Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1904-09-08
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Raplt
Reading.
Domestic


call meeting of the National Execu'
tive Council to recommend general
sympathetic action of unionists in sup
port of packing-house strike.
The Northcrn Securities Company
filed in Trenton, N. j., an answer tc
the suit of the Harrimans to restrain
the company from carrying out its
proposed plan of distribution OF its
| assets.
The Superior Court in Chicago de
cidcd that operators who formed
corner in wheat. oats or other COM
modites cannot enforce payment
against those caught in the squeeze.
Judge Joseph Sheldon, Of New
Haven, Ct, was selected as the candi.
date of the Peoples Party for gov.
ernor of Connecticut by the state exec.
utivc committee.
Engineer Johnson and Conductor IT.
win were held responsible by the cor
oner's jury for the train wreck at Till
taluta. N. w. T.
The New York Police Commission
cr has asked for $I3328,I2o for the
support of the New York police force
i'll 1905.
The Johnson-Dunbar Mills Com
pany, of North Adams, Mass. manu-.
iacturers of cotton goods. has made
an assignment.
A Wabash train ran into street
car at a crossing in St. Louis, killing 7
persons and injurlng IS, several Ia
tally.
Will Bruncr and Joseph N. Trahan,
farmers, were killed near Rayne, La,
by Homer Meche, a drunken man.
Charles Rothermcl and his wife were
frghtfully slashcd in Philadelphia by
their maniac son Edward.
Mrs. George Packer was murdered
in Clarkton N c. Her mutilated body
was found in the woods.
An agreement has been reached be.
tween the coal-mlne operators and the
mineworkcrs in Montana.
Fire in the wholesale district OF
Memphis, Tenn, destroyed property to
the value of 100000.
Plans have been arranged for in
structing the primitive Filipinos at the
Worlds Fair in English.
Clark Caryl IIaskins, the electrical
inventor and writer, died in Chicago.
Fire completely destroyed the ce-
ment plant OF the Struthers Furnace
Company. near Youngstown. O. The
loss is placed at $4,000, with 100000
insurance.
Six persons are dead and four dan
gcrously injured as the result OF
dwelling house fire, followed by an
oil-tank explosion, at Yellow Creek, ..
The Chicopee (Mass) Manufacture
ing Company has shut down its en-
tire plant until September IL on ac-
count of the state Of the cotton busi-
ness.
Former Judge Lyman S, Bur. of
New Britain, Ct, was arrested on the
charge OF cmbczzling $5.493 from the
estate of Timothy w. LOOMS.
The imperial express on the Cana
dian Pacific was wrecked at Sintaluta,
N. w. f.. and FIVE women passcn-
gers in the tourist car were killed.
Philip Caldwell, elevator conductor,
was killed and eight persons were in
jured by the falling of passenger
elevator in Chicago.
DR.. w. Z. Woodend, the bankrupt
New York broker, arrested on the
charge of grand larceny, was dis
charged.
Twelve hundred and fifty miners
have gone on strike in the Coal Creek
District of Tennessee.
Canadian authorities seized the
American fishing schooner Samosei
off North Sydney, c. b.
Six Indians of the Turtle Mountain
Reservation were killed by drinking
wood alcohol.
The Chicago and Alton Railroad
has passed to the ownership of the
Union Pacific.
Edward Armcs, a nonunionist, wa:
savagely attack by union butchers III
New York.
Judge Parker has decided to go to
the St. Louis Exposition on Septem
Der "a.
The cause of the disappearance OF
c. B. Spahr, editor of Current Litera
ture, from the Cunard Line steamer
Aurania at Dover, England, is mys
terry to his family and friends i'll New
York.
The State Department, at Washing
ton, was officially notified OF the dealt
of the Colombian charge, DR.. Her
ran, by the Colombian consul general
in New York.
Rosa Stern, daughter of Rev. Levi
Stern, the Washington rabbi, made az
attempt to take her life by cutting he
throat and wrist with a razor.
DR.. Z. G. Simons. wealthy phys
clan, of Ripley, N, Y, was instantl,
killed by Lake Shore freight train. il
Glcnville, suburb.
Marshal A. B. Hammond shot ant
killed Bud Tucker and seriousl.
wounded Jim Tucker in street due
in Florale, Ala.
Judge Edgar M. Cullen, of Brook
lyn, was appointed chief Judge OF thu
New York Court of Appeals. to sue
ceed Judge Parker
Bail for the release of Nan Patter
son, indicted in New York for tn,
murder of Caesar Young, was fixed a.
$4,000.
The United States army transport
Thomas sailed from San Francisco
carrying 800 army recruits to the Phil
ippines.
Foreign.