The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-10-27
the LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
DOMESTIC


A hearing was begun in Cleveland
on charges of discrimination made
against the New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad Company by the Fred
G. Clark Oil Company.
The National Cable and Wire Com
pany of Pittsburg, of which T. Lee
Clark, cashier of the Enterprise Bank,
was president, went into the hands OF
receiver.
The Governors mansion in Jefferson
City, Mo-, was slightly damaged by fire,
Governor Folk and his wife and guests
being forced to seek quarters in hotel.
The beef packers under indictment in
Chicago filed special plea declaring that
they were forced to give the evidence on
which the indictments are framed.
DR.. Edward Martin, director OF the
Department of Public Health and Chair
| ties of Philadelphia, resigned
Arrangements for the Southern Inn
migration and Quarantine Conference,
to be held. at Chattanooga, Tenn, No
vember and II, have been completed
and upwards of 500 delegates are ex-
pected.
"A Year in He'll; or, Railroad
Mans Observations Along the High
way of Justice" is the title John 5.
Packham, a one-year-man-in-]all, mas
given to a book he has prepared while
in prison.
BY the overturning of hearse Peter
Porter, supposed dead man, was re-
vived from a condition OF coma IN
Lesuer, MINI, and drove the hearse
back to town.
The experiment of having an a la
carte restaurant on an ocean liner was
tried with gratifying success on the new
Hamburg-American liner Amerika.
Henry Schwanwedel and Adam Hill
man, two Brooklyn men, made bet
with each other that they would COM
NIT suicide. Both drowned themselves.
w. F. Craig, of Lynn, Mass, while
hunting in Maine, had a desperate hight
with a bear, which he killed after being
himself severely injured.
Mrs. Herman ]. Bowers, OF Steelton,
Pa. had her husband arrested tor as
sault, and while he was in the lookup
ran off with his cash.
The Belgian government has plan
for an advanced lire of Notifications at
Antwerp which will entail an expendi-
ture of SCI 100000.
1t has cost about $35oooo to fight the
yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans:
The emergency yellow fever hospital
was closed -,
Princeton University students will
not be required to attend services daily
in the chapel hereafter, but only twice
week.
Fireman Rengger saved a child from
being run over by train by grasplng
it from the coweatcher, near Port jar
Wis, N. Y.
Chief of Police Collins, of Chicago,
has started on a vigorous personal cru
SADIE to carry out the Illinois Antic1gar-
cite Law.
The Appellate Division of the Su.
preme Court of New York has handed
down decision adverse to the verdict
for 100000 in favor of Morris =.
Mengies for services alleged to have
been rendered by him in the Western
Maryland Railroad deal.
| In New York May E. Golding, OF But
falo, confessed that she took her employ
ers' money for the man whom she loved
and not for her invalid parents. as she
first confessed.
ne necQS Oi Inc peoPic VI oieo 1>iNS
were discussed at the Conference OF
Friends of the Indian and Other De
pendent Peoples at Lake Mohonk.
An application was made in New York
| for the appointment of receiver Tor
the Haight & Freese Company, brokers.
The Chicago police are convinced that
woman fired the shot which resulted
in the death of Mrs. Clara McCluskey.
The new brick works of the Hummels-
town Brownstone Company. at Harris
burg, Pa, were burned.
| Important railroad improvements fol-
Nashville Tenn, are projected