The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-04-14
NEWS m SHORT oRDER.
me Latest Happenings condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic,


The North American Trust Company,
the Trust Company of America and the
City Trust Company, all Of New York,
are to be consolidated into one COM
pany, with capital of 100000.
Rev. c. w. Smith was found guilty
of indiscrimination by the Wyoming Con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church and suspended from his func-
lions for one year.
The bodies of the IS unidentified VIC
Tins of the explosion and fire in the K.
B. Grover Company's shoe factory at
Brocton, Mass, were buried in Melrose
Cemetery.
, George Fordham, 80 years of age and
single. from Passaic, N. J., leaped from
a window in the fifth story of an in
Urinary at Hot Springs, killing himself
instantly.
Arguments were concluded in New
York in the petition to restrain the
Equitable Life Assurance Association
from putting into effect the naturalization
plan
The grand jury in Elyria indicted the
cashier, teller and bookkeeper of the
closed Lorain Savings Bank on the
charge of embezzlement.
Mrs. James p Hutchinson, eldest
daughter of President Cassatt, of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, died in
Philadelphia.
Chaplain Bradford, of the Illinois leg
islature, prayed for the delivery of Presi-
dent Roosevelt from the wild beasts of
the forest.
Bloomfield ]. Miller, actuary and vice
president of the Mutual Life Insurance
Company, died at his home, in Newark,
N. J.
Steward Campion, manager of the Jed
Strong plantation in Alabama, was as
sassinated Two negroes were arrested.
John D. Rockefeller has given another
git OF 100000 to the American Home
Missionary Society.
The homes of two nonunion miners
in Blossburg, Ala, were dynamited and
little girl was killed.
On account of dispute over the ap-
pointment of check-weighman at the
Slippery Rock Coal Mines, near Sharon,
Pa, owned by the United States Steel
Corporation, strike has been declared.
The coroner's jury in New York held
the marlborough Rapid Transit Com
pany responsible for the collision in the
Subway in which two persons were killed
and many injured.
The United States cruiser Chattanoo-
ga arrived at Santo Domingo with Pro-
fessor Hollander, who is to make an
investigation and report on the financial
condition of the island.
A~.,:a CL,~~1a,, ~, hasury ra1ea ed from
the Eastern Penitentiary, in Philadelphia,
where she had finished a two-year term,
was arrested on New York warrant
for forgery.
William ]. Cole, Jr., and Cyrus Barn
holt, of the brokerage firm of S. H.
Chapman & Co., of Philadelphia, were
arrested on the charge of obtaining
money by false pretenses.
]. J. C. Howard, representative in the
Louisville legislature from the Seventy
first district, was. shot and killed in
saloon in Clay county by Tilford Benge.
The Rev. Herbert NJ Gessner, of
Saratoga, N Y, has accepted unan-
imous call to the First Presbyterian
Church of Atlantic City, N. ].
Eight big trunks supposed to contain
DetI lIuSt SCCISlS WClC tdhCu llOiii q
safe deposit vault in Chicago and taken
to the grand jury room.
A. D. Pierson, prominent merchant
of Scranton, Pa, committed suicide to
avoid trial on the charge of enticing
girls into his store.
John Abraham was shot and killed
in Detroit, Mich, by his next-door neigh
Dor, Sebastian Juen, who mistook him
for burglar.
The French Chamber of Deputies dis
cussed counter-proposals for the bill pro-
viding for separation of church and
state.
Commissioner of Corporations Garfield
arrived in Topeka, Kan, to begin his
investigation into Standard Oil methods.
Senator Plat, of New York, and for
mer Governor Black have formed an
offensive and defensive alliance.
Richard Starr, sailor of Admiral
Goodrich's flagship, is to be tried for
attempting to assault the Admiral.
The shoe firm of R. B. Grover & Co.,
of Brocton, Mass, made an assignment
for the benefit of creditors.
Augustus Uhlfelder, an agent for the
Equitable Life Insurance Company,
dropped dead in New York.
Foreign
Baron d'Estournelles de Constant, the
forr,ar deo,,tv and oreeidenf of the mar