The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-10-20
THE LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
DOMESTIC

| tary of the Manmee River Yacht Club
and Willie Donohue, his I4-year-olt
companion. were drowned by the cap
sizing of small sailboat in Maumet
Bay, near Toledo, o.
Seventeen persons were injured, ont
perhaps fatally, by the wreck of the St
Louis-Denver flyer on the Missouri Pa
cifc, near Sugar City, Col. The acct
dent was caused by spreading rails.
An express package addressed to Johr
| D. Rockefeller has remained two weeks
uncalled for at Des Moines, la. 1t is
supposed to be the work of some joker.
By an explosion of natural gas the
First Presbyterian Church at McKees
Rocks, Pa, was blown up and the JAM
tor, David Leader, seriously hurt.
The Indemnity Savings and Loar
Company of Cleveland, o., closed its
doors in consequence of proceedings be-
gun by the attorney general.
A meeting of the freight traffic Off
Gals of the B. & o. Railroad is in ses-
sion at Cincinnati, c. S. Wright pre-
siding.
Mrs. Caroline Buehler, of St. George,
S. l., committed suicide by shooting her
self in the head with revolver.
Mrs. Grave Evans, of Des MONIES,
Ia, tainted upon learning that her hus-
band, Ralph w. Evans, had been Sc
cretly married to Miss Jessica Penn, a
society girl and art student, who had
been his model.
John Frederickson, Of South Nor
walk, Conn, is on the hunt for William
Barrett, who ran off with his wife and
$1,000 of his cash. He does not want
his wife, but does want his cash.
DR.. Arthur St. Clair Knudson, a
wealthy New York clubman, was found
nude on top of a freight car at Yonkers.
He had climbed there while suffering
from mental alteration.
Two more convictions have been OBJ
tanned in the Oregon land-fraud case,
the latest culprits being former State
Representative Willard N. Jones and
Ira Wade, a timber locator
The Southern Pacific Railway has or
dered I4o new locomotives and over
5000 cars. A perfect block system will
be installed between San Francisco and
Omaha
Joseph A. Flanely, an inspector of the
New York State Excise Department,
was arrested on the charge of falsely
certifying to permits for a license.
Rev. George Soltan, pastor of the
Sioux City Baptist Church, notified his
congregation that he would resign if
they did not give up Sunday diversions.
A portion of the brain of Thomas
Paine, that had been stolen, was recov-
cred in Paine's tomb at New Rochelle,
N. Y.
Five fremen were injured in a fire
that destroyed paint and wallpaper es-
Enlistment in Chicago.
Mrs. Russell Sage has given $4,000
for new modern school building in Sag
Harbor, L. l.
Lieut.. Louis McLane Hamilton, Four
tenth Infantry, has been reduced 80 files
in rank as the result of court-martial
held at Vancouver Barracks, when Lieu
tenant McLaue was tried on charges of
conduct unbecorning an officer and a
gentleman, and conduct to the prejudice
of good order and military discipline.
District Attorney William T. Jerome,
of New York, speaking of his independ-
ent campaign for reelection, and the
fact that Tammany Hall nominated a
candidate to oppose him, said he will
remain in the fight.
Rev. DR.. J. c. Kunzman, treasurer of
Home Missions of the Evangelical Luz
theran Church of North America, re-
ported to the General Council that dur
ing the past year GOO missions had re-
ceived support.
During a hearing in Chicago the at
torney of former Capt Oberlin M. Car
ter laid charges of dishonesty against
government officials. He mentioned no
names.
A woman cashier in New York con-
fessed that she had embezzled $4,000
and had used the funds to support her
father, mother and invalid sister.
w. E. Brown, president of the failed
First National Bank of Storm Lake,
Ia, was sentenced to five years in prison
for fraudulent banking
FOREIGN
The Vologda Railroad, the first sec
ton of the contemplated direct line
across Russia to connect with the Trans
Siberian Railroad and obviate the pres
ent long southern detour, was opened
The suit brought by Prince Philip of
Sake Coburg for a separation from his
wife, the, Princess Louise, was begun
in the divorce court at Gotea, in the
duchy.
The union between Norway and Swe-
den, existing since 1874, has finally been
dissolved by the acts of the Parliaments
of both nations.
The Japanese Minister of War has
instructed the Japanese officers and men
in the field not to criticise the terms of
peace.
Snow is falling at Bayreuth and