The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-05-19
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.

D0meSncs
The Congregationalst ministers who
favored acceptance of the Rockefeller
gift for missions issued statement, and
the committee of protestants made re-
ply
A New York magistrate decided that
marriages under the Mosaic law with
out the civil ceremony required in Austria
were not binding.
Daniel ]. Sully, the former cotton
king talked high-cotton prices to the
Georgia Industrial Association.
The annual meeting of the National
Association of Manufacturers began in
Atlanta, Ca, with some 800 delegates
in attendance.
The bronze equestrian statue OF Gen.
Nathan B. Forrest was unveiled at Mem
phis, Tennessee.
Kirke La Shelle, well-known play
wright and theatrical manager, died at
Bellport, L. l., aged al years.
A story from Pittsburg says Joseph
Ramsay, Jr., retiring president of the
Wabash, and his friends control great
coal fields in West Virginia supposed
to belong to George j. Gould, that they
control the Little Kanawha Syndicate,
and that connection with the West Vir-
GINA Central and the Western Mary
land Railroads may be made with a
new line.
Gen. Thomas ]. Churchill, former
governor of Arkansas and commander
of the Arkansas Division United Con-
federate Veterans, died in Little Rock.
Samuel Hunt, president of the De
troit Southern Railroad and one OF the
trustees of the Cincinnati Southern Kali
road, died at his home in Cincinnati
In an address before the Evangelical
Alliance in Boston Lieutenant Governor
Gould said the South was gaining IN
industries at the expense of the North.
Ivor Davidson, who became prominent
as a circus giant years ago, his height
being 7 feet 2 inches, died at his home
in Roscoe, Wis.
George H. Wood, on trial in Somer-
vile, N. J., for the murder of George
Williams, is said to have dual person
atty.
DR.. L. o. Dawson startled the South
ern Baptist Convention in his report on
work among the negroes by declaring
that it was no affair of the convention
to solve the so-called negro problem
Judge Peter V. Voorhees,, lay Judge
of the Court of Errors and Appeals, in
Camden, N. j., announced that he had
sent his resignation to Governor Stokes.
The transport Warren sailed from
San Francisco for Manila with a big
cargo of supplies for the government sta
tons in the Philippines and at Guam.
Five of the unidentified victims OF the
railroad wreck at Harrisburg, Pa, were
buried in lot selected by the railroad
company officials
Two fast freights ON the Chautauqua
Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad
collided head on. Two trainmen were
killed and several injured.
The report of the General Sabbath
School Board was submitted to the Uni
ted Brethren Conference, in session IN
Topeka, Kan.
Miss Edith /. Gibney secured in Pitts
burg verdict for $I3,o25 in her breach
of promise suit against Klaus J. Steiner.
President F. D. Underwood, Of the
Erie Railroad Company, denied that
that company was paying rebates.
Northern Texas has again been Hood
ed by a heavy rainstorm and telegraph
wires are nearly all useless.
Abe Weinberg, aged 80 years, was
stabbed to death by John DAILY in
lodging-house in Philadelphia.
A. Brightman shot and killed Mrs.
Charles H. Quincy in Los Angeles, CAL,
and then committed suicide.
All of the negroes and men imported
by the Employers Association to take
the places of the strikers in Chicago are
being vaccinated by the Chicago Board
of Health Department Twenty inspec-
tors are working among the strike-break-
ers. There are at present 100 smallpox
patients in the Isolation Hospital.
Papers have been served on James
w. Alexander, president of the Equita-
Bile Life Assurance Society, in the suit
of James Il. Hyde to have him removed
as trustee of the Hyde stock.
Herbert V. Croker, son of Richard
Croker, of New York city, was found
dead in car on the southbound At
Gibson, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
when it reached Newton, Kan.
Several persons were injured and two
cars demolished in collision between
a locomotive and passenger train ON
the Chicago and Northwestern in Chi
cago.