The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-10-06
THE LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
DOMESTIC

UOMESIIC
Moritz c. Wuerz, a member of the
Kansas City Common Council, started
to fast Fl days, but broke it after the
sixth, having considerably reduced his
weight
Mrs Elizabeth Patterson, of Chilli
cothe, Mo-, returned to her home after
an absence of I3 years to find her prop
erty divided among her children.
George w. Barrett, an educated col
ored man, was arrested in Thornton,
New Mexico, on the charge of attempt
ing to blackmail Paul Morton.
Mrs Mathilde Hogan and her five
children were found living in utter desti-
tuition in an old hencoop, near Verona,
N. ].
What is believed to be the oldest chair
1t was made in Yorkshire, England, in
1890.
Leon Crambeau, boy of seven, who
burned his baby sister to death, was
sent to an industrial school in Marinette,
Wis.
Three new suits were filed in Omaha
against cattlemen accused of fencing in
thousands of acres of government land.
Bob" Collins, Kentucky moonshin-
er, was shot and captured in Breathitt
county by Deputy Marshal Mays.
Igorrotes at the Clark and Lewis Ex-
position, in Portland, ate the soap given
them to be used for bath.
Howard H. Hoyt, Western superin-
tendent of the Equitable Life Assurance
Society, with headquarters in Chicago,
has resigned and been elected vice pres
ident of the Chicago Life Insurance
Company.
Henry Lear, former president of the
Doylestown (Pa.) National Bank, was
convicted in the United States District
Court in Philadelphia of wilful misap-
preparation of bank funds
There was a notable gathering OF
jurists and other prominent men at the
services over the remains of Wheeler H.
Peckham in New York.
Charles King was hanged at Edmon-
ton, Alberta, Man, for the murder, at
Lesser Slave Lake, of Edward Hay
wood, young English prospector.
Two oid women leaped from the third
story of burning building in Brook
Ign, one getting off with slight injuries,
while the other was badly hurt.
The coroner in Springfield, o., an
nounced his verdict that the killing of
Henry Lines by his neighbor, Mrs. Mary
Henderson, was unjustihable.
The National Cash Register Com
pany, in Dayton, O., refused to accede to
the demand Of the printers for an eight
hour day.
An Armenian shot his daughter, who
had married contrary to his wishes, in
Brantford, Ont, and then shot himself.
. James A. Anderson, an inspector, ac-
cused of helping to smuggle in foreign
ers, was dismissed from the service.
Jacob H. Schiff, head of the firm of
Kuhn, Loeb & Co., bankers, of New
York, and formerly director of the
Equitable Life Assurance Society, was
the first witness called before the leg
ishtive life insurance investigating COM
mittee.
William R. Travers, millionaire club
man, son of the late celebrated wit and
Wall Street operator. w. R. Travers,
committee suicide by shooting himself
through the head in his apartments in
New York.
Former Captain o. NJ. Carter has been
on the witness stand in Chicago for
nearly a week in his fight to prevent the
confscation of 100000 seized at time
of his arrest.
Mayor Curtis, of Madison, Wis, has
instructed the police of that city to shoot
students who resist arrest and who at
tack the officers.
FOREIGN
The chairman of the Balkan commit
tee in London, in view of the latest mas
sacre of Christians by the Turkish
troops, suggests the enforcement of Eu-
ropean control in Macedonia.
The coasting steamer Hsiesho, plying
between Shanghai and Tientsin, struck
mine and was destroyed Fifteen per-
board were rescued.
Torchlight professions and other po-
litical demonstrations in Budapest, Hun
gary, have been prohibited owing to the
excited condition of public feeling.
In collision between Germans and
Czechs in Bruenn, Austria, troops had
to intervene, and before order was re-
stored 100 persons were injured.
Fire in an army storehouse at Hiro-
shima, Japan, destroyed 20 temporary
buildings, with the contents, principally
clothing and provisions.
Cuban Liberals, at a meeting in Ha-
vana, decided not to accept the resigna-
ton of General Gomez as their candi-
date for president
The Swedish steamers Njord and Rob
ert collided near Hveen Island, in Fin
nish waters. The Robert sank and 20
persons were drowned.
Noted English alienists and physi-
clans, composing commission Of the
Royal Commission on the care of the
Insane in England, sailed for the United
States to study American methods of
treating the insane.
The mystery surrounding the murder
of Miss Mary Money in tunnel has
not yet been solved, but it has caused
a crusade against the cell-like compart-
ment cars on English railroads.
The French Parliament will reassem-
bic October 80. Premier Rouvier says
that Russia's invitation to participate in
another peace conference has been ac-
cepted in principle