The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-08-25
THE news In SHORT ORDER
Domestic.

renee, Mass, sent memorial 10 M
White and Baron Rosen expressing the
hope for Russian peace at home and
abroad.
The Sultan of Sulu presented Scores
tary Taft and Miss Alice Roosevelt with
numerous gifts and offered his hand in
marriage to the Presidents daughter.
Nine persons were killed and many
were injured in a collision between a
street car and freight train at Butte,
Mont.
An internal mechine, loaded with gun
cotton, was received by Police Captain
Miles O'Reilly, in New York.
The conference of the National Young
Women's Christian Association was held
at Williams Bay, Wis.
The Automobile Club OF Oak Park.
near Chicago, has elected physician
as one of the officers.
The San Francisco Gas and Electric
Company has been acquired by the Rock
efeller interests.
Chicago hotel men and wholesale
butchers have formed combination to
fight the Beef Trust
The thirteenth annual meeting of the
National Irrigation Congress began at
Portland, Ore.
The Western National Bank of Louis
vile has been closed by the federal ap-
thorities.
The Pennsylvania Railroad placed one
of its fast trains on exhibition at Chi
cago.
Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, editor Of
St. Nicholas, died at Tannersville, N.
Y.
The city gas plant of Syracuse, Neb.,
was blown up.
Near GAINESVILLE, Tex, two negroes
were accused of uttering defamatory re-
marks about a white girl. They were
arrested and tried by communicative
white and five colored. They were
found guilty and received lashes, admin
istered by the colored men.
The walls of the Avenue Theater
building, in Pittsburg, which was being
wrecked preparatory to the construction
of new building, fell with a crash,
carrying down IS Italian laborers, bury
ing a number under the debris. None
were killed.
According to Rev. DR.. w. A. P. Mar
tin, lately president of the Imperial Tun-
gwan College at Picking, who recently
arrived at Victoria, the Chinese are
greatly aroused by the Japs' triumphs in
the war and are seeking to emulate them.
Hundreds of thousands of pounds OF
sulphur were burned in New Orleans
to rid the city of the fever-infected mos
quitoes, and the Marine Hospital Corps
now hope to stamp out the disease in
few weeks.
Mr.. James Hazen Hyde, former vice
president of the Equitable Life Assur-
ance Society, has sold his country place,
on Long Island, to Louis Bossart for
$500, 1000, which is about half of its total
cost
President Mitchell is trying to check
the weakness in the United Minework-
ers' organization in the anthracite region,
the union having lost many members in
the Hazleton and Schuylkill regions.
Joe Ullman, proprietor of the Bridge
Club in Saratoga, has received deadly
bomb similar to those sent to Jacob H.
Schiff and the Guggenheims, in New
York.
A log raft containing 100000 feet
of timber will start at an early date
from Stella, Wash, to be towed across
the Pacific Ocean to Shanghai.
The tribes in the Moro provinces OF
Zamboanga, Philippines, gave Secretary
of War Taft and his party great re-
ception.
A project is on hand in New York 70
erect chimney into the clouds. 1t will
be the tallest structure ever built.
Five Americans and several colonists
are reported to have been killed in a
fight between them in Mexico.
After an inspection trip in the West,
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is con-
WINGED that some of the railroads are
making as obnoxious as possible recent
regulations governing livestock ship
ments in order to secure their repeal.
Frank Ward, of Pueblo, Col, forced
his daughter to swallow poison, which
caused her death. He then took the
same drug, which also caused his death.
At Plymouth, Mass, Chicago de-
tectives failed to identify George l..
Marsh, suspected of the murder OF a
chauffeur near Chicago several months
ago. uft
R. H. Davidson, Chicago building
contractor, is missing. His friends be-
lieve that he has been slugged by a Ia
Dor gang.
Henry D. Davis, of Cleveland, O., was
elected president of the fraternal order
of Eagles, in session in Denver, Col.
Kipson A. Andrews, former treas
urer of the Pittsburg Coal Company, is
reported to be dying at Youngstown, 0.
Minooka, large town bordering on
Scranton, Pa, is SO good that the whole
police force has been dismissed.
Three negroes who had murdered
women of their own race were hanged
in Memphis.
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