The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1905-05-18
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
TIE latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.

Domestic.
A tory from Pittsburg says Joseph
Ramsay, Jr.. retiring president of the
Wabash, and his friends control great
coal fields in West Virginia supposed
TO belong to George ]. Gould, that they
control the Little Kanawha Syndicate,
and that connection with the West Vir-
ginia Central and the Western Mary
land Railroads may be made with
new line.
Gen. Thomas ]. Churchill, a former
governor OF Arkansas and commander
of the Arkansas Division United Con-
federatc Veterans, died in Little Rock
Samuel Hunt, president of the De
trCit Southern Railroad and one of the
trustees Of the Cincinnati Southern Rail
road, died at his home in Cincinnati.
In an address before the Evangelical
Alliance in Boston Lieutenant Governor
Gould said the South was gaining in
industries at the expense Of the North.
lvor Davidson, who became prominent
as 4 circus giant years ago, his height
being feet inches, died at his home
in Roscoe, Wis.
George II. Wood, on trial in Somer-
vile, N. J., for the murder of George
Williams, is said to have a dual person
aliiy.
DIR. l.. Q. Dawson startled the South
ern Baptist Convention in his report on
work among the negroes 10y declaring
that it was no affair of the convention
TO solve the so-called negro problem.
Judge Peter V. Voorhees,, lay Judge
of the Court of Errors and Appeals, in
Camden, N. J., announced that he had
sent his resignation TO Governor Stokes.
The transport Warren sailed from
San Francisco for Manila with big
cargo of supplies for the government sta
tions in the Philippines and at Guam.
Five of the unidentified victims of the
railroad wreck at Harrisburg, Pa, were
buried in a lot selected by the railroad
company officials.
Two fast freights on the Chautauqua
Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad
cohided head on. Two trainmen were
killed and several injured.
The report of the General Sabbath
School Board was submitted TO the Uni
ted Brethren Conference, in session in
Topeka Kan.
Miss Edith |. Gibney secured in Pitts
burg verdict for $I3,o25 in her breach
of promise suit against Klaus J. Steiner.
President +. y. Underwood, of the
Erie Railroad Company, denied that
that company was paying rebates.
Northern Texas has again been flood
cd by heavy rainstorm and telegraph
wires a-e nearly all useless.
Abe Weinberg, aged 81 years, was
stabbed TO death by John Baly in a
lodging-house in Philadelphia
a. Brightman shot and killed Mrs.
Charles II. Gurney in Los Angeles, Cal,
and then committed suicide.
All OF the negroes and men imported
by the Employers Association to take
the places of the strikers in Chicago are
being vaccinated by the Chicago Board
of Health Department. Twenty inspec-
tors are working among the strike-break
ers. There are at present 100 smallpox
patients in the Isolation Hospital.
Papers have been served on James
w. Alexander, president of the Equita-
bic Life Assurance Society, in the suit
Of James II. Hyde TO have him removed
as trustee of the Hyde stock.
Herbert V. Croker, a son of Richard
Croker, of New York city, was found
dead in a car on the southbound At
Gibson, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
when it reached Newton, Kan.
Several persons were injured and two
cars demolished in a collision between
locomotive and a passenger train on
the Chicago and Northwestern in Chi
cago.
The felt hat factory of Jonas & Naum-
berg, $40 to 522 West Thirty-ffth street,
New York was damaged 100000 by fire.
Two hundred men and women escaped.
Five men have been killed and two
injured III an explosion i'll mine belong
ing to the Heinze property at Butte,
Mont.
In wreck on the Cotton Belt Rail
way the train was ditched and four per-
sons are reported killed
Emerson Z. Bennett a well-knoTSr
writer and composer. of Philadelphi3,
dead
At the Convention of the Amo2 an
Stock-growers' Association in IDcuvcr
resolutions were adopted indorsIne The
Presidents attitude toward fair r. road
rates
Las Vegas, N. NJ. has been 4 ted as
the location of a national r. ,arium,
ever $T,ooo,ooo having been/ donated in
land, buildings and cash foTthe purpose
AT the Convention of /.he N, tional
Bo2rd OF Fire Underwriters President
Washburn referred to tE immense loss
that had been sustained during the year
Trueman Mason, aged 65, shot and
mortally wounded Dr1V. Davis in Wa
pella, ILL.,, and then 9hot himself in the
head, death ensuing almost instantly.
Edward Gottschalk was convicted i'll
ST Paul, Mimi, of the murder of Chris
tian n. Schindeidecker and sentenced
to be hanged
Foreign.
The executive council of the Inter
parliamentary Union for the Promotion
of International Arbitration met at Brus-