The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-05-26
NEWS m SHORT ORDER.
me Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.


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odist ministers marched in procession
TO the Philadelphia City Hall to protest
against the proposed lease of the gas
works
A 2o-story apartment-house is to be
erected in Brooklyn by well-known n
nanciers as a philanthropic enterprise.
No family will be taken that has not at
least one child.
Dagmar E. Turnberg and her sister
Dora, two young women stenographers,
were struck and instantly killed by.
passenger train near Chicago.
The store and house of Vinceno Pa
Jumbo, of Monessen, Pa, were dyna-
mited because the owner ignored the de-
mands of the Black Hand.
Joseph O'Connell, boy, shot and kill
ed his father, Thomas O'Connell, in
Bellport, R. l. The shooting was done
in self-defense.
The Attorney General of Pennsylva-
MIA authorized quo warranto proceed
ings against the brokerage firm of Haight
& Freese.
The New York officials of the big ex-
press companies say the striking drivers
in Chicago will not be taken back.
The New York and Bermude: Asphalt
Company has appealed to the Court OF
Cessation of Venezuela.
A strike of cranemen at the Sharon
Steel Works, Sharon, Pa, caused the
closing down of the works.
A force of Filipino constabulary has
demolished a stronghold of Pulujines
on the Island of. Sanlar.
Neil Burgess was declared bankrupt
in the United States District Court in
Trenton, NJ ].
Nelson Keplar was arrested at Bar
berton on the charge of killing Miss
Grace Trumphour.
The annual meeting of the Jewish
Publication Society was held in Phila-
delphia
The annual meeting of the Baptist
Publication Society was held in ST..
Louis.
Rumors of corner caused jump in
wheat and corn in the Chicago pit.
The historic Garfield House, in New
York, was destroyed by fire.
Edward w. Johnson dropped dead
while playing ball in Chicago.
Manuel Montoya, a rich stockman OF
Los Alamosa, N NJ, cut his wife's
throat with a razor while in an insane
rage, tore down part of his house, broke
much furniture, and then severed his
own jugular vein.
A New York policyholder of the Equi-
table Life Assurance Company has writ
ten to President Roosevelt asking him
to order an investigation of the COM
pany's affairs.
Additional claims, aggregating $I7, 900,
were filed in the United States District
Court in Philadelphia against the Haight
& Freeze Company, brokers.
The committee of the United Brethren
Conference, in Topeka, Kan, refused to
accept the report of the treasurer, Rev.
DR.. Mckee, of Dayton, 0.
Mrs. Mary Shepard died at her home.
in Poughkeepsie, n. Y, at the age OF
Io4. She was born in County Kilken-
ny, Ireland, December rs, 1900.
The president, vice president and cash
Ter of the American National Bank OF
Abilene, Tex, were indicted by the fed
eral grand jury.
The municipal ferryboat Richmond
was launched at the shipyards OF the
Burlee Shipbuilding Company, of Port
Richmond, S. !.
Minister Barrett declared in New York
that sanitation presented more difficult
problem on the isthmus than the engi-
neering.
H. Clay Grubb,, who was tried at Sal
isbury, N. c., on the charge of killing
his brother-in-law, o. B. Davis, was
acquitted.
p. ], McArdle, of Muncie, Ind, was
elected president of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Work
ers.
Thieves killed William Strickland,
Waterman at the Standard Oil ware
houses in Raleigh, N. c., and burned
the place
The various committees made reports
at yesterdays session of the American
Baptist Missionary Union in St. Louis.
The American Federation of Mus-
clans, in session in Detroit, decided to
hold next years convention in Detroit.
The General Synod of the Reformed
|. Presbyterian Church decided to allow
instrumental music in the church serv-
ices.
Reports were made to the Convention
of the Switchmen's Union in lndianapo-
lis.
Andrew Carnegie has given $I25,ooo
to Wellesley College for library.
Dr. William Osler, recently professor
of medicine at Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, sailed from New York for
Liverpool enrout to Oxford to accept a
professorship.
At Natchez, Miss, Peter Matheson,
book agent, killed two men and fatally
wounded his mother-in-law. He also