The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-04-21
NEWS m SHORT order.
Tue Latest happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic

Domestic.
The Detroit Trust Company was, in
the United States District Court in Bay
City, Mich, appointed receiver for the
private banking firm of M. L. Stewart
& Co., of Owosso, which closed its doors.
The Northern Securities Company filed
with the Secretary of State at Trenton,
N. J., articles providing for the reduc-
ton of the capital stock from $685.
100000.
James Colin, mate of the steamer
Queen City, was arrested at 1Bellair,
charged with the murder of Fred Nor
ton, deck hand, whom he knocked
overheard.
AT meeting of strikers at San Juan,
Porto Rico, an American flag was
trampled upon and the mob attacked the
police.
John Lans tried to shoot his wife
and sister-in-law IN Somerset. He hit
his father-in-1aw, and then killed him
self.
Edward Sweders, member of Edna
Mays Company, shot his wife and him
self in Philadelphia boarding house.
Chester Bell was fined SIS and costs
in Muncie, Ind, for having cigarette
paper in his pocket.
Suit was instituted to restrain Super
intendent of Insurance Hendricks, of
New York, from acting on the proposed
amended charter of the Equitable So
ciety.
New York steamboat inspectors re-
ported that the passenger steamer John
H. Starin carried loaded cartridges. The
captains license was taken away.
w. H. Worth and Henry King were
arraigned in Elyria, O., on the charge
of operating bucket-shops at Lorain and
pleaded not guilty.
The Supreme Court in Philadelphia,
by vote of a to 8, decided that Mrs.
Catharine DAM must hang for the muir
der of her husband.
The stockholders of the United States
Steel Corporation reelected the eight
retiring directors at the meeting in Ho-
boken, N. ].
Thomas c. Haynes, secretary of the
Rand McNally Company, committed Sui
eide at the Marquette Club, in Chicago.
William Smith, IS years old, shot Eliz-
abeth Ohlsen, I6 years old, in New
York, because she refused to marry him.
A woman was thrown out of rum
away motor car in New York and a boy
run over.
The nude body of Annie Kintop was
discovered near Little Falls, Mimi, with
every indication of the woman having
been murdered after violent struggle.
Posses are searching for two negroes
who were seen in the vicinity of the
crime. -
For the first time in six years all
places of business in St. Louis, includ-
ing saloons, restaurants, cigar stands,
barber shops and bookblack stands, were
closed tightly Sunday.
Trustee Lord, of the Miller $40 per
cent. syndicate, has brought suit in New
York to recover $4,000 left by Edward
Schlesinger, one of the syndicate, who
died abroad.
Mrs. Howard Durham, of Norristown,
Pa, secured verdict of $4,000 from
Miss E, Winnie McMichael for alienat-
ing the affections of her husband.
In head-on collision between two
freight trains on the Erie Railroad two
fremen were killed. The engineers saved
their lives by jumping.
DR.. cambridge delivered lecture at
the New York Skin and Cancer Hos
pital on Cancer, Its Growth, Causes
and Cure"
Governor Folk, of Missouri, has par
doned young man of ~ years on con-
dition that he give up whisky and cigar
cites.
After having been in the courts for
FIVE years, a suit involving 70 barrels
of cider has been settled in Haverhill,
Mass.
Thomas w. Lawson says he has been
planning company to offer gas at rs
cents to New York consumers.
There have been four victims of knock
out, drops in Allentown, Pa, within a
week.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia, presi-
dent of the Jamestown Exposition, called
upon Governor Higgins, at Albany, and
secured his cooperation for New York's
participation in the Exposition.