The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-12-16
NEWS m SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.


to protect his mother.
]. c. Brown, for the last 70 years
statistician of the New York Produce
Ign, of pneumonia.
John H. Wood, president and cashier
of the First National Bank of Matthews,
Ind, was convicted of misapplication of
funds.
Jefferson J. Graves, reputed mill
lionaire of Jameson, Cal, was married
in Denver, Col, to Miss Nina Rudolph,
the actress.
Mrs. Adeline H. Armour, widow of
A. w. Armour, died suddenly at her
home, in Kansas City, of apoplexy
The jury in the fifth trial Of former
Mayor A. A. Anes for bribery in Min
neapolis again disagreed
Nelson Bolgiano was electrocuted. in
Auburn, N. Y, for the murder of Henry
Bender in Buffalo
Samuel SWank, aged 70 years, shot
Bonnie Alder and himself in North
Manchester, Ind
An Ohio grand jury has found two
indictments for forgery against Mrs.
Chadwick. 1t is likely that she will not
resist extradition proceedings and will
go to Cleveland to face the charges
against her.
William H. Foreman, for many years
well-known New York editor, died at
the Pringle Home for Literary Men, at
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, at the age of g.
Edward Wilson, piano-tuner, of
Dayton, O., is in critical condition,
the result of a bullet fired at him by
his father in-law, w. H. Quicker.
The New England States are in the
grasp of blizzard. The State of Con-
necticut is covered with snow to
depth of eight inches.
For the fifth time within two months
the Newport Iron Foundry and Maj
chine Company's plant, at Newport, KY,
was dynamited
Under Lawson's hanlmering, stocks
were again forced down on the New
York Stock Exchange, closing low and
weak.
Four hundred delegates were present
at the opening of the National Cotton
Convention at Shreveport, La.
The ferryboat Amelia A., while cross
ing from Bellaire, O., to Benwood. was
crushed by floating ice.
Rear Admiral Ralph Aston. u. S. N,
retired, died at his home, in Brooklyn.
The. factory of the Henry H. Sheip
Manufacturing Company, in Philadel-
phia, Pa, woodworkers and manufacture
crs OF cigar boxes, was partially de-
stroyed by fire
The jury in the case of William Ny
ers, murderer of Mayor Bennett, of
Thomson, ILL.,. returned a verdict finding
Myers guilty and placing punishment at
death.
While trying TO slide down rope from
her room, on the fifth floor of the North
Side Hotel, in Chicago, Myra Delaroe
fell and was killed
A petition in bankruptcy was filed in
the United States Court in Philadelphia
against the Neafie & Levy Shipbuilding
Company.
There is some mystery about the death
OF Mrs. Sadie Cohen, whose frozen body
was found in the ice in the Harlem
River.
The Bethlehem Steel Corporation was
chartered in Trenton, N. J., with an au-
tlaorized capital of 100000 600.
Robbers knocked down the clerk and
stole $4,000 from the office of the Lesley
Coal Company, in Altoona, Pa
In Philadelphia John w. Grange was
appointed receiver for the Neahe &
Levy Shipbuiiding Company, one of the
oldest concerns of the kind in the coun-
try The company recently completed
the cruiser Denver for the government,
and is now constructing the protected
cruiser St. Louis.
dent, of Chicago, who was accused of
Hra 70 fha
Works plant to obtain the insurance,
was discharged after long hearing in
court.
Joseph Jacobs, former detective on
the staff of District Attorney Jerome, of
New York, was sentenced to prison for
one year for perjury.
Mortimer Brooks, New York mil
onaire, was accidentally and probably
fatally wounded while hunting in North
Carolina.
Six schoolboys were arrested in Chi
cago following the death OF Rabbi Abra-
ham Click, who was struck by snow
balls.
A Chicago man was superintendent OF
a printing establishment during the day
and highwaynlan at night.
The contribution of MIR. w. l.. Doug
las, governor-elect of Massachusetts,, to
the campaign fund was $4,000.
Stock-raisers of the Central Western
and Far Western States are forming a
combination TO maintain prices.
,oreign.
Legal proceedings have been instituted
i'll Halifax against w. S. Fielding f.
nance minister in the Nova Scotia cabi-
iet: r. Frederick Borden minister OF