Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1905-10-26
THuRMONT FREDERICK COUNTY, THURSDAY OCTOBER
The LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
DOMESTIC

on charges of discrimination made
against the New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad Company by the Fred
G.. Clark Oil Company.
The National Gable and Wire Com
pany of Pittsburg, of which T. Lee
Clark, cashier of the Enterprise Bank
was president, went into the hands oil
a receiver.
The Governors mansion in Jefferson
City, Mo-, was slightly damaged by fire
Governor Folk and his wife and guests
being forced to seek quarters in hotel
The beef packers under indictment i'll
Chicago filed special plea declaring that
they were forced to give the evidence on
which the indictments are framed.
DR.. Edward Martin, director of the
Department of Public Health and Charl-
ties of Philadelphia, resigned.
Arrangements for the Southern I'm
migration and Quarantine Conference
to be held at Chattanooga, Tenn, No,
vcmber and II, have been completed
and upwards of 500 delegates are ex-
pected.
"A Year in He'll; or, a Railroad
Mans Observations Along the High
way of Justice is the title John s.
| Packham, one-year-man-in-Ja jail, has
given to a book he has prepared while
in prison.
By the overturning of hearse Peter
Porter, a supposed dead man, was re-
vived from a condition OF coma IN
Lcsuer Mimi, and drove the hearse
back to town.
The experiment Of having an a la
carte restaurant on all ocean liner was
tried with gratifying success on the new
Hamburg American liner Amerlka.
Henry Schwanwedel and Adam Hill
man, two Brooklyn men, made bet
with each other that they would COM
nit suicide. Both drowned themselves
w. F. Craig, OF Lynn, Mass, while
hunting in Maine, had desperate hight
with a bear, which he killed after being
himself severely injured.
Mrs. Herman J. Bowers, of Steelton
Pa. had her husband arrested for as
sault, and while he was in the lookup
ran off with his cash.
| The Belgian government has a plan
for an advanced line of forthcatlonS at
Antwerp which will entail an expendi-
ture OF $2I 100000.
1t has cost about $35o,ooo to fight the
yellow fever epidemic i'll New Orleans:
The emergency yellow fever hospital
was closed. -,
Princeton University students will
not be required to attend services daily
in the chapel hereafter but only twice
week.
Fireman Rengger saved child from
being run over by train by graSping
| il from the cowcatcher, near Port jar
Wis, ~ y.
Chief OF Police Collins, OF Chicago
has started OH a vigorous persona cru
sadc to carry out the Illinois Anticgar-
| cite Law.
The Appellate Division Of the SIT
prcme Court OF New York has handed
down a decision adverse to the verdict
for 100000 in favor of Morris g.
Mcngcs for services alleged to have
been rendered by him i'll the Western
Maryland Railroad deal.
In New York May +. Golding, of But
falo. confessed that she took her employ
crs' money for the man whom she loved
and not for her invalid parents, as she
| first confessed
The needs of the people Of Porto Rice
were discussed at the Conference OF
Friends of the Indian and Other De
pendent Peoples at Lake Mohonk.
An application was made in New York
for the appointment oi receiver ter
the llaight 4 Freesc Company, brokers'
The Chicago police are convinced that
a woman fired the shot which resulted
in the death OF Mrs. Clara McCluskey.
The new brick works Of the Humncls-
town Brownstonc Company. at Harris
burg. Pa, were burned.
Important railroad improvements for
Nashville, Tenn, arc projccte