The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1905-07-27
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic:

Judge De Haven has granted an ap-
peal OF Senator Mitchell'S case to the
Supreme Court OF the United States
on bill Of exceptions.
Major c. Z. Gillette has been ap-
pointed member of the commission TO
investigate the Torresdale 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 6ercely. Twelve persons have
been burned to death.
Darling Dowling, Jr., was killed in
hight at Fort Nudge, Ga, and Charles
Crews was Serevely 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 Car
den in Cleveland.
The funeral OF former Secretary Of
War Daniel S. Lamont will take place
Wednesday
Timothy Darling shot and killed one
anu WOuhuCu TWO Otncr persons
in Chicago.
The Minneapolis linseed oil industry
IS paraiyzed because of the corner in
flaxseed
The oil tanks of the Texas Company
at Humble, Tex, were destroyed by
fire.
Five military convicts have escaped
from the guardhouSe at Fort Wright
Veterans Sn,c Df No.o-,.,-
OF Woman's Relief Corps and other pa
triotic societies attended the funeral in
Boston of General Blackmar. command
er-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 I'D
at the closing session of the Missionary
and Christian Alliance of the Eastern
District of the United States at I.ancas-
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 view 10 resisting the demands OF
the miners when again made.
| DelamOre Place the historic home of
the Bayard family, in Wilmington. will
be sold iii the settlement OF the estate
OF the late Thomas f. Bayard.
DIX 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 vii not be hampercd by restrictions
III It's 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
ters.
Miss Florence Everett. of South AM
boy. had thrilling experience by being
| lost IN coal mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa.
Miss Frances Schroeder, daughter OF
a tormer mayor OF Brooklyn, New York.
VIII we'd Alfred J. Boulton. mechanic
William Holroyd, machineSt, % years
old, Killed his I7-year-old wife i'll Phil
| adelpha and then committed suicide
| 1t IS reported that the grave of the
mother of Abraham Lincoln, near Lin
coin City, ILL.,. is neglected
At 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
$25,ooo for copy of "Fads and Fan
cies, but admits that he paid ST 500 foi
a subscription.
In order to avert disaster like that ot
the General Slocum, the steamer Sirius
with 1000 Sunday School excursionist:
on board, was run ashore after she hac
struck rock, which knocked hole If
the bottom
A Lockport On. W women left S5.ooc
to her only child and $4,000 for a hcmt
for houSeleSS dogs and cats.
Mary |. Nelson, who sued Frederick
Gebhardt for $4,000, got judgment by
default
The rate war between New York anc
Chicago may lead to reduction of the
fare to 81.
J. H. Patterson gave dinner to TO-
600 persons in Ohio.