The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-05-13
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.

master department OF the brooklyn
Navy Yard, was sentenced to five
years in Sing Sing for ENLIGHTENMENT.
Floyd, Crawford & Co., broker
age concern of the New York Con
solidated Stock Exchange, gave notice
to close out the the firms open trades.
Edward A. Colt, wellknown law
yer of Detroit, Mich, formerly con-
nected with the Wabash legal staff
here, committed suicide.
Secretary Shaw personally made
the payment to ]. P. Morgan & Co.
of, the $4o,ooo,ooo for the Panama
Canal.
The examination of Ray and Haw-
ley i'll the Sully case in New York has
been suspended pending an appeal.
There was an explosion, followed
by a fire, on New York elevated
train and the motorman was killed.
Rev. o. R. Newell was stricken in
the pulpit while praying in his church,
in Marshalltown, la.
Manager Crclins and four officers
of Joliet were indicted and arraigned
for conspiracy.
Only FIVE union machinists appeared
for work at the Santa Fe shops in
Topeka, Kan.
Three New York trust companies
have abandoned their clearinghouse
privileges.
I he annual commencement of the
theological Seminary of Princeton was
held.
Edouard de Reszke has sued Robert
E. Johnston, manager of the Metro
politan Opera House, in New York,
and John S. Duss for $4,000 for
breach of contract.
The Investigations being made by
the New York Consolidated Stock
Exchange are expected to lead to the
expulsion of number of firms.
The Ward Line steamer Santiago
brought the captain and crew OF the
wrecked American schooner Arthur
| McArdle
The handsome home of the Army
and Navy Club. in Washington, is
soon to be occupied by the Universe
| ty Club.
Rescuing parties have been unable
| to reach the five miners entombed IN
the Locust Gap Colliery by fire.
| The demand for press seat at the
two national conventions is far in ex'
! cess of the accommodations.
| Because of the restrictions placed
upon their business 1880 saloons have
| been forced to close.
The annual convention of the In
dependent Order of Birth Abraham
was held in New York.
The westbound Twentieth Century
! Limited on the Lake Shore Road ran
! down and instantly killed four I'M
known men rs miles west OF Cleve-
land. The men were evidently for
/ eigners and there was nothing upon
| them to show their identity.
The body of Miss Clara Marsh o,
! Warsaw, Ill.,, niece of Congressman
Marsh, was found floating in the
i Mississippi River She disappears
iod of illness.
Madame Janauschek. the famous
actress, now "a years old, has gone
I Island, where she will probably spend
! the remainder of her life.
The Lake Carriers Association and
the Masters and Pilots adjourned
! witIort having reached an agreement
and the tieup on the lakes continues
rev Frederic Huntington, the ven
cradle bishop, of the Episcopal Do
cese of Central New York, is serious
ly i'll in Syracuse, N. Y.
@.,r,enrs we're made before the
executive committee of the Nationa
CIVIC Federation in favor of trade
agreements.
Mayor William c. Collins. of 10
liet, and three of his police officers
were indicted for conspiracy.
Charles S. Reber, formerly book
keeper Tor McNeely Company, manu-.
facturers of kid, in Philadelphia, was
committed to prison in default of So
600 bail. charged with forgeries aggre'
eating $4,000.