Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1905-08-31
The news IN SHORT ORDER
Domestic.

Eyck, at Albany, N. Y, last lhurSday
as Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Rogers, of San
Francisco, and disappeared from the ho-
tel Friday night, leaving behind them
two children, both boys, aged, respec-
lively, six years and six months. MIR.
and Mrs. Rogers left without paying
their board bill and after getting the
hotel to cash a certified check. The
children were taken in charge by the
commissioner of charities, who swore
out warrants for the arrest of Mr.. and
Mrs Rogers for abandoning the chill
dren,
J. Pierpont Morgan took luncheon
with the President a, Sycamore Hill and
discussed with him matters pertaining
to the Canton Hankow Railroad i'll
China. Mr.. Morgan arrived i'll Oyster
Bay shortly after noon on his yacht the
Corsair.
While in Seattle, Wash, Mr., ThoS.
| F. Ryan, who owns a stock control OF
the Equitable Life Assurance Society,
said he favored federal supervision OF
life insurance companies.
When committee complained to
Mayor Dunno, of Chicago, of the preva-
lcncc Of crime in that city he pointed to
crowded prisons as an evidence OF the
activity of the police.
William Ely, who is held by the Chi
cago police on charges of robbery, is
said by the police to have squandcred
100000 in three years.
John Williams. an aeronaut, was
| 1. fyilt,,r feet
lie released hi, grasp on the trapezc OF
his parachute,
Edgar Staclclbcrp, member OF cigar
manufacturing firm OF Tampa, Fla, has
been challenged By one Of his employees
| to ight duel because Stachclbcrg OF
dcrcd his employees to cease reading an.
archistic literature. The challenge VIII
! bt ignored.
In his annual report 10 the War De
partmcnt General Wint. commander Of
| the Department OF the Missouri, recon-
mcndS that married men be barred from
enlistment and that chaplans be prohib-
tied from marrying soldiers.
William H. Work, aged Il years, VINO
Was one OF Guerilla Morgan's raiders
during the Civl! War, i, in Jefferson
County (Ky) Jail on the charge of the
murder OF hi, brother, aged 80 years.
Mr.. Theodore +. Shonts. chairman OF
! The ISthman Canal Commission, was a
guest OF the President at Oyster Bay,
and discussed with him matters apper-
tanning to the great undertaking.
/ The discovery Of oil in the heart OF
/ Warren, Pa, has made that town oil
crazy. Well, are being sunk in back
yards of residents, There has been a
phenomenal rise in land values.
y Brooklyn man has asked that his
wife be committed to an industrial home
! because he is tired of combing her hair
and sewing buttons on her bIouscs. She
was committed.
| John Moore j negro, 20 years old,
was taken. from jail i'll Newbcrn n. e.,
by mob OF 100 armed men and lynchcd.
/ | lc attacked a woman IN country store.
\ Philadelphia man became convinced
that he was about to die. and so predicted
in letter to a relative. When about
to post the mis,tyc he dropped dead.
\ I5-year-old choir boy Of PhlIadeI-
phia has been arrested IN Philadelphia on
/ the charge OF burglary Tn" police say
he has committed over 10 robbcrlcs.
| Six thousand union carpenters OF BoS-
ton will receive an increase in wages
under the decision OF Judge George :,
/ Wentworth to whom As special arbl-
traitor the employers and unioniStS sub
mi,tcd the question OF new working
agreement.
The mystery OF the loss of trunks and
i other luggage in Western cities is be
iicycd to have been solved by the CHI
cago police, who arrested man and a
woman. A search OF their rooms re
vcalrd evidences OF the missing baggage.
/ Mr.. Harry +. Hooper, city register OF
Baltimore. was elected a vice president
! II the American League of MunicipalI-
! ties. in session in Toledo. The league
will hold it's next meeting i'll Chicago.
| The Chicago police believe they have
| clue to the Mizc murder mystery. They
/ have arrested man for holding up a
woman, The circumstances and meth
ods employed are similar to those IN
| the Mize case.
The work OF the National Young
| Womcn's Christian Association was out
| lined at Lake Geneva by Miss Emma
| IIavs, one OF the national secretaries OF
! the association.
/ Frank PUNISH. a Chicago swindler has
been arrested alter being out OF the pen
i,entiary for only three weeks. He has
spent over 80 years behind the bars.
The report OF the fever situation III
! New Orleans was encouraging. There
was a small report OF new cases and
only one death during the night.
Benjamin kunklc and his daughter
in-law, Mrs. Francis Kunkle. were
drowned in Big Beaver Creek, near
Lancaster. Pa.
lCfeigu.