The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1905-06-22
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic

The Twentieth Century Limited be-
tween New York and Chicago, which
began the new IS-hour schedule Mon
| day, got in ahead of time at both East
ern and Western terminals.
The steamer City of Colingwood,
owned by the North Shore Navigation
Company of Co!lingwood, and valued
at $4,000, was totally destroyed by fire
at her dock at Collingwood. Ont
Two hundred thousand, three hundred
| and eighty-two persons have passed
through the gates of the Lewis and
Clark Exposition since the opening day.
Chairman Morton, of the Equitable.
ordered a complete investigation to be
made of the company's affairs by two
hrms OF expert accountants.
A shower of molten steel following
an explosion caused the death of two
men who were swimming in the Hudson
at New York.
Philip Arbeit, who sold SKINNED and
watered milk on the lower East Side in
New York, was sent to Jail for IS days.
Lightning struck circus wagon at
Kalamazoo, Mich, killing Advance
! Agent w. J. Currier and injuring sev-
eral others.
Two little boys looked on while Allen
Dukes killed Thomas J. Snyder, blind
man, near Murphysboro, Ill.
| Various reports were made to the
General Synod of the Evangelical Lu-
theran Church in Pittsburg
Supreme Regent Howard c. Wiggins,
OF the Royal Arcanum, says there is no
| occasion for alarm about the condition
OF the order, members arc being initi-
| afeGG, -lllew applications are being received,
and others STc~ipcreasing the amounts
of their certificates. ~
AT the Convention of American ZION
lists III Philadelphia it was decided that
Palestine was the best place for the col
onization of the Jews.
Alvin J. Tucker, of Clyde, New York,
dreamed his uncle had died and left
hin legacy of $4,000, and on the fol
lowing day learned that it had really oc-
Cured.
College entrance examinations, con
Quoted by the college entrance examina-
ton board, will be held today at 100
points in the United States and in Eu-
rope.
/ Six members of the last Arkansas
General Assembly, including the presi-
dent OF the Senate, are under indictment
on charges OF bribery, perjury and con-
spiracy.
Judge Dicl<ey of Newburg, N. Y. de
nounced III open court the defendant,
who was trying to recover a second time
money he had loaned on mortgage.
The patrons of the public school at
Little Silver, n. J., insisted on the rein
statement of the schoolteacher who had
been dismissed because he chewed to-
bacco.
The manual of the Daughters of the
Faith, about to be issued, declares that
a Catholic divOrcee who rcmarrieS should
be socially ostracised
Pascel p. Pratt, millionaire merchant
and banker died in Buffalo, N. " He
had undergone an operation and never
J rallied from the shock.
Rear Admiral Sigsbee's squadron sail
ed from Tompkinsvile for Cherbourg,
/ France, where John Paul Jones body
will be taken on board
The Bell and the independent tele-
! phone companies in Amsterdam, n. Y,
and contiguous cities are indulging in a
rate war
Francis Murphy, the temperance ad-
vocate, who has been i'll six weeks with
blood-poison1ng, is recovering slowly.
There was Il free fight in the First
Recorders courtroom in New Orleans,
i'll which all parties produced guns.
Miss Mamie Babb, a schoolteacher, of
Norway, Me, will join Peary's expedi-
tion i'll quest of the North Pole
! During an orgie among the Eskimos
on the DiOmed Islands a native woman
was burned at the stake
Herman Kluesendorf and Mary Kohl
eloped from the poorhouSe in Milwau-
kee and were married
Miss Minnie Stoermer, of New York,
after trying twice TO shoot the man who
/ Tilted her, killed herself.
Dowie wants TO raise 100000 to carry
a restoration to Paris and purify the
gay French capital.
Otis Bolts, aged FL years, convicted
OF the murder of his child wife, lost
his nerve on the scaffold at Peoria. ILL.,,
and was barely able to stand while be-
ing prepared 10 be hanged
The concluding session of the Credit
Mems Association was held in Mem
phiS. resolution was adopted favor
ing the Lodge consular bill. Officers
were elected.
Samuel Greason, colored. convicted of
the murder of John Edwards, was ac-
quilted at Reading, Pa, Edwards wife
having completely exonerated him.
The federal courts have issued a tenn
porary injunction restraining the Mis-
souri, State Railway Commissioners from
enforcing the maximum freight rate law.
Harvey Smith, John Collier and Will
Jackson, all colored, were hanged at
Decatur, Ala, for murder Troops were
present as precautionary measure.
IOTeign.
The Gar has at last received the
| Zemstvo delegation and assured them