The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1905-07-20
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The latest Happenings Condensed for RspId
Reading.
Domestic.

| 10 the basement OF the Land little Build
ing, in Philadelphia District Attorney
Bell and several others were seriously
injured
Thousands of Italians from various
sections congregated in Little Italy in
| New York and celebrated the Feast Of
| Our Lady of Mount Carmel
The entire crew of the British steam
er lndrani, from Japanese and Chinese
ports was detained at New York har-
bor Bubonic plague is suspected
The steamboat Dreamland while bound
for Coney Island collided in New York
harbor with the ferryboat Lackawanna.
Both boats were damaged.
An order was signed in Brooklyn to
exhume the body of Mrs. Mary German
Carlton, whose husband is suspected Of
having murdered her.
Bertha Claiche was indicted by the
New York grand Jury for the murder
of Emil Gerdron, her cruel lover
Mrs. Kate NJ. Cleary, of Chicago, died
suddenly from heart disease after a
quarrel with her husband.
James Breen, white, and Charles Jack
son, colored, were electrocuted in Sing
Sing Prison.
1t is said that the reason for Mayor
DUNES refusal TO give out the report
of the Scotch expert, Dalrymple, on the
traction system of Chicago is due to the
for tainted money" for the Chicago
without gloves. Another report conhn-
ing itself to the traction problem has
been asked for
Hhched to plow by a rope, with the
pastor holding the handles and Rev. L.
K. Billingsley, of Wesley Methodist
Church, steadying the beam, members of
the First Methodist Episcopal Church,
in Des Moines, broke ground for their
new building.
John Barrenberg was shot dead on the
State rifle range at Sea Girt, n. J.,
Saturday afternoon. He ventured out
Of the rifle pit when there was some
skirmish firing going on and a stray
bullet struck him.
Prof. A. N. Fox, who recently tele-
graphed to John d. Rockefeller begging
for tanned money" for the Chicago
Theological Seminary has been dismiss
ed from the faculty of that institution
Mrs. Janet Wilson, who fled from the
Hudson River State Hospital and came
to Bridgeport, -, with Walter Lang
don, shot herself at the Washington
Bridge Tavern and will probably die.
Albert Nuley, of Fishers Landing, n.
", brutally assaulted Mrs. Fanny Har
ners and her daughter, who caught him
burglarizing their home in Clayton, n. Y.
Dr. Charles A. Linsley, secretary Of
the Connecticut Board of Health, rec
ommends isolation of the nurses and
patients in cases of cerebro-spnal men
ingitis.
Superintendent of Insurance Hen
bricks, of New York, gave out an an
swer TO the criticisms of his official
n, H. .s,1Nl
vestigation.
The condition of Senator William A.
Clark. of Montana who underwent an
operation for an abSceSs in the middle
ear, was pronounced very satisfactory.
The police of Brooklyn promise sensa-
tional developments in the case of Fred
erick c. Carlton. who is being held on
the charge of poisoning his wife.
The unsecured claims against the es-
tate of defaul,ing Banker Bigelow,
amounting TO nearly $2,ooo,ooo, will get
only 10 cents on the dollar.
The United States training ship Hart
fort arrived at Newport, K. l., from
Gardeners Bay, l.. l., with detachment
of naval cadets.
In Chicago a verdict of not guilty was
announced by Judge A. II. Chetlaln, OF
the Superior Court, in the case OF Presl-
dent Albert A. c. Wheeler, OF the Hi
nois Tunnel Company, and several for
mer municipal officers on trial ~ al
legged alteration of public records. The
Jury in the case was discharged.
Twelve new directors of the Equitable
Life Assurance Society were elected.
Among them arc former Judge d. Cody
Herrick; President Butler, of Columbia
University, and Congressman Littleheld.
of Maine.
Walter Scott, the gold miner of Death
Valley caused sensation i'll the flnan-
cial district of New York, his auto
mobile hanson being followed by crowds
that yelled to him to toss out his gold.
Richard Wareham, the oldest MEM
Der of the Knights of Pythias, died at
Rock Island. ILL.,, aged 20 years.
A New York man went TO sleep on
the roof of house and fell five stories.
He was fatally injured.
Three persons were killed and seven
injured in collision between two rail-
road trains at Steiger, Ill.
Near Braintree, Mass, Pole muir
dered his wife by nearly Severing her
head from her body.
Several men in New York became in
sane from the heat. One man who was
overcome fell from a roof and fractured
his skull Heat and humidity are re-
sponsible for an epidemic of suicides in
Utica, N. Y.
ToTelgn
King Oscar in an interview said he
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