The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-07-15
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic,


secretary of the Treasury, will prob
ably resign to enter business in New
York.
In fight between cattle thieves
and constable at Las Padillas, N.
NJ, the latter was shot and killed
Filipino commissioners will make
study of the American tariff laws
and industrial conditions.
The dead body of fashionably
dressed woman was found in hotel
room at St. Louis.
Brigadied General Funson has been
placed in command of the Depart
ment of the East
Bishop Frederick D. Huntington,
of the Central Dioces of New York,
is dead.
Frank Platt, son of Senator Platt,
is seriously i'll in New York of typhoid
fever.
A terrific storm of wind, rain and
hail prevailed in St. Louis.
Most of the Fall River cotton mills
have resumed work.
Charles Mclean, mayor of Mobile,
Ala, is dead.
Col Joseph F. Bennett, who for
two years was vice and deputy con-
sui of the United States at Mexico
City, died suddenly as result of
stomach trouble. He was a Civil War
veteran and was born in Putnam
county, NJ Y, in 1880.
Admiral Cervera was presented at
his home, at Medina Sidonia, Spain,
with an engrossed message signed by
well-known Americans expressing
gratitude for his care of American
sailors at Santiago.
The negro George Bowen, who is
wanted in connection with the dis
appearance Of the little white girl at
Georgetown, Del, has been captured
Three serious charges will be made
against him.
Gen. Don Jose Toral, who com
manded the Spanish garrison at Santi-
ago when that place surrendered to
the United States forces, died in an
insane asylum at Madrid.
Eight persons were killed and 90
on the Erie Railroad at Midvale, N. ].
Bertha Dolbeer, California heiress,
committed suicide in New York by
jumping from a hotel window.
Mrs. Nora Hill attempted to kill
Mrs. H. K. Field in New York
street.
Frank E. Randall, president of the
Miami Valley Gas and Fuel Com
pany, was adjudged in contempt by
Justice Blanchard
Mrs. Nancy May, who was convicted
OF murder, was pardoned just as she
was about to enter the Kentucky state
prison.
Two negro boys were killed by
lightning at Raleigh, N c., and a man
near Camden. S. c.
Margaret O'Connor was found
strangled to death in furnished room
in New York.
Mrs. Smith, the sister of Nan Pat
terson, is seeking to be reinstated to
her old position in the War Depart
ment.
The Rhode Island State Building
has been sold to St. Louis man,
who will use it for a country home.
w. H. Morgan, deported miner,
committer suicide at Denver because
of threats he had received.
Three men have been arrested in
Chicago for crimes which rival those
of the car-barn bandits.
George F. Kroehl, president of the
First National Bank of Asbury Park,
was acquitted of the charge of max
ing false entries in the books of the
bank
Rev. Silas c. Swallow, the Prohi-
bition candidate for president, will
be officially notified July ~, at Indian
apolis
Edmund Bersch, who pleaded guilty
of accepting bride while a member
of the House of Delegates of ST.
Louis, was sentenced to two years in
the penitentiary.
Three boxes containing jewels
valued at $4,000, belonging to the
wife of Bishop Potter, were stolen at
Cooperstown, N. Y.
The dedication of the Virginia
Building at the Worlds Fair has
again been postponed.
A recommendation was made at the
Convention of the Baptist Young
Peoples Union that the sessions be
held biennially instead of annually.
One-half of Armourdale, the pack
ing-house town, in the suburbs of
Kansas City, in under water from the
overflow of the Kaw River.
Filipino scouts captured the en-
frances of the Worlds Fair because
the gatemen refused admission to
outside ice wagons.
By a ruling of Judge Holdam the
city of Chicago is not liable for in
iuries arising out of the Iroquois
Theatre fire.
Five miners who had been deported
from a Colorado mining camp were
kidnapped by band of masked men
Operations have been suspended at
the four steel hoop plants of the Car
negie Steel Company.
Foreign.
German semiofficial newspapers
deny that any political character at