The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-01-06
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
domestic.

| Domestic.
While cleaning a rife III their home, in
Jamaica, L. 1, James Barnett accident
ally shot and killed his father, John
Barnett.
Governor Elrod and other state off
GERS were sworn III by Presiding Justice
Corson, Of the Supreme Court Of South
Dakota
The Katy Flyer on the Missouri
Kansas and Texas was wrecked near
Rochefort, Mo-, and five persons were
injured
| Three members of the Toledo Board
Of Public Works were arrested on the
charge Of being interested in city con-
tracts.
Ollie Cannon was arrested in Lexing-
ton, KY, on the charge, preferred by his
4 wife. Of burning their child to death.
William H. Baldwin. president of the
Long Island Railroad Company, died
at his home, in Locust Valley, L: !.
Frank ~ Noweski. wife and seven
children have been burned to death al
/ their home, in Morris Run, Pa.
| John P Elkin assumed the office Of
associate justice of the Supreme Court
of Pennsylvania.
| Wholesalers Of Iowa, Nebraska and
South Dakota have instituted an or
| ganized movement to support President
Roosevelt in bis agitation for more
railroad legislation.
] Rev. Ingram n W. irvine, who fig
/ ures in charges against Bishop Talbot
i'll letter to clergyman at Hartford
| CT, says he is in pressing need OF funds.
| At public meeting at Portland, Ore.
the efforts OF President Roosevelt and
of Secretary Hay to reconvene The
| Hague peace conference were Endorsed.
] The mammoth new car shops OF the
Delaware. Lackawanna and Western
Railroad, in Keyser Valley. were open
ed. They cost $I.25o,ooo.
New York banking interests have Of
fered financial aid TO Southern cotton
planters to enable them to hold their
product for higher prices.
The large blast furnace of the Amer
lean Steel and Wire Company, at Pitts
burg, resumed operations after an idle
ness of eight months.
In his annual message Mayor McClel-
Ian, of New York, points out the need
of large OUTLAWS for the city's further
improvement.
AT Macon, Ca, Judge Speer, of the
Uni.ed States Court, has decided that
the 5ibb county changing law is uncon-
stitutional.
Brevet Brigadier General Edward B.
Warner, veteran of the Civil War,
died suddenly of heart disease in New
York
The. General Assembly Of Tennessee
met at Nashville. Gen. W. B. Bate will
be elected senator to succeed himself.
Charles c. Dean and E. B. William
son, of Bluffton, Ia. left for Central
America on scientific expedition.
Six persons were injured, three prob
ably fatally, in collision on the In
ternational Bridge, at Buffalo.
Officers of the Knickerbocker Steam
boat Company. in New York, pleaded not
guilty TO the indictment charging them
with responsibility for the Slocun dis
aster
DR.. William Alexander boss. who was
the first white child in Boone county,
the first white child born in Boone couil-
ty, KY, died at the home of his daughter,
Newton Alwhite, OF Newport, Ark,
confessed that he and his father as
saulted and murdered Mrs. Amelia
Mauldin and her mother.
| George Fl. Beck, retired maunfact-
urer committed suicide at his home, in
Philadelphia ~ shooting himself in the
head.
| Members Of the Washington Naval
Observatory Staff observed a new
comet, discovered by Borrelly, of Mar
! seilles
The New York Philadelphia Trolley
Company was incorporated in Camden,
N. J., with capital of 100000.
| During quarrel Arch Pope, of Mid
land City, Ala, killed hi; brother and
then committed suicide
Official announcement was made OF an
advance of 5 per cent in the price
of window glass.
c. E. Billingsley, president of the
| Capitol National Bank of Guthrie, O.
T., was indicted.
Fire destroyed property estimated TO
be worth $6oooco in West Van Buren,
street, Chicago
Joseph ]. Rogers, grain broker, COM
mitted suicide in Mount Holly, N. J.
Theodore Thomal is reported to be
quite i'll at his home, in Chicago.
There were 33I honiicides in New
York during the past year.
Cashier Clyde Lille and President
Travers, of the Fiyst National Bank of
Conneaut, o., recently closed, were
placed under arrest by United States
Deputy Marshal Tanning. OF Cleveland.
They are charged with violating the
rational banking laws.
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