The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-09-29
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President A. B. Stickney, of the Chi
cago Great Western Railway Company,
testified before the Interstate Commerce
Commission that the packers fix the
rates on live stock and livestock prod
ucts.
The official report of the autopsy per-
formed on the torso of the woman found
in suit case in Winthrop Harbor,
Mass, declares that death was caused
by criminal operation.
The Marshall Oil Company, of Mar
shallton, protested before the Interstate
Commerce Commission against alleged
discrimination in freight rates in favor
of the Standard Oil.
James P. Hennessey, a clerk who
stole $4,000 from the estate of D. Percy
Morgan, of New York, and lost it on
the races, was sentenced to states prison
for seven years.
The Kansas City State Bank went in
to voluntary liquidation, its business he
ing transferred to the Fidelity T9i's.
Company, which paid all checks Drawn
on the bank.
| Wong Kai Kah, trade commissioner
of China, called upon Assistant Secre-
tary Adee at the State Department to
take his leave before returning to his
post in Japan.
| Brigadier General Greedy, chief signal
officer of the Army, has just completed
thorough inspection of the Alaskan tel
egraph system.
A negro attempted to assault the wife
of Deputy Sheriff A. ]. Shores at Clay
ton, Mo-, and was shot by Shores and
badly wounded.
Irene Grossman was brutally dubbed
in New York by some unknown person
because she refused to pay money for
immunity
Conflicting views of Whites sincerity
in his professions of friendliness to the
Jews caused a riot in synagogue in
Chicago.
E. w. McKenna was elected second
kee and St. Paul Railway Company at
in Milwaukee.
The concluding session of the meeting
of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows was
held in Philadelphia. Several important
questions were discussed.
Frank Brown, colored, accused of kill
ing Mrs. Lawrence in Conway, Ark, was
lynched by mob. Sheriff Harwell be-
lieved him innocent
Chief Deputy Sheriff Fred Frawley, of
Chattanooga, killed Ed Irwin, waiter,
who was advancing toward him with a
knife.
William F. Miller, of Milwaukee, who
admitted having three wives, was SEN
fenced to four and half years in the
penitentiary.
The mystery of the dismembered body
of woman found at Winthrop, Mass,
in a dress-suit case, is still unsolved.
The habeas corpus proceedings in the
Gaynor-Greene case, in Montreal, Que
bec have been dismissed.
Former Governor of Illinois John NJ.
Hamilton died at his home, in Chicago,
of congestion of the lungs.
Tommy O'Connor, six years old, was
crushed to death by road roller in De-
troit, Mich.
Joseph Girard, who is suspected of
having killed pretty Gussie Pfeiffer,
whose body was found near Pelham
road, is believed by the New York po-
lice to have left trail of crime that is
just beginning to be uncovered. The
police now connect him with three muir
ders.
The American Pathological Society, in
convention in Kansas City, decided to
ask Congress to pass law for reduc-
ton of rates for icing and refrigerator
cars.
The State Supreme Court of Mime
sofa has decided that the state has power
to tax the franchises of the Western
Union Telegraph Company.
At Plymouth, Mass, Eden Plympton,
the actor, was held in $1,000 bail, when
arraigned, charged with assault with in
tent to kill.
The University of Chicago has estab-
lished a four-year course in Railway
Education.
An additional case of yellow fever was
reported in Natchez, Miss.
Yellow fever caused one death in PEN
sacola, Fla.