The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-08
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.

p >'ShtSu tHC WCdIllS Vi spring
gowns In the Easter parade on the
Boardwalk at. Atlantic City, the big
crowd appearing largely in wraps.
1t has thus far cost the government
of Iowa 100000 to try Lesion Ballet,
accused of fraudulently using the
mails, and new trial has now been
granted to him.
Oswald J. Miller, of Hoboken, N.
j., committed suicide because the
pastor of his church would not marry
him to his fiancee, who is divorced
woman.
A project is being orgaized to es-
tablish a line of refrigerator steamers
between Buenos Ayres and New York
to fight the Beef Trust with Argen-
tine beef.
Walter w. Wilson told the New
York police that with partner he
stole a package from the United
States Express Company containing
$I,ISo.
The German Levant Line steamer
Tenedos arrived at New York with
the disabled Belgian steamer Gle
mats, which she towed to port.
The nine-year-old son of Prof. Leo
Wiener, of Harvard University, is a
master of mathematics, the sciences
and languages.
The threatened break in the Grand
Reservoir, in Ohio, did not take place,
and it is now thought that both banks
are safe.
George Wresak, of Upper Lehigh,
Pa, was arrested ON the charge OF
numbering his wife.
The Antiboycott Society is OPP
posing the Eighthour Bill, now pend
ing in Washington.
Three persons were killed by an ex-
plosion in the National Bank Building
at Abba. la.
Lieutenant Commander Edgar
Townsend Warburton, chief engineer
of the battleship Maine, now at Pen
sacola, committed suicide in his cabin
on board the vessel.
Mrs. Cordelia Botkin testified in
her own behalf in her trial in San
Francisco for sending poisoned candy
to Mrs. John P. Dunning, in Delaware.
William E. Church confessed in
St. Louis, Mo-, that he killed his
benefactors, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry w.
Yeater, while they were asleep.
Al Adams. the policy king, serving
indeterminate sentence in Sing Sing,
has applied to the board to be re-
leased on parole.
Seven hundred members of the Ele-
vator Constructors and Millwrights,
Union of New York and Brooklyn
went on strike.
Otis White, of Ransomville, N. Y,
deliberately walked into the rapids at
Niagara Falls and was drowned
The United States Army transport
Logan sailed from San Francisco for
Manila with 275 recruits.
Mrs. Abbey Morton Diaz, the writer
and reformer, died at her home, in
Belmont, Mass.
On account of the strike of the
miners a coal famine is threatened i'll
Iowa.
Nearly five and one-half million dol
lars was set apart by the board of
estimates in New York to be expended
in installing an auxiliary system of
saltwater mains to be used in con-
nection with fre-hghting in the
Boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn.
The United States Steel Corporation
filed a demurrer in Trenton, N. J., to
the suit of Alfred Stevens, who asked
that the corporation be required to pay
dividend.
The Iowa coal miners and operators
have been unable to adjust their dit
ferences and a shutdown is likely to
follow, throwing 1850 miners out OF
employment
Edward Reglar, who is something
of White House crank, was arrested
in Pittsburg and held, pending an III
vestigation of his mental condition.
The appointment of Col. Edmund
Rice, u. S. A., retired, as military sec
rotary Of the ceremonies committee
OF the Worlds Fair is announced.
The cruiser Denver was given a
Cape Ann course and again failed to
meet contract speed requirements.
Judge eager. in New Haven, ex-
cluded the sealed letter IN the Ben
net will case, which made bequest OF
$4,000 to Mr.. Bryan.
Rear Admiral Sigsbee, and Captain
Wainwright and other officers OF the
North Atlantic Squadron paid an OF
fetal visit to President Amador. at the
palace, in Panama.
Or" Dewing WIS arrested i'll Chlca-
go for buying railroad tickets at cler-
gymen's rates and selling them to tick
ct brokers.
A Sabine Pass and Northwestern
passenger train was wrecked IN Texas
and several passengers were injured.
Further sensational incidents mark
ed the second days hearing in the
Bennett will case a. New Haven. :. !,
A petition in bankruptcy was hled
against the Pettingill Advertising
Agency, of Boston.
Mrs. Cauncey Marian, known as the
latest woman in the world, died IN
New York.
The Great Belgrade levee broke at
Vincennes, Ind, causing much dam
age.
Foreign.