The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-05-12
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic,

q.
James NJ. Sprague was appointed re-
ceiver for the contracting firm of w. H.
Ellis & Co., of Cincinnati, by the Com
mon Pleas Court on application of Henry
E. Kennedy, the silent partner in the
business.
The will of the late Patrick J. Healy,
the pioneer music dealer of Chicago.
shows personal property to the value
of S55o,ooo, to be divided among the
seven children of the testator.
Judge Lacombe. in the United States
Court in New York granted an order
to snow cause why a receiver should not
be appointed for the United Shoe Ma
chinery Company of New Jersey.
Judge Lanning, in the United States
District Court in Trenton, N j., re-
fused to grant writ of habeas. corpus
in the case of Anna Valentino, convicted
of the murder of Rosa Salza.
President Mitchell, of the United Mine
Workers, has postponed his trip to the
anthracite coal region on account of the
serious illness of his daughter.
Ira Green and William Dillon were
hanged in Bellefonte, Pa, for the MUIR
der of Jerry Condo, turnkey in the Cen
ter County Jail
The Haight & Freese Company, stock
brokers, of Boston, with Offices in various
New England cities, was placed in the
hands of receivers.
Edward Calhoun was shot and killed
at Wallis, Te, by w. T. Eldridge, who
three years ago killed Calhoun's cousin.
William DAILY was arrested in Strouds-
burg, Pa, charged with grand larceny
of $4,000 from an insurance company
Major Horace L. Piper, assistant SUI
perintendent of the Life Saving Service,
died at Atlantic City.
The business district of the town of
Flora, Miss, was wiped out by fire. Loss
$2ooooo
Three men were arrested on the charge
of robbing the Aston mansion at Rhine
beck.
DR.. Oliver Woodson Nixon, former
owner of the Chicago Inter Ocean, is
dead.
Judge Lacombe, of the United States
Court in New York, declared Edwin F.
Hale in contempt for refusing to an
swer the grand jury investigation of the
Tobacco Trust.
Disorders were not SO frequent, al
though several clashes between nom
union teamsters and strike sympathizers
occurred and a dozen or more persons
were injured.
The Convention of Railway Tele-.
graphers is in session at Buffalo. The
question of union with the Commercial
Telegraphers is under consideration.
A gravel car on the Nashville Rail-
road ran away down steep hill and col
lided with three or four vehicles. Sew
eral persons were killed and injured.
A fire on the ninth floor of the Com
mercial Trust Company's Office building.
in Exchange Place, Jersey City, endan-
gered many valuable documents.
The Canadian Pacific express was
wrecked near Moncton, N. B. All cars
except the sleeping cars were derailed.
Several persons were injured.
Several more claims against the de-
faulting bank president, Frank G. Bige-
low, have been filed and new ones are
coming to light every day.
The Glass Bottle Blowers Association
is in session at Pittsburg. Some inn
portant changes in the wage scale are
expected.
Cashier E. H. Lewis, of the Middle
ton Bank, Waverly, Mo-, who is miss
ing, left note saying he wrecked the
bank
The Joy Line steamer Arkansas was
sunk in Long Island Sound after collid-
ing with barge. One passenger was
lost
The will of Miss Ellen ]. Mckee, who
died at Asheville, N. c., May I, has
been filed in St. Louis. She was the
daughter of the late William Mckee,
founder of the St. Louis Globe-Demo-
GRAFT, and owned the controlling interest
in that newspaper. Her estate is valued
at $2,ooo,ooo.
There was little rioting in Chicago,
as the police have broken up the march
ing of mobs after wagons. Charges OF
selling out have been made against the
labor leaders and Mayor Dunno has ap-
pointed a commission to investigate.
The will of Mrs. Clement B. Newbold.
daughter of the late Thomas Scott, con-
tains bequest of $4,000 to the missions
of the Protestant Episcopal Church and
$4,000 to the Christians Fund of the
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