The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-05-20
NEES IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.

hGiiSdS Slly, MO. II WeS diiiiOuiiNSo
that $25o,ooo was raised last year
for foreign missions.
1t is now believed that the man
who jumped overheard from steam
err en- route from Cleveland to Buff
falo was Edward K Sils, retired
grocer, of New York.
Newton c. Blanchard was inaug-
urated as governor of Louisiana. He
said the negro must be protected in
his rights, but not allowed social
equality.
The Ward Line steamer brought
to New York Captain Ness and II
men of the fishing schooner Pleiades,
which was sunk by the Moro Castle.
]. N. Barr, assistant to the president
of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul Railroad. is dead at his home,
in Libertyville, H., of heart disease.
Andrew Sweetser, of Lynn, Mass,
has sued to recover the fortune OF
his wife, who eloped, deserving him.
The convention of the National and
International Good Roads Association
was begun in St. Louis
Gen. John B, Sanborn, veteran of
the Civil War, died at his home, in
St. Paul. Mimi.
Twenty-Five hundred coal miners
went on strike in Ohio.
United States Commissioner He--
cock, in San Francisco, held Henry
A. Hyde and Henry P Dimond under
| $4,000 and $4,000 bail, respectively,
| on charges Of being involved in the
public land frauds.
Surgeons in Louisville, KY, per-
| formed take operation on a woman
| of New Albany, Ind, who insisted that
she was suffering from tumor. which
The United States squadron sailed
Canary Islands, the Brooklyn and
Castine for Teneriffe and the Atlanta
and Marietta for Las Palmas.
An order was issued in New York
directing the members of the bank
rupt brokerage firm of Floyd, Craw-
| ford & Co. to appear before a spe-
cial examiner.
William Marconi arrived at New
York on the Campania and said that
with present appliances daily paper
may be published at sea.
| Mrs Johnnie Owens, convicted of
numbering her husband, was sentenced
in Steubenville to life imprisonment.
Dennis Grummel, sentenced to I6
years in the Eastern Pennsylvania
Penitentary for postal robberies, con-
| fessed that it was he and his pals who
attacked and robbed Jacob Baker and
| his wife, and not the six men who
| have been convicted of the crime.
George d. Morgan, the nephew of
the fnancier, will return to Japan with
| his Japanese bride. The cool recep-
ton accorded to her by his family and
| friends was not to his liking.
One hundred and thirty graduates
OF the Normal College OF the City of
New York sued out mandamus to
| compel the Board of Education to
grant them licenses to teach
Charley Cummings, a negro, 10
years old, was taken from Jail by a
mob OF masked men and lynched in
Columbia county, Ga. He confessed
to attempted criminal assault.
Bookings for the transatlantic liners
show that the exodus to Europe dur
ing the coming summer will be larger
than ever, despite the unusual home
attractions.
Representative of Swiss, French,
Turkish and Portuguese newspapers
arrived at New York on the steam
ship La Bretagne to attend the con-
gress at St. Louis
| DIR. Wentz denies making remarks
derogatory to the coroners jury that
| rendered the verdict over the death
of his son in Wise county, Va.
The trustees of the Jewish National
! Hospital for Consumptives, at Den
yer, report that $4,000 is needed to
carry on the work.
J. Eberhard Faber, the rich lead
pencil manufacturer, was married in
New York to Miss Roberta A. Helm,
manicurIst
The charges OF heresy against the
Garrett Biblical Institute and the
Boston School of Theology caused a
lively debate at the Methodist Gen
eral Conference, in Los Angeles, Cal.
The Southern Baptist Convention
opened at Nashville, Tenn, with
nearly 1000 delegates present. Gov
ernor Eagle, of Alabama, was elected
president Tor the third time.
An explosion of sawdust in the
pany's mill, in Portland, Ore, Started
fire which destroyed property valued
at $25o.ooo.
Charles Stratton, former police
| man at Seaside Highlands, was shot
and killed by George WATSON, an ar
tilleryman OF the Fort Hancock gar
rison.
Fire started from burning leaves at
the Silver Lake Assembly grounds, at
Perry, N. Y, and in a short time 10
| cottages were destroyed.
By an explosion of gas in the Lacka-
wanna Coal Company's No. 3 Mine,
near Vintondale, Pa, three men were
instantly killed.
Edward f. Shaw. postmaster in
Three Rivers, Mass, was arrested for
the alleged embezzlement of $1,000.
Whitney, Pousland & Co., the lead
ing commission firm of Boston. filed
voluntary petition in bankruptcy.
James Gray Thomas. a prominent
physician and surgeon of Mobile, Ala,
died there, aged 90 years.
Everett Abbott, former treasurer of
the American Marine Transportation
Company of Boston, who left that
city on March *, was arrested in
San Francisco on a charge of having
embezzled from his employers S5,852.