Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1905-03-30
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.

witnesses in the governments inquiry
into the beef combine says he knows
there is blacklsting process used by
the trust packers.
Twcnty-cight Texas convicts on the
plantation of ]. B. S. House, of Hous-
ton, in Fort Bend county, escaped by
saving through the floor of the stockadc
with case knives.
Judge Hargis and his nephew and
Sheriff Callahan, of Breathitt county,
KY, were held without bail on the charge
of being involved in the Cockrill MUIR
der.
Thomas Blackburn was burned to
death in cell in the town lookup at
Warrior Ala, by fire of his own max
ing in an attempt to escape from Jail.
DIR. James L. Barton, secretary of the
American Board of Commissioners for
Missouri, stated that the 100000 Rookie
Teller gift was unsolicited.
The Canadian government and city
of Halifax offer a bounty to encourage
the establishment Of steel ship building
plant.
Miss Clara Hubert, daughter of Fri
B. Hubert, professor of divinity at the
University of Chicago, committed sui
eide.
General Rosscau, on trial in New
York for sending dynamite bomb to
the steamer Umbria, was found guilty.
The police are said to have given up
hope of solving the Stanford poisoning
mystery.
United States Commissioner Herbert
decided, in New York, that Atlantic
Transport Company must reimburse Mrs,
Frances NJ. Barnes for $6,oSS stolen from
her sateroom on the steamer Minnetonka.
"The United States as World
Power" will be the subject discussed by
distinguished speakers at the meeting
of the American Academy of Political
and Social Science in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Mary Walsh and her baby, aged
one year, were found dead at Larks-
vile, Pa, having been smothcrcd by
gas, which escaped from coal stove
in an adjoining ROOM
Four OF the five persons who were
in a rowboat that capsizcd during
squal near Ocean Beach, Fla, were
drowned.
a number Of passengers were injured
by the collision OF trolley car and
cable car in Chicago.
There was a run on the Union Say
ngs Bank and Trust Company Of Gin
cinnati, which the officials say is due TO
conspiracy.
The court in Cleveland granted a
divorce to the American wife Of Count
Tackacs de ks Joka, a Hungarian
noblcman.
The funeral of DR.. Elmer II. Capen,
president Of Tufts College, took place
in Medford, Mass
The Mormons are said to have decid-
ed to rc-cstabliSh churches in Illinois.
Maurice Barrymore, the actor, died
at san,arium at Amityvillc, \. J.
Two hundred persons were killed BY
gas i'll New York city last year.
At Albany, n. v, Supreme Court
Justice Warren B. I'ooker's alleged CON
nection with the ownership and rental
OF the postotticc building at Dunkirk
was brought before the Assembly judi
ciary Committee.
Miss Lucia Heustis an attractive
plII, dStu - ScdlS, Hled ~ w"
York hospital after being in trance for
IS days Her mother is now in stupor
and is slowly sinking.
At New Orleans Joseph Cohen, OF
Pittsburg, was elected chief justice Of
the Court OF Appeals OF the Consttu-
tional Grand Lodge OF B'nai Birth.
\ Joint resolution to return to Ala
bama the flag OF the First Regiment of
that state. captured in 1861. was passed
by the Wisconsin Senate.
At Altoona, Pa, the Miners Conven-
ton adjourned until next Wednesday,
when the Joint scale committee will re-
sumo its session.
Andrew Carnegie has given $4,000
for a library to be erected on grounds
owned by Pomona College, at Claramont,
Cal.
Vice President Fairbanks and party
visited the site OF the Revolutionary bat
tlcground at Guiiord Courthouse, N, c.
Lewis w. Lyons was hanged in New
Orleans for the murder of J. Ward Cur
ley, prominent attorney, in 1908
A I3-ycar-old school girl of Chicago
stole a purse containing 81 to CRAFTY
her taste for fashionable clothing.
The fund for the relief Of the sut-
fcrers because of recent explosion at
BrOcton, Mass, amounts TO S2I,552.
George Calhoun, colorcd, was hanged
at Montgomery, Ala for the murder OF
his wife
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