The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-12-30

The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
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States Finishing Company gives a So
100000 mortgage to the Colonial Trust
Company of New York.
Attorney General Moody began suit
in St. Paul, Mimi, on behalf of the
United States government against the
General Paper Company under the Anti
trust Act.
The blowing out of the cylinder head
OF an engine in the Chelsea Jute Mills,
IN Brooklyn, caused snall-sized panic
among 1000 young women employed
there.
Following an explosion in furnace
at the Edgar Thomson plant, at Brad
dock, Pa, a foreman was burned to
death and several others seriously in
jured.
By the burning of the house of Mr..
Lafreniere, near Calendar, Ont, his four
children perished>before assistance could
reach them.
Cecile Hail. of Lancaster, Pa, COM
mitted suicide by leaping from the third
story window of house on Forty
street, New York.
A gas machine exploded at the CO.
lumbia Hotel, in Grand Forks, S. d.,
blowing the porter so feet. He is prob
ably fatally hurt
Capt Thomas Wills, aged IS, one Of
the Oldest pioneer mining men of the
Lake Superior copper district, died in
Calumet, Mich.
Edmund Pendleton, postmaster at
11yo -
lieved to have persisted in the woods
Louis Simon, boy of six years, died
from heart failure caused by Joy on
beholding Christmas presents.
Dominic Farvane, a model made des-
perate by straitened circumstances, COM
mitted suicide in New York
Tired of being cripple, Leroy N.
Nesbit, banker, committed suicide in
Chicago.
]. w. Griffin accidentally electrocuted
himself in Lima, o.
A negro church was bombarded dur
ing Christmas celebration at Stouts
Mountain, near Hanceville, Ala, and the
pastor, Rev. Clay, shot through the
hips. A white miner was found dead
outside the church.
Charles Witt was arrested in Chicago
on the charge of trying to burn the
dwelling of Mrs. Edward Hensel, a
widow, who had Tilted him.
Mgr. Ambrose Agiui, archbishop of
Palmyra and apostolic delegate to the
Philippines, arrived at San Francisco
on his way to Manila
The Boston and Albany passenger
train ran into hog train near Spring.
field, Mass. A number of hogs were
roasted in the wreck.
George S. Evans, a broker and pro-
moter, of New York, ended his life in
a hotel in Jersey City by shooting him
helf in the head.
Three men were injured and steam
shovel wrecker by the explosion of a
stick of dynamite ON the Chicago drain
age canal.
A young woman. evidently of refine
rient, was found dying from hardship
and exposure on Riverside Drive, New
York
The Fl. c. Frick Company has alb
sorbed the last 1000 acres of Con-
nellsville coal land owned by private
parties.
Inc steamship Colorado, OF the Nal
lory Line, was damaged by fire while
lying at New York.
Joel Abbott Billups, moderator of the
Presbyterian Synod Of Georgia, died at
Madison, Ga.
George Bearso confessed at Flint,
Mich, that he had murdered his aunt,
Mrs. Abel Brown.
The beautiful chapel at Sailors Snug
Harbor, at New Brighton, S. l., was
Quilted by fire.
Bruce Crane, the winner of the gold
medal at the Worlds Fair for Ameri-
can paintings. has married the daugh-
ter of his divorced wife. The two dis
appeared from New York two years
ago
Abraham Chapkowsky became sud-
denly insane while seated at the break
fast table at his home, in New York.
and shot five times at his brother,
wounding him probably fatally
A recently captured bear broke loose
and ran amuck in the shopping district
of Cincinnati. Three men were bitten
and several thousand shoppers were
thrown into panic