The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-06-02
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic

States, sailed 1Or Europe rom ~"
York on the steamer Kronprinz Viii
helni
w. L. Davis, vice president OF the
closed Canton State Bank, and Corwin
D. Bachtel cashier of the bank, were
arrested on charges of ENLIGHTENMENT.
The program has been arranged by
which President Roosevelt, in Washing
ton, will start the Lewes and Clark
Centennial in Portland
Samuel Gompers, president of the Fed
Grafton of Labor, delivered the Memo
rial Day Grafton at the grave OF Rev
Myron Reed in Denver.
The Socialists of Ohio met in Column
bus and named complete state ticket,
headed by Isaac c. Owen, of Cleveland,
for governor.
The Austrian steamer Lucia and the
four-masted schooner Eagle Wing col
lided near Sandy Hook. Neither sus-
tanned serious damage.
The French steamer Pro Patria went
ashore off Forshu, c. B. All the pas
sengers were saved. The vessel will be
total wreck.
President Roosevelt delivered Me
mortal Day address at the unwilling of
the statue of General Slocum in Brook
Ign.
Frank Neighbors, of Chattanooga,
Tenn, killed his sister and her husband
and fatally wounded another sister.
Gen Joe Wheeler was the guest of
honor at the Memorial Day exercises in
Bangor, Me.
A daylight raid upon Chinese gam
bling houses in New York netted about
70 prisoners.
Superintendent Agnew, of the New
Orleans Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children, appealed to the
judge of the Juvenile Court to assist in
putting down the traffic in young girls,
which has become quite a trade there.
Mayor Weaver won his big fight in
Philadelphia, the United Gas Improve
ment Company's president sending. let
ter to the City Councils Withdrawing its
offer, which caused the municipal con-
vulsion.
Mrs Mary Ellen Lease was held tip
in her home, in New York, by two bur
glars, who held revolver to her head
and robbed her of $IIo in cash and $500
worth of jewelry and silverware.
Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, the
British ambassador to the United States,
arrived in New York ON the steamer
Campania on his return from a short
visit to England.
The City Council of St. Thomas, Ont,
has petitioned the Canadian government
to revoke the order to deport the Amer
lean officials of the Pere Marquette
Railroad
Frank Barker, convicted of the muir
der of his brother and his brothers
wife in Lincoln, Neb., has agreed to
spring the trap and be his own execu-
toner.
Ignazio Trentanelli, an Italian banker,
was arrested i'll Cleveland, O., on the
charge of embezzling money deposited
by his fellow-countrymen
The Supreme Court of Vermont has
denied the petition for new trial for
Mrs. Mary M. Rogers, convicted OF
numbering her husband.
There was another slump in May corn
in the Chicago pit, the attempt to corner
the market proving disastrous failure.
The receiver was ordered to take
charge of all the offices of the brokerage
firm of Haight and Freese in Connecti-
cut.
Nat Crump, the outlaw, who shot Clay
Grub at Salisbury, N. c., on Monday,
was captured after being badly shot.
The Monument National Bank of
Charlestown, Mass, decided to go into
liquidation.
The Norfolk and Southern Railroad
has been sold.
Louis Levin, formerly in business at
IIo Blocker street, who was arrested
in Baltimore and convicted in New York
of grand larceny in the first degree on
the complaint of William Meyer & Co,
who were one of the many firms that
accused the defendant of swindling, was
sentenced by Judge Fister to not less
than three, nor more than three years
and one month, in state prison.
The motion of Frank B. Lord, which
sought to restrain the directors of the
Equitable Life Assurance Society from
mutualizing the company, was granted
by Justice Maddox in the Supreme
Court in Brooklyn.
AT Fort Worth, Tex, the General AS
sembly of the Southern Presbyterian
Church voted against federation, but
continued its committee for conference
with other branches of the church.