The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-16
NEWS m SHORT ORDER.
rbe Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic


Detroit, Micn, while, trying to es-
cape from Detective John Buhr, Of
the City Detective Bureau.
The new battleship Ohio has been
delivered to Capt. L. c. Logan as
the representative of the government.
preliminary to being placed in COM
mission.
1t has been shown that the confess
sion of Romano, the deported miner,
involving ~ others in the dynamite
outrage at independence. Col, is a
fake
County Attorney Boardman moved
in court, in Minneapolis, for the dis
nissal of all the indictments against
ex- Mayor A. A. Ames.
Mrs. Gertrude Roberts, who shot
Warren ]. Ferguson. in New York.
was held without bail. Ferguson's
condition is critical.
Ray Glover, who is alleged to have
robbed an express car on the Oregon
Short Line, was arrested in Yellow
stone Park.
Mrs H. M. Flagler is reported to
have been robbed of money and jew
els at lawn party in Newport, R. |.
Fred Strube. who killed his sweet
heart in Havana, ILL.,, was sentenced
to prison for life.
Two-dollar wheat was predicted by
the bulls on the Chicago Board Of
Trade.
Forest fires are raging in the prin-
cipal timber districts of California.
All Knights Templar trains scheduled
to leave for the East via Ogden were
Cancelled
Charles Michaels, New York book
keeper, committed suicide to avoid be-
ing killed by the brother of stenog-
rapher with whom he had become en-
tangled.
William F. McMullen, the opera
tor of the spot light" at the lroquols
Theater, in Chicago, at the time OF
the disaster, has disappeared.
Banker Eiland has returned to his
home, in Portales, N. NJ, with a story
of being held up by Mexican brigands
and held for a ransom.
The National Executive Board OF
the Mineworkers advises the men in
the Knoxville district to accept the
proposed reduction.
New York police broke by force
into the fiat Of Mrs. Elizabeth Calder,
the woman who was driven mad by
her husbands death.
In quarrel at Glenwood Springs,
Col, Sergeant Boyle shot and killed
Private Pearl Allen, of Fort Robin
son cavalry troop.
1t was officially denied that Judge
Parker proposes to go to New York
and take personal charge of the cam
paign.
The steamer Longfellow sank off
the Highland Light, on the Massa-
chusetts coast. All the crew were
saved.
The new cruiser Milwaukee was
launched from the ways of the Union
Iron Works, in San Francisco.
Thrilling rescues were made by fire.
men at tenement-house fire in New
York.
Fire attacked the snowsheds in the
neighboringhood of Blue Canyon,
Cal, destroying, according to the
meager reports received about 500
feet of the Enclosure.
Minister w. w. Russell, the Amer
lean minister to Colombia, called to
see. Acting Secretary of State LOOMS
with reference to his mission.
The British schooner Fraulein
struck on Pollock Rip Shoal. off the
Massachusetts, coast, and is a total
wreck The crew was taken off.
Forest fires are raging violently on
d'Alene City and Rathdrum, all in
Kootenai county, Idaho.
Three persons were injured in Pitts
burg, Pa. IN a collision between a
large racing automobile and park
trap. All will probably die.
The voting trust of the Reading
Railroad has been dissolved, leaving
the affairs of the company in the hands
of the shareholders.
Mrs. Charles Evans, of Monterey,
Ia, committed suicide because her
husband went to the ball game, con-
trary to her wishes.
Investigation of the lynching of the
negro Naples was begun by special
grand jury in Huntsville, Ala.
Larkins Johnston, colored, was
hanged at Columbiana, Ala, and An
drew Burton at Admission, Ala.
A fine of $4,000 was imposed in
Boston on the Royal Exchange As
surance Company of London.
Two robbers looted the safe of
County Treasurer Chase. in Pomeroy,
o., of $4,000.
Three prisoners under indictment for
burglary walked out of jail in Glens
Falls, N. Y.
Jesse Allen, negro. was legally
executed in Oxford, N. c., for feloni-
Gus assault.
Thousands of acres of valuable land
in California were destroyed by for
est fires.
The three big tobacco organizations
are to be consolidated.
Foreign
The notorious Max Regis, former
mayor of Algiers and well-known