The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-12-15
the LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
DOMESTIC

"A court IN brooklyn mas QeclQeQ tlldt
the American Tobacco Company may sell
its goods to whom it chooses, a small
dealer who was refused goods losing a
suit for damages.
District Attorney Jerome has directed
Thomas F. Ryan to answer the questions
of the insurance Investigators regarding
E. F. Hartman and will comply.
1t is said that John D. Rockefeller, Sr.,
has gone South to evade subpena-servers
in the case of the State of Missouri
against the Standard Oil Company.
The courts of Ohio during the past
year sent nine bankers to the penitenti-
airy, three are awaiting trial and one has
been convicted.
Charles A. Peabody, the lawyer, finan-
cier and railroad director. will be made
president of the Mutual Life Insurance
Company.
The engineers and fremen of the At
lantic and Bennington Railroad have
gone on strike over the question of pay.
Lightship No. So, on station at Nan
tucket shoals, sprang leak, and sent
wireless message to the torpedo sta
ton at Newport, to the effect that she
was sinking, and asked that assistance
be sent at once
Directors of the New York Mutual
Life Insurance Company are anxious that
Lawyer Hughes, who is conducting the
insurance investigation in New York,
should become president of that COM
pany
1t is expected that the National Civic
Federation shortly to meet in New York
will take steps to correct the evils of
overimmigration.
A couple who were divorced in Cleve-
land, O., IS years ago met again in New
York by chance and again became hus-
band and wife.
An honest man of Texas walked 81
miles to return lost purse.
Gen, Stephen Lee, commander of the
United Confederate Veterans, has thank
ed President Roosevelt for the latter's
suggestion that THE government care
for the graves of Southern soldiers who
died in the North.
Arthur Strong, of Rouses Point, N. \,
has been arrested in Helena, Mont. He
was the companion in flight OF his cousin,
John Cross Hammond, whose wife's
body was found in trunk in their fiat.
Orland c. Post, general auditor OF the
Delaware, Lackawana and Western Rail-
road Company, and for many years CON
nected with the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road, died at East Orange, N. ].
Miss Margaret Bristol, a well-known
young woman of Hamilton, Ont, return
ing from studies abroad, attempted to
jump overheard from the Kroonland, be
lieving that voices at sea called her.
Miss Ethel Croker, daughter of Rich
ard Croker, is reported engaged to Count
San MARITIME, whose brother eloped with
Miss Croker's sister
United States Senator John H. Mitch
ell died suddenly in Portland, Ore, from
a hemorrhage following the extraction
of tooth.
Capt. Carter B. Harrison, brother of
former President Benz amin Harrison,
died in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale has written
an open letter denouncing the action OF
the Ipterchurch Federation in excluding
the Unitarian delegates, stating that spi-
ritual efficiency and not mere orthodoxy
is the true test of Christianity.
Mrs. Alfred Frelich and her mother,
(Mrs. Hoefhng) were shot and killed
during family quarrel in their home, in
New York The husband and son-in-law
(Alfred Frelich, a drug clerk), surren-
dered himself to the police.
Governor Pennypacker, the members OF
his official staff, and other distinguished
Pennsylvanians attended the unwilling
at Andersonville, Ca, in memory Of
Pennsylvania soldiers who fell in the
Cicil War
District Attorney Jerome has asked the
Armstrong insurance commission COM
mittee for copy Of its report, suggest
ing the possibilities of criminal proceed.
ings against insurance officials.
The Norwegian Arctic explorer,
Amudson, who has arrived in Alaska,
reports that he found the magnetic North
Pole on King William Island.
Andrew Carnegie says if he owned the
United States he would offer premiums
| to induce larger immigration.
The report of the National Ginners'
Association estimates the cotton crop at
o,623ooo bales.
The suggestion was made by Secre-
tary of the Navy Bonaparte that the
Constitution be destroyed has aroused
| the ire of Bostonians, a public meeting
having been called to make protest.
President William E. Corey, of the
United States Steel Corporation, now ad
mites that Mrs. Corey has gone to Neva-
[da to obtain divorce and that he will
not oppose it.
Captain Amudson, of the Norwegian
Arctic expedition ship Gjoa, reports that
he has been through the northwest pas
sage and reached the magnetic North
Pole
United States Consul General James
Russell Parsons was killed in Mexico
by trolley striking his carriage and
throwing the vehicle against post in
the road.
FOREIGN
Charles H. Graves, United States min
lister to Sweden and Norway, returned
to Stockholm today from Christiania,