Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1904-08-04
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic,

Chicago packers and they will thus
be enabled to operate the by-fioduct
division of their plants.
The coming report of the Geolo-
gical Survey will show that the Unit
cd States exceeded all previous re-
cords in the production of coal in 1908
A suit involving the possession OF
letters written by George Washing
ton and Daniel Webster has begun
in New York
Bishop Potter denies that the visit
of the Archbishop of Canterbury is
for the establishment of an American
primacy.
Mrs George Law has been sued by
the widow of DR.. Lane for medical
attNntion rendered the defendant by
her husband
Joseph Holtz, retired farmer, OF
New Oxford, Pa, was too shrcwd for
two bunco men who tried to swindlc
him.
Mrs. Calystie Wcstbott, of Chicago
was divorced from her husband be-
cause she was addicted to the lee
turing habit.
A daughter of J. A. Rothrock, OF
Bcllefonte, is in fear because her love-
mad admirer has escaped from Jail.
Mrs. Della Stcrnshaus. Of New York
died from heart trouble after being
twice recued from death.
Samuel Knell attempted suicide in
New York SO that his family could OBJ
tain his insurance money.
Efforts are being made to bring
back the deported miners to the Grip
pie Creek mining district.
A newspaper reporter was arrested
in Binghampton for theft just after
he finished writing the story,
A Filipino boy was christened at the
Worlds Fair, Ex-Governor Francls
serving as his godfather.
The dry goods store of High 4 Al
len. Columbia. S. c., was destroyed
by fire.
John Knockers and Jacob Margo
we're drowned while fishing in Lake
Erie.
Two trolley cars collidcd near Clevc-
land and q persons were injured.
Ninety-iour men we're arrested in a
raid on a poolroom at West Mana
yunk, just beyond the Philadelphia city
limits. in Montgomery county.
Spanish Honduras is on the verge
of another revolution, according tc
recent arrivals i'll Mobile, Ala, from
Puerto Cortcz.
Troops will guard Bonestecl, S. d.
during the period Of filing applications
Tor entry upon public lands.
The young man who was found shot
in Central Park. N. Y, is Samuel o.
Dana, and is bank clerk.
The Pima Indians are said to be
on the verge of starvation because OF
the failure of their crops.
Efforts to end the bricklaycrs' strike
at the Washington barracks have
failed.
Two miners were killed and third
seriously injured near Windhcr
The famous old battleShip Essex ar
rived at Ogdensburg. n. y.
The large independent operators ol
the Pocahontas coal region have en-
tered into an agreement to raise the
price of soft coal.
Rear Admiral George A. Con,
verse was appointed chief OF the
Bureau OF Navigation, succeeding the
late Admiral Taylor
The peace prospects at the stock
Yards strike received black eye IN
the arrest OF President Golden, of the
Transfers Union.
The managers of the St. Louis Ex'
position have decided not to pay the
expenses of the foreign jurors to the
| fair
Receiver w. G. Tacfel, of the New
York Savings Bank, was touno
drowned in a branch of the Licking
River.
L. J. Gilderslccve, ticket broker
was fined for dealing in nontrans
ierable Worlds Fair railroad tickets
A dozen persons were injured II
collision between motor tram ant
trolley car near Coney Island.
Minister Leishman cabled the State
| Department that he had along inter
view with the Sultan.
One man was killed and several in
! jurcd i'll a head-on collision neal
Sharon, Pa.
Custer Gardner, white man, was
hanged at Munfordville, Ky, for the
murder. in November last, Of ). d
Osborn and his son David.
The house of John Harper, at New
Haven, o., burned. and MIR. Harpel
and his wife, both over 80 years old
were burned to death.
The remains of Rear Admiral Henry
C. Taylor were buried with military
honors at the National Cemetery a
Arlington.
State Bank Examiner Bergh, o
Wisconsin, took charge of the state
bank at Mauston. Wis, and closed IT.
doors. -.
The Republican State Convention
of Missouri nominated Cyrus +. wal
bridge, of St. Louis, for governor.
William Hoyt htched himself to
suky and pulled his wife from Moline
Ill.,, to the Worlds Fair i'll st. LOUIS
Private Joseph ]. Hammot, OF th'
Eighteenth Regiment. u. >. A, sta
toned at Fort Schuyler, was mur
dtred.
Ambassadors Bellamy Storer ant
Charlemayne Tower arrived at New
York on the steamer Deutchland,
President Roosevelt and his tamll.
returned to Washington, where the!
will remain for a while.
Former Secretary of War Root ha
declined to become candidate 10
governor of New York.
Foreign.
The remains of NJ. Won Plehve. th
murdered Russian minister, were bur
led, after impressive services, in th
cemetery adjoining the Novodevich.