The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1905-08-31
The NEWS In SHORT ORDER
Domestic.

A couple registered at the Hotel Ten
Eyck, at Albany, n. Y, last Thursday
as Mr.. and Mrs J. W. Rogers, of San
Francisco, and disappeared from the ho-
tel Friday night, leaving behind them
two children, both boys, aged, respec-
lively, six years and six months Mr.
and Mrs. Rogers left without paying
their board bill and after getting the
hotel to cash a certified check. The
children were taken in charge by the
commissioner of charities, who swore
out warrants for the arrest of Mr. and
Mrs Rogers for abandoning the chill
dren.
J. Pierpont Morgan took luncheon
with the President at Sycamore Hill and
discussed with him matters pertaining
TO the Canton-Hankow Railroad, in
China. Mr. Morgan arrived in Oyster
Bay shortly after noon on his yacht the
CorSair.
While in Seattle, Wash. Mr.. Thos.
+. Ryan, who owns a stock control OF
the Equitable Life Assurance Society,
said he favored federal supervision OF
life insurance companies.
When a committee complained to
Mayor Dunno, of Chicago, of the preva-
lence of crime in that city he pointed TO
crowded prisons as an evidence of the
activity of the police.
William Ely, who is held by the Chi
cago police on charges of robbery, is
said by the police to have squandered
100000 in three years.
John Williams. an aeronaut, was
dashed to death by falling 1900 feet.
He released his grasp on the trapezc Of
his parachute.
Edgar Stachelberg, member OF cigar
manufacturing firm of Tampa, Fla, has
been challenged BY one of his employees
to Gght a duel because Stachelberg or
dered his employees TO cease reading an
archiStic literature. The challenge will
be ignored.
In his annual report TO the War De
partment General Wint. commander Of
mcnds that married men he barred from
enlistment and that chaplains be prohib-
| tied from marrying soldiers.
William H. York, aged II years, who
was one OF Guerilla Morgan's raiders
during the Civil War, is in Jefferson
County (Ky) Jail on the charge of the
murder of his brother, aged 50 years.
Mr. Theodore P. Shonts, chairman of
the Isthmian Canal Commission, was a
guest OF the President at Oyster Bay,
and discussed with him matters apper-
tanning 10 the great undertaking.
The discovery of oil in the heart of
Warren. Pa, has made that town oil
crazy. Wells are being sunk in back
yards of residents. There has been a
phenomenal rise in land values.
A Brooklyn man has asked that his
wife be committed to an industrial home
because he is tired OF combing her hair
and sewing buttons on her blouscs. She
was committed.
was taken from Jail in Newbern, n. c.,
by mob of 100 armed men and lynched.
He attacked a woman in a country store.
A Philadelphia man became convinced
that he was about to die. and so predicted
in letter to relative. When about
to post the miSsive he dropped dead.
A Is-year-old choir boy Of Philadel-
phia has been arrested in Philadelphia on
the charge of burglary. The police say
he has committed over 40 robberics.
Six thousand union carpenters of Bos-
ton will receive an increase in wages
under the decision of Judge George l..
Wentworth, to whom as special arbi-
traitor the employers and unionists sub
mitted the question OF new working
agreement.
The mystery of the loss of trunks and
If other baggage in Western cities is be
lieved TO have been solved by the Chi
cago police who arrested a man and 4
woman. A search of their rooms re-
vealed evidences of the missing baggage
Mr.. Harry F. Hooper. city register ot
Baltimore, was elected a vice president
of the American League of Municipali'
ties, in session in Toledo. The league
will hold its next meeting in Chicago.
The Chicago police believe they have
a clue to the Alize murder mystery. They
have arrested a man for holding up ;
woman The circumstances and meth
ods employed are similar to those il
the Mize case.
The work of the National Young
Women's Christian Association was out
lined at Lake Geneva by Miss Emm;
Hays, one of the national secretaries o
, the association.
Frank PUNISH. a Chicago swindler, ha
been arrested after being out of the pen
itentiary for only three weeks. He ha
spent over 80 years behind the bars. r.
The report of the fever situation il
|. New Orleans was encouraging. Their
= was a small report of new cases ant
only one death during the night.
1 Benjamin Kunkle and his daughter
= n-law, Mrs. Francis Kunkle, wer
drowned in Big Beaver Creek, nea
Lancaster, Pa.
IoreiRn
There was collapse i'll the Paris su
oar market owing TO the sudden death