Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1905-07-13
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic:

Domestic
Gus Lee, a sailor on the cruiser West
Virginia has been ordered to the prison
at Wcthcrsfeld, Ct, to serve term OF
five years for the killing of a fellow
seaman on board the cruiser ,
John r. Wright Baptist preacher OF
Columbus, Kan, signed contract to
play the part of John the Baptist in the
new biblical play, "Thc Holy City,
John w. Wootcn, New York law
yer was sentenced to Sing Sing TOR
stealing a thousand dollar check.
Bob Mccoy, ranchman living on
the Big Horn River, was shot to death
near Thcrmopols, Wyo,
The New York Legislature in joint
session began the hearing OF the charges
against Judge Hooker.
A receiver was appointed in St. LOUIS
Tor the Peoples United States bank IN
ST. Louis.
County Collector +, J. Mackcy COM
mi,tcd suicide at his home, in Philips
burg, n. J. ,v ~
!, II. Thomas shot and killed bur
plar he caught entering his store III
Pitt Sburg. 4,
paNno.a Inn, summer resort hotc'
near Ea,ton, Pa, was destroyed by hrc
Iohn Sclby, veteran OF the McNi-
can and Civil Wars, died in Tacoma
Wash.
1t has developed that tho legal pro-
ccedngs which resulted i'll the nd'ct-
ment of Lawyer lIummel i'll New York
were instituted by Capt. James /.
Morse, an uncle of Charles w. Morse
who employed IIummel without his nept-
cws knowledge,
Theodore II. Price. ;he New York cot
ton broker. came TO Washington ana,
through his attorney. called upon Secrc-
tary Wilson for a rctractlon ot the I'M
plication in his report connecting MN
with the Colton-lcak scandal.
Walter r. I.angdon, son OF the assist,
ant superintendent of the insane hospital
"a, PougGkccpsc fled with Mrs. Janet l..
Wilson. who made her escape from that
institution. 49,,
Miss Emma Frances Potts, Phlla-
dclpha society girl was released on pan
on the charge OF stealing valuable ring
from Mrs. Mabcllc Jardcr.
Lena Ducrr, child OF I3. living IN
Pit,shurg. was "madc up to look older
and married to Robert T.. Long by a de-
ccivcd minister in Youngstown. ..
While officer, had him custody IN
New York. Berthe Claiche, french
girl. killed Emil Gcrdron. who had made
her lie one Of abject slavery.
The State Board OF Control OF Kan
,as rcportcd that there were many cases
of insanity in counties where religious
rcvivalS had been held, a..,
John Trout committed suicide III fhlIa-
dclphia AT the home of Miss Emma l'a-
Wis. who had refused to marry HIM.
Mrs. Matilda Won Under, who was be-
lcvcd TO have died 80 years ago, re-
turned to Reading to collect $50 legacy
Two block, OF the business and resi-
dcncc section of Godhcld, New, have
been DESTROYED by fire. Loss. 100000,
4 quic, Sunday was spent by inc
President and his family at Oyster BAY
They attended church in the morning.
Two pcrsonS were shot, ono probably
fatally. in a fight between whites ana
blacks in New York. ,.,.
While crazy with drink, Mrs. Et'za
Bradley branded her foster-baby, using
a hot ilatiron. co..
Ipdcc Cochran, of the United State:
District Cou,t in Kentucky, decided that
Caleb Powers could not secure faii
trial in the state court aud removed
the case to federal jurisdiction.
George D. May, formerly ,prcsidGn'
Of the Big Bend National Bank OF Da-
ycnpor,. Washington State, was arrest
ed in Boston as fugitive from Justice
George G.. P.crie, chief OF the Bureau
of City Property of Philadelphia, re,
signed upon the request OF Director OF
Public Safety Potter.
The Supreme Court of Kansas de-
cidcd that the Kansas Natural Gas Com
pany, Delaware corporation, cannot DO
business in that state.
The Supreme Court of Kansas decided
the law appropriating $4,000 to build
an independent oil refinery to be uncon'
stiutional. =,
Speaker Fred Paul Groscup, of the
West Virginia House OF Representa-
tjycs, i, i'll in Cincinnati from ptomalne-
Michael Dunn, forl1cr building inspec,,
tor OF Milwaukee, was sentenced 10 10
months in state prison for accepting
bribc. ,, T., h,1
Grover Cleveland declared that he had
ro idea of retiring from the trustee
ship of the Equitable Life Assurance
Society.