Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1905-08-10
THE news IN SHORT ORDER
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A trial of unusual interest is in prog
gress at Rome, Ga, in which Capt. w.
Y. Sanford is accused of the murder
of George Wright, whom he suspected
of too close intimacy with his wife. IT
she would confess such intimacy he
would be acquitted. This she refuses
to do.
At Frenchburg, Menifee county, KY,
Mrs Julia McGraw will be tried on
the charge of administering fatal poison
to Mrs. Martha Yocum, aged 65 years,
and of the serious poisoning OF Mrs.
Silas Bowling and of two women named
Bolts.
AS illustrating the needs of preachers
in the West, it is stated that IS per cent.
of the Protestant churches of Nebraska
are without pastors.
Two men were killed, two were Sc
vercly injured and six were hurt in an
accident at mine of the Union Pacific
Coal Company, at Cumberland, Wyo.
Seventeen buildings in Orbisonia, Pa,
were destroyed by fire, and for short
time the whole place was threatened
with destruction.
A sailor died of yellow fever in the
New York Detention Hospital. This is
the second fatal case of the fever in
the hospital.
Gen. Roy Stone, who served in the
Civil and Spanish American Wars, died
at his home, in Mcndham, N. j., aged
Il years.
An cight-ycar-old girl was killed, one
man and one woman were seriously IN
jurcd by the collision of a trolley car
and a buggy.
AT Ashcvilc, N. G.. Miss Lola Walker
is suing Robert Edwards for $4,000
for alleged breach of promise to marry
her.
The Russians are handicapped by the
Sato, Of the Japanese Embassy.
The British steamer Barnton, Cap
tain McGrcgor, from Port DcPa,x,
EIay,i, for Chester Pa, arrived at the
Delaware Brcakwatcr with IS OF her
crew i'll with what is believed to be
malarial fever The vessel was remand
cd to the government quarantine sta
tion at Rccdy Island, Del, for fumiga-
tion and observation. =,
William w. Russell, newly appointed
| American minister to Venezuela. ana
cx- Judge w. J. Calhoun, whom Prcsl.,
dent Roosevelt has appointed special
commissioner to Venezuela, sailed from
New York for Caracas on the Red ID
Steamer Philadelphia.
Loretta H. PhIifcr aged 20 years, was
found in a dying condition on the steps
of the late Chief Of Police Sullivan, at
North Bergen, n. ]. 1t is stated that
She was taken from her escort by two
men who claimed to be policemen.
Thomas Walton Stanford, of Mel
| bourne, brother Of the late California
/ senator. has offered to donate a vaua-
/ bic collection OF antiques to the Leland
/ Stanford, Jr. University,
/ 1t is stated by growers that the Con
ncctjcut peach crop this year Will be
| the largest ever harvested.
The United Sulphur, Copper and Iron
| Company was incorporated at Trenton
with capital of $I2.ooo,ooo.
Archbishop Chapcllc has been stricken
with yellow fever. His condition is not
regarded as serious.
At Portland, O., the United States
! Jury for the second time was unable to
| agree in the case in which Congressman
| Williamson and others are charged with
ConSpiring to Suborn perjury in conncc-
ton with securing public lands iIIc-
gally.
The captain of the French ship AS
nicrcs, from Swansea to New York, re-
ported the finding OF dozen capped
fuses among the coal OF his ship. lie
believes there was a plot to blow up
! the steamer in mldOccan
In the suit for divorce against Mrs.
Grace Culver Taggart in Wooster, o.,
testimony seriously rejecting on her
character was given by a Filipino girl
who served in the Taggart household
in Manila.
Henry w. Mangcr, who was sentenced
at Oswcgo, n. v, to death in the"clec-
trio chair for murder, has accepted his
sentence and has requested his attor-
ncys not to take an appeal.
Mrs. John G.. Carlisle, wife OF the
former Secretary of the Treasury, died
at Babylon, l.. l., where she was spend
ing the summer.
In New York state prisons the TIN
plate, cup and saucer have been DIS
carded, and for them glazed pottery has
been substituted.
Minister Barratt while in San Fran
cisco, expressed the opinion that the
! Chinese boycott has caused unnecessary
alarm.
Precautionary measures have been
taken in Philadelphia against yellow