The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-09-15
the LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
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ellis of the Royal Arcanum is considering
Supreme Council from carrying the in
creased rates into effect.
John Adams, minor, and John Cal
insky, a laborer, were instantly killed
by a premature blast at Park Place
Colliery of Lentz & Co., at Mahonoy
City, Pa.
The freighthandlers of Chicago have
sent request for conference with rep
resentatives of ~ railroads, so they may
submit demand for increased wages.
The members of the Board of Consult
ing Engineers of the Panama Canal
called upon the President and discussed
canal matters.
Five persons were seriously injured
| in a collision between the 500" ex-
press and the Canadian Pacific limited
at Hammond, Ont.
Three men were arrested at Ogdens-
burg, NJ Y, on the charge of smuggling
| immigrants across the Canadian border.
Sonora Dilores c. de Miranda, who
played a CONSPICUOUS part in the Mexican
Revolution, died in Berkeley, Cal.
While demented J. Albert Martin, of
Montreal, strangled his little girl, aged
five years.
Vice President Fairbanks delivered an
address and paid splendid tribute to
| President Roosevelt at the celebration
of the golden jubilee of the Republican
party of Chester county, Pa, at West
Chester.
According to a Russian correspond
ent, war operations continued the past
week in Manchuria. Each day since the
peace treaty was signed has seen the
shedding of blood uselessly.
Baron Komura and Minister Taxa
hira took lunch with President Roose-
welt, and in the evening Mr.. White and
Baron de Rosen were the Presidents
guests at dinner.
The historic elm at Cambridge, Mass,
which marks the spot where Washing
ton assumed command of the Army, is
believed to be doomed
After eight men of his crew had been
| lost, Capt. Isaac Frazer, of the Boston
fishing schooner Joseph H. Cromwell,
committed suicide
Jacob H. Thompson, an editor on the
| New York Times, was found murdered
in his room at the St. James Hotel, in
New York.
| SOIpOIdl dllllCl was ClNStSo ~OAAAtANAA
der-in-chief of the Grand Army of the
Republic, whose encampment IS in pro-
gress at Denver, Col Minneapolis was
chosen as national encampment city IN
1906.
United States mail delivery wagons
were accompanied through the streets OF
New York by police guard because OF
demonstrations against the new drivers
by the drivers on strike.
| President Roosevelt has designated
Judge w. L. Penfeld, solicitor of the
State Department, to investigate the trade
relations between Europe and South
America.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw was
one of the principal speakers at the an
nual outing of the Vermont Fish and
Game League at Bluff Point, N. Y.
During fire in a crowded tenement
| in New York an Italian lost his life in
vain effort to rescue his two children,
both under 10 years of age.
The President is in receipt OF con-
gratulations from the Emperor of China
for his efforts in restoring peace between
Russia and Japan.
The Chicago police say they have cap
tured a band of women robbers who
operated under the guise of nuns.
The United Spanish War Veterans will
hold their 1906 encampment at Washing
ton, D. c.
| The yellow fever situation in the city
of New Orleans is steadily improving,
only IS new cases being reported and SIN
| deaths. An invasion of millions OF marsh
mosquitoes gave the city bad fright.
| The strike of the 300 mail drivers IN
New York city did not interfere with the
delivery of the mail. There were early
in the day more applicants than there
were positions vacant.
Two persons were killed and 80 in
jured as the result of collision between
an excursion train and a regular passen-
ger train near Newcastle, O.
John E. Lanning, receiver of the Mon
mouth Trust and Safe Deposit Company
of Asbury Park, N. J., has sued number
of directors.
| A fast passenger train ran into party
of workmen at Homewood Station, near
Pittsburg, killing two and seriously in
juring three others.
Town Marshal H. 6. Porter, of Nc
Connellsville, o., was shot and killed on
the street by "Woodie" Stewart, a de-
mented man.
| FOREIGN
Major General Ovanovsky has been
appointed by General Linevitch to meet
the Japanese representative and arrange
an armistice on September IS.
The execution of Ivan Kospshak, So
cialist leader, at Warsaw for political
murders caused workmen in all the fac
tories of that city to go on strike.
| Reported that Takahra, japanese min
lister at Washington, will be appointed
minister TO St. Petersburg, but he says
he knows nothing about it.
President Loubet greeted General
Chaffee and other American officers on
the field of the French army manuevers.
The German protected cruiser Seead-
Ter, which ran on the Kent Rocks, near
| Singapore Straits, has been relocated.
Lieutenant Bache, of the Swiss ex-
petition on the Himalayas, has been
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