, ~ miles
from Dover, Del, was arrested, accused
Of the girls murder.
Antitoxin is reported to have decreased
the mortality from diphtheria 65per cent.
in Chicago in nine years.
The Wabash Railroad filed amortgage
for SIC, 900. 600 in st. Louis to guarantee
an issue of bonds for Worlds Fair ter
minals and improvements.
Mormons of the United States are prov
ing successful colonists in Mexico.
The National Tube Company. con-
stituent concern of the United States
Steel corporation, has won the strike at
the Continental works, Pittsburg.
The destruction of the steel construct
ed skyscrapers in Baltimore is a disa
greeable surprise to Chicago experts who
invented that class Of building
The Security Savings Bank, of Ash
land Wis, has been closed, the directors
having voted TO place the bank in charge
of Marcus b. Bergh, state commissioner
of banking.
A rumor is current in Pittsburg that,
as a result Of the Baltimore fire, the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has been
considering the removal of important
general offices to that city.
4 cut all along the line has been made
, IN petroleum rates by the Standard Oil
Company. 4 reduction of five cents Il
barrel was made.
Fully 20, 900 sheep, valued at S35, 600,
have been destroyed by wolves in Mon
tana in the last year, according to the re-
port OF the sheep commissioner of the
state.
The Mississippi farmers have announc-
ed their purpose to take vigorous steps
IN dealing with negro stealers, " that is
against labor agents from other states en-
deavoring to induce negro labor to emf.
CRATE.
William A. McKowen, secretary of
the University of California, who lost
the univcrsity's money Oh horse races,
was sentenced TO serve six years and
eleven months in San Quentin prison.
The Chicago authorities have prevent
ed the use of a spot light" in Sir Henry
Irving's production of The Bells, " and
have compelled the stage management
to use instead in the dream scene strong
incandescent light.
The Susquehanna river is closed for
the third time this winter. The water is
twelve and one half feet above low water
mark and only four and one holt below
the danger line.
Rcputed to be the richest woman in
Iowa, Mrs. Amanda Bradley died at
Centerville suddenly. She was presi-'
dent of half dozen or more banking in
stitutions in Southern Iowa and was di-
rector in twice as many more.
Mrs. Florence Mayb will arrive in
birmingham, Ala, in July, probably the
mr part, as she sails from England in
that month. The purpose of her visit to
that city will be to wind up the affairs
of her portion of the famous Holbrooke
estate
The Senate passed the diplomatic and
consular appropriation bill without delay.
1t is reported that hundreds of per
sons have been killed by q volcanic
eruption in the Island of Javaa.
George A. Rose, cashier of the Cieve.
land Produce Exchange Bank, who en-
bezzled $1S7, 600 of the bank funds, was
sentenced to ten years in the peniten-
tiary.
The Comptroller Of the Currency an
nounces the closing of the doors of the
Equitable National Bank, of New York
city, and the appointment of National
Bank Examiner Ridgely rs temporary
receiver.
Burglars entered the postoffice at Or
leans, Ind, and blew the safe to atoms
SCATTERING the plate glass windows of
the building and securing 300 in money
and stamps. One piece of the safe was
blown through two walls
Paul Misik. convicted of numbering
Charles O'Brien in dispute over 80
cents, was executed in Hartford, Conn.
The Norwegian Parliament has passed
bill, almost unanimously, authorizing
women TO act as attorneys, solicitors and
barristers in the lower as well as in the
higher courts, on the same condition as
men.
The coroner has begun the inquest to
determine responsibility for the Grand
Rapids (Mich. railroad wreck, in which
% persons were killed.
The Balfour Cabinet won by major
ity of IS in the House of Commons ON
the Robson amendment TO the address in
reply to the speech from the throne
The export orders of the United States
Steel Corporations for the first week in
February exceeded the export orders of
the first three weeks Of December last.
Fcbruary's record for exports is expect,
ed TO be the largest in its history. The
net profits on export orders, however.
are very small.
Effaefc of tho Rolt;ponra G,o 80. e.,