Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1904-07-07
THURMONT COUNTY, MD, THURSDAY, JULY 1904.
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for RAPID
Reading.
Domestic,

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Colorado Supreme Court, filed ar
opinion dissenting from the decision
of the majority refusing a writ of ha'
| beas corpus to Charles III. Moyer,
president of the Western Federation
OF Miners.
The Louisiana Exposition paid into
| the United States Subtreasury, i'll St
Louis, $2I3,oo2,I5, as the second in
Stalmen on the repayment of the loan
made.
George l.. Upton, prominent so.
cicty man of St. Paul, and his wife
were killed by the explosion of a
gasoline tank on his gasoline launch.
The police saved from mob o.
foreigners in Chicago Stephen Wac.
lavik, who had shot and killed Mrs
Annie Waclavik, his former landlady
Capt. Edward Alfred Graham, divi'
sion counsel for the Southern and
Seabaord Air Line Railways, died in
Montgomery, Ala.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Furst, OF
New York, were robbed of their
diamonds at the Park Hotel, Mount
Clemens, Mich.
Two trolley cars collided near
Marshall, Mich, and three men were
seriously wounded and number
shaken up.
Rev DR.. Swallow has not decided
whether or not to accept the Prohibi'
tion nomination for president.
Pending the adoption of a new
wage scale, $500 union miners i'll the
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Rev. Charles Maync, pastor of the
Methodist church at Nevada, Ia. was
shot and killed by burglar.
The Gloucester fishing schooner
Harry G.. French was sunk by the
| Hamburg American steamer Deutsch
land and the crew was taken on the
steamer to New York.
Baron Speck Won Sternburg de-
livered the commencement address at
the University of the South, IN
Suwanec, Tenn, and received the de-
gree of doctor OF civil law.
DR.. Floyd Whitccomb, of Warren,
Pa, was drowned i'll Concwango
Creek, near Frewsburg, n. Y, while
driving on professional business.
A number of trainmen were injured
in a collision between passenger trains
on the G.. II. & ID. Railroad neal
Miamisburg, O.
w. II. Maxwell, superintendent OF
instructions in New York, was elected
president of the National Educational
Association.
Henry +. Billings, manager Of the
investment department of Granger
Farwel & Co., brokers, of Chicago,
committed suicide.
The motion to quash the Brooklyn
indictment against George w. Bcav'
ers was quashed by United States
Judge Thomas.
A locomotive boiler exploded nea,
Shocnicld, Pa, killing three men and
inJurlng two others.
Yale University bestowed the de-
gree Of doctor Of laws on DR.. William
Stewart Halstcad, OF Johns Hopkins
University. Harvard University be-
slowed the same degree upon DIR
William Oslcr, also OF Baltimore.
The report of the committee or
synod which was submitted to the
Conference Of American kabbls, IN
session at Louisville, iavors the es
tabllshment of a synod for the central
government OF the church.
MIR. q J. Kern, Of Illinois, made AT
address on the country school before
the National Educational Associa
ton, in session on the Worlds Fan
grounds.
Wesleyan University conferred tn,
degree of Ii. ID. upon Abram W.
Harris, president OF Jacob Tome lns
titute, Port Deposit, Md.
Directors OF the Lehigh Valley Rail.
road declared a dividend OF 10 pei
cent. on preferred stock and l pei
cent on common stock.
DR.. C. Alphonso Smith. professor
of English at the University of North
Carolina, was elected president OF
that institution.
Forty ilremcn were overcome by
smoke and gas in New York while
fighting a blaze. Four will probably
die.
The West Virginia Building on the
Worlds Fair grounds was dedicated.
In an address before the Harvard
Law School Association at cam
bridge Secretary of War Taft de.
bended the American government OF
the Philippine Islands, and pointed
out what the government hoped to ac'
complish.
John Bailey Tyler, who was believed
to be the youngest Confederate sol,
dier, died in Chicago. He enlisted
when ~ years old as cavalryman.
Walter Scott, an Alaskan miner
says he was robbed of $4,000 in gold
on Pullman car between Pittsburs
and Harrisburg
Thousands of persons are ready to
make the rush into the new tract
thrown open to homesteaders in Ne.
braska.