Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1904-09-29
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
domestic,


a Pittshcld (Mass,) police court.
Porto Ricos 1907 public schools
opened with 10000 pupils enrolled. In
the first school year during American
occupation there were 500 schools,
with $4,000 pupils.
Judge Gray, as arbitrator, decided
the controversy between the opera
tors and the miners with reference
to check welghman favorably to the
latter.
Cows on the track caused the wreck
Of passenger train at Linwood, Mich.
Several persons were injured, the en-
gIneer fatally.
Three foreigners were instantly
killed and one fatally injured by a
fast passenger train near Grecnsburg,
Pa
One man was killed, 3 fatally and IL
seriously injured in wreck on the
Burlington Road near Elmwood,
Mrs. Russell Sage is seriously i'll
at her home, i'll New York. as the re-
suit OF fall
The price of wheat took a tumble
in the New York and Chicago mar
kcts.
The special train carrying the Arch
bishop OF Canterbury and J. I. Nor
gan, with their party, to Washington
ran into locomotive at North Brook
field, Mass. The members OF the
party we're shaken up, but nobody was
hurt.
A cablcgram from Caracas to New
York SAYS that criminal charges are
to be brought against the Asphalt
Trust. which is accused of fomentng
a revolution in Venezuela.
The First National Bank Of Dun
dec, H., sued Tracy & Co.. stock
brokers, OF Chicago, for $4I,4oo lost
i'll margins by the banks cashier who
embezzled the money.
In fight at the plant OF the Pitts
burg Steel Company, at Glassport, Pa,
between strikers and unionistS, q. w.
FidIar. a deputy. was fatally shot.
Senator German had conference
with Judge Parker at which Dan La
mont was present. General Miles is
to take the stump for the Democrats.
New York on the charge OF selling
bogus naturalization certificates.
Final arrangements were completed
for the national Convention of the
Republican Clubs at indianapolis.
DR.. George S. Conant, OF New York,
wllcd his brain to the medical faculty
OF Cornell University
The National Council of Good Sa-
maritanS closed its session IN In
danapOlis.
A reunion OF Widcr's Brigade was
held i'll Lafayette. Ind.
r. NJ. Alcivar. a Mexican passenger
on the Hamburg American Line
steamer Prinz Oskar from New York
to Genoa, became insane upon the ar
rival OF the ship at Genoa and shot
Captain DuEge, in command OF the
steamer, and Frank r. Shattuck, a
prominent Philadelphia lawyer.
Roy Fcnton, the driver OF the cx-
press wagon from which the dynamite
was dropped that caused the blowing
up OF a street car in Melrosc. Mass,
was held on the charge of manslaugh-
ter
Justice d. Cady IIcrrick, Democrat
lc nominee for governor of New York,
has arranged to resign from the Su-
prcme Bench as soon as he can finish
the legal work now before him.
Charges of discrimination were filed
with the Interstate Commerce Com
mission by John Compton, of Georgia,
against the Seaboard and the South
crn Railroad Companies.
Caspara Lamonica and Rcstlro
Franch. two Italians held for passing
counterfeit money, were discharged
by the United States commissioner at
Mobile, Ala.
An attempt was made to dynamite
the residence of President J. {. Ma
ben, of the Sloss- Sheffield Steel and
Iron Company, in Birmingham. Ala.
The executive committee Of the
Continental party named Austin Hol-
comb, of Georgia, for president, and
A. King, OF Missouri, for vice presi-
dent.
The Erie Railroad Company has
brought non-union men to take the
places Of the locked-out boilcrmakers
at their shops in Susquehanna, Pa.
The Postmaster General has award
ed the contract to supply street letter
and package boxes to the Van Dorm
Iron Works of Chicago.
George Volncr, Brooklyn ma
chinist, and Samuel Schottcn, OF New
York, both committed suicide because
they could get no work.
In quarrel over the spoils of a
burglary Frank Shoemaker was fatal
ly shot in Jackson, Mich, by his pal
Four Egyptian students bound for
the University of Missouri have been
held up by the Italian immigration
authorities at Naples.
The insurance commissioners OF the
various states will endcavor to pre-
vent the use of the mails by wild
cat insurance companies.
Charles A. Semler, assistant cash
Ter of an Akron (OD national bank.
has been arrested at San Francisco tor
embe zzlcmcnt
Foreign.