The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-10-14
NEWS m SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic,

vile, was arrested in Muskogee, |. t.,
and placed under $4,000 bond ON a
charge of misappropriation OF the
funds of the bank.
Henry B. Metcalf, of Pawtucket, R.
l., who was the Prohibition candidate
for governor of Massachusetts, and the
candidate Of the party for vice presi-
dent in 1900, is dead.
An idle rumor that the Dime Saw
ings Bank of Canton, O., lost $4,000
by the failure of the Aultman Com
pany started run on the bank. All
creditors were promptly paid.
Frank De Peyster Hail, prominent
New York clubman, who had several
suits for SANDER pending on account
of ugly statements concerning his NOR
ais, committed suicide.
Fifteen hundred miners employed by
the Massillon (O) Coal Mining Com
pany went on strike, demanding an adj
vance of two cents ton.
The guests of the Forest Park Ho-
tel. in St. Louis, had narrow escape
from fire.
By the sinking of yacht in the lake
near Chicago, three of the four per-
While suffering from delirium trem-
ems, DR.. Edward J. Belt, of Spring
field, Mass, shot and wounded DR..
Benjamin Jackson, his physician, and
Judson Strong, Jr., and then COM
mitted suicide.
The remains of Postmaster General
Payne were buried in Forest Home
Cemetery, in Milwaukee, after they
had been viewed by about $4,000 per-
sons as they lay in state in the city
hall
Najit Hashin and his Chicago bride,
who were arrested at the instance of
the brides father on the charge of
theft, were released on habeas cor
pus proceedings.
Henry E. Simmons, member of
the wealthy colony at Summit, N. j.,
was arrested on the charge of footing
Connecticut aunt.
The Convention of the Boys Bri-
gade, in Washington, concluded with
mass-meeting in Mount Vernon
Place Methodist Episcopal Church,
South.
Frank Woodbridge, wanted in Hon
olulu for embezzlement committed
about three years ago, was found on
the transport Logan and arrested.
Charles A. Ward was arrested in
New York on the charge of getting
$4,000 from justices of the Supreme
Court by Misrepresentation.
Allen M. Gangewar, who was once
private secretary to Secretary Salmon
P. Chase, of Ohio, died in Washing
ton.
Mrs. Martha C. Noxon sued Mary
E. Remington for $4,000 damages
for alternating the affections of her 20
year-old husband
Six Grand Trunk Railway train
men were suffocated to death in the
tunnel under the St. Clair River, at
Port Huron, Mich.
John Whipple, the outlawed Massa-
chusetts farmer, was surrounded in a
barn by posse, and put two bullets
into his head rather than be captured.
His injuries are probably fatal.
David Aud, president of the First
National Bank and pioneer Kansas
dropped dead in Atchison, Kan, aged
80 years. Mr.. Aud built the Hanni-
bal Road into Atchison.
Rowland c. Hill was shot and killed
in Memphis by Ben Gillian. colored,
who was defending Mrs Emma Leon
ard from Hills unwelcome attentions.
Six hundred students of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin were ducked in
the waters of Lake Mendoza in the
annual university freshman-sopho-
more rush.
The International Peace Congress
decided to hold the next convention in
Lucerne, Switzerland A scheme for
an international court was proposed.
Charles, alias Shotgun" Foley was
hanged in New Orleans. 1t was the
first execution there of a white man
in number of years.
Mrs. Carrie Nation was fined and
sent to Jail in Wichita, Kan, for sa-
loon-smas hing, while her companions
were only fined.
William E. Dunlap, an artilleryman
made sensational escape from Fort
Smelling, where he was under SEN
tence.
-Four men were horribly burned at
the Wharton Furnace, at Wharton.
Pa, and at least one of them will
die.
The three-masted schooner James
R. Talbot was burned near Rockland
Breakwater, off the coast of Maine.
One person was killed and seven
| injured in collision on the Pan
handle Railroad between the Wheel
ing express and freight engine.
The Nebraska, the latest and largest
United States battleship, was success
fully launched an Seattle
William B. Gaitree, former super
intendent of rural delivery for Ohio,
Indiana and Kentucky, was indicted
by the federal grand jury in Cincin-
natl on the charge of embezzlement
At the International Peace Con-
gress, in Boston,. resolutions were
passed expressing qualification at the
recently adopted arbitration treaties
and encouraging disarmament.
Receivers were appointed at Mont
gomery for the Alabama Cotton Prod
ucts COMPANY rOund-laD bale con-