Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1905-01-26
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.

Domestic.
Prof Lewis Boss, astronomer OF the
Dudley Observatory, of Albany, N. Y.
received official notice that he has beer
awarded the medal of the Royal AS
Economical Society of England.
The suicide of Charles H. Houseman
of the East Side Savings Bank in Co
lumbus, O., caused run Oh the bank
which was subsequently closed.
The steamer Atllenian arrived at Vic
toria, B. c., bringing details of the
Japanese cruiser Manchuria after she
struck the mine off Port Arthur.
The tcamstcrs for Nelson Morris &
Co. and Armour & Co, of Chicago
threaten to strike unless discharged
teamStcrs are reinStatcd.
The Methodist ministers of New York
have decided to oppose District Attor-
ney Jeromc's bill to allow saloons to
open on Sunday.
Henry Welsh, Joseph Connors and
Sarah Williams were arrested i'll Phla-
delpha on the charge OF councrieltlng
Four hundred hands struck at Corr
Cotton Mills, at East Taunton, Mass
against a reduction Of I2H per cent
The differences between the PcnnSyl-
vania tranmen and the company have
been satisfactorily adjusted.
Work was resumed at all the Fall
River cotton mills at a reduction OF I2H
per cent.
The court i'll Auburn, Mo, granted the
petition of Charles F. Dunlap Tor the
appointment OF guardian for his grand
SON, who is now in the Holy Ghost and
Us Colonly, at Shiloh.
Former directors OF the American
Grass Twnc Company paid back $3.50.
900 for which suit had been instituted
on the ground that dividends had been
illegally declared.
A foolish woman started panic at
the matinee at the Manhattan lheatcr
in New York, which was checked by
the presence Of mind OF the actors.
Edward Madden, a New York clothing
designer. fell down a flight of stairs Sat
urday nigh, and was found dead IN bed
Sunday morning.
The Old Dominion Line steamer DC
racoke collidcd with a pleasure NIoop
near Elizabeth City, N. J. All on the
sloop were saved.
Four railroad men were killed, three
fatally and several seriously injured
in a collision between freight trans at
Shawnee, Tenn. -.
Sight has been restored to John +.
Martin, who served a, substitute tor
Rouss, the millionaire, to try all rent
cdics for blindness.
Charles Tuxham, farmer, living near
McPerson, Kan, killed his two sons,
set fire TO his property and then killed
himself.
Rsv. Thomas Stanton, travelling
evangelist. wa, arrested i'll Sharon,
Pa, on suspicion of being fugitive
from justice,
The United States customs collector
has found IN Cleveland valuable lvorieS
and laces belonging 10 Mrs. Chadwick,
Four persons lost their lives IN fire
that destroyed the residence OF George
Barnes, farmer, in North Wisconsin,
lanes S. Mctcait. the New York dra-
matte critic and editor OF Lie, has been
barred from ~ theaterS in New York
The schooner Volunteer sprang alcak
and sank III the Gulf. The crew was
picked up and landed at Sand Key.
Mrs. Rachel Peters, an inmate OF the
almshouse. near York, Pa, was burned
to death She was so years old,
Several raids were made by the police
in New York on gambling place, and
opium dens
Three earthquake shocks were Ielt in
the neghborhood OF Santiago, Cuba.
John W. Fleming, one OF the two
steamboat inspectors who examined the
General Slocum, and who reported her
equipment to be perfect, and who is on
trial in New York on the charge of man
slaughter, was taken suddenly III in
court.
The cranemcn at the American Steel
Foundries Company's plant at Sharon,
Pa, have demanded the restoration OF
the wages which they received PRIOR to
the 10 per cent reduction.
At indianapolis. Ind, Delegate Ran
dali, of Wyoming, who charged PreS,-
dent Mitchell with having sold out the
Colorado miners. was expelled from the
United Mineworkers OF America.
Jacob Ridgcway Wright, former res
idcnt of Wllkesbarre, shot himself in
his room, in the Hotel Imperial, III New
York. Before his death he said the
shooting was an accident.
The application for the appointment
of a commission on person and estate
of Brodie l.. Duke was postponed i'll
New York for one week
Application has been made TO The New
York Stock Exchange to list Western
Maryland Railroad Company's Soo7, 7,oco
additional bonds.
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