Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1905-07-27
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic

ed the requisition of the Governor of
Massachusetts, for John Shidlofski, the
Boston barbar charged with wife muir
der.
Judge De Haven has granted an ap-
peal of Senator Mtchells case to the
Supreme Court of the United States
on bill of exceptions.
Major c. f. Gillette has been ap-
pointed a member of the commission to
investigate the Torrcsdac filter plant Of
Philadelphia.
The citizens of San Diego will erect
a monument to the memory of the men
who lost their lives in the Bennington
explosion.
The fire in the Texas oil fields is still
burning fercely. Twelve persons have
been burned to DEATH
Darling Bowling, Jr, was killed in a
fight at Fort Nudge, Ga, and Charles
Crews was sercvely cut.
The investigation of the General Pa
per Company before Special Examiner
Taylor began at St. Paul.
The new comic opera, "The Merry
Khan" was produced at the Euclid Gar
den in Cleveland.
The funeral of former Secretary Of
War Daniel S. Lamont will take place
Wednesday.
Timothy Darling shot and killed one
woman and wounded two other persons
in Chicago.
The Minneapolis lnsecd oil industry
is paralyzed because of the corner in
faxsecd
The oil tanks of the Texas Company
at Humble, Tex, were destroyed by
fire.
Five military convicts have escaped
from the guardhouSc at Fort Wright.
Veterans, Sons of Veterans, members
Of Woman's Relief Corps and other pa
triotic societies attended the funeral in
Boston of General Blackmar, command
cr-in-chicf of the Grand Army OF the
Republic
Three laborerS drank can of beer
and laid down on the Burlington tracks,
at Omaha One was killed. another ia
tally injured, and the third was injured
and not awakened by his shaking up.
a collection of $4,000 was taken up
at the closing session of the Missionary
and Christian Alliance of the Eastern
District of the United States at LancaS-
ter, Pa.
A New York woman who is the moth
or of six children has passed the eX-
animation for admission to the New
York bar. She was at the head of 1000
candidates.
Anthracite coal operators are reported
to be storing immense quantities Of coal
with a view to resisting the demands OF
the miners when again made
Delamorc Place. the historic home OF
the Bayard family, in Wilmington, will
be sold in the settlement OF the estate
Of the late Thomas +. Bayard.
Six passengers on the steamer Finance
arrived in New York from Panama, hav-
ing abandoned their positions on the
canal.
The New York Legislation Commit
tee will not be hampcrcd by restrictions
in its investigation of the Equitable Life
Assurance Society,
A Polish merchant of Pittston, Pa,
is dead as the result of fright because
of receipt of several Black Hand let
tcrS
Miss Florence Everett, OF South Am
boy, had thrilling experience by being
lost in coal mine a. Wilkesbarre, Pa.
Miss Frances Schroeder, daughter OF
a former mayor OF Brooklyn, New York,
will wed Alfred J. Boulton. a mechanic.
William Holroyd, a machinest, % years
old, killed his I7-year-old wife in Phil
adelphia and then committed suicide.
1t is reported that the grave of the
mother of Abraham Lincoln, near Lin
coin City, ILL.,, is neglected
At a prayer-meeting i'll a Cleveland
Baptist Church John d. Rockefeller said
he never tasted rum.
A serious riot occurred at the celebra-
ton of Polish wedding near Latrobe,
Pa
Charles NJ Schwab denies that he gave
$4,000 for a copy of "Fads and Fan
cies,' but admits that he paid SI,5oo for
a subscription.
In order to avert disaster like that of
the General Slocum, the steamer Sirius,
with 1000 Sunday School cxcurSonsts
OH board, was run ashore after she had
struck rock, which knocked hole in
the bottom.
A Lockport On. W women left $1,000
to her only child and $4,000 for home
for houselcsS dogs and cats.
Mary !. Nelson, who sued Frederick
Gebhardt for $65,ooo got Judgment by
default
The rate war between New York and
Chicago may lead to a reduction Of the
fare to 81.
J. H. Patterson gave a dinner to TO-
900 persons in Ohio.