The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-08-11
THE NEWS in SHORT ORDER
Domestic:

A trial of unusual interest is in prog
gress at Rome, Ca, in which Capt. w.
T. Sanford is accused of the murder
| of George Wright, whom he suspected
of too close intimacy with his wife. If
she would confess such intimacy he
would be acquitted. This she refuses
to do.
At Frenchburg, Menifee county, KY,
Mrs. Julia McGraw will be tried on
the charge of administering fatal poison
to Mrs. Martha Yocum, aged o5 years,
and of the serious poisoning of Mrs.
Silas Bowling and of two women named
Botts
AS illustrating the needs of preachers
in the West, it is stated that IS per cent.
of the Protestant churches of Nebraska
are without pastors.
Two men were killed, two were Sc
verely injured and six were hurt in an
accident at mine of the Union Pacific
Coal Company, at Cumberland, Wyo.
Seventeen buildings in Orbisonia, Pa,
were destroyed by fire, and for short
time the whole place was threatened
with destruction.
A sailor died of yellow fever in the
the second fatal case of the fever in
the hospital.
Gen. Roy Stone, who served in the
Civil and Spanish-American Wars, died
at his home, in Mendham, N. j., aged
72 years.
An eight-year-old girl was killed, one
man and one woman were seriously in
jured by the collision of trolley car
and buggy.
At Asheville, N. c., Miss Lola Walker
is suing Robert Edwards for $4,000
for alleged breach of promise to marry
her.
The Russians are handicapped by the
lack of spokesman to cope with Mr..
Sato, of the Japanese Embassy.
The British steamer Barnton, Cap
tain McGregor, from Port DePaix,
Hayti, for Chester, Pa, arrived at the
Delaware Breakwater with IS of her
crew i'll with what is believed to be
malarial fever The vessel was remand
ed to the government quarantine sta
ton at Reedy Island, Del, for fumiga
ton and observation.
William w. Russell, newly appointed
American minister to Venezuela, and
ex-Judge w. ]. Calhoun, whom Presi-
dent Roosevelt has appointed special
commissioner to Venezuela, sailed from
New York for Caracas on the Red ID"
Steamer Philadelphia.
Loretta H. Phffer, aged 20 years, was
found in a dying condition on the steps
of the late Chief of Police Sullivan, at
North Bergen, N. ]. 1t is stated that
she, was taken from her escort by two
men who claimed to be policemen.
Thomas Walton Stanford, of Mel
bourne, brother of the late California
senator, has offered to donate valua
Bile collection Of antiques to the Leland
Stanford, Jr., University.
1t is stated by growers that the Con-
necticut peach crop this year will be
the largest ever harvested.
The United Sulphur, Copper and Iron
Company was incorporated at Trenton,
with capital of $I2,ooo,ooo.
Archbishop Chapelle has been stricken
with yellow fever. His condition is not
regarded as serious.
At Portland, o. the United States
jury for the second time was unable to
agree y. the case in which Congressman
williamson and others are charged with
conspiring to suborn perjury in connec-
ton with securing public lands ille-
gally.
The captain of the French ship AS
nieres, from Swansea to New York, re-
ported the finding of dozen capped
fuses among the coal of his ship. He
believes there was a plot TO blow up
the steamer in midocean.
T.. +ta e,.,t for J;yorca onoinct Mrs
Grace Culver Taggart in Wooster, O.,
testimony seriously rejecting on her
character was given by Filipino girl
who served in the Taggart household
in Manila.
Henry w. Manager, who was sentenced
at Oswego, N. Y, to death in the cleo
trio chair for murder, has accepted his
sentence and has requested his attor-
neys not to take an appeal
Mrs. John G. Carlisle, wife of the
former Secretary of the Treasury. died
at Babylon, L. l., where she was spend
ing the summer.
In New York state prisons the tin
plate, cup and saucer have been dis
carded, and for them glazed pottery has
been substituted.
Minister Barratt, while in San Fran
cisco, expressed the opinion that the
Chinese boycott has caused unnecessary
alarm.
Precautionary measures have been
taken in Philadelphia against yellow
fever.
Foreign
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