The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-06-03
NEWS m SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.

SdIlddll, IL, SnOt ana killed MS WlIe
and afterward attempted to commit
suicide. Mrs. Deeman had left her
husband because of his alleged abuse
of her.
Rev. George j. Ramsey, of Bristol,
Tenn, formerly president of King
George College, at Bristol, was elected
principal of Sayre Female Institute, at
Lexington, KY.
Floods in Kansas have caused much
damage, two hundred families were
driver from their homes in Ottawa
and a thousand Passengers are ma
rooned at Quenemo.
By the breaking Of footbridge
during memorial services IS persons
fell into the Arkansas River at Salida,
COL, and the wife of Rev Warren was
drowned.
was held without bail at Jacobs Creek,
the death OF his mother.
on a Brooklyn trolley car by the ex-
persons were seriously injured.
After eating 4 can of green peas
an entire family of FIVE persons were
tdhCu III 1NCW / vi n anu WV ~ thN'A
have already died.
An automobile drivensby Lieutenant
Commander Scribner. U. S. NJ, ran
over and killed six-year-ol girl at
Roxbury, Mass.
Charles R. Flint, of New York, has
deposited the value of the two CHILEAN
cruisers with the Rothschilds, in Paris.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers balloted without success
for an assistant chief engineer.
Four persons were injured, one
probably fatally, by the collapse of a
building in New York.
Crazed with rheumatism, Gustave
Rolberg, 72 years of age, tried to
amputate his leg.
A memorial. statue was unveiled in
Detroit, Mich, to former, Governor
Pingree.
A soldiers and sailor monument
was unveiled in Providence, r. l.
In fire in Lawton, Ok, that de-
stroyed the Farmers Hotel John Ban
non and Patrick McCabe, former on
the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Railway, were burned to crisp.
Mr.. Maddy says the deal for the
purchase by the City of New York of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad fran
chises will be contaminated despite
Comptroller CIRCUITS opposition.
A stir has been caused amongsC Cot
ton Exchange men in New York by
the demand made by Sully & Co that
the receivers buy 100000 bales of
cotton on the firms account.
T. S. Ingram, first assistant grand
chief engineer of the International
Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers, dropped dead at his desk at
the convention in Los Angeles.
The steamer Siberian arrived at
San Francisco, bringing so educated
Filipinos and also picture of the
Dowager Empress of China escorted
by guard of honor.
Paul Roberts cursed the court when
sentenced in Cedar Rapids, Ia, to five
years for robbery. He was wanted at
Sioux City for completely in the Luz
ton Bank robbery.
A bronze statute of Major General
William Francis Bartlett, the hero of
the. Battle of Port Hudson, was I'M
yelled in Memorial Hall, at tine State
house, in Boston
The Northern Presbyterian General
Assembly voted to unite with the
Cumberland Presbyterians.
The coal-trust hearing was contin-
ued before the Interstate Commerce
Commission in New York.
Giacomo Gerolmini shot CYCLIC Rug
giero in the Church of the Most Prec-
ious Blood, in New York.
Fifty of the trust companies of the
State of New York organized as an
association.
Reports on various subjects were
made to the Southern Presbyterian
Assembly.
Ten persons were poisoned by
arsenic in Las Vegas, N. NJ, and three
died
Judge Lacombe, of the United
States Circuit Court, in New York,
dismissed the habeas corpus writ Sc
cured for John E. Benson, the Cali
fornia cattle king, indicted for de-
frauding the government.
Amos Stillman, who claimed the
credit of running the first ferryboat
between New York and Brooklyn and
the first stationary engine in Chicago,
died in Bloomington, ILL.,
Prof. William II. Pettee, senior
professor of mining engineering at
the university of Michigan, dropped
N~oN a. ms iOihNs III <hliil wi.
]. P. Morgan & Co. announced that
the transfer of the $4o,oooooo in gold
incident to the Panama Canal pay
ment has been completed.
Fall River cotton manufacturers
have started movement for a re-
duction of 10 per cent. in the wages of
cotton textile operatives.
A great mob gathered about Miss
Alice Roosevelt on the Worlds Fair
grounds.
Verona Fleenor, under sentence of
death, committed suicide in Morgan
town, Ky.
Rober, +. Knox, college man, was
convicted of forgery in portland, Ind.
At Buffalo, N Y, the Presbyterian
General Assembly adopted, by two
thirds vote, resolution which pro-
vides that Presbyterian ministers be
enjoined from marrying divorced per-
sons who are ineligible in the churches
belonging to the Interchurch Confer
ence.
Rothchild, the convicted New York
banker decided 10 serve his term of