The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-06-16
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
me Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic


Frank H. Caven, select councilman of
the Thirty-fourth ward, was arrested
on the charge of being interested in city
contracts, in violation of his council
manic oath.
Col William Colville. who led the
famous charge of the First Minnesota
Regiment of Red Wing, Mimi, at Get
tysburg, died at the Soldiers Home in
Red Wing, MINI.
on Paymaster Sullivan, of the Navy, has
been approved by the Secretary of the
Navy
While fast asleep Carl A. Clausen, of
New York, plunged from his room to
the ground and was killed.
The death was announced at Fort
Warren, Boston Harbor, of Major Jas.
G. Bush, U. S. A., of the Artillery
Corps. Death was caused by apoplexy.
The executive council of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor met at, Scran-
ton, Pa, and President Gompers re-
ported on the growth of the, organiza-
ton.
Mayor Dunno, of Chicago, and Tom
Johnson are to make fight in the
next Democratic National Convention
for municipal plank.
DR.. Szentromay Elemier, who was
sent to this country by his wife to pre-
vent his marriage to widow, COM
mitted suicide at Niagara Falls.
While Mrs. w. J. Connors was in the
bathroom at the Hotel Cadillac, in De-
troit, thief store her jewelry from her
apartments.
Frank G. Bigelow, the former Mil
waukee bank, president, began serving
his Io-year sentence at Fort Leaven-
worth prison.
The Chicago and Mobile Security
Company was incorporated in Tren-
ton, N. j.. with an authorized capital
of 100000.
The Supreme Court in Trenton, N. j.,
sustained the constitutionality OF the law
prohibiting pigeon shooting.
On account of the prevalence of small
pox, the schools were ordered to be
closed in Grand Rapids, Mich.
More than 200 employees at the Phila-
delphia Mint were suspended indeh-
nitely.
Frank G. Bigelow, defaulting presi-
dent of the First National Bank of Mil
waikee, pleaded guilty and was sem
fenced in the federal court in Milwau-
kee to 10 years at hard labor in the pen
itentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
A consolidation of the Ingersoll-Ser-
geant Company and the Rand Drill Com
lae do he
poration of the Ingersoll-Rand Com
pany The new company will have
capital stock of $Io,ooo,ooo.
The fight for the millions of William
Weightman, the Philadelphia chemist,
was begun in earnest. Sensational
charges were made by the guardian of
Martha Rogers Weightman.
The junior oratorical contest OF
Princeton's one hundred and ffty-eighth
commencement was held, with President
Woodrow Wilson presiding.
Mrs. Alexander Wood, of Philadel-
phia, who was Miss Louise Geary,
daughter of Governor Geary, was mar
ried in Stockbridge, Miss, to James P.
Ludlow, of New York.
The boiler of locomotive attached
to heavy loaded freight train exploded
near Quincy, Mass, and several cars
were wrecked and brakeman was seri-
ously injured.
In a head-on collision between two
Texas and New Orleans trains near
Spochard, Tex, two trainmen lost their
lives and several others were injured.
Mayor Weaver, of Philadelphia, has
decapitated two organization committing
magistrates. His advisers are planning
to put an independent ticket in the field.
Miss Edna Theresa Kenton, of Phila-
delphia, was secretly married to Black
Hawk, full-blooded Indian, who was at
the Carlisle Indian School.
Albert T. Patrick, the convicted muir
derer, retained his nerve when told in
Ossining, N. Y, of the decision against
him.
A consolidation mortgage of the Term
inal Railroad and Coal Company for
$I4,ooo,ooo was filed in New York.
Scarlet fever has spoiled he COM
mencement plans at Lawrenceville
School, near Trenton, N. ].
Mabel Gates and George Job COM
mitted suicide in Kansas City, Mo-, by
mutual agreement.
The strike OF the miners at the MOT
ris Run Colliery, New York, has been
adjusted.
Forty-one members of the Philadel-
phia Branch of the National Structural
Ironworkers and Bridgebuilders were
arrested One of their members, Ed
ward Joyce, of Washington, was mystic
riously shot during a meeting of the
union.
At Albany, N. Y, the Court of APP
peals upheld the conviction of Lawyer
Albert T. Patrick for murder in the
first degree in causing the death Of
William Marsh Rice, the aged million
aire, in New York on September 20,
1900.
Near Neave, KY, DR.. Edmonds
Courtney was assassinated by the friends
of DR.. William Korney, who was re-
Gently killed. Korney's friends held
Courtney responsible for the formers
death.
Foreign
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